Need help with my explorer 2

[capri_auto]

Hey guys, I picked up an explorer 2 early this week and took out to an old site I know of. I hunted this site twice with an impulse machine and knew there was tons of rusty metal bits in the ground. I picked up the explorer to help with discrimination. I have almost no experience with a metal detector.

I had the detector set to default, increased sensitivity to 26, threshold at 8, tried iron mask on 8 and iron mask off. Also tried Deep on, then tried fast on with deep off.

I would null a lot of iron targets but then when rescanning some areas it would bleep but never very repeatable. Rusty metal seems to come up as low fer. sometimes... If I'm coinshooting what kind of sound and numbers am I looking for?

Anyone have tips for a beginner? Settings for an area like this?

Pinpointing is hard for me too, since theres a good amount of iron in the ground.. also since its in the woods its almost impossible to dig a clean plug. Any tips here?

Any help would be great. I am trying a new spot tomorrow, maybe there will be less trash in the ground

 

[Dave-WI]

Watch traviswells video, it is several post down "The reason I love my explorer". Should give you some ideas on the sound your looking for. As far as settings try to make small adjustments as you are detecting so that you can get a feel for what the changes are. Good Luck and HH

 

[dewcon4414]

My suggestion if you are in the woods is switch to ferr sounds and set your disc a couple of clicks to eliminate the mineral sounds. Dig everything with a higher tone than iron. Iron rust will hit lower right cornor with larger pieces hitting in the upper left... dig everything elce you might get some surprises. You may still get some iron bounce or hot rocks but you should learn them quickly. Really large iron or hot rocks may repeat... but for the most part you should pick it up quickly and wont have to look at your screen as often. Id recommend the smartscreen just because its more visual and quicker. If theres a question to say hot rock you can check the digital...they read 00 31. I wouldnt worry about numbers right now you will learn them as you dig. Besides in trashy areas those numbers flipping will drive you nuts. IF you cant do normal pinpointing because of the trash.... tilt the back of your coil up and just use the tip of the front of your coil. Wiggle it back until the tone disappears and the traget should be at the tip. As far as your plug .... dig the target put your dirt on a cloth and make it as clean as possible. This should be the easiest with less tone varience.

Dew

 

[stasys]

Hello capri_auto. firstly explorer is not so fast to expect quick target respond.so don't expect to get it clear in trash -iron, with high discrimination or programs like coins and etc. my suggestion for you is, swing your coil in trash slowly, use sensitivity like accelerator on your car, if its traffic slow down or lower your sensitivity! if its clear push down full sensitivity, do not scare to use 10 sensitivity, with lower sensitivity you will be able to hear more targets and iron trash than just nuling! use manual sensitivity and all the time it manipulate depending from ground condition if its clear sensitivity up, if its starts to nuling sensitivity down! hunt in minimum discrimination in trashy areas! all metal -open screen with thin black line, to eliminate smallest iron peaces and to make it bearable for the ears. use good quality metal detectors headphones-koss 30 is cheapest and very good sound quality! in other way you will quickly get tired. start your explorer experience with original 1050 coil, maybe this coil is not deepest but its made by mainlab for explorer, and my experience shows that its very good coil. good luck

 

[capri_auto]

Went out again today after reading http://usetheminelabexplorerlikeapro.blogspot.com/2004/11/chapter-2-charles-rock-solid-set-up.html

I understand the machine and had some good success today, Found a nice button and some shotshells from about 1900. Only dug one nail that sounded good the whole way through

If anyone is starting out read through the above blog carefully and you'll understand the machine quickly.

Anyone have more info on this button?

Thanks for looking