A Mercury Day

[hoser]

Well its loaded on my computer but thats as far as I got with it. :embarrassed:

 

[angellionel]

I tried your setup tonight in my yard... After 20 or so hunts... I guess I've about got it all! LOL Oh my is that a noisy program. I'm getting tones nearly every half step. I dug a total of 9 rusty nails and one modern nickel. If you were to open up the right corner on the coins program and continue to discriminate out the high # Fe's the way the coin program does... What is the best way to get good depth and still keep the discrimination of iron and maybe quiet the program? Any suggestions. I noticed that in air test, that the basic coin program tends to poop out at about 8. What adjustments would you recommend to get to the ~10-12 range with the coin program?

Where you using manual sensitivity? You shouldn't be getting any falsing at most park. Try auto sensitivity +3. It will take a bit of time, but you should be able to identify the tones nails produce. :yes: They also tend to not pinpoint on the same spot when switching to pinpoint mode from discrimination mode.

The stock coin program is a good start, but there is too much area discriminated out for my taste. I would open it up at least to Fe 24. The discrimination pattern I'm using is opened up to Fe 27. Have Deep On too. Once you have the discrimination pattern set experiment with the settings until you have something you like, then use it as a base making changes out in the field as needed.

If you are in a trashy area...wouldn't that program just sing constantly?

Like a canary. :lol: I'm used to it though. It has helped me retrieve many silver coins from such trashy areas. :thumbsup01:

Could these patterns or settings that BC is asking about be copied to his detector with the Xchange software?
So that there would be no guessing or mistakes?

They can, but the setting themselves are very easy to change. The Xchange software can come in handy when exchanging discrimination patterns with others though. :yes:

Does anyone ever even use the exchange software??? Just curious?

I don't have it installed on my computer. It's actually fairly easy to make changes via the menu.

Well its loaded on my computer but thats as far as I got with it. :embarrassed:

Go get 'em, Bill! :thumbsup01:

 

[Epi-hunter]

If you are in a trashy area...wouldn't that program just sing constantly?

It is very noisy in a trashy area. What Angel has learned to do is to identify the high pitch of silver through the trashy sounds. He just tunes everything else out. It's like autopilot for him. He moves extremely slowly through these areas and when he hears the high pitch chirp of silver among the other sounds, he stops and hovers very slowly, very short passes over the area until it locks on to the good target... and it does. I have seen him do it many times. I have done it also, but it's not so much autopilot for me yet :lol:

The coil is fantastic for separating good targets from trash. That is where he is picking up most of his silver now... the trashy areas where other detectors have not been able to perform. In areas that have been detected over and over for decades. He called me this afternoon from an trashy area that he had hit last year very well (and found silver) with my Explorer SE,.... but today, going over that same small area with the E-Trac, he pulled two more nice silvers from the trash that he had not been able to pick up with the SE. And the coins weren't that deep... just masked by trash.