[size=medium]I was doing some testing in my yard with some civil war bullets that I had found before. I noticed on the ones buried deep (10 inches or more) they would hit in the 80's and 90's when I had the detector set on the 2.5 setting. I made a program that has everything from 69 to 95 accepted and the rest discriminated out. I set the frequency to 2.5 and left the tx boost off. I think I was running 12 rx gain and around 88 discrimination. I went to an area that will still give up a bullet or two but you have to work hard for them. I only had a short time to hunt and wanted to dig the targets that I thought were real deep and had potential to be good targets. I dug probably 4 holes around 12 inches or more deep but never could find the target. I got another deep signal but this time decided to use my pinpointer to see if it was something small on the surface. Sure enough it was a tack. Sounded just like a real deep target. I bet the other 4 holes were tiny targets on the surface too. Learned my lesson on that one. I was able to dig two bullets using those settings. Both were deep and hit in the high 80's or 90's. The two lighter colored ones (Bullet and round ball) were the ones I dug. The other one I dug today while coin hunting. It was masked by trash and the signal was jumping around but I decided to dig anyway.[/size]
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A few civil war bullets and some interesting settings
- Thread starter Bill_S
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Larry (IL)
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Civil War bullets came in around the 45 to 60 range in my ground hitting the hardest on the 7.5 frequency. When I got a 2.5 dominate target, I got excited thinking it had to be a coin which it was, a toasted LC. I love the three frequency mode.............
i pounded out an old trashless river area in 3 freq and got lots of coins and two musket balls, same area in one day in 2.5 found 5 musket balls and a three ringer, all deep all at +80 up , checked with 3 freq and sounded bad. i was running 2.5 non normalized. not really looking for lead.
Most of the ground I've done ground probes on (man that don't even sound decent to say LOL) will show in the low -90s with significant signal loss. Single freq works best here. Since I relic hunt most of the time I have done quite a bit of testing. I've found the single freq of 7.5 to give the best response to the targets I'm after. The bad part here is that bullets beyond 6" will totally register as iron with an occasional bouncing into the positive range. The upswing to it was the V3i would average out the signal and would often start reading the bullets into the lower positive number scale. The numbers would be wrong but the depth would be real close. I no longer have the V3 BUT I assumed the VX3 would do the same on bullets. It doesn't. It wont average out the signal...stays iron and I'm trying to digress out how to conquer this obstacle. Thus far my only solution has been to run in all metal audio and speed the recovery rate to 40....which gives me enough audio to hear the double blip of most nails but am still digging lots of holes for other rusted iron.
