HUNTING FOR DEEP TARGETS:sadwalk:

[jesus p. lazaro]

HELLO!!!! I HAVE COUPLE YEARS METALDETECTING WITH MY GTI2500 AND I NEVER FIND COINS DEEPER THEN 5 INCH DEEP, I THOUGH IT WAS THE 9.5 COIL THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM ,SO I ORDER THE DOBLE- D COIL AND I ONLY PULLOUT TRASH AND NO COINS !! AM I DOING SOMTHING WRONG ?

 

[Uncle Willy]

Perhaps there are no deeper coins where you hunt. If you're running your sensitivity high turn it down to 6 or 6.5. If you wanted more depth you should have picked up the 12-inch coil. The DD is for mineralized soil and loves bottle caps. I don't know what you are doing or how you have your detector set up so can't offer much without more info. Just stating that you can't find coins deeper than five inches doesn't tell me much. Have you tried hunting in all metal?

Bill

 

[jesus p. lazaro]

HI BILL !!!!! WELL MY SENSITIVITY IS ON 9 . AND MY DETECTOR IS ON FACTORY SETUP , I WAS HUNTING ON A PUBLIC PARK FROM THE LATE 1800'S . IT'S WEIRD THAT I HAVEN'T FIND ANY SILVER COINS , ONLY MODERN COINS AND NO DEEPER THAN 5 INCH DEEP, I'M GOING TO LOWER DE SENSITIVITY DOWN , AND SEE WHAT HAPPEN THANK'S

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah hunt at that setting for a spell and in coins mode. Turn your threshold down to a faint hum. Scan slow as the 2500 has too much information to process and is a slow responder. Hunt with your coil at least an nch off the ground. Run your cable straigh up the shaft about a foot and fasten it down with tape, velcro, or elecrical ties. Your 2500 will often ID quarters as pennies so don't pass up those signals. Center the target, pinpoint it, and move the coil around slightly and those penny ID's will often turn into quarters. The 2500 is capable of great depth if the coins are there.

Just because an area is old doesn't guarantee old coins. Detectors have been around since about 1931 so that place has been hit, plus people back in those days had no money to lose and what few coins they had were carried in a coin purse, not loose in their pocket. A nickel or a dime was a fortune back then, equal to $10.00 or so today, so people didn't just run around loosing coins and if they dropped one they hunted for it till they found it. When movies were first invented and thereafter you could pay your way into a movie with a nickel. When I was a kid it had risen to a dime. So this is why old coins ain't just laying around everywhere.

Bill

 

[slingshot]

One thing that Bill almost always mentions that he didn't this time is overlapping the searchcoil. Not to steal his thunder but it's one of his best tips-overlapping sometimes only a scan the size of a quarter. I said to pretend you were looking for dimes on another forum and everyone thought I was a little too precise-but sometimes just this one thing can add an inch or three.

 

[jesus p. lazaro]

HI ! BILL AND SLINGSHOT !!! THAN K'S FOR THE TIP I WENT OUT TO THE FIELD THIS MORNING AND START TO DETECT THE PARK. I SETUP MY DETECTOR IN COIN MODE , DROP THE SENSITIVITY TO 7.5 AND THE THRESHOLD TO MINIMUM HUM , I START SWEEPING THE COIL AND START FINDING COINS ONE AFTER ANOTHER I HAVE DUGOUT ;
25 QUARTERS
41 DIMES
13 NICKLES
11 WHEAT CENTS
1894 INDIAN HEAD PENNY
1941 MERCURY DIME
1942 WASHINGTON SILVER QUARTER
1919 CANADIAN SILVER DIME
2 BULLETS AND A BUNCH OF DAMAGE ZINC PENNY'S
THANKS ,HAPPY HOLLY-DAY

 

[fongu]

I will have to try the cable like Bill said. I usually wrap it around the shaft starting at the base of the coin and that's the way I remember the instructions saying to do it, but experience in the field always improves on manual or DVD instructions. Maybe that will help me out as much as Jesus. That's a lot of coins. The overlapping I will try to do, also. Bill, you are right about the 2500, it is slow to respond. I thought it was a defect of something.

