Sovereign sweep speed.

[Digging4fun]

Hi guys,

Heard alot about sweep speed and I'm a little confused. I've had a GT for two years and I like it. My sweep speed is 2 seconds for around a five foot sweep in front of me (obviously). Now some people say that's too fast. However, when I locate a target, if I deliberately slow my sweep down I find I don't get as good a signal.

People say you don't find deep stuff with a sweep as fast as mine, but I gotta say, I pull fractions of pull tab from 10" plus and beer cans at 2 ft with my sweep speed. Slow it down and I don't find more deep stuff, in fact I reckon the signals that I do get, aren't as good.

Thoughts?

 

[Rick(ND)]

You will get a signal going slow so the detector will have a chance to see it, but once you get this tone change then by wiggling the coil a little faster just over that target will give you a better signal then just going slow across it.
I have posted a few time some pictures of some of the deeper coins i found in a old park no one was finding anything at by going real slow and listening real close to the tones, if I speed ed up the swing of the coil I got no signal at all. I had a guy with me with is Sovereign too and I told him to see what he though and he said he got no signal at all until I told him to go real slow across the area and now he heard it. I only recommend this for the very old area that many say is worked out so you don't have to listen to all the loud signals. Go slow to hear the deeper signals and give the Sovereign a chance to see the target, but going faster over just that target will give you a better signal, but if the Sovereign didn't have time to see the target you will miss the deeper coins. If you seen me some days when detecting for the deep ones you would think I fell a sleep for as slow as i go. Took me over a half hour to go around 1 tree in a old park real slow, but got 6 Wheaties a IH and a silver Rosie that were from 8-12 inches deep. Same thing at another park as i went around a old merry go round that has been worked to death my me and others, but went real slow and took about 2 hours, but got a barber quarter at 14 inches and several Wheaties plus 2 mercs a V nickle and a buffalo nickle by going real slow and listening close, then when I thought I heard the tone change I would speed up the swing over just that area, looked like i was just wiggling the coil just a little.
I just started working a farmstead and wasn't doing any good around the yard and went around a old tree and go nothing, so I went real slow again and listen close and got 4 Wheaties with one a 14D and got a merc and a 1904 V nickle and a 1899 IH with my GT.
No question about it in my mind that I get deeper signals by going slow, but once I get the signal and wiggle the coil faster the signal will get better, but you have to go slow to get the signal of a deep one or one close to trash item first.

Rick

 

[adam in cal]

If your picking up bits of broken tab at 10 inches , I think your doing just fine ....... do you get coins at that depth as well??? I would reckon you must be .......If you are not comfortable going any slower and YOU feel your better off going the pace you go now then do what works and is comfortable for you .......... good luck !!!!

 

[plugger]

Then I would do the wiggle over that area and start removing some sand and the signal would climb even higher. Same thing when I have been dirt fishing too (I use the rod to help me back to my feet). You can usually go faster for the shallower stuff, get a chirp of a signal, back up and slow down to locate it and then wiggle the coil to make the signal rise. I know if I go too fast at the beach, I may miss some of the deeper stuff, but, when I am trying to cover a lot of beach, looking for recent drops, which aren't usually as deep as the older drops, I accept that because I can cover more beach and increase my odds of finding some gold. Like Adam says, if you think you are doing all right, keep doing what you are comfortable with. I have my style and speed and I don't get all tangled up with what anybody says is the right way. I listen, I experiment and then I try to do what I think works for me. There is no perfect method and lots of time it just comes down to luck and more time in the field. Nobody finds everything! Good luck and happy hunting!
Bill