cibola depth settings

[thebarron]

hi all, just got cibola with ground mod switch, the only ground i have to do is pasture land-meadows, based on average soil conditions, could someone give me the best settings for depth?
many thanks

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Basically set as high as you can while keeping a stable unit and last but not least discriminate low as high disc. settings will cost you depth big time....

 

[thebarron]

many thanks

 

[pamlicopanther]

I love my ground modded Cibola and it has served me well. It is my go to machine for hunting civil war sites.

I mainly hunt in Disc with the setting just below iron. This way I find larger iron items like shell fragments, but I miss unwanted items like nails. I keep the threshold close to full. I run the sensitivity as high as possible where it stays stable.

The Cibola is a great machine. Have fun with it.

 

[tvr]

In my experience, running super tuned with the threshold set high, causes the detector to loose a large amount of it's ability to discriminate out larger pieces of iron. Not such a bad thing if all the iron is valuable relics; but if you are in an area that is still or was recently farmed, there may be a lot of large pieces of trash iron that you may not want to dig (broken off plow tips, bolts retaining pins, chains and the like).

It is deeper when super tuned, but most places I've hunted, I prefer to use a threshold setting that is usable for pin-pointing and lets me get the full advantage of the discriminator working well across it's full range.

Run the sensitivity as high as you can that doesn't get chirpy. Run discrimination low. You can thumb the discriminator up to get an idea of what conductivity range the target is in.

If you want to get the best ground balance setting for best depth when in discriminate mode, search this forum all dates and the words Power Balancing. Monte has shared this method of getting the best ground balance when in discriminate mode and in some of the posts explains why it is more optimal than the normal ground balancing method of setting it up in all metal mode. In mild soil it does not make as much of a difference to be spot on with the ground balance as it does in more difficult soil conditions.

Experiment with settings, listen to the detector, learn it's language and have fun!
Cheers,
tvr

 

[pamlicopanther]

Good point about the threshold. Many times I can tell if it is iron such as plow pieces or large bolts. It tends to have a certain sound that I have always thought of as a flat sound. I tend to dig these anyway, though as I don't want to miss anything. It does fool me.

I recently started hunting a farm field on family property that I suspected had some civil war camps. So far I have found 3 solid cannonballs in this field. I was getting a good strong tone on these at around 15".