Combined vs conductive

[squirrel1]

I listened to 3 successfully dug coin targets today. I detected them in combined in auto sensivity. Switched to conductive mode. My conductive mode was set with everything disc in but 24-35 ferrous 37 -50 cond disc out. All 3 targets were not near as good sounding in conductive vs combine. One was a merc dime at 4 inches with nail. The others were a buffalo nickel and real deep 10 inch old wheat. The merc dime was actually duller sounding with a slight broken tone. In combine mode the merc was singing like a canary coming in at 12-40 consistently with a 2 way hit. By the way this particular spot was killed by etrac and v3i by me personally.

 

[sube]

That's why I'm still using combine when i used the exp 2 i ran in iron mask i think where i hunt it's mostly iron i have to deal with,

 

[grouser]

thanks for taking the time to run the test,,,,and sharing the results!!! HH!!

 

[jimzilla]

I never use conductive anymore. I like hearing all of the targets and I second what squirrel is saying

 

[Dr.Deus]

Sounds like a great day! Dont you mean 37 -50 conductive open and 1-36 disc out?? HH.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Squirrel - Just to get it straight you are comparing an open combine screen with a heavily disc'd Conductive (24-35 disc'd out & only 37-50 disc'd in? - I don't exactly understand your above statement as you said 37-50 disc'd in but there is where coins hit). Perhaps the heavy disc is responsible.

I wonder if the ground has anything to do with this as I found the opposite to be true. (My ground is somewhat iron mineralized btw). I find 50 CO often hits better than Combine, but not always, especially not on those deeper fringe targets. The deeper targets often get a chop in Combine. I do think I am just more used to hunting with an E-Trac so on deeper signals an "an in out" sound in 50CO is easier for me than a chopped combine. Anyway, I do want to hunt in Combine more often as I have just been hunting in 50CO mostly BUT I have compared every signal in Combine and that is 50 hours worth.

Thanks for your information and results,
Albert

 

[squirrel1]

Albert, maybe I wasn't clear. I had my screen open except for ferrous 24-35 for conductive numbers 37-50, meaning all open but the right lower quadrant so to speak.

 

[GateKeeper]

Has to be soil conditions. I too have found that Combined is much better on deep
signals that conductive. Just goes to show that soil will make the choice.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Thanks Squirrel. I do wonder if it is the soil.

Vanbibr - What is your soil like (where Combined is better on deeper signals)?

 

[GateKeeper]

EMS........Sandy loam, clay, and black dirt.
A lot of iron in ground..

 

[earthmansurfer]

Vanbibr - my ground is somewhat iron mineralized dirt (non silver coins seem to max out around 9" or so of depth). Fair amount of iron. Sounds like your ground might be milder than mine, though I don't know about your minerals in the loam and clay.

Down to 7" in my ground, on clean targets, there isn't a difference between Combine or 50 CO. I only see the improvement at the 8" to 9" level - but both kind of break up there. As I said I'm just more used to 50 CO, perhaps...