A funny occurrence many years ago!

[woodchiphustler]

Back in the day I used a Whites 4900. No meter but a manual setting detector. When the Eagle came out I had to have one. My relic finds diminished which prompted my long time partner to state: Man you really suck George since you started looking at that meter. How true. I stopped digging sounds I heard missing many deep relics!

 

[Walknstik]

I still read today most detectorists that use a VID type detector will say the sound of the audio will tell them to dig or walk...guess audio is still the king

 

[amberjack]

its hard not to look at a screen when I paid good money for it plus its right there in my face, guess I could cover it up would be the only way not to look at it anyone who has a screen and says they don't use it is lying

AJ

 

[Tom Slick]

Audio is still the King. How many folks turn the volume all the way down until they can't hear it and just look at the screen?

 

[amberjack]

that wasn't the point I don't think I think it was after the noise the screen is consulted and woodchiphustler's friend told him sense he started using ID his finds went down.

I use both screened and non screened and I do notice after long stretches on screened detectors then back to non I catch myself looking down for the screen and there is none so I have to dig without consulting the screen.

I find both screened and non screened detectors have a place depending on what I am hunting.

AJ

 

[BarberBill]

I agree with Amberjack. I use both types and generally go by sound, backed up with visual, but I can do quite well by sound and thumbing the disc. if a screen is not available.
BB

 

[Mega]

Audio is king all the time,even when i use my Deus which is my normal everyday machine i stick the controller in my pocket all the time,TID is reliable down to say 8'' then starts becoming erratic but audio still goes down much deeper then the all important last resort the threshold hum.

If i was solely to make a dig-no dig decision solely on what the screen tell me then i would miss out on many of the deep coins or artifact which i am after,that in my mind is not good,wont be long before we have our stubble deep ploughed and rolled,out will come the T2 with the big SEF coil for depth but using a screen in a situation like that is pointless as the larger coils can go down much deeper than what will register on the screen,but the audio and threshold will

 

[bibelot]

If I use the Compadre or sabre, I like to scan the target with the Deleon. I dig all them anyways since they are good repeatable signals.I just want to run the Deleon by it and see what things should look like when I'm able to look at the display bar.

 

[BarryL]

I still read today most detectorists that use a VID type detector will say the sound of the audio will tell them to dig or walk...guess audio is still the king

Agree I have been using TID machines for a while but have decided to sell them all and go back to audio only as I found I was relying to much on Target ID Numbers instead of listing to what the detector was telling me by tones . I am now down to nothing but my trusty old Shadow X2 and will be buying another Tejon after I recoup from Major back surgery in about 3 months.

 

[woodchiphustler]

Hope everything goes well for you!

 

[Sven]

I don't do much relic hunting anymore. When coin hunting I still listen to the audio response and use the target Id screen as a back up to eliminate the need to make extra holes in a lawn.
In this case target ID to 8" is good enough. If there's an inkling that a target is good, no matter what the meter suggests it might be I dig it. So I still dig tons of trash. Now I do find many modern machines
that have good depth, good screen target Id and good audio saves me a lot of pain from having to dig a lot more ( many ups and downs) at the end of the day. Usually feel it the next day.
I also find these days I mostly hunt in all metal mode in 2 or 3 tones. Where many screen ID machines fail when a good target buried in the ground is ID'd as trash, mineralization will drop target ID numbers.
Ever bench test a screen machine and it ID's correctly air testing, then you go hunting and your just not finding anything good? Then take a non-metered machine, let's say a Tesoro and you start finding coins everywhere while hunting in disc. mode. I considered Tesoro detectors one of the best Beep and Digs for Canadian clad coin hunting, metered detectors like to classify them as junk and or with very bouncy target ID numbers. As long as you set you Tesoro disc just above nails, you'll find them all, they can't escape a Tesoro.

 

[After-1-]

With all the targets that we hear and the numbers we see,I think that if you are able to carry a singing tone and a ear for musical tones,would be a big big help, Myself tone is first.-----and my hearing is fading today -----eye sight too.---------------------after1---------