It's only ONE merc...but you gotta' see why it was still sitting in the POUNDED ground waiting for me to find it.:yo:

[mattockman]

I tried conduct sounds again today and could not take it very long....I am a ferrous learned person so I guess your right....its just not right for me and I am amazed that you do so well with it....HH......

 

[Arturo de Zorro]

Conduct is hard to learn to use and you will end up rapping your explorer around a tree if you use conduct in Iron Mask -16 or -15, and maybe even -14, conduct can not be used in all metal mode, conduct is for old men like me that like cream in there coffee or discrimination in there explorer. One must first learn the difference between a high iron tone and a coin high tone, there is a distinctive difference and it can be heard with the right headphones. My first three years with the Explorer XS I hunted in -16 iron mask with ferrous mode and done well, in ferrous, you dig very few deep nails but in the conduct mode you will dig more bent nails in a high Iron Mask setting and that is why in conduct a setting of -13 is as far as I want to go when using the iron mask mode. When using ferrous and a coin is touching or next to iron it changes the high tone of the coin to a slight lower pitch tone that can be mistaken for trash. When using ferrous in -16 or -15 you hear the iron and if theirs a coin, it will not have that classic high tone but instead it has a lower pitch tone because it is touching the iron. I have found that in conduct mode the high tone of the coin stays high even if it has iron touching it, and the iron will be a long shrieking high tone. I still dig alittle iron but nothing like I use to when I first started using conduct and I have found more deep silver mixed with iron in the last 4 years then in the total 12 years of metal detecting, and I owe it to the Explorer II and slowing down to a slow brush stroke.

 

[Arturo de Zorro]

n/t

 

[mattockman]

I am waiting for the Explorer 12 to come out....you know, the one that has a voice and tells you it is gold,silver half or 100% copper penny., etc.....and when iron is detected it tells you a knock knock joke or something just so you won't get bored in the field. Yeah I know when Elephants fly!!!!.....Dumbo doesn't count, he is fictional...Head phones have alot to do with what tone you hear cause I got 3 diff. pair and all sound very diff. and ground minerals has a lot to do with position of curser and sound cause I dig nickels deep at beach that sound like and far left curser, hi ferrous(low sound) object but the conductivity position on screen is same as a nickel ontop of the ground. so that tells me the cond. pos. of curser is accurate compared to ferrous position of curser. I wonder how they would sound if I was running in conductivity sounds....next time I will have to try it.
I guess cause I have been using ferrous for so long I will stick with it cause it would take a while to get use to a big change like this.
I am glad it works for you.....keep up the good work and a toast to the Explorer 12!!!! CHEERS!

 

[Hotcz70]

That was the key for me....maxing both....but with high gain and iron mask around 20 or so on the SE.

 

[jbow]

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