tabman said:
Revier, those numbers you're showing are nothing like the numbers that I have on my G2 and Omega. I think the F2 ID numbers may be more like the F75 numbers.
On my Compadre, a nickel discriminates out on the topside of half on and half off of the 5 cent mark. Foil caps discriminate out between the 'f' and 'L' in foil.
I'm pretty sure the 10k gold ring in the video is much higher on the discrimination scale than a foil cap is.
I can pick up a tiny 14k gold necklace with a setting where the dial is set just touching the bottom of the 'f' in foil.
I use a Gatorade foil sports cap as a reference point and gauge.
In other forums I read where someone finds a gold ring in the foil or iron range which may be different than what I call the foil and iron range. It just drives me nuts.
That's super nice collection of gold rings you got there. I gives me inspiration.
I'm pumped to go looking for gold rings.
tabman
I always thought nickels were weird and you just can't trust them to come in at that nickel setting because I have many that have come in below the 5 cent mark and even a few that have come in above.
The round inserts from sports drink caps for me come in just a hair past the N in iron just about every time.
The small ring in the vid was just on the L in foil.
I have a very small and thin gold necklace where in all metal you can pick up the clasp to about 3", anywhere past the I in iron it is gone.
This very small silver chain was a surprise.
At the R in iron it was there, at the O it also was gone completely.
I usually hunt with that knob in all metal because you really can get the deepest and get more clearer signals that way, then I thumb the knob on every signal up then down to see where it comes in.
At very trashy sites with a ton of noise I will move it up to just below the I in iron, when I am super tired and just have a little energy left the knob will go up to just below the F in foil but never any higher.
I listen to how the target comes in, if it is crackley or has many clicks I usually leave them in the ground.
I used to dig these too but they were trash for me 100% of the time so no more.
Solid signals that just come in I dig always.
Still lots of trash will do this but all good targets act exactly this way for me too, especially if you hit them from 2 angles.
I figure as long as I am hunting with such a sensitive detector that can actually pick up the real small or real thin stuff at that iron setting or even below why not take advantage of it and use it that way.
Most of the stuff I dig down there is trash but I have come up with enough great targets that were not to keep me going.
I have a few small gold rings and also some silver chains, (also weird), that have come in between iron and the F in foil and I can't take chances out there when I am hunting and fresh so that knob is either at all metal or just below the I in iron to find all this stuff and maybe even smaller items like gold studs and and other tiny things.
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