Went out for a couple of hours today and boy was I humbled again. The last time out I thought I was getting a pretty good grasp on this machine, then I went out today and found nothing but bottle caps and 7 cents. Oh well more reading and experimenting. Have to say this machine makes you work your brain to figure it out, but I sure do enjoy swinging it. Just have to keep my mind right and not get frustrated.
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Just when I thought I was getting it
- Thread starter smkunder
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vancemetaldetecting.com
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Steve feel free to call me brother I would be glad to help you out. Also dont make it more complicated than it is, try not to stress your self, and dont change settings because your constantly second guessing yourself just let the second guessing go and the deus will do what it does BEST!! lol thanks buddy
vancemetaldetecting.com
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Not a problem buddy!
Samuel_Champlain_FTW
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I don't know how to explain it, but soon enough you will know when it is a coin or a bottle cap. When it is deep, you will probably still dig it.... but 5" or less, I find that when I hit a coin now, I know right away. The sound is cleaner, not as washy? Drawn out?
Hunting at a lower khz helps. I've been hunting a lot in 4 and 8 khz. Like one of the gents said on another post, it expands your TID and then you can notch that high range. When an 80% quarter comes in at mid to low 80's on 4khz, why would I dig anything in the mid 90's? (I just went and tested a 34 mm monster silver coin at 4khz [84% silver]. It was a solid 91 at 4khz. A coin of that size at 90% would possibly get you to 92 vid at that frequency?)
I think we'd be safe to say that notching 93 and up will keep us from missing any goodies. Targets that read at 90, 91, 92 and don't sound clean and sharp... are probably crap.
The XY is only good on shallow caps. Navigation there is a snap after you do it a few times. You get to the advanced option up there once, and it is there for the whole day. A couple of clicks and you're there, because the cursor will stay on the "advanced" section when you go in and out of that screen. It really isn't that bad!
Hunting at a lower khz helps. I've been hunting a lot in 4 and 8 khz. Like one of the gents said on another post, it expands your TID and then you can notch that high range. When an 80% quarter comes in at mid to low 80's on 4khz, why would I dig anything in the mid 90's? (I just went and tested a 34 mm monster silver coin at 4khz [84% silver]. It was a solid 91 at 4khz. A coin of that size at 90% would possibly get you to 92 vid at that frequency?)
I think we'd be safe to say that notching 93 and up will keep us from missing any goodies. Targets that read at 90, 91, 92 and don't sound clean and sharp... are probably crap.
The XY is only good on shallow caps. Navigation there is a snap after you do it a few times. You get to the advanced option up there once, and it is there for the whole day. A couple of clicks and you're there, because the cursor will stay on the "advanced" section when you go in and out of that screen. It really isn't that bad!
Remember to find something you have to put the coil over it. Sometimes we work too hard and dig too many questionable signals because we aren't getting any good ones. It is a state of mind and most of us are willing to take a chance on that scratchy signal because we are afraid we will leave something cool behind. You get to choose. I am pretty sure you will dig mostly coins if you just wait for those great signals. Hopefully, you don't doze off waiting. I am running a check program of identical settings at 4 to switch over and test signals. So far it seems like it helps get rid of some of the trash.
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