HEADHUNTER PI

[Anonymous]

<img src="/metal/html/confused.gif" border=0 width=15 height=22 alt=":?"> Hey Eric , first post for me here as Im a new PI owner........THE HEADHUNTER PI. Its said there is a way to almost get discrim by adjusting the tune and freq. on my machine but Im just not getting it. Can you elaborate at all in detail for me before I have to put my arm in a cast!!! Im getting targets , but man the ratio to keepers and "AWE SHI# SON OF A #@$%$ hairpin again" is buggin me out. Im talking this machine goes DEEEEEEEPPPP!! Im pullin rusted stuff out of the sand at 18" - 20" easy with the walls caving in ...........HELP!!
THE SCURVY DOG

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the world of the PI! if you want the gold, you have to dig everything, VLF isn't much different, you have depth advantage with PI. The life of a beach hunter.

 

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[Anonymous]

Some-times these small rust targets are only down
2 or 3".(may-be your pinpoint button just dont work)
Take a supper magnet mount it an a shaft like a
probe.IF target is non-ferrous,it will save you a
lot of diggen.
Frank.

 

[Anonymous]

There is no push button pin pointed on a PI Frank, apparently you are thinking of a VLF. And yes those rusty hair pins at 10-11" are a real pain LOL.

 

[Anonymous]

bobby pins are a problem i thought they stopped making them in the 70's until i started beach detecting. most of the bobby pins, nails, wire will double beep. so when i get tired of digging them i just ignor them, sometime they will only double beep in one direction so when i pass over an object i'll pass over it again from a different direction if it double beeps i don't dig it. i've only found two pieces of gold that doubled beeped so the odds of a double beep being gold is small. stud earrings double beep but they have a distinct sound to them and i always dig them. it is a good idea to put a magnet in your scoop because they seem to go through the holes in your scoop and you have to dig them more than once.

 

[Anonymous]

How that works is hunt with the minimum delay possible. I believe in the HH that called FREQUENCY. Then, when a target is located, study the target response as you increase the delay. If the target is IRON, it will remain loud as hell up to maximum delay. If it is small gold, then the target will slowly fade away as you increase delay, or disappear altogether.
Hope that helps.
bing

 

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[Anonymous]

Frank...I think that on average, I dig about 75% of all targets heard. Of the 25% that I choose to leave behind, I know that a very high proportion of these are junk. If I miss the odd piece of jewellery then so be it. Of the 75% of targets that I dig up, there is of course plenty of junk mixed in with the good stuff....these give good audio targets and I'm happy to dig them up.
I regularly test my "ear" by digging up all the targets that I "know" are junk just to ensure that my ear is tuned okay. I've been very happy with what I classify as junk audio.
Of all the silver and gold rings that I have dug up, NONE have given a poor audio. I've also tested a vast array of gold rings (different profiles and gold content) in my salt test bed and the vast majority all have a nice sound to them.
My beaches have little iron junk on them, so I'm lucky in that respect. I still have problems with bottlecaps, some hairpins and larger pieces/balls of foil....I'm happy to dig pulltabs all day long, especially if other detectorists have been over the same ground as they are all potential gold rings.
All the best,
Tony.

 

[Anonymous]

I agree that the GQ has (after you develope it) some descriptive audio, of course not like the handwired Tesoros of old days, but the audio is descriptive....but the main 'key' to your post was saying your hunting areas do not have that much iron.
My partner and I just got through 3 days 5 to 6 1/2 hours a day at Sebastian Inlet. I dug 40 to 80 nails and pieces of iron per day and most very deep but since the Spanish Silver cannot be eliminated with the delay of the GQ and silver that is deep is just as quiet as deep iron....I dug the nail, washers, ribits of hundreds of docks knocked down by the Florida Storms....
My ears failed me and I could not risk not digging anything and everything that I got any type of threshold rise on.
Frank

 

[Anonymous]

Frank,
We are most lucky in that the iron infestation that you experience probably comes from man made structures (piers, jettys, fences)....our entire metropolitan coastline has little if any of those things.
It is rare for me to dig a nail, rivet, screw, washer or pieces of fence wire, my "problem" iron is really only bottlecaps and they can be ID'd quite easily by their brash, disproportionately large audio signal. Hairpins that are closed together (and therefore touching) make a good signal and tend to only double-blip once the two lengths are not touching, or have been pulled apart into a "V" shape.
I can't believe there aren't more PI's on my beaches. Minelab VLF units are the mainstay detectors with the odd Surfmaster PI sometimes seen.
I hope it stays this way.......I always tell the other detectorists that I wish I had a discriminating VLF....sneaky I know.... <img src="/metal/html/indifferent.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":|"> <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/super.gif" border=0 width=26 height=28 alt=":super">
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