Indian Cents - With 2 Tone Ferrous Again

[E-Trac-Ohio]

I've hunted around my neighbor's old house many times across the last year and never found any older coins.
His house is only a few hundred feet from where I live - so I tend to use this site for trying new E- Trac settings or if I only have time enough for a short hunt.
I know every square foot of his yard !

Last night - for the first time - I decided to try hunting in 2 -Tone Ferrous mode instead of Conductive Multi-Tones.
In less than 10 miniutes I dug these two Indian Head Cents - 1891 & 1898.
Both were 5 " deep and only three feet apart. I'm 100% positive that I've walked over these two coins several times or more in Multi-Tones.
In 2 - Tone Ferrous - they stuck out like sore thumbs !

HH --- Mark

 

[Barry NY]

There you go - a true test using alternative settings to clean out a good site.
And those IHs are in decent condition too.
Congrats.

 

[LabradorBob]

Great job on the indians,Ferrous is amazing sometimes.

LabradorBob

 

[NebTrac]

Thanks Mark! Congratulations on the IH's and thanks for the pictures!!

NebTrac

 

[Goes4ever]

absolutely amazing when you go to a site that YOU have pounded and find these coins just by using a different set up.

When I tried to use the xterra 70 with an open screen and 2 tones it just never worked like the etrac does, all I can figure is that the etrac's processor is just way more faster!

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Did you just change from conductive to ferrous or did you also open up the screen?

Chris

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Yes Chris - the screen is wide open - but I also had the screen wide open when I hunted this site in Conductive - Multi-Tones.
From what I've heard from others - the processor can react faster when it's running in only in Two Tones.
I'm no expert - but this theory seems to make sense.

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Wouldn't wide open in conductive make all iron sound like coins? Or is this different on the E-trac? Goes4ever changed from coin program conductive to open screen ferrous. He said it went from complete null to finding coins. That makes more sense to me.

Wide open conductive on the earlier models would be absolutely brutal.

Just trying to understand.

Chris

 

[Digger]

If you're running single tone mode, then yes, everything would sound the same. But if you're running a wide open screen with multiple conductive tones on the E-TRAC, it would sound similar to a single frequency VLF with multiple tones, running in an all metal mode. The reason is because VLF's also base their audio response on the targets conductivity value. With either, there are some iron targets that will at times produce a high tone, such as a coin. But the dual TID (ferrous and conductive) allow the user to help identify which targets you might want to dig. HH Randy