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Took another trip to the park today and..........

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bottlebum

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didn't do as good as I had hoped I would. Spent about eight hours detecting and all I found was one 1942 Mercury dime (same year as the other two pieces of silver that I had found) some clads, broken boyscout item, some assorted lead (one is a slug), a 1967 dog tag, etc. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a little more productive.

I have been running the Sov. and 1000 coil with the sensitivity at about 12 - 1 o'clock, pinpoint mode with threshold just audible and no discrimination. I havn't noticed any good, faint signals in my searching. I'm wondering if maybe I should try a different setting.:shrug:

I won't lie and tell you that I didn't find any pulltabs or can slaw because I did and plenty of it!! lol!
I think they have done alot of fill work at the park because I am noticing alot of aluminum cans that are about five to six inches deep in certain areas.

HH, Bottlebum:detecting:
 
mercury
 
Do I read this right you are not in the disc mode so you don't have the tones to ID with? Myself i find the Sovereigns goes deeper in the disc mode and you have the tone ID to help ID your targets so you don't have to switch back to disc to check out each signal. To me the changing of the tones lets me know if it has seen a target or not and seen many I hear the tone change just slightly and do the Sovereign wiggle and see there is a target there. Now when I switch to all metal pinpoint I cant find a signal or so very weak I can not pinpoint it and have to go back to disc to get a signal as it is so deep. I understand the BBS only works in disc while the pinpoint is just a VLF mode is why I get more depth in disc. In disc mode you may have to go slower for it to see the real deep targets as I have seen and some will only be a slight tone change and are small signal so by going slow you will hear them and if going to fast they will not be seen by the Sovereign. I tell many to try a place that is very old and targets have been found deep and takes a small area and go real slow with a slight threshold and see how many signals you can get in one sweep that are small and weak, then speed up the swing of the coil and they now will not be heard. It takes a while to get used to the Sovereigns and their tones, but once you do I think it will surprise you what it can do. For me most coins are not much deeper than 6 -7 inches, but using this real slow swing I have dug some at 12-14 inches deep that we have missed over the years around some older trees and playground equipment in the older parks. One tree I went so slow it took me a hour to get around it, but got 6 older Wheaties, a IH, a merc dime and a barber dime if I remember right.

Rick
 
Rick....sorry about the misinformation. I am using discrimination with the toggle in the center position (iron mask on, I think). I just have it at it's lowest setting on the dial.
Maybe I need to slow down some, or as you said, maybe the stuff just isn't deep.

HH, bottlebum
 
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