I have seen vidioes getting a slugg on top of a stone but not under a stone and in my finding if your disq is set to knock out a nail you will loose the slugg like any other detector I had to basically put it into all metal to get the slugg under the stone and slow the sweep this is the truth of the blisstool ask me if i like the detector yes its great i would highly recomend it it easaly getts dimes at 10" thru my badd ground but it does have its draw backs in certian eareas nails pointing up will sound like a good target bottle caps sound good and it gets fussy in around Emi[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQo8bVLSzqg&feature=relmfu[/video]
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blisstool and basalt rock test vidio
- Thread starter GunnarMN
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woodchiphustler
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MOST TARGETS SIT ON TOP OF BEDROCK. TRY THE SAME TEST WITH ANY VLF OR MULTI FREQ MACHINE AND WATCH ANY GOOD TARGET TURN TO IRON.
The purpose of the bedrock and minie ball tests were from an experiment/challenge that "woodchiphustler" wanted to see done. He lives in Virginia and in certain areas of the eastern US, there are pockets of this red clay and bedrock mix. Notably in Culpeper, VA. I have it as well in my back yard...red clay and bedrock. These areas are notorious for bringing VLF machines to their knees and pulse machines working well in them It is George's theory that it's not so much as the red clay that keeps detectors from doing well there....it's the shallow bedrock under the red clay. So "woodchiphustler" started playing with different machines over the years, via balancing to a bedrock sample, setting detectors to knock out a nail, and then seeing if they could detect non ferrous items on top or above the rock. All VLF machines he's tried has not been able to pass this test...the Pulse Machines can...thus why they do so well on the DIV hunts. The Blisstool was able to as well, as seen in their video making it the first VLF to do it.
Whether the machines can find targets UNDER the bedrock is non applicable. In over 16 yrs of metal detecting I've never found anything under bedrock. Everything sinks down TO the bedrock and stops...has no way of getting under it. We've found that even with gold dredging in creeks here...that there is a dissolved layer of bedrock....the mud will turn to a greenish blue color once you hit the dissolved bedrock...and you'll find gold from the top part of the creek to the layer of greenish blue mud...and then nothing under that. Thus meaning it had came to rest on the bed rock and stopped like everything else.
Whether the machines can find targets UNDER the bedrock is non applicable. In over 16 yrs of metal detecting I've never found anything under bedrock. Everything sinks down TO the bedrock and stops...has no way of getting under it. We've found that even with gold dredging in creeks here...that there is a dissolved layer of bedrock....the mud will turn to a greenish blue color once you hit the dissolved bedrock...and you'll find gold from the top part of the creek to the layer of greenish blue mud...and then nothing under that. Thus meaning it had came to rest on the bed rock and stopped like everything else.
Frank in NH
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Daniel same here in NH, but our bedrock is granite so some places targets a sallow but what is nice granite does not both detectors.
sounds like the rock is kaolinized , saprock I would love to get hold of it for doing my pottery some day , and i see your point . up hear we do have the basalt gravle and things are under it epecialy in the ST Croix vally I had to turn my GT to all metal and was picking lots of nails but out came some old tabs that i could not hear in disq never tried the bliss in it yet
If you search for woodchip's posts here at Findmall you will find the post he made on the Deus forum about his bedrock theory. It has a little more on it and such. But the whole video with the minie ball was based on a challenge he posted, wanting to see if the Bliss could pass it. The video shown with the minie ball is them actually meeting up with him and doing the test. I'm not sure how it would do with the bullet UNDER it but since its bedrock, I don't think its a problem lol