I ran the T-2 today in a spot I dug with the Omega a couple weeks ago

[Keith Southern]

and the T-2 really surprised me!! I always knew the T-2 was powerful but I never ran it wide open in iron...I had it set up like the Omega 99 sens and 2 tone...the iron in this spot is machine gun iron ..constant blat. blat .blat. well the 99 sens really lit the site up for me.. I never ran a T-2 wide open in the iron but it will unmask alot better like this why?? It even I.D.'s the iron better...Maybe it gets a better look at the target??

If you remember the site yielded some larger brass with the omega with 11 DD at good depth but it left these targets ...T-2 was 11 DD also..and the set of hooks out of a Cartridge box was close to 10 inches deep!

the other little pistol ball bullets were just mixed in the nails...theres also a vest size Eagle C that had some pretty serious depth in the iron nails,, I would say it was a good 6 inches deep in a blanket of nails.. just a little one way peep but it was a solid one way peep!! also a piece of a Jeff Davis hat pin that was totally masked..

I cant say for sure the T-2 would of got the Silver dollar size pieces of brass from a couple of weeks ago but I believe it should of had no problem??
I will run them both side by side tomorrow for a one on one challenge..

One thing that showed the unmasking abilities of one tone mode is the brass triangle of of a knapsack rig...I had really hit one spot pretty tight so I went back over the area with the 1+ mode at 21 disc 99 sens.. was getting the partial disced hits spits and pops then a good clean hard hit that read 62.. I checked it in 2+
tone 10 disc and it was just a constant blat blat blat.. back to the 1+ 21 disc and bam it was back at 62 dug the target ,,,it was the brass triangle checked the hole again quite the back to 2 tone and blat blat blat blat!!!!! so the combo of the triangle with the open spot at the top in the nails created a target 2 tone could not see..

If you have a spot hunted out go back in with the 1+ tone, 99 sens, 21 disc, it might surprise you!!



Quick note on the Fe bar it shows 1 on both machines.. ground reading on the T-2 was anywhere from 60-70 the omega reads about 10 points lower...

One thing I should of stated in my earlier post about the Omega was the smaller brass like button size would read low tone high tone on the deeper past 8 inches items..and under my test hot rock using an eagle coat button when ground balanced to the dirt.... 60% of the time it will call it iron in 2 tone mode... and on the high hits it will read as 99 occasionally ...

On the T-2 same scenario it will read the button under the rock at 59-65 no Iron grunt ever no matter approach angle or distance from rock ..

Must be why the T-2 loves buttons in my Funky Dirt?


These are just some of my findings..

I know they dont mean a whole lot but it might help someone who's on the fence and who don't have access to different machines...

I dont want to sound negative to the omega its a heck of a deal with the coil packages but for a purist I believe the T-2 is hard to beat. even today. especially since I have refreshed my memory with one in the last few days...

Keith

 

[jmaryt]

dankowski mentions this on his web site!..he indicated that the f-75 and the t2 set at "high" gain in an iron infested
site will "unmask" more and better "nonferrous" targets.

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[Youngted]

I will try that today on my UK Romano British site that is high in minerals and iron 4th century nails.
Yesterday I found 11 4th century small coins at my normal settings of 71Sens Disc 20 sounds 2+ if I used 1 I would be in the nut house !!
Brian

 

[Youngted]

I tried them as I said on my last post. No good on unrealized UK soil I returned to my 70/75 sens 20 disc 2+ after ground grabbing first. Then I started to find objects again.
One small 4th century coin plus a small Seal box cover as shown. On a different field three Georgian period coins that suffered due to the soil ,also as show a belt stud & small buckle of the period.
Brian

 

[chuck ky]

don't understand why it wouldn't give a higher signal in 2 tone but i would think that at 10 disc the nails weren't disc'd out but at 21 they were.

 

[Ed in SoDak]

I have an earlier v5 T2, upgraded to v6 and a replacement coil. It's "high-strung," would be the best way to put it. Chattery would be another apt description. That could be a description of our soil, as I can collect native iron granules with a magnet, and the T2 will hit on these. Maybe a v6.5 upgrade would help?

One neat thing I discovered about the T2 was searching in pinpoint mode. Holding the trigger in pinpoint, I'd quickly sweep an area. Any signal would begin to sound off over a foot away horizontally from the coil. I'd center up on it, then switch to normal searching.

This won't help at all on the infested sites, other than to give a quick scan of the general level of targets in the area. But it sure helped in sparse target areas. I could dramatically reduce the search time and home in on the richer spots.

I'm kinda curious if that technique may still apply to newer versions. A great tip in any case, that I've also seen mentioned elsewhere, so I'm probably not the first guy to come with it.

-Ed

 

[Youngted]

Roman hand made nais still give a bit of a hit even on disc 21 but then you get the grunt with 2+ and on you go. The site that I have been searching has the small 4th century coins for targets mostly 18 mm and below in diameter.What with the difficult soil I only find then in the top few inches even with the T2 .Mid you my other machine missed a lot of them

 

[Elton]

appreciate it..

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Now go back with the small 5DD on the 8000 and T2 and see what you can find...you have two great machines and you can never clean a place out.

 

[Keith Southern]

and while the Omega is a great machine it will not unmask like the T-2 will.. especially when you run the T-2 wide open in the machine gun iron...Just one continuous low iron grunt tone in the headphones type sites...

The T-2 at max power will unmask ....Noisy!!! but it is what it is..

Keith

 

[bubbadirect]

Keith Southern---I recently purchased an OMEGA and will be going back down to kentucky to civil war relic hunt. What setting would you recommend? SENS 99? 2 tone? 1 tone or even 3 or 4? I would like to hear your input since you have both units. I have the 11" DD coil also.

Thank you,
bubbadirect