Treasure Hound Depth Multiplier

[Orion42]

Does anyone here have one or used one? If so, what kind of results have you had?

John

 

[Jugghead]

John, I bought the Depth Multiplier with my ADS 7 Deepseeker several years ago. It's kinda weird to use: a big horizontal front coil and a large vertical rear coil, both square-shaped. Most of what I've found consist of deeply buried (3-4 feet) plow points and gears and larger pieces of nondescript metal; nothing of any intrinsic value. But I've only hunted fields on my own property, with no rumored buried treasure, no Civil War activity, only a couple of fillings from dinosaur teeth. I tend to lose interest in digging after a couple of feet unless hunting for specific relics in a promising location. This setup would be great searching for cannonballs, or just about anything larger than a softball. Good hunting. Jugg

 

[Orion42]

Thanks Jugg. I'm looking at a 2500 and was thinking of getting the Hound for checking around the old farmsteads for bigger, deeper objects and wanted to know how well it would work. Sounds like it will do what I want.

John

 

[metalhead]

Oh yeah!It's a great addition to a great machine! It ignores smaller pieces of trash metal and searches deeply for larger items. Best of luck to ya!Happy Hunting!

 

[Elroy]

Hi Guys, Yes, I'm thinking about purchasing one in the future. But is this only for larger targets?

I have a Garrett catalogue from late last year and on page 29, about the Treasure Hound it states that.....Use the EagleEye front coil for accurate pinpointing and small object detection.

Just wondering if it would be any good for beach detecting for coins?

Thanks

 

[Old Katz]

You have my attention. I have thought about getting one of these as well.
From just looking at it I would guess you don't really pinpoint as such?
Does the multiplier give any idea of depth?

Katz

 

[TURNMASTER]

My understanding is no to depth indication. My understanding is no to coin sized objects. Same goes for discrimination I think. The pinpoint Eagle Eye looks like it would be close to the same as a Big coil (?). In fact I think there are Bigger coils that can be used on good beach machines. I have also read that a good PI might do a guy real well and real deep on the beach.

Please correct me. I want very badly to be wrong.

Jeff

 

[Uncle Willy]

The small object would be about the size of a half gallon can.. It ain't for coinshooting. It's for large objects several feet down.

Bill

 

[XT18000]

I did a test with mine a while back; This is it.

The test was done in my back yard ( power lines were at 20ft. up and 12/15 ft. to side and did cause some interfence but was workable.
I had to put planks on saw horses to get up high enough . I used Black Widow earphones. Also used in the test was my Sov with a
12x15 SEF coil. the test went as follows.
1st. test: A can 5" in dia. and 2 1/2" H with lid, this can was full of mixed coin's, rings,dodads, etc.
T.H. = 32" Sov. = 30"
2nd. test: Soda can standing upright:
T.H. = 27" Sov. = 39"
Soda can on it's side:
T.H. = 27" Sov. = 39"
3rd. test: Stainless Dog dish 11 1/2" dia.
T.H. = 54" Sov. 54" in Pinpoint mode / AM
48" in non pinpoint
4th. test: Cast iron skillet 10 1/2" dia. ( 2/3 full of melted lead from bullet casting )
T.H. = 47" Sov. = 33" in P.P. mode
30" in non P.P.
5th. test: Lead bar 20"x 4" x 2 3/4"
T.H. = 48" Sov. = 41" in P.P. mode
30" in non P.P.

6th. test: Water main's that run off the side of the street:
T.H. found them with no trouble but there depth is unknown
Sov. did not find them.
The Treasure Hound will go deeper but not by much: and as you can see the Sov. GT is a very deep
machine also. What would the out come be away from the power lines is anyones guess but I think
they would both go several inches deeper. Also this was only an air test over very mild ground. ( gumbo )
so hotter ground will make some difference also.
These test are just that and are not to imply that one detector is better ot worse that than the other but to serve
as information only.

 

[metalhead]

Yeah, man you wouldn't want to use that Treasure Hound to look for coins and such at the beach. True, it can be used in a pinpoint mode so that the "Eagle Eye" in the front will function as the equevelant of a 15" round searchcoil. Man, it would make your arm fall off though. It is designed to be used primarily as a two-box unit that you don't swing as a typical singal loop detector, but hold your arm straight down and walk forward keeping it level to the ground(not swinging). Then, (if you choose to) you can use the "Eagle Eye" function briefly to check a shallower item and pinpoint precisely. But using it the "Eagle Eye" to look for coins at the beach would be VERY difficult and tiring. It' way too heavy and bulky to swing for any length of time.
There are any number of great VLF or Pulse induction units available that are made for the beach and would be much easier to use and search just as deeply for coin sized objects.
You'd be better off just using that 10"x14" double "D" or even the 12.5" searchcoil for the GTI. Just my $.02 worth

Best of luck to ya!Happy Hunting!

 

[Elroy]

No worries guys, Thankyou very much for your help, I'll give it miss then and go for the 12.5 inch coil.

Elroy