Same question I asked on the Explorer forum...........with added questions here.

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Hello Elton. I use ferrous tones only when I use FBS detectors. With ferrous tones there is almost zero falsing. Conductive tones drive me nuts,[iron], Elton just pop her in ferrous tones all metal and in this mode even one way hits are usally good targets. In ferrous low conductivity items such as foil ring in with the same high tone as coins so if you are cherry picking in ferrous you will need to glance at the meter. I really don't see how anyone prefers conductive tones over ferrous, I have way to much iron in the ground to use conductive tones. Elton with a little practice in ferrous you can find small buttons surronded by nails, if you get a slight increase in tone while wiggling you have a target. In ferrous the safari is great in the iron, in conductive it's a pain. Good luck, Darryl.

 

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Hello Elton. I use ferrous tones only when I use FBS detectors. With ferrous tones there is almost zero falsing. Conductive tones drive me nuts,[iron], Elton just pop her in ferrous tones all metal and in this mode even one way hits are usally good targets. In ferrous low conductivity items such as foil ring in with the same high tone as coins so if you are cherry picking in ferrous you will need to glance at the meter. I really don't see how anyone prefers conductive tones over ferrous, I have way to much iron in the ground to use conductive tones. Elton with a little practice in ferrous you can find small buttons surronded by nails, if you get a slight increase in tone while wiggling you have a target. In ferrous the safari is great in the iron, in conductive it's a pain. Good luck, Darryl.

Are you using any discrimination when hunting in ferrous?If not that means you are hearing thousands of targets a day.I have been switching back and forth from conductive to ferrous on deep coins and in ferrous the ID bounces all over the place but the high tones are there but mixed with low.The zero falsing is true if you are in Auto Sensitivity but you are still hearing all the low noise of nails I can tell you are losing a lot of deep coins if you are running in Auto Sensitivity in ferrous and/or conductive it took me a few months to figure that out.Go to all metal ferrous next time you are out put in auto/sens then sweep, count your targets.Then drop your sensitivity to manual then count your targets in most cases the targets have doubled keep dropping down until you get close to amount of targets you had in auto this will be the only way you can tell with Safari where you were hunting in auto/sens the Etrac shows you this but Safari don't.You can drop this further to find large Iron relics but you can forget about finding deep coins.As far as not digging certain square nails by using target ID I can not see any differance in ferrous or conductive I have switched back and forth on a target both said it was good and was still bent 90 degree old square nail.This weekend I will hunt in ferrous relic for awhile this weekeed try again I have the perfect Iron site to try it on.