Ironsight has been discussing the use of 4TF in a thread I started here awhile ago and I have been getting more comfortable with it based on his advice. Tonight I went to a park and struck out, but I stopped at a funeral home established in 1883 I've got permission to hunt at. Over the past week or two I've pulled two buffalo nickles and several wheats out of there, but it's full of rust and high tones are few and far between. I went back tonight and only had half an hour at that point, but I got a jumpy signal at around 21-35 and moving further into the iron range, but it was repeatable from both directions so I experimented a little. I put it on my coin program and just got nulls, put it on 2TF and got low tones that I certainly would not have dug, but it was convincing enough with 4TF so I went ahead and dug. At 6" I got an 1883 indian. It was a nice find for the conditions there, and the fact that it's the same year as the funeral home originally opened was a cool bonus.
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4 Tone Ferrous produces a single coin and saves the hunt
- Thread starter TrpnBils
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EtracTom-AdirondacksNY
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Nice find.
I'm going to have to try 4TF myself. I use 50 cond. and 2TF till now but like you after reading about 4TF I want to give it a go in a nearby park I have pounded to see what may turn up too.
This Etrac is a versatile machine!!
I'm going to have to try 4TF myself. I use 50 cond. and 2TF till now but like you after reading about 4TF I want to give it a go in a nearby park I have pounded to see what may turn up too.
This Etrac is a versatile machine!!
Hey duggr, thats what i'm talking about! A picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a million words!
I'd say some maybe most people would of not dug that target! Nice job!
Open screen, 4TF and i noticed the ID was jumpy enough but those occasional 1-30s, constant conductive tones coupled with a deep target indication would of compelled me to dig also.
Yep for deep targets the tone is king and jumpy IDs are only an additional clue!
I'd say some maybe most people would of not dug that target! Nice job!
Open screen, 4TF and i noticed the ID was jumpy enough but those occasional 1-30s, constant conductive tones coupled with a deep target indication would of compelled me to dig also.
Yep for deep targets the tone is king and jumpy IDs are only an additional clue!
Phillip_in_NM
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OK, for the sake of my sanity, I'm going to try to convince myself that I didn't miss MUCH in the hundreds of acres that I have covered using TTF. I have been using 4TF exclusively for the past week or so and the only target that fell in the right range ( where I wouldn't have dug it in TTF) turned out to be a Scout folding knife from a 80 year old Scout camp. So I'm optimistic.
Thanks to all for the continued good tips! I am still learning stuff and loving this thread!
Thanks to all for the continued good tips! I am still learning stuff and loving this thread!
Well I obviously have a lot to learn. There is no way I would have dug that signal, even with that high tone repeating in there. Everything, and I mean everything, that I have dug with a bouncy 01 to 30s signal has been trash. I need to start digging more erratic signals if every once in while it gives up a score like that.
Thanks for the video, this and the other thread are exactly what I need. I'm going to start running 4tf and paying more attention to repeatable high tones from now on.
Thanks for the video, this and the other thread are exactly what I need. I'm going to start running 4tf and paying more attention to repeatable high tones from now on.