How can i tell iron from non in two tone?

[gates21]

Obviously I know they make different sounds...often I will hear a bit of an iron sound mixed in with a non iron sound in two tone. How do you normally tell if it is iron? I am using the F75 ltd.

 

[walker184777]

you got me, have tried my ltd 2 times now in a park the sounds drive you nuts, low high mixed in. I have to check every high tone out till i learn this thing, very different than a minelab with sounds.Have always hunted with minelab and do very well and i will learn this detector well too. There are some good things i like about the ltd, in my test garden it hits on every target better than the minelab and goes deeper than my minelab. Just wish the tones were better on a deep target next to iron. Just got the ltd and i am making a lot of mistakes with my settings but that is half the fun of getting a new detector.

 

[dirtdigger08]

Take my advice and just dig that target, I run 4 tones and that is how we have dug more gold coins from hunted out relic camps. If it has an iron sound but you can get just a peep of one of the other tones ' BELIEVE ME DIG THAT TARGET' some times it will be the iron fooling you and the detector but 50 % of the time it is a non ferrous target with the iron co located... I run 4 tones , 0 disc, pb and all the sens that I can run for the situation where I'm hunting....Lots of Iron try the 5" coil with cl mode for really slow hunting but great separation, or the pb mode.

 

[Bill Ladd]

on the goodies, while iron should be "grunting" low tone signals that will be all jumbled together in thick iron like a bed of nails. Or the distinctive chirp sneaks in amid all the low chatter & grabs your attention. It takes some practice & patience to tolerate all the "noise". Bring a button or something to a known iron rich spot & practice. learn the sounds & you''ll unmask lots of things others missed....
HH,
Bill

 

[SoArk]

Bill, I don't have the LTD, but I am learning the F75. Those iron "grunts" are dead on when they say it's iron. This past weekend, I was able to get out and hunt a pasture that I've been relic hunting on for 3 years now. All the "grunts" on the smaller iron targets seem to TID at 9 to 12 on my machine. When I would notice that high pitch mixed in with the grunts..... then I'd try to isolate the target giving the high pitched tone.... and trying to catch a glimpse of a TID that would flash up higher into the 40's or 50's. This happened twice that I can remember this past weekend...... when I was able to isolate the non-ferrous target...... the first signal I dug was a .58 three-ringer mixed in with 3 or 4 badly corroded square nails. The second target was a eagle coat button, again mixed with a couple of small heavily rusted iron targets. I didn't check to see exactly what they were..... just saw the small globules of rusted junk in the dirt I removed from the hole. I'm still learning to use this machine...... but, I have hunted nearly every inch of this camp with a Shadow X-5, and my hunting partner uses a Tesoro Cibola ( that is another fine little unit)...... and I just do not think that I would have found the targets I dug with those units. I wound up with 5 three ringers, the eagle coat, and an eagle cuff button..... along with a knap sack hook..... and melted lead bits from the strewn fire pits.

I wish I could buy the LTD, because this pasture had been farmed back in the 30's - 50's, and had been terraced to help with erosion. I just know there are more goodies beneath the terrace rows...... that I just can't reach at this time...... even though the F75 did pull the cuff button and a couple of bullets from deeper in these terraces.

Once more..... Thanks for all you do in regards to the help you've been through your posts. From you and others so willing to share your knowledge of these products.... I have learned tons!

 

[jim tn]

it appears you are learning the F 75 pretty well. Perhaps you have, but when you get the chance, rework those productive spots from other directions and angles. It is amazing what just a slight change in direction will produce. HH jim tn

 

[SoArk]

Thanks, Jim..... amen! I've been detecting since 1984...... a novice really when compared to years that some have on detectors. When I first started ( as a coin shooter) I learned this lesson real well that you just described to me. I had hunted an old country church yard for coins for a year or so, when I invited a friend to come with me one day. When we got to the church, the first thing he asked me was, " How do you normally hunt here..... how do you walk over the yard." I told him I normally hunted it lengthways. He said, "okay then lets do it this way." and meant that we should hunt perpendicular to what I had just described.

I don't remember how many coins we found that day..... but enough that I still remember the valuable lesson he taught me!

Thanks again for the reminder..... because, I still tend to just look in one pattern a lot of times!