Mike Hillis
Well-known member
The primary places I hunt in town are modern school and park sites. Every now and then I make it out to an older neighborhood park or school when the ground is conductive for digging holes, but for the most part, I hunt the modern ones. I have 231 school and parks sites to hunt. More than 200 of those are post 1950 modern sites.
When I'm hunting the modern school sites, the predominate trash item is foil and tabs. Aluminum. The T2 works great in this environment. The coil type and size gives great coverage and depth. For me, I don't need great depth at these sites because there isn't any deep targets. This was just desert before they built on it and brought topsoil in to grow grass on. In the sand playgrounds, the depth is there and I am recovering coins I had missed before. Not because I didn't put my coil over them, but because the coils I used wouldn't sound off on them. Ground coverage is more important to me than depth and I had selected machines and coils based upon this in the past. The T2 hunts these sites quickly and effectively with lots of depth.
When I'm hunting the modern park sites, the predominate trash item changes to steel bottle caps. I have grown tired of steel bottle caps giving a high coin signal, either by a high tone when in the 3, 3b, and 4 tone audio modes, or by TID number in the 2+ audio mode. I love tone id because I can hunt by tone id. High tone should be a coin or silver signal 99% of the time in a modern park. I shouldn't have to analyze a meter reading to determine if that high tone is really a coin or a trash target. Based upon of my hunt results yesterday, I will no longer use the T2 in modern parks. It is just too time consuming dealing with the caps and removes the fun aspect. Especially when I already have a machine like the Golden uMax that excels in that type of hunt environment.
When I hunt the older out of the way places where steel bottle caps aren't the predominate trash targets, the T2 runs fine. You have seen the recent reports of how it handles iron and that has been my experience also when I get to hunt sites where iron is the main trash target.
Happy Tek'ing
When I'm hunting the modern school sites, the predominate trash item is foil and tabs. Aluminum. The T2 works great in this environment. The coil type and size gives great coverage and depth. For me, I don't need great depth at these sites because there isn't any deep targets. This was just desert before they built on it and brought topsoil in to grow grass on. In the sand playgrounds, the depth is there and I am recovering coins I had missed before. Not because I didn't put my coil over them, but because the coils I used wouldn't sound off on them. Ground coverage is more important to me than depth and I had selected machines and coils based upon this in the past. The T2 hunts these sites quickly and effectively with lots of depth. When I'm hunting the modern park sites, the predominate trash item changes to steel bottle caps. I have grown tired of steel bottle caps giving a high coin signal, either by a high tone when in the 3, 3b, and 4 tone audio modes, or by TID number in the 2+ audio mode. I love tone id because I can hunt by tone id. High tone should be a coin or silver signal 99% of the time in a modern park. I shouldn't have to analyze a meter reading to determine if that high tone is really a coin or a trash target. Based upon of my hunt results yesterday, I will no longer use the T2 in modern parks. It is just too time consuming dealing with the caps and removes the fun aspect. Especially when I already have a machine like the Golden uMax that excels in that type of hunt environment. When I hunt the older out of the way places where steel bottle caps aren't the predominate trash targets, the T2 runs fine. You have seen the recent reports of how it handles iron and that has been my experience also when I get to hunt sites where iron is the main trash target. Happy Tek'ing