Bandido ll Umax coin hunters ?

[Anonymous]

Hi all, I would like to hear how most of you hunt coins, do you use all metal and switch to discrimination ?? do the oppisite ?? dig all, or roll discrimination knob ?? dig everything for awhile then set to 7 and cherry pick ??
I'm looking for input as to majority use .
Obvious I just got in my Bandido ll umax and WILL be trying all methods for awhile for myself.
I LOVE THIS WEIGHT MACHINE
Richard ( aka bad back)

 

[Anonymous]

Richard, you'll find its a great machine, with the disc toggle where it is I've found that unless i'm in a super trashy area i prefer to use all metal to hunt and just toggle to disc to check targets. I seldom use more than 4 for disc. 6 is sufficient to knock out most trash and leave the coins (and bottlecaps/pulltabs of course)and if the area isn't too trashy i set it between 2 and 3 and dig anything that checks ok.
hope you enjoy yours as much as i do mine.

 

[Anonymous]

I did quite a bit of all metal hunting with my B2Umax if the majority of targets were far enough apart so I could audibly investigate each target. Lots of good info in the audio of all metal that you just dont get in discrimination and you can tell a lot about a targets size, shape, depth, and conductivity. The two all metal modes require different techniques though. One thing to keep in mind about the fast autotuned all metal mode is that the target starts tuning out as soon as you hear it so your coil sweep speed is critical if you all similar type targets to have the same audio sound as you pass over them. Developing a steady sweep speed and listening to the audio of various type targets thrown around on the ground will teach you the various audio characteristics of different type targets. Fortunately, coins and similar type size and conductance targets have a sort of distinct sound and size to them. Ground balanced VLF detectors in the all metal mode loose some sensitivity to the more conductive targets like coins which gives them a nice soft narrow sound compared to the more modern trash items (pulltabs, etc) and of course iron reads wider than the coil. The fast autotune will give you reasonably fast recovery from target to target when two targets are located close to each other but here again, coil sweep speed is critical. Too fast coil movement in this mode can cause two closely co-located targets to sound like one target and also can cause you to loose some depth as the threshold will not have time to retune between targets. If coil movement is too slow, most of a targets audio characteristics are tuned out.
The deepest hunting you can do is using the true all metal manually retuned all metal mode. The threshold tone doesnt get retuned unless you manually do it by flipping the switch to retune so you are getting max depth in this mode. By retuning near, but not directly over a target, you can more precisely check it out for size, shape, etc. I usually save this mode back for a final go-over of a site that has given me some good coins and I know I have removed some of the shallow coins and some of the 'better' sounding trash The BIIUmas was the last Tesoro design that gave you a choice of switching from an autotune all metal to a true all metal mode. Thats too bad because it gave us some extra choices of how to hunt a site. Hope this gives you some ideas you can use.

 

[Anonymous]

Many thanks Guys, got to hunt for about an hour before back gave out, 1 quarter, 1 dime, 8 pennys, no nickels but several bent over tabs that discriminated as nickels. place was trash city with targets almost always overlapping, I was alternating with Garrett ID and Radio Shack ID, they were almost worthless as signals (ids )were bouncing till they all looked like maybes.
Richard