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Coin settings for noticing older coins in my iron filled, trashed out local park still working.
Disc at 15, entire range of tabs and zinc notched out, sense on 80, thresh at -2, SL speed, 3H tones so I can listen for the repeating high tones and not have to watch the screen every second when I use monotone. A little less jumpy using the lower tone settings instead of 3H but I moved the sense up and down as needed to keep it quiet as possible.
I also moved the thresh a few times down to -3 and for a few minutes to -4 and it still hit small targets fairly deep.
Using my basic settings above I came across a solid 65 and dug this great looking green IH seen below at 5" using the large DD coil. I think it was more like 6" but didn't measure, this soil might throw off the big DD coil depth measurement a bit compared to the small DD but it is still in the ballpark.
This 65 is right on the edge of the zinc disc, by all rights I shouldn't have even heard it but it came in loud and clear.
All the iron in my soil still up-averaging all conductors and I am surprised this thing wasn't higher but the soil in this area is actually black dirt, still mineralized and infused with tiny iron but black.
Out of the ground this thing comes in at the 50's but I recently learned that in the presence of iron this platform is actually programmed to up average all conductors so I am happy for that.
In the bad stuff around here even nickels if they are deep come in really high but I keep nickels and foil in in case I come across a gold ring.
I knock out tabs and zinc because most of the falsing occurs at these levels so that keeps it quieter. I still get a good amount of high tone falsing because my sense is set so high but those tones and numbers just pop up and then go away and never repeat so I can just listen to the tones, swing slow and notice when a more solid, repeatable high tone happens and that is how I found this coin in an area that I have scoured in the past along with many others when I easily heard that tone which was high. The bounce back effect of extra super jumpy numbers I got using the big DD coil and less disc does not seem so pronounced with tabs and zinc knocked out.
This area of the park that was dedicated in the mid 20's seems to be sort of the main entrance and one of the first sections developed. It has some wide rock sidewalks, now overgrown, what looks like a figure 8 shaped wading pool that is now filled in and some very old looking cement benches in the area.
Every hunter in the area had to come here because logically it is one of the oldest and most popular areas in the park plus that black dirt is unusual for this area.
I know the local club guys have hit this area for about 60 years and most have pronounced it hunted out.
Funny...in the last few weeks I have found a large sterling Masonic token, 2 nice Indians, 2 silver dimes and a wasted 1800's V nickel from this area so not so hunted out as many think.
Later as per your suggestion I tried the opposite settings to do the same thing.
Disc at 65, notch in foil and nickels.
Seemed about the same, maybe a bit quieter and didn't come across anything old or deep but I will try again.
One more hunt today using both settings and the big coil, maybe two because I like the coverage, then I will switch to the standard 10" elliptical and see how that works.
Disc at 15, entire range of tabs and zinc notched out, sense on 80, thresh at -2, SL speed, 3H tones so I can listen for the repeating high tones and not have to watch the screen every second when I use monotone. A little less jumpy using the lower tone settings instead of 3H but I moved the sense up and down as needed to keep it quiet as possible.
I also moved the thresh a few times down to -3 and for a few minutes to -4 and it still hit small targets fairly deep.
Using my basic settings above I came across a solid 65 and dug this great looking green IH seen below at 5" using the large DD coil. I think it was more like 6" but didn't measure, this soil might throw off the big DD coil depth measurement a bit compared to the small DD but it is still in the ballpark.
This 65 is right on the edge of the zinc disc, by all rights I shouldn't have even heard it but it came in loud and clear.
All the iron in my soil still up-averaging all conductors and I am surprised this thing wasn't higher but the soil in this area is actually black dirt, still mineralized and infused with tiny iron but black.
Out of the ground this thing comes in at the 50's but I recently learned that in the presence of iron this platform is actually programmed to up average all conductors so I am happy for that.
In the bad stuff around here even nickels if they are deep come in really high but I keep nickels and foil in in case I come across a gold ring.
I knock out tabs and zinc because most of the falsing occurs at these levels so that keeps it quieter. I still get a good amount of high tone falsing because my sense is set so high but those tones and numbers just pop up and then go away and never repeat so I can just listen to the tones, swing slow and notice when a more solid, repeatable high tone happens and that is how I found this coin in an area that I have scoured in the past along with many others when I easily heard that tone which was high. The bounce back effect of extra super jumpy numbers I got using the big DD coil and less disc does not seem so pronounced with tabs and zinc knocked out.
This area of the park that was dedicated in the mid 20's seems to be sort of the main entrance and one of the first sections developed. It has some wide rock sidewalks, now overgrown, what looks like a figure 8 shaped wading pool that is now filled in and some very old looking cement benches in the area.
Every hunter in the area had to come here because logically it is one of the oldest and most popular areas in the park plus that black dirt is unusual for this area.
I know the local club guys have hit this area for about 60 years and most have pronounced it hunted out.
Funny...in the last few weeks I have found a large sterling Masonic token, 2 nice Indians, 2 silver dimes and a wasted 1800's V nickel from this area so not so hunted out as many think.
Later as per your suggestion I tried the opposite settings to do the same thing.
Disc at 65, notch in foil and nickels.
Seemed about the same, maybe a bit quieter and didn't come across anything old or deep but I will try again.
One more hunt today using both settings and the big coil, maybe two because I like the coverage, then I will switch to the standard 10" elliptical and see how that works.
