!st time out with White's Dual Field

[rarysgaard]

Took my new White's Dual Field for the 1st time last Friday. I was very pleasantly surprised. It moved through the water just fine even with the 12" coil. Pin Pointing was superb. The target sounds were loud & easy to hear. I didn't find much, bobby pins, bottlecaps & assorted junk, but was very well pleased at finding & recovering targets. Even though it is a pulse with time & practice I will be able to discriminate targets as I already was able to identify targets before recovering them. It was definitely a good investment. I fully realize that there will be a learning curve to recognize & recover the very deep targets. I must say though that I am very impressed! Thanks for the great books on pulse hunting & the book specifically written on the Dual Field by Clive Clynick. Fabulous information by proven & experienced treasure hunter! A must read for anyone interested in learning how to successfully pulse hunt.

 

[Cupajo]

Soon you'll be calling your Dual Field "Mr." too!!

CJ

 

[rarysgaard]

Thanks Cupajo! I've been following your posts for several years now & drooling over your finds. I hunt here in Minnesota in fresh water ,but I am hopeful with more practice & experience to find the old deep gold that I know is there beyond the reach of the VLF water hunters! In know you love your DF. I'm sold as well. Take care!

 

[old lobo]

The duel field is very sensitive. At our black sand beaches here in S. Cal. in the wet, I have dug extremely thin pieces of wire only 1 to 2 inches in length, and gotten a very strong signal, so small gold shouldn't be a problem at all. Personally I prefer to use a vlf machine during the summer months because of all the competition from other hunters. I can ignore the iron and the zinc pennies, (in fact ignore all change if I want) and just go for the mid tones, which allows me to cover a lot more ground looking for the gold. During the winter (our Cal. winter remember), and cool or windy weather when many detectorists stay home, I use the duel field, go slow and listen for those slight variations in the threshold indicating a deep target. With the pulse delay knob, I found that the less the delay the better for finding gold, in fact I have mine off or barely with any delay. Air test it with a thin gold ring while varying the delay and see where it works best for you.