T2 ALL METAL VS DISC

[justin767]

When is the best time to use one or the other! Is it a good idea to run all metal mode all the time? I like all metal because I feel like I get more depth and a better feel for whats going on in the ground. It is harder to decifer the trash from the good hits though. I am constantly staring at the screen watching the numbers jump around all the time! I would love to get some input on how other people prefer to use there T2! I absolutely love this detector but I have been noticing that the Vdi numbers seem to change once I open the hole and go over it again. Today I dug a wheat penny and it was reading as zinc but when I dug the hole and went over it again then it was reading what a wheat penny normally reads. I feel like I should be digging all targets above iron if this happens regularly! If anyone could help me out with this it would be great!

 

[Utuk_Xul]

In more mineralized ground.. target ID will shift down as depth increases. Probably true for mild ground too, but I haven't hunted mild soil :-D Here in the heavily mineralized soil of Oregon... I dig everything above iron. Sometimes I even dig iron ID's if they act a little odd. My T2 GB's between 83 and 94 here...

 

[Charlives]

I run it in disc 4, sens 95, 2+ tones. My ground is quiet, some chatter but not a problem. This way I only have to look at the screen when it is above iron. 3 tones doesn't give me the signal strength and is easier to confuse with the chatter. The only time I run all metal is in the open fields where there aren't many signals. Good luck.

 

[Daniel Tn]

Even in better ground the T2 will be erratic on TID numbers...the deeper the target the worse off it is. In my soil here, I personally experienced a crazy phenomenon that blew my mind. I normally hunt relics but lately have taken a fit for coin hunting. In relocation hunting I would always run motion all metal and dig everything by shape, size, and sound. I've found hundreds of civil war bullets that were 8-14 inches that read totally as iron in ground and would only occasionally bounce out of the iron range. Minie balls read between tab and screwcap on the meter normally. A silver dime is higher conductive and in playing around I knew the T2 was also mis IDing coins...I just didn't realize how bad it was til a few days ago. I just got an eTrac...the silver vacuum...and took it to this old home I've been hunting. Since I knew the T2 and this was my maiden voyage on the eTrac, I decided to hunt with the eTrac then signal check with the T2. I got a sweet repeating signal on the eTrac that never budged from the low to mid 40s...silver range. The T2 hit the same target but was reading it between nickel and tab...NEVER above tab. I dug it to see just what it was and out at 5" popped up a 1940s Merc dime. That surprised me a bit that it was still relatively shallow but read so low. If a person were going by tone or number ID, they would have left it as trash. Thus why it was probably still there from my previous hunts. I repeated this 3 other deeper coins that were Wheaties.

 

[Utuk_Xul]

Every single freq VLF machine I've used shifts target ID down with depth. The Multi freq machines probably suffer less from that effect. Wish I could afford one... maybe one day. For now.. the T2 is the best I've used in my ground as far as the ID shift with depth goes, but I have some seriously bad ground.

 

[txbluzman]

I only use all metal when I'm around power lines. That is the only setting you can use. Otherwise I run in discrim.

 

[Mega]

Only use discrim,disc 4,sens 85,2+ tone but these will be reduce a little as i have just bought the SEF 12x10 and 15x12 the latter has just come and not used as yet.

 

[pennystock]

if im working a park, ill run discrm and disc 50, sens 85, 2+ tones........if it beeps bothways, ill dig....at the beach i run in the discrm mode, disc 4, sens 99, 2+ tones........if it beeps twice, ill dig it..........thats just me as im a coinshooter. hope this helps some.....oh, while running my sens so high, i get alot of different vdi numbers but i doont pay any attention to them.........i go with the sound....

 

[chuck ky]

you're reply may be a little confusing. at 4 disc. most iron will beep twice but will give the low iron tone. do you dig these or pass because of the low tone. thanks.

 

[justin767]

Thanks for all the help guys!!! I find this forum very helpful since there isnt much online for the T2! Ive had a chance to get out a few times recently and now that I am learning the machine its alot easier to determine whats in the ground by the audio instead of looking at the screen! It seems to me that once you find the settings that the machine likes it makes all the difference.