My thoughts on 2 tone ferrous

[jbow]

Ferrous/2-tone rarely falses. 4 tone or multi falses much more.... at least that has been my experience. You have to take a look at the conductive number on every non-ferrous hit, just try it. Relic pattern; digital screen; conductive number good... ferrous number not absurd... dig it. Especially iffy signals that only give a good conductive number from one way... those are sometimes the masked targets every other detector misses and even the ET misses in conductive/multi. I ususlly run fast=on and deep=on. It is like what an F75 would be if it could be but it can't be.

J

 

[Dennis 2]

Just seems like they both work great in Ferrous tone. I set mine up the way you have yours..seemed to work the best with that set-up. I did sell mine, and went back to the EX. Works better for me... just tells me more. anyway good hunting
Dennis 2

 

[Goes4ever]

to show how good it works at a farm today I experienced the following:

Went across front yard in conductive tones, got one measly 1950s wheat, put it in 2 tone went across front yard again (VERY small yard, house almost sit on road) this time in 2 tone I picked up 3 wheats 1918, 1925, 1942, and a silver rosie. I am telling you that 2 tone is amazing in iron areas!

 

[shwebb]

Decided to try the ferrous 2 tone today. I was only able to hunt about 30 minutes due to the heat and the ground being hard and only dug 2 targets. One of them was a 1917d merc. and the other was a 1930 wheat. I think I'm going to like that setup. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions about using that setup
Steve

 

[Digger]

and you have been posting your thoughts on 2-tone ferrous since the beginning. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,811685,811685#msg-811685 I've learned a lot from your posts and agree with your analysis.

My rules of thumb are.......1. if the majority of ferrous targets produce a higher TID than 17, I use ferrous tones. That allows me to "weed out" most of the iron "by ear" and I'm only looking at the TID for high ferrous tone signals. If the majority of targets at a site provide a ferrous TID of less than 17, I use conductive tones so I don't have to monitor the TID so closely. LIke you, I'll kick in a bit of discrimination to minimize the wrap around signals.
Rule 2. The more dense the concentration of targets, the fewer tones I use. No use confusing the brain with a symphony. However, when I get to a place that I only hit one or two targets per sweep, I will likely run multiple tones.
JMHO HH Randy