help please.

[dobbie]

i use a bh outback and my hubby has a bh lonestar. having a bit of a time with the lonestar as im used to the outback almost. what would be the best setting for just basic detecting, coins,jewlery, etc.

 

[southon37]

Hello Dobbie
I also use a QDII and I found for coins and some jewelry is the notch and other times the auto notch, don't forget gold is sometimes missed using these
modes. Happy Hunting.

 

[BH-LandStar]

Notch is NOT the way to go...DISC mode is your best bet...If your hunting for relics, keep the DISC all the way CCW. If your coin and jewelry hunting, turn the DISC knob to about 9 o'clock position...this should eliminate most iron objects, but keep you in the gold range.....Notch puts up an electronic window...think of it as being on a football field. One end of the field has iron and the other has Silver...Think of the notch as the chains...The 10 yards between the chains is the notch window...you can slide the notch window up and down the field and everything in the window is no longer picked up by your detector...So, you can notch out pull-tabs and screw caps and still get iron/foil, nickels, zinc, copper, brass and silver, or you can notch out zinc pennies and still get everything else...See the difference between this and DISC mode...disc mode is like the sun's shadow on the field...as it rolls across the field, it starts eliminating iron fist, then iron and foil, then iron, foil, and nickel, then iron, foil, nickel, and gold, etc....everything under the shadow is eliminated...So, hunting in DISC mode for normal hunting, or AUTO NOTCH for coin shooting are your best bets...
In both these modes, keep your SENS knob only as high as you can without getting false signals...I keep mine around Noon, unless I know I am in clean ground and can turn it higher...


HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[dobbie]

thank you for the info i think i had one of the knobs to sensitive.i still prefer my less professional outback. its idiot proof.lol

 

[JJ]

I agree with everything BH said. The only place i differ is coinshooting vs. normal hunting, disc vs. notch.. so on. I guess thats because i'm not a true "coinshooter". I could never discriminate gold out just because i'm hunting coins. I usually only use disc or all metal mode. I dont believe in cherry picking (cranking up the disc/notch only to dig the most desirable targets.) I dig all repeatable targets. Most people dont have the patience for that. I would be too afraid of passing great finds, so i dig alot more trash than most would. If targets are few and far between, i wont hesitate to run all metal, then once i come across a target, move into disc mode to help ID before i dig. In trashy areas i like disc mode (minimum disc), a 4" coil, and all the time in the world. Experiment and do what works best for you!

 

[jdstawker]

I have a QDII. I use it in all metal mode or Autonotch. I use Auto notch in parks and ball fields and such. Places where pull tabs are numerous. I have found one gold ring using auto notch.
Just my experience.

 

[EZrider]

With notching and Discrimination you have to becareful of masking good targets. Say you have tabs or foil notched/disc out and a good target is next to it, you then will not hear the good target.