Ronstar
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Finally decided if Im gonna get out then go early before the heat wave hits. So up to the battle zone at 7am and this time with the 6” in the holster.
Started a good slow methodical grid search in an area that the Legend had already produced a Barber Half, Quarter, a couple Mercs, a couple V nickels, IH pennies, etc. Im right on the edge where the EMI starts getting mildly chatty, running in Park, F, 4khz, Rec at 5, 6 tones, Thresh at 5, and Sens at 28. Everything else at Default. I set up Field in the same manner so that the comparison is equal. Lets see what we learn!
In Park I get a good 44-45 hit deep, this should be a penny. Nope. A piece of canslaw at around 5” deep. Ok, fill in the plug and keep going. Another 10-15 feet and solid 45, dig and canslaw yet again. ????
EMI now getting pretty chatty so switch to Field and dead silent, lets see what we get. First good signal is a solid, and I mean solid 51 from four directions. Quarter in my mind, nope. One inch rusted bolt with nut attached at 6”. Ok, breath and assess situation. Check Park but not now as chatty but still annoying. Continue. Next solid hit is 52, quarter or rusty bolt? C’mon quarter. Nope. Small stove bolt. Grrrrrrr.
I keep going and shortly get a locked on 46 so has to be a dime, this time tho I switched back to Park and solid 35 and not as deep. Recheck Field and deep 46. Forces me to recover and guess what? Yup, pull ring style pull tab with No beavertail attached.
I continues this with very similar results and VDIs run significantly higher in Field than Park. Is this a coil thing? 11” coil didnt seem as scatter brained…….
I did get two 39-40 signals in Field that ended up zincolns at 5” and those number I usually see with aluminum pop tops. Check in Park and I get 43-44 (I put them back in the hole just to see). Other than that I did manage to dig two more cannon fuses and one old rifle casing. Pouch had about two hand fulls of pop tops, square nails, steel nails, and various other foils.
I can not determine if this anomaly in readings is EMI caused, coil caused, operator errors (easy on me guys) or detector “programs”. Either way jkline was swinging his eTrac his significant better other was using his Legend. They did get a small amount of clad and one older wheat penny so thinking this area is pretty cleaned.
Only other variable is the ground is brick hard and bone dry as the grounds crew apparently are not watering and we are used to much damper soils.
Started a good slow methodical grid search in an area that the Legend had already produced a Barber Half, Quarter, a couple Mercs, a couple V nickels, IH pennies, etc. Im right on the edge where the EMI starts getting mildly chatty, running in Park, F, 4khz, Rec at 5, 6 tones, Thresh at 5, and Sens at 28. Everything else at Default. I set up Field in the same manner so that the comparison is equal. Lets see what we learn!
In Park I get a good 44-45 hit deep, this should be a penny. Nope. A piece of canslaw at around 5” deep. Ok, fill in the plug and keep going. Another 10-15 feet and solid 45, dig and canslaw yet again. ????
EMI now getting pretty chatty so switch to Field and dead silent, lets see what we get. First good signal is a solid, and I mean solid 51 from four directions. Quarter in my mind, nope. One inch rusted bolt with nut attached at 6”. Ok, breath and assess situation. Check Park but not now as chatty but still annoying. Continue. Next solid hit is 52, quarter or rusty bolt? C’mon quarter. Nope. Small stove bolt. Grrrrrrr.
I keep going and shortly get a locked on 46 so has to be a dime, this time tho I switched back to Park and solid 35 and not as deep. Recheck Field and deep 46. Forces me to recover and guess what? Yup, pull ring style pull tab with No beavertail attached.
I continues this with very similar results and VDIs run significantly higher in Field than Park. Is this a coil thing? 11” coil didnt seem as scatter brained…….
I did get two 39-40 signals in Field that ended up zincolns at 5” and those number I usually see with aluminum pop tops. Check in Park and I get 43-44 (I put them back in the hole just to see). Other than that I did manage to dig two more cannon fuses and one old rifle casing. Pouch had about two hand fulls of pop tops, square nails, steel nails, and various other foils.
I can not determine if this anomaly in readings is EMI caused, coil caused, operator errors (easy on me guys) or detector “programs”. Either way jkline was swinging his eTrac his significant better other was using his Legend. They did get a small amount of clad and one older wheat penny so thinking this area is pretty cleaned.
Only other variable is the ground is brick hard and bone dry as the grounds crew apparently are not watering and we are used to much damper soils.
