Keith Southern
Active member
And we just need to get out and take advantage of whats going on ( Omega) and don't worry about the19KHZ
Seems to be one of the drawback to a high freq. detector is they love small items but have problems looking at bigger items and depth..
I remember one time a few years ago or so I was hunting a civil war camp I had found and I was running a few different machines in there and they were mostly below 10khz.. I had already dug 3 plates in there..An U.S. buckle ,A breastplate, and a Rev war Naval Plate...
I got hold of a ****-** it runs 17 khz or so ..I found a spot in there I hadnt hunted an started finding dropped sharp's bullets in small area and was digging them anywhere from 6 inches down to 10-11 inches deep..Well I got one hit in there that sort of sounded like a Bullet at depth scratchy but was hitting and after digging about a foot hole I could see the U.S. letters looking at me from a beautiful box plate laying perfectly flat...Well that amazed me because the plate sounded no better than the Bullets..the other plates i had dug out of there were deeper than this one and sounded better on the low freq machines...( And yes I checked to make sure no masking was Taking place..the area was clear of iron) I was running full sens at nail reject disc of about 2.2 or so..( Full 180 disc control)
Since then I have seen it repeated many times.. The Higher freq machines loose sensitivity to larger than say coin size objects at depth...Any one else ever noticed this or is it because it was a gold machine designed for small gold pieces???
A couple of years latter I read an article in an overseas detector mag and the author was talking about the same scenario?
The Omega nabbing the deep bigger brass the other day has got me thinking again about it ... I wont detector bash but those spots I dug deep big brass was hunted with 19 khz machine that missed the deeper brass but dug alot of smaller brass so?????????????????????????????????????But then the Omega got a couple of small pieces of brass and lead and excellent depth the high freq missed..And some Pistol balls scattered at random at 4-5 inch depth that the 19khz missed
I know what I see what do Ya'll see?
Teknetics might of out-did there selves with the Omega!( At least in my dirt with my coil combo )
Keith
Seems to be one of the drawback to a high freq. detector is they love small items but have problems looking at bigger items and depth..
I remember one time a few years ago or so I was hunting a civil war camp I had found and I was running a few different machines in there and they were mostly below 10khz.. I had already dug 3 plates in there..An U.S. buckle ,A breastplate, and a Rev war Naval Plate...
I got hold of a ****-** it runs 17 khz or so ..I found a spot in there I hadnt hunted an started finding dropped sharp's bullets in small area and was digging them anywhere from 6 inches down to 10-11 inches deep..Well I got one hit in there that sort of sounded like a Bullet at depth scratchy but was hitting and after digging about a foot hole I could see the U.S. letters looking at me from a beautiful box plate laying perfectly flat...Well that amazed me because the plate sounded no better than the Bullets..the other plates i had dug out of there were deeper than this one and sounded better on the low freq machines...( And yes I checked to make sure no masking was Taking place..the area was clear of iron) I was running full sens at nail reject disc of about 2.2 or so..( Full 180 disc control)
Since then I have seen it repeated many times.. The Higher freq machines loose sensitivity to larger than say coin size objects at depth...Any one else ever noticed this or is it because it was a gold machine designed for small gold pieces???
A couple of years latter I read an article in an overseas detector mag and the author was talking about the same scenario?
The Omega nabbing the deep bigger brass the other day has got me thinking again about it ... I wont detector bash but those spots I dug deep big brass was hunted with 19 khz machine that missed the deeper brass but dug alot of smaller brass so?????????????????????????????????????But then the Omega got a couple of small pieces of brass and lead and excellent depth the high freq missed..And some Pistol balls scattered at random at 4-5 inch depth that the 19khz missed
I know what I see what do Ya'll see?
Teknetics might of out-did there selves with the Omega!( At least in my dirt with my coil combo )
Keith
. However, until a few get some field time on the New Gold Bug (SE or Pro) we won't know how it does on those deeper large targets. Word I got from a good source is the Gold Bug pushes the envelope compared to Dave's previous designs.