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:minelab:SE Discriminating depth...Try This.......

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Texas TH'er "Georgetown"

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OK. I have been testing my new SE out for about 2 weeks now along with my ID Edge, Big Bud Pro, F75, Ace 250 and a few others. I have found something very interesting. I have a test plat with a silver quarter at 7" along with some other silver coins. Yes I know there is no "halo" effect etc, but I would like to share my test with everyone anyway. I just got the new 6" Accelerator EQ2 coil and that is what I am doing this test with. By the way, Kellyco told me that the 5" Accelerator coil has been discontinued and replaced buy this new 6" coil. I've been using it and it's goooood. Really quiet and stable, LOTS LESS FALSING!!! Anyway, on the quarter at 7" the SE Id's the quarter as ferrous high conduct, far left top corner...CONSTANTLY...in all metal mode. So do my other detectors. I believe with the stock 11 1/2" coil it would do this after maybe 9" or so. I'm going to do a few more tests with the large coil and I'll post my findings. I read somewhere a while back that detectors don't discriminate "coin sized objects" much after about 6"-8". I'm starting to believe this from my experiments. Anyone else seen this? I would urge everyone to try this: Go out in your backyard and bury a silver quarter at 5,6,7 & 8 inches, deeper if using a larger than 6" coil. Try and detect them with discrimination and then in all metal. See where they come in at on the screen in all metal. You may be surprised. I would love to here about everyone else's results...Dickie
 
Yes its a well known fact but little known by many that deepest of coins will sound like iron!. This applies to all detectors a dealer told me this. Who wants to dig deep iron all the time - not many i guess thats why the deepest coins still lay buried because others passed over the coin and got an "iffy iron signal".
 
Its like returning to the stone age digging every target but i often wonder just how many good targets i have passed over, targets that sounded bad but were maybe good targets close to trash or fringe of maximum depth targets. - make's you think what you could be missing. Hunting iron relics is something i have never done but now i am digging more iron with the SE i have found a few interesting items. As sites become worked out of non ferrous i guess it could be a good idea to remove the ferrous and see just whats buried deep underground.
 
When you get an iron signal, if you kick away sometimes as little as an inch of soil it becomes repeating silver, I found a 1851 seat lib half that way last week. Most the iron signals were indeed iron, but every 50th time they were coins. A little hard on your inner thighs, it's not a metal detector mister, it's a thigh master.
 
Can you start with my sites? I'm sure once YOU get all the iron out: WE can then find all the silver. Oh yes, teamwork :twodetecting:
 
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