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I visited Ron from Dixie Detectors this week and he took me to a corn field around Jackson, MS. and we hunteded it for about 3 hours. I had a new GT in my hands for the first time and was really impressed with it's iron handling abilities.
This field was laced with big iron pieces like horse shoes, many large equipment parts on down to wadded up square nails. I was using the small 8" coil and Ron was using the 10" on his.
My settings for most of the day was Fixed,Silent, Iron Mask ON, Zero disc, and sens set at about 95% wide open.
<BIG>A pleasant surprise for me </BIG>was when I encountered a large piece of crusty/rusty iron just laying on top of a corn row. Just for the heck of it I swung the coil over it at about 3-4" above the target ... the GT made one small blip and that was it. It tuned that large iron completely out. The ONLY WAY I could get any response from the GT was to go in to all metal mode.
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">In my opinion </span> even an Explorer II won't handle iron this well. The only iron that fooled it was the deep wadded up square nails and I soon discovered that even they would start sounding a little trashy after a few extra sweeps of the coil and would most of the time go completely silent. When they didn't go silent I would dig them and there would alway's be something else mixed in with the iron ... like a piece of brass or copper. So really, the GT wasn't fooled at all, it just needed to teach me a lesson about target approach and listening closer.
I must have dug at least 10 of these targets to make SURE the GT was telling me the truth.... and it was !
It was hitting very small pieces of brass and lead shot consistantly in the 5 - 9" range with nice diggable signals. The 3 ringers, musket balls, and grape shot we found had nice clean sounds at depths of 7 - 11". REMEMBER ... I was only using the small coil. The recovery rate on close together targets was like slicing bread with a sharp knife. I checked several of the 3 ringers and brass targets before digging them in all metal and could NOT hear ANY increase in sound over the fixed mode. I could however tell a small difference in the sound of good targets when running the GT with Track set to On, it seemed to make the sounds "shorter sounding" or not as drawn out if that makes sense.
Bottom line " first impression" as it stands for me right now ? Well the new GT is the BEST Soveriegn I've ever used and just maybe the BEST all around detector period ! It performed extremely well and was FUN to use. Sorry for the long post, can you tell I had some FUN with the GT <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Good Hunting
Mike
This field was laced with big iron pieces like horse shoes, many large equipment parts on down to wadded up square nails. I was using the small 8" coil and Ron was using the 10" on his.
My settings for most of the day was Fixed,Silent, Iron Mask ON, Zero disc, and sens set at about 95% wide open.
<BIG>A pleasant surprise for me </BIG>was when I encountered a large piece of crusty/rusty iron just laying on top of a corn row. Just for the heck of it I swung the coil over it at about 3-4" above the target ... the GT made one small blip and that was it. It tuned that large iron completely out. The ONLY WAY I could get any response from the GT was to go in to all metal mode.
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;">In my opinion </span> even an Explorer II won't handle iron this well. The only iron that fooled it was the deep wadded up square nails and I soon discovered that even they would start sounding a little trashy after a few extra sweeps of the coil and would most of the time go completely silent. When they didn't go silent I would dig them and there would alway's be something else mixed in with the iron ... like a piece of brass or copper. So really, the GT wasn't fooled at all, it just needed to teach me a lesson about target approach and listening closer.
I must have dug at least 10 of these targets to make SURE the GT was telling me the truth.... and it was !
It was hitting very small pieces of brass and lead shot consistantly in the 5 - 9" range with nice diggable signals. The 3 ringers, musket balls, and grape shot we found had nice clean sounds at depths of 7 - 11". REMEMBER ... I was only using the small coil. The recovery rate on close together targets was like slicing bread with a sharp knife. I checked several of the 3 ringers and brass targets before digging them in all metal and could NOT hear ANY increase in sound over the fixed mode. I could however tell a small difference in the sound of good targets when running the GT with Track set to On, it seemed to make the sounds "shorter sounding" or not as drawn out if that makes sense.
Bottom line " first impression" as it stands for me right now ? Well the new GT is the BEST Soveriegn I've ever used and just maybe the BEST all around detector period ! It performed extremely well and was FUN to use. Sorry for the long post, can you tell I had some FUN with the GT <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Good Hunting
Mike