Anyone using All-Metal mode?

[Bill Ladd]

I still have a borrowed T2 and I enjoyed the discussion on the 10 disc benefits below. I have mostly stuck with disc mode and experimenting with the various tones set-ups. Anyone proficient with all metal mode? I imagine it would be good for hunting Civil War relics & such maybe?...
thanks in advance for your responces...
Bill

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

as you know, it's the best method for most types of hunting but of course most folks want the easiest quickest gratification so it gets overlooked or intentionally avoided. I usually keep the menu in the disc all metal position so I can (if I want to) toggle to disc after I listen to the target in AM since the disc ID's deeper than AM. I used AM full time at Brandy and loved it. One of the main reasons is (and I personally FINALLY learned this when I got my first Nautilus a couple years back and was pretty much "forced" to hunt in all-metal in one of my headphones)there is no guessing on non-ferrous targets like you have to work at to solve with discriminate modes. It is the best info a detector can generate. I find myself using it more all the time. Yesterday I was hunting in very old ground with the good targets at 9 to 12" (and maybe deeper) and large and small iron constantly occuring. For obvious reasons, if you run disc here, even wide open, you're just begging to miss good stuff. It's like, take a couple deep breaths, suck it up, and hit that top left corner of the menu.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Brad,

I also have a Nautilus and I sort of miss that all metal sound. I thought it would be nice to have a simple audio upgrade to give us that discrimination beep on the T2! How about it? I am always investigating my targets in pinpoint mode. I thought recently about running it in all metal and I think you sort of convinced me to give it a try. I have been manually ground balancing it though, just seems to help the unit to run more stable, in difficult ground anyway.

Do you notice that the T2 in all metal is comparable to the Nauty? Are you basically just listening like you would on the Nauty? (width of target, vibrato of the signal (for lack of a better word), etc.) Tell us more...

Also, I've heard a VLF detector will hit deeper in discrimination than in all metal mode but only on higher conductive targets. I read that off a George Payne post.

Thanks,
EMS

 

[Bill Ladd]

I just have not been out with it as much to have done alotta experimenting yet....