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I learned 2 ways to hunt in extremely dense iron last summer, and also found out these methods work well in my normal park settings in areas with different types of heavy trash also.
One way was using all metal on my F70 with pretty much maxed out settings on everything else and I looked for blocks of repeating numbers pop up on the the screen and tones in my phones and try to ignore everything else going on.
In a nightmare iron saturated site I succeeded in recovering many great targets that were hidden from me and my many other detectors and coil combinations in the past and baffled several other hunters that tried to hunt here and pretty much made them run for the hills and easier sites to spend their time.
At first and for a long time everything I was seeing on the screen and hearing in my headphones was an unintelligible mess.
It took awhile, hours and hours actually, but with much practice and and a bunch of useless digging at first things finally started to click and then the good stuff that we all suspected was here but hiding so well started to reveal themselves to me.
I am proud of what I learned using all metal, the patience I had in me to learn it and the rewards eventually repaid all my efforts in spades
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Even though I am now confident and comfortable using this method I don't really have a lot of sites where it could really come in handy and usually use other methods and settings to achieve my goals which also seem to work extremely well for me.
Yesterday I was at a site where I once again pulled out this little gem of a technique and it again worked to perfection.
This is at an older home site that is smack dab in the middle of a public park.
This used to be the home of the farmers that once owned all the land around it and it is not fenced off or posted no hunting so I have sniffing around this site many times using many detectors and coils in the past and I assume there have been uncountable amounts of other hunters that have done the same.
I have found a pretty good collection of toys here, Ertl, Midgetoys, Tootsies and the like all from around a big tree in the front yard, but as far as old coins not a one.
Plenty of other areas to hunt in this park and I have found lots of clad, some silver rings and even a gold ring just the other day in the more open and used grassy sections, but I still walk over and try my luck at this house for at least a little bit every time I hit this park just to see if I can find just one old coin that has succeeded in hiding from us all.
You see an old house that is huntable it just calls out to you and you just have no choice but to try your luck, or that is the way I feel, anyway.
I ambled over to this area again which is also very difficult with aluminum pieces, nails, horseshoes, iron and all the other little bits of garbage you will find in home sites that are decades old and tried disc for awhile but just had a thought to try the blast through method once again just for the heck of it.
I have used the F70 a couple times here in the past and I do remember using all metal at least once but not much came out of it except junk...no good coins for sure.
This time I had all those hours of iron hunting experience under my belt and that made the difference.
I flipped into program 2 which I keep in all metal, thresh was set at 4, sense at 85 and DE speed which is faster and more responsive than SL I have found and just hunted around that big tree which is an area I have definitely scoured in the past many times.
Soon I got a signal that in the past I would have passed on but this time made me sit up and take notice.
Still bouncy, but I saw a block of repeating numbers in the high 70's to low 80's between flashes of lower and even higher non repeating numbers that spanned about 5 or 6 numbers and it did this from a couple of different directions so I dug a hole.
Luckily the soil had defrosted enough in the last few warmer days to enable me to get down to the 5-6" area where this target was supposed to be.
Sure enough at just about that level I pulled out this shiny thing and smiled.
All of this was posted here for a reason and mostly for the newbies that managed to stay around long enough to read it because I believe the veterans already know it.
I find it funny sometimes to read posts from the newbie types that get into the hobby with all kinds of machines and then ask for advice about settings.
They get some great advice and go out and try them and sometimes they come back and report that they didn't work so well for them.
"I am hunting a private old site and can't find one old coin and they should be there", is common.
"Why can't I find good targets?" is another.
Kids, I have way north of 1000 hours hunt time in with several different detectors, probably closer to 2000 or more, and I am here to tell you that there is no magic machine or settings you can use with any tool that will pop those great targets out of the ground for you, you still have to put in the time, effort and work to really understand your chosen detector and its language and achieve great things most of the time.
Those who know me have seen the great lengths I go through, the time I put in experimenting with all my detectors both old favorites or new models, just to learn the smallest little insight method or technique to get better at this stuff and for me that will never end.
Even with all that and all the knowledge I gained before it still took me many hours and effort learn this one new thing that enabled me to come back to sites like this that have baffled me in the past so many times and finally become successful.
Nobody picks up a set of golf clubs for the first time and shoots par, not one athlete picks up a baseball bat and hits 400 or even 300, and on and on and on.
Everyone that gets good at something, great at something, started out the same way and without a clue or experience and were usually not really all that great or successful at it...but eventually that changes.
Over time the effort and practice put into almost anything you want to try in life will usually return back to you many fold, but it does take time.
Have the logic to understand this, the patience and will to stay on point and soon enough the rewards will be great.
