Question and a comment

[James N.D.]

And about the Fast On, Deep On Issue. Let's just put it this way NH Bob. I found an old Park that turned out to be an old Horse Track and when I first started Pounding it, I found a lot of Barber, Merc's, you name it! I worked and worked one specific area with Deep On only the first time I detected this spot and I thought I had gotten it all, but the sad truth was that I hadn't even touched it yet. I worked it until I couldn't get any good signals at all, not even Iffy Signals with Deep On only. Anyways, this spring, I decided just to go back to this Park and I was now running Fast On only and I got there and decided to try the area I previously worked and worked Hard before just to see if Fast On would make any kind of difference. Let's just say I started detecting and out pop's a Merc. Walked a little farther and out pop's a Barber Dime. I was shocked to see this and after a few hours later, I had 14 Silver, consisting of a Barber Quarter, Washington Quarter, 4-5 Barber Dimes, a couple Merc's and 1 or 2 Roosevelt Dimes. I also had a handful of Wheat's and a couple Indians. I couldn't believe it and still can't to this day what kind of difference it made when I switched from Deep On to Fast On. I know what you are thinking! That I didn't pattern the area but I did and very well. There is just a lot of Iron and Trash in the area and that is why I couldn't get the signals like I could with Fast On. You may have to give it a try sometime in a trashy area and see if you can find a few things that you thought you should have found before. It totally opened up my eyes and I hunt in Fast On a lot now, just depends on Trash and Iron and how deep all the targets are. But this is just my honest opinion on this subject and what one's preference is to himself, most likely won't be the preference of another user. That's how versatile the Explorer's are and I Love 'Em for that!

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

That's some good stuff man. I can relate, because when I first got my Sovereign Elite and was on my way to mastering that...which I did VERY quickly...I shunned the meter for a full month, hunting strictly by sound. And you're right...you learn the machine MUCH better that way. Although the meter definitely brings a worthy snack tray to the party. But the tones always steal the show.

 

[NH Bob]

You posted once before that you hunt in conductive always. This being a fact then you use discrimination. I on the other hand hunt in all metal and ferrous all the time. That as you know is no discrimination. What you are doing is recovering fast enough to get between the trash. I slow way down and hear all that is in the ground (and this takes time to learn)I pick up the same signals you do with no nulling. And as you said, this is just my thoughts on the subject.

 

[tomtowns]

When you say because he is hunting in conduct tones he is useing discrimination??? I'm new to the explorers but I was under the impression that if you were running all metal you were not useing any discrimination??? I'm confused...

 

[NH Bob]

This way all your high pitch tones are at the right side of the screen. This alerts you that you are over good metal.
When you run in conductive most all people use some discrimination. otherwise the high pitched tomes can be anywhere across the top of the screen. Counter productive.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

What I would be very interested in is this, when you started finding all these coins with your new settings, did you switch back to your previous settings and confirm that you could not get a signal on those targets before you dug them?

We have pounded a site seemingly clean then the following spring out pops gobs of targets leaving our mouth gaping open at how we could have possibly missed all those targets. That happens around here ALL the time and without changing any settings. Here are two other things that can explain that.

First the ground freezes here pretty solid in the winter. When the ground freezes, water expands, the ground heaves up several inches then settles back down again several times through the freeze/thaw cycle. In the process this moves some coins up, buries some deeper, and flips coins over that were previously on edge and undetectable. It is incredible how many coins suddenly appear in the spring at previously pounded sites.

The second thing that can have a drastic effect is the moisture content of the soil, especially if there is ample amounts of rusty nails around. Sopping wet tends to hide virtually all coins at some of our sites due to the iron signals being huge in sopping wet conditions. Yet sopping wet will reveal some really deep targets. Even still, we have pounded sites seemingly clean when the soil was ideal in terms of moisture, only to come back when its bone dry and find even more coins near the iron now that the dry soil has shut the iron up. So moisture content is a huge factor.

Charles

 

[Rick(ND)]

This is what I feel too from all the years of detecting that every spring I like to try some of the older coin producing sites as i feel like you do about how some of this works. I notice when sopping wet in the spring where water will stand in the hole is never good for me, but when wet enough so there is no actual water is where it seems the best.
I maybe wrong, but I have notice for me either fast or deep on and not both at the same time works the best depending on how trashy the site is and if you need a quick recovery.