VERY FIRST HUNT WITH T-2 BUFF NICKLE

[cintitomcat]

Thursday evening hunt, just received detector from Backwoods Detector. Got out for a little using the 11'' coil around an area school dating back to the late 20's. Nickle was about 4'' down. Not sure on v.d.i, i just had a good signal and out popped this 1935 Buffalo Nickle. Once i get use to this i hope to be posting a lot of finds on here. I did get some help from my new Garrett Pinpointer. Thanks again Richard at Backwoods Detector Tom

 

[Monte]

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[pull tab mel]

Thats a good way to break in a new detector! May it be the first of many.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Great find and interesting that it was already in coin protection.
Congrats!

 

[cintitomcat]

Thank's everybody. What are some good set-ups for coin shooting, i tried the 3+ but way to jumpy, i was using two tone but have to check screen after every targer to see if it might be a coin. Thank's Tom

 

[Monte]

Thank's everybody. What are some good set-ups for coin shooting, i tried the 3+ but way to jumpy, i was using two tone but have to check screen after every targer to see if it might be a coin.

If I am basically 'coin hunting" a typical urban environment with a lot of coins and modern trash, I might favor a multi-tone ID only to let me hear more targets that i would like to find, and that includes higher-conductive dimes and quarters and even nickels due to their higher value. Older 'copper' cents will fall into the higher tone category as well. Even so, it simply provides a little audio alert to what I might be looking for, and a quick glance at the display provides extra info prior to recovery. If a site is very trashy and I want to ignore some junk and concentrate on 'coins only' (if possible), I use the 4 Tone ID selection

I do not use the 3 or the 3b audio choices because they just don't work that well for me, especially the 3b which gets noisier in my environments. Many coins give a flaky audio rather than a good repeatable tone. The 4 Tone ID works for me just fine.

Regardless if you're using a 3 or 3b or 4 Tone ID choice, you're still likely to glance at the display for a VDI number and maybe a TID Icon as well. Because the display is there and we're going to use it anyway, when I am NOT hunting in a popular coin-producing location I prefer the 2+ Audio ID function. Why? Because I also seldom use iron rejection, unless it gets really bad and then I only reject iron nails. The 2+ gives me the audio alert to likely iron Vs non-iron and that's all I really need. This is especially true when hunting an older site because TID only functions well to a certain percentage of the depth, and the multi-tone ID (3, 3b, 4 or dp) is also at its best on shallower targets to mid-depth. The 1, 1+ and 2+ Audio ID selections will provide me more useful audio info as to a targets size and even a rough guess at approximate depth. I get better depth of detection in 2+ than I do in 4 Tone ID in most sites.

Take the suggestions you get from fellow users and readers on here, then make your own decisions after using each of the Audio Tone selections during a month or so. You'll likely settle on two of them yourself, based upon the conditions.

Monte

 

[Jay Evans]

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