Sweep Speed

[Anonymous]

How slow do you sweep your coil in an old park?
In feet per second?Also,I'm getting confused and
it seems like I'm getting conflicting information
on what screen is a good one to start in.Is it better to use Digital or Smart Find in the beggining?I thought it was pretty simple that in the Smart Find if it hit the upper right it was almost definatly (99%) silver.And Big Mike is definatly right about coins bouncing around and hunting in Iron Mask or at least with my Exporer
that is how it usually happens.I know I've missed
coins hunting highly discriminating patterns,like the way that Minelab tells you to "Learn" your
machine.The last few times I've hunted with less disc.I've found coins that I know I past over earlier.Anyway,I was just wondering what you pros think and how fast you move.Thanks a lot.
Happy Hunting and God Bless,
Tex D.

 

[Anonymous]

Depends alot on how clean the ground is, and how deep I am trying to get..if I am getting a solid threshold I probably sweep a foot a second maybe faster, if in a null or looking for real deep coins I usually make very small sweeps back and forth a foot or less then move the coil left or right and make another small sweep. almost like I was honing in on a target, so really not slowing the speed down just making multiple small passes over the same ground

 

[Anonymous]

Why? Because for most of us, when we get to a prime site and our adrenalin is flowing big time!!! All that park and only a day to hunt it. etc.. etc.
If you think slow, you will still be going way to fast in the beginning. It usually takes one good find to finally slow down. This is true, not only of our swing speed but our stepping forward.
With the explorer as with any detector, it is important to keep the coil level to the ground. Sounds simple but it is hard to do until you have trained yourself to swing this way. Smaller sweep lengths help this alot!
Think SLOOOOW and then go slower. It does no good to cover lots of distance if you only actually cover half of that or less.
You can hurry and find many coins or you can go slow and find them all!
Good Luck..
Jim V..

 

[Anonymous]

If your hunting a park that is a half mile by a half mile in size and you know that there are 6" silver coins and indians throughout the park spaced on average 40 yards apart then you have a choice, you can hunt at usual sweep speeds or use the presious knowedge you have to your advantage.
Other hunters may not know that there are so many silvers at that depth(even today I find most don't realize this) and they will hunt as they should at slow sweep speeds(1 fps)looking for those super deepies and in fact they will find them, maybe they cover 79 yards and get one of those 6" coins along with a few super deepies, great! thats not bad and it's expected. Now, on the other hand you know there at 6"s and you know there about 40 yds apart, so what sweep speed do you use?? I'll tell you what I would do, I'd sweep at a speed of 3 fps and blaze trying to hit as many of those 6"ers as I can as fast as I can.>>>I would do this because I hunt 95% public sites and they are beat to death( but many still hold those 6"ers that are left because the sites are too large to cover vast areas quickly even over time, so knowing what's in the ground means everything, especailly when your competing for whats left at these public sites you must have an edge.
A quick story...In Hartford I figured there were still a lot of 6"ers left at this one site, so of course I blazed, sweeping fast an covering lots of ground, BIG mistake and not my first, that might work at the type of site I'm talking about sweeping fast at >> but not at this site. THANKS to Richard E. I was put on the right track. See, he had already put some time in hunting this site and already knew there was nothing left but super deepies, priceless knowedge when time is such a factor. Anyway, I slowed down my sweep and cranked up the sens, -got a couple 11 to 12 inch large coppers. I knew I wouldn't get that deep at fast sweep speeds, thought there would be coppers closer to the surface, there wasn't.
So, I guess you could say that a slow sweep speed (1 fps)is the DEFAULT speed <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""> The other sweep speeds will be special circumstance speeds were knowedge sets the pace.
This is just one take on speeds.
GL/HH
BTW, After I clean house(cherry pick) those 6"ers I go back to DEFAULT speeds <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="">

 

[Anonymous]

the way I do it, new sites to me I try and cover a lot of ground picking off the easy 6 or 7 inchers the others missed, then as they slow down so do I <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="">

 

[Anonymous]

Are u guys saying that in "iron mask" if the crosshairs lock into the upper left hand corner then dig that also?
Question 2--If u get a good hit in between the upper left and then in lower right (over the edge) then dig? tks

 

[Anonymous]

My rule is if it sounds good I dig it no matter where the crosshairs fall, unless I know its the tab or screwcap area and I am where they are..if they are deep I dig them too. on the upper right, I dig if the signal sounds positive and not like iron sounds..hard to expplain but iron to me is very distinct in tone....Jim

 

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[Anonymous]

Here`s som really good advices from a 27 year of experienced detectorist:
The speed you should use is dependent of more than one thing: The most older parks copnains alot of junk in two or tree layers at different dept.I allways use normal audio mode and fast speed, gain to 8, variability to maximum, sensitivity to 30, and a relatively slow sweepspeed. Don`t ever never use the digital mode ! use your ears and watch the dept measuring !Don`t dig any object under 1/4 of the scale. It is also important to isolate the signals from each other using pinpoint mode trigged from 2 inches over the surface, move the coil extremely slovely, and the fast option will do the rest of the job.