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Searching in Ferrous Tones!!

J

john4840

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Hey guys I went hunting with the Quattro today at a older local community park today. I was using ferrous tones and came across a pocket spill of 2 clad quarters, 2 copper pennies, and under the coins was a pull tab. The coins were at about 5 inches and a pull tab was at 6 inches. I switched to conductive tones and the signal was choppy and the TID numbers were jumping around in the lower 30's. I switched back to ferrous tones was able to get an stable signal and the TID was able lock on to 38/39. I dug up the coins and swung the coil over the hole again and about inch under the coins was a pull tab. Swung the the coil again over the hole and got a low ferrous tone. I left that in the ground. Has anybody experienced this? Also in ferrous tone I dug some coins that actually hit at a TID #40, one was copper penny and the other was clad quarter. I think I am going keep on searching in ferrous tone mode.


John
 
Hey John

I've only had my Safari a short time now and i've use ferrous mode from pretty much the beginning. I have found that the detector seems to run a lot more stable in ferrous mode. The TID #s seem to lock on to the target and not bounce around. I've been notching out TID #40 since someone suggest it to me and that helped even more to stable the detector. Prior to me notching TID #40 out no good targets were hit. Good luck.......
 
John, thanks for posting your experience. As a rule I start out in Conductive mode and then switch over to Ferrous just to compare the tones. I usually do this before every dig but from our experience, maybe I should reverse my strategy by starting out in Ferrous. I'll try that on my next hunt and try to remember to post the results here.
 
I think I am going to start searching in both tones. You know do area first in one tone mode and then researching that same area in the other tone mode. What I am starting to see is that it is easier to find nickles in conductive tones then in ferrous tones, at least for me. Today I was switching between tone modes and I accidently left it in conductive tones and got a nice low tone TID #14. I checked it in ferrous tones and the sound was higher pitched but the Quattro was still locking on 14. I dug down 7 inches and out popped a 1936 S Buffalo nickle. This was a first one for with my Quattro.

John
 
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