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Posted in the today's finds forum, here is the technical stuff.
This target was 6" deep in my mineralized iron infused soil, surrounded by close iron objects on 3 sides and there was deep iron underneath it too.
If any target could be considered masked, as close as you can get to totally masked this would have been one.
F70 and the sniper coil.
That small coil seems to be the best one to use over the standard elliptical and the large DD.
You need all the Fisher's separation ability possible when dealing with so much close trash and iron and that small coil will give you the best and most useful data from my observations.
Don't worry about depth, it will easily match or beat the depth of the standard concentric and comes pretty close to the big DD.
Deep enough for all but the super deepest targets in good or bad soil, anyway.
Sense was on 90 but I turn it up and down trying to find the exact right setting to knock out the deeper big iron and junk but not enough to miss small coins in the 6-8" level.
I think anything from 60 on up will do it but if I don't have a bunch of EMI happening and it stays quiet I turn it up higher.
I try to stay between 75 and 90 most of the time if possible...85 is almost my standard go to setting.
On this coin I was set at a relatively quiet 90.
Disc was on 3.
I know you guys hunt on 0 sometimes, I have used 1 in the past but Tom has recommended at several numbers under 5 in certain situations, 6 at sites with a bunch of small nails.
On 0 I get a lot of noise, 1 quiets it down quite a bit and 3 worked well in this situation to hear all the iron grunts but still have a few high tones come through.
Thresh was -3.
I move up and down between -4 and minus 2 in the multi tone settings, maybe a bit higher even into the positive in 1, 1F or 2F because it doesn't seem to skew the signal as bad as it does for me in multi tones which annoys me.
SL speed but ya gotta go real slow.
DE might work fine or one of the other F75 processes you have but I don't have those and I am only aiming for the 6-8" level here but I do seem to get more signals, iron and others, in SL.
More experimenting to do in this area.
I was in 4H on this one.
Usually I use maxed out all metal or one of the lowest three tone choices but this time I was listening for some repeatable high tones and preferred not looking at the screen all the time and I noticed a slightly repeating high tone while doing it and then looked at the screen.
The Fishers are programmed to up average all signals around iron which is a great thing.
Around here the deeper the target the higher the numbers go and every target past 4" gets into the high 80's to low 90's...even nickels.
If I was hunting with any other brand I might not be able to do what I am doing now or I probably would have to learn a whole set of hidden behaviors and language.
Luckily I have tons of hours on my Fishers and am slowly gaining a 6th sense about what I see and hear, and what I can interpret at this point with all available data at hand probably would make absolutely no sense to a new user.
What I know and feel and sense took hours and hours of swinging and experimenting and I am still learning.
That up-averaging around iron thing is a big part of my success lately for sure.
I have my other coin settings I posted about before with disc high and notching in only foil and nickel to make sure I can find at least some jewelry.
I might have been able to find this thing that way but I will never know.
Heck...if I knew I was swinging over a seated dime in all that iron I would have spent an hour trying all kinds of settings to see what worked best but at the time there was a better chance I was going to be digging a piece of rusty iron at 6".
Using those other settings I never would have heard all the iron which in this case I think helped.
Next time on my special coin settings I will notch in iron too and see what happens but I have a feeling around a bunch of close iron keeping the disc low will give me a better shot at hearing a good high tone.
Again, still learning and experimenting and probably will never stop.
Anyhoo...after all that this is my thrilling, shocking, surprising coin that came up that I can now hold in my hands and marvel at anytime I please...which right now I do often.
Stay tuned, hopefully more coming soon.
This target was 6" deep in my mineralized iron infused soil, surrounded by close iron objects on 3 sides and there was deep iron underneath it too.
If any target could be considered masked, as close as you can get to totally masked this would have been one.
F70 and the sniper coil.
That small coil seems to be the best one to use over the standard elliptical and the large DD.
You need all the Fisher's separation ability possible when dealing with so much close trash and iron and that small coil will give you the best and most useful data from my observations.
Don't worry about depth, it will easily match or beat the depth of the standard concentric and comes pretty close to the big DD.
Deep enough for all but the super deepest targets in good or bad soil, anyway.
Sense was on 90 but I turn it up and down trying to find the exact right setting to knock out the deeper big iron and junk but not enough to miss small coins in the 6-8" level.
I think anything from 60 on up will do it but if I don't have a bunch of EMI happening and it stays quiet I turn it up higher.
I try to stay between 75 and 90 most of the time if possible...85 is almost my standard go to setting.
On this coin I was set at a relatively quiet 90.
Disc was on 3.
I know you guys hunt on 0 sometimes, I have used 1 in the past but Tom has recommended at several numbers under 5 in certain situations, 6 at sites with a bunch of small nails.
On 0 I get a lot of noise, 1 quiets it down quite a bit and 3 worked well in this situation to hear all the iron grunts but still have a few high tones come through.
Thresh was -3.
I move up and down between -4 and minus 2 in the multi tone settings, maybe a bit higher even into the positive in 1, 1F or 2F because it doesn't seem to skew the signal as bad as it does for me in multi tones which annoys me.
SL speed but ya gotta go real slow.
DE might work fine or one of the other F75 processes you have but I don't have those and I am only aiming for the 6-8" level here but I do seem to get more signals, iron and others, in SL.
More experimenting to do in this area.
I was in 4H on this one.
Usually I use maxed out all metal or one of the lowest three tone choices but this time I was listening for some repeatable high tones and preferred not looking at the screen all the time and I noticed a slightly repeating high tone while doing it and then looked at the screen.
The Fishers are programmed to up average all signals around iron which is a great thing.
Around here the deeper the target the higher the numbers go and every target past 4" gets into the high 80's to low 90's...even nickels.
If I was hunting with any other brand I might not be able to do what I am doing now or I probably would have to learn a whole set of hidden behaviors and language.
Luckily I have tons of hours on my Fishers and am slowly gaining a 6th sense about what I see and hear, and what I can interpret at this point with all available data at hand probably would make absolutely no sense to a new user.
What I know and feel and sense took hours and hours of swinging and experimenting and I am still learning.
That up-averaging around iron thing is a big part of my success lately for sure.
I have my other coin settings I posted about before with disc high and notching in only foil and nickel to make sure I can find at least some jewelry.
I might have been able to find this thing that way but I will never know.
Heck...if I knew I was swinging over a seated dime in all that iron I would have spent an hour trying all kinds of settings to see what worked best but at the time there was a better chance I was going to be digging a piece of rusty iron at 6".
Using those other settings I never would have heard all the iron which in this case I think helped.
Next time on my special coin settings I will notch in iron too and see what happens but I have a feeling around a bunch of close iron keeping the disc low will give me a better shot at hearing a good high tone.
Again, still learning and experimenting and probably will never stop.
Anyhoo...after all that this is my thrilling, shocking, surprising coin that came up that I can now hold in my hands and marvel at anytime I please...which right now I do often.
Stay tuned, hopefully more coming soon.
