Discing out iron

[skateteacher]

Hit a site that is heavily trashy with iron. I hunted it in relic mode looking for coins. My ears are still ringing because of all the iron in the ground. y question is this. Can you disc out the iron so you can't hear it on the MXT? I just know this site is going to give up some coins but the stinking iron trash just kills it.

Thanks

Dave

 

[sasquache]

Hmm i read your post and was thinking> how about useing a smaller coil? and useing relic with trigger pushed forward i think it is called two tone relic ? sas

 

[Nancy-IL]

When using the relic mode, are you putting your toggle switch below in the front position? If not, that's why you are hearing all the "grunt" noises. Where do you have your discrimination set? That's a key issue also. HH, Nancy

 

[skateteacher]

Good questions and the answers are:
1. I'm using the 6x10 DD coil
2. No, I had the trigger in the center position
3. Hyper Sat max.

I appreciate all the help. I'm trying to read up on everything I can, I bought the MXT Edge book and read this site every day. I think I have so much info that when I got out there to hunt I forgot everything. I was hunting in relic mainly because I liked the way it sounded off on coins when the coil hits them compared to the tones in CJ mode.

Thanks

Dave

 

[scoper]

It sounds like you have a very serious iron problem.With the hyper sat at max that means you have maxed out the discrim if you are searching in relic mode.If you are still getting an ear bashing from the iron it's either very large pieces or there is so much in the ground that over the years as it has corroded it has made the soil so iron mineralised that it will be almost impossible to hunt.If you are running the discrim at max this will in itself cause a problem......you will loose so much sensitivity on the smaller stuff you won't find it anyway.Also if the soil is that bad,good targets can be registered as iron both on audio and visual discrim.sounds like that site would be very hard work.
Best of luck,Neil.

 

[GpSnoopy]

Nancy hit it earlier. What machine are you using? The MXT Classic uses the Trigger to change settings within a particular mode. As for the MXT Pro, the trigger stays in the centre unless pinpointing, and the settings are changed via the Tones selection. Also, there is no Hyper-SAT setting in Relic mode. The dual purpose dial sets the Discrimination level in Relic and C&J modes. When you switch to Prospecting mode, then and only then does the dial adjust your HyperSat. Or did you mean your gain control? I suggest starting with your gain lower, somewhere between the preset and 0, and only raise it up if your machine runs fairly stable. That control adjusts your signal gain, and if it's set too high for the ground conditions, it can make the MXT extremely chatty.

Classic MXT settings (Pro in parentheses)

Relic Mode - trigger center. (Tone 2 on the Pro) Metals rejected by the DISC control setting produce a low pitch tone; metal items accepted by the DISC control setting produce a higher pitch tone. You will hear all metals, nothing is discriminated by the audio, only the tone changes pitch. Can be very noisy in a littered site.

Relic Mode - trigger forward. (Tone 1 on the Pro) Based on the Discrimination control setting, rejected targets audio is suppressed. Iron, if accepted by the discrimination control setting, produces a low pitch tone. Accepted targets produce a high pitch tone. As the Discrimination control is advanced (clockwise), the audio of targets below the current Discriminaion level is suppressed, broken, and/or modified in consistency. I believe this is the setting you wanted to be in. Adjust your Disc to eliminate the most common iron trash you don't want to hear. Any larger iron targets that make it through your disc setting, should sound with a low tone, or broken up, as long as the MXT can determine that it is ferrous in nature.

WARNING. Relic Mode - trigger forward - DISC set to full CCW (Iron ID on the Pro). This is MXT's Iron ID mode. Disables the Discrimination control so that

 

[shleprock]

I have only been detecting for about a year.
Are there detectors on the market that will disc out large iron?
I have found a silver hand mirror and a silver eagle coin.
They both have the same readings as large iron.

 

[Rick N. MI]

My MXT will be here today. Hunting in a lot of iron don't most usually us trigger forward?

Rick N. MI

 

[shleprock]

Rick, If you're getting a MXT Pro, putting the trigger forward will lock in the pinpoint mode.
I use that setting often when searching clean areas.
I usually run my ground balance locked.