earthmansurfer
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I think this might be of use to those of you who have not mastered your machines yet. :clsoedeyes:
I did a little MDing tonight and played around a lot with the settings once I found a target. I hunted primarily with 2+. When I found a good sounding target I would often check it with the 3b mode. I have to say, the 3b is a nice check mode quite often. The coins and trash are mostly within 4" so it's easy to check targets quick. What I have found is that coins almost always will get a good signal in 3b mode (and usually in dp mode), but most trash items don't. I am still learning the machine so dig most of what sounds good in 2+ mode. I have to start using mode 3 as there is quite a bit of trash there, but because of the iron I usually stay in mode 2+. I was running 90 sensitivity most of the time, discrimination from 15-40. The amount of signals I can hear with one sweep is incredibly overwhelming at times. When it gets too much I up the discim to 40. My GB was mostly in the mid 70's.
I am also getting used to hearing smaller targets (usually pull tabs). They ring very sharply as if they would be within 2" of the surface, but I often get a 5" depth reading. The numbers are sometimes EXACTLY identical to coins here in Germany (e.g. 1 Deutsch Mark was a 57 I think) and the sound is actually almost identical (to my ok ears).
So, in a little over 1 hour tonight I think I found my oldest coins yet. In the last 10 minutes I dug a 1892 1 cent copper pfenning in very good condition and a coin that I think is from the 1600-1700's in pretty good condition. I can't find it in my huge 1000 page German Book. But it looks hollow (now) - and has a 5 on one side and I think HF or IF on the other. It has a couple of pieces of metal missing from the edges. The coin looks ok, it has no date or any other numbers on it. The coins along with a small trash item were within about 6" to a foot of each other. I'll take a pic and post it in the next few days. I found another "coin" that has no markings at all a few days ago but I'm pretty sure it's a coin, probably from the 1700 or 1800's. All coins I've found have been within 4" of the surface, they just don't seem to sink much.
I did a little MDing tonight and played around a lot with the settings once I found a target. I hunted primarily with 2+. When I found a good sounding target I would often check it with the 3b mode. I have to say, the 3b is a nice check mode quite often. The coins and trash are mostly within 4" so it's easy to check targets quick. What I have found is that coins almost always will get a good signal in 3b mode (and usually in dp mode), but most trash items don't. I am still learning the machine so dig most of what sounds good in 2+ mode. I have to start using mode 3 as there is quite a bit of trash there, but because of the iron I usually stay in mode 2+. I was running 90 sensitivity most of the time, discrimination from 15-40. The amount of signals I can hear with one sweep is incredibly overwhelming at times. When it gets too much I up the discim to 40. My GB was mostly in the mid 70's.
I am also getting used to hearing smaller targets (usually pull tabs). They ring very sharply as if they would be within 2" of the surface, but I often get a 5" depth reading. The numbers are sometimes EXACTLY identical to coins here in Germany (e.g. 1 Deutsch Mark was a 57 I think) and the sound is actually almost identical (to my ok ears).
So, in a little over 1 hour tonight I think I found my oldest coins yet. In the last 10 minutes I dug a 1892 1 cent copper pfenning in very good condition and a coin that I think is from the 1600-1700's in pretty good condition. I can't find it in my huge 1000 page German Book. But it looks hollow (now) - and has a 5 on one side and I think HF or IF on the other. It has a couple of pieces of metal missing from the edges. The coin looks ok, it has no date or any other numbers on it. The coins along with a small trash item were within about 6" to a foot of each other. I'll take a pic and post it in the next few days. I found another "coin" that has no markings at all a few days ago but I'm pretty sure it's a coin, probably from the 1700 or 1800's. All coins I've found have been within 4" of the surface, they just don't seem to sink much.