 

[marcomo]

HI ! BILL AND SLINGSHOT !!! THAN K'S FOR THE TIP I WENT OUT TO THE FIELD THIS MORNING AND START TO DETECT THE PARK. I SETUP MY DETECTOR IN COIN MODE , DROP THE SENSITIVITY TO 7.5 AND THE THRESHOLD TO MINIMUM HUM , I START SWEEPING THE COIL AND START FINDING COINS ONE AFTER ANOTHER I HAVE DUGOUT ;
25 QUARTERS
41 DIMES
13 NICKLES
11 WHEAT CENTS
1894 INDIAN HEAD PENNY
1941 MERCURY DIME
1942 WASHINGTON SILVER QUARTER
1919 CANADIAN SILVER DIME
2 BULLETS AND A BUNCH OF DAMAGE ZINC PENNY'S
THANKS ,HAPPY HOLLY-DAY

WOW! That's an amazing turnaround in one day - never underestimate Uncle Willy's advice!

 

[roceda]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah if you scan too fast you can skip right over a target.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

And even if you overlap 50% you can still miss coins at depth. Heres's a simple diagram showing why.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

You done good bud. Keep at it The more you learn your machine the more you will find.

Bill.

 

[oldranger]

REALLY a great job..i guess once it starts to make sense it
gets a little easier...

I hope that Ill have days like that soon.. in the mean time
Ill kepp scannin and learnin


Hvae safe happy Fun Hunts

Ron
RLTW

 

[metalhead]

Awesome improvement!Congrats!
Way to be there Uncle Willy and Slingshot!
Incredible! Sound advice! Happy Hunting!

 

[citizen butts]

why drop SENSITIVITY TO 7.5 , why not higher if the machine is stable on higher settings
thanks


try one of these called the limlock, do away with straps
i invented a few years ago and put a patent on it,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-F-b9fc2AU

 

[Uncle Willy]

If you're in a mineral free, junk free area, go for it. But remember, sensitivity doesn't equate to depth. Cranking it up just makes the coil more sensitive to the targets you hope to find, it doesn't drive the signal deeper into the ground as many seem to think. It also renders the coil more sensitive to all the mineralization and junk in the ground which can mask good targets. Mineralization is like the grain in hardwood, it can change in a few feet from zero, thin, to heavy and vice versa. Running it lower doesn't mean a loss in depth. I have recovered coins at ten inches running at 6.5 Try running it lower and see what your results are.

Bill .

 

[piker]

thanks uncle willy, i,l try dropping mine and see if i can still pull small roman,

 

[marcomo]

If you're in a mineral free, junk free area, go for it. But remember, sensitivity doesn't equate to depth. Cranking it up just makes the coil more sensitive to the targets you hope to find, it doesn't drive the signal deeper into the ground as many seem to think. It also renders the coil more sensitive to all the mineralization and junk in the ground which can mask good targets. Mineralization is like the grain in hardwood, it can change in a few feet from zero, thin, to heavy and vice versa. Running it lower doesn't mean a loss in depth. I have recovered coins at ten inches running at 6.5 Try running it lower and see what your results are.

Bill .

Excellent advice, Bill! It took that great advice a while to sink into my thick skull. And that goes for all detectors, not just Charlie's fine machines.

 

[jesus p. lazaro]

HI GUYS !! THANKS FOR THE TIPS AND THE DIAGRAM UNCLE WILLY I'M STARTING TO UNDERSTAND MY DETECTOR LITTLE BY LITTLE .NOW I KNOW THAT I DON'T HAVE TO SWEEP FAST , I HAVE TO SWEEP THE COIL SLOW AND CLOSE TO THE GRASS FOR BETTER RESULTS I'M GO NA TRADE TO DETECT WITH FACTORY SETUP ON THE SENSITIVITY . THANKS UNCLE WILLY , SLING SHOT AND CITIZEN BUTTS YOU RE GO NA HERD FROM ME SOON , HAVE A NICE THANKSGIVING WITH YOU RE LOVE ONES

 

[jesus p. lazaro]

WISH COIL DO YOU RECOMMEND UNCLE WILLY FOR DIP TARGETS ( COINS )? THE 9 INCH OR THE 12 INCH COIL.