I hold little shiny reminders like this in my hand and that is all it takes for me to know deep down in my very soul that everything I have put down here is true.
One way was using all metal on my F70 with pretty much maxed out settings on everything else and I looked for blocks of repeating numbers pop up on the the screen and tones in my phones and try to ignore everything else going on.
In a nightmare iron saturated site I succeeded in recovering many great targets that were hidden from me and my many other detectors and coil combinations in the past and baffled several other hunters that tried to hunt here and pretty much made them run for the hills and easier sites to spend their time.
At first and for a long time everything I was seeing on the screen and hearing in my headphones was an unintelligible mess.
It took awhile, hours and hours actually, but with much practice and and a bunch of useless digging at first things finally started to click and then the good stuff that we all suspected was here but hiding so well started to reveal themselves to me.
I am proud of what I learned using all metal, the patience I had in me to learn it and the rewards eventually repaid all my efforts in spades
.Even though I am now confident and comfortable using this method I don't really have a lot of sites where it could really come in handy and usually use other methods and settings to achieve my goals which also seem to work extremely well for me.
Yesterday I was at a site where I once again pulled out this little gem of a technique and it again worked to perfection.
This is at an older home site that is smack dab in the middle of a public park.
This used to be the home of the farmers that once owned all the land around it and it is not fenced off or posted no hunting so I have sniffing around this site many times using many detectors and coils in the past and I assume there have been uncountable amounts of other hunters that have done the same.
I have found a pretty good collection of toys here, Ertl, Midgetoys, Tootsies and the like all from around a big tree in the front yard, but as far as old coins not a one.
Plenty of other areas to hunt in this park and I have found lots of clad, some silver rings and even a gold ring just the other day in the more open and used grassy sections, but I still walk over and try my luck at this house for at least a little bit every time I hit this park just to see if I can find just one old coin that has succeeded in hiding from us all.
You see an old house that is huntable it just calls out to you and you just have no choice but to try your luck, or that is the way I feel, anyway.
I ambled over to this area again which is also very difficult with aluminum pieces, nails, horseshoes, iron and all the other little bits of garbage you will find in home sites that are decades old and tried disc for awhile but just had a thought to try the blast through method once again just for the heck of it.
I have used the F70 a couple times here in the past and I do remember using all metal at least once but not much came out of it except junk...no good coins for sure.
This time I had all those hours of iron hunting experience under my belt and that made the difference.
I flipped into program 2 which I keep in all metal, thresh was set at 4, sense at 85 and DE speed which is faster and more responsive than SL I have found and just hunted around that big tree which is an area I have definitely scoured in the past many times.
Soon I got a signal that in the past I would have passed on but this time made me sit up and take notice.
Still bouncy, but I saw a block of repeating numbers in the high 70's to low 80's between flashes of lower and even higher non repeating numbers that spanned about 5 or 6 numbers and it did this from a couple of different directions so I dug a hole.
Luckily the soil had defrosted enough in the last few warmer days to enable me to get down to the 5-6" area where this target was supposed to be.
Sure enough at just about that level I pulled out this shiny thing and smiled.
All of this was posted here for a reason and mostly for the newbies that managed to stay around long enough to read it because I believe the veterans already know it.
I find it funny sometimes to read posts from the newbie types that get into the hobby with all kinds of machines and then ask for advice about settings.
They get some great advice and go out and try them and sometimes they come back and report that they didn't work so well for them.
"I am hunting a private old site and can't find one old coin and they should be there", is common.
"Why can't I find good targets?" is another.
Kids, I have way north of 1000 hours hunt time in with several different detectors, probably closer to 2000 or more, and I am here to tell you that there is no magic machine or settings you can use with any tool that will pop those great targets out of the ground for you, you still have to put in the time, effort and work to really understand your chosen detector and its language and achieve great things most of the time.
Those who know me have seen the great lengths I go through, the time I put in experimenting with all my detectors both old favorites or new models, just to learn the smallest little insight method or technique to get better at this stuff and for me that will never end.
Even with all that and all the knowledge I gained before it still took me many hours and effort learn this one new thing that enabled me to come back to sites like this that have baffled me in the past so many times and finally become successful.
Nobody picks up a set of golf clubs for the first time and shoots par, not one athlete picks up a baseball bat and hits 400 or even 300, and on and on and on.
Everyone that gets good at something, great at something, started out the same way and without a clue or experience and were usually not really all that great or successful at it...but eventually that changes.
Over time the effort and practice put into almost anything you want to try in life will usually return back to you many fold, but it does take time.
Have the logic to understand this, the patience and will to stay on point and soon enough the rewards will be great.
I hold little shiny reminders like this in my hand and that is all it takes for me to know deep down in my very soul that everything I have put down here is true.
