Darkflight
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I just worked a very large park in urban Portland Oregon. Heavy trash area/sidelines right where I parked. 2nd target no less...
I also scored a nice old jeep about 10" down on the sideline curb. A small batch of coins to round it out.
The chain was not from today-It was at a riverside park on the Columbia.I rarely go there but I needed to get my detecting permit for the state parks. I doubt it is real but it came up untarnished & it rings in the gold range. Well made but no marks.The chain if real is a nice chunk at almost an ounce.Gotta get a test kit.
But a chain in these conditions was good. The area is used for a major detector gathering no less & it was in thier picnic area....My oh my the red faces I'm feeling now. Entirely black sand in the area & yes it drives a lot of units nuts.But I was using pinpoint all metal tuned for about 10" on a dime. This way I can size fast & cover ground.Then when I hit a target I switch to disc/all metal normal to ID. This one said pulltab or high nickle so I dug. Not sure what the bullet shaped thing is but it is not a bullet. Probably a metal bead but looks like a mini plumb bob.
The 3300 was doing fine but I do have a fair amount of falsing in these conditions. Also-in this area almost every bottle cap rang high well enough to fool me into digging it. I also got a 6" car mirror base at about 16"-it just rang top true not to keep digging. In general the more repetitive the signal the more accurate the ID. In iron infested spots or high mineralization falsing happens. But it will become easy to tell the difference between a repeating signal Vs. a falsing wich is more random & does not repeat.In open areas I can use the pinpoint/all metal mode to great effect. But when there is a lot of iron it becomes impossible to seperate the targets so it's back to normal all metal or dsec mode to get the goodies. I've been playing in iron/black sand for the last 3 days so I am fresh on the subect you might say.
I have yet to get to a saltwater area so I have no input but I'm pretty sure the GB is broad enough to do Ok.
All detectors I've used have these limitations. Just the 3300 seems to deal with them well when I don't want to discern every tone nuance or when I need a notch.And while I may have plain got lucky today-I did pull a gold ring from a area very trashed with tabs & caps/foil. I was using power on 2nd level, minimal GB(1/8 less than Pinpoint GB setting).Then I notched out Zincs & screw caps. Good solid repeater mid tone targets get dug with fervor. Tabs & most trash targets seem to vary ID enough to break tone and VDI #'s are all over the place. I still dig most any target that gives a semi repeatable signal. The bad ground & trash can interfere with target ID enough to make it worthwhile. Hey-it beats the lottery & I'm in this mostly for the excecise so diggin is a good thing IMHO.
Cheers!
I just worked a very large park in urban Portland Oregon. Heavy trash area/sidelines right where I parked. 2nd target no less...
I also scored a nice old jeep about 10" down on the sideline curb. A small batch of coins to round it out.
The chain was not from today-It was at a riverside park on the Columbia.I rarely go there but I needed to get my detecting permit for the state parks. I doubt it is real but it came up untarnished & it rings in the gold range. Well made but no marks.The chain if real is a nice chunk at almost an ounce.Gotta get a test kit.
But a chain in these conditions was good. The area is used for a major detector gathering no less & it was in thier picnic area....My oh my the red faces I'm feeling now. Entirely black sand in the area & yes it drives a lot of units nuts.But I was using pinpoint all metal tuned for about 10" on a dime. This way I can size fast & cover ground.Then when I hit a target I switch to disc/all metal normal to ID. This one said pulltab or high nickle so I dug. Not sure what the bullet shaped thing is but it is not a bullet. Probably a metal bead but looks like a mini plumb bob.
The 3300 was doing fine but I do have a fair amount of falsing in these conditions. Also-in this area almost every bottle cap rang high well enough to fool me into digging it. I also got a 6" car mirror base at about 16"-it just rang top true not to keep digging. In general the more repetitive the signal the more accurate the ID. In iron infested spots or high mineralization falsing happens. But it will become easy to tell the difference between a repeating signal Vs. a falsing wich is more random & does not repeat.In open areas I can use the pinpoint/all metal mode to great effect. But when there is a lot of iron it becomes impossible to seperate the targets so it's back to normal all metal or dsec mode to get the goodies. I've been playing in iron/black sand for the last 3 days so I am fresh on the subect you might say.
I have yet to get to a saltwater area so I have no input but I'm pretty sure the GB is broad enough to do Ok.
All detectors I've used have these limitations. Just the 3300 seems to deal with them well when I don't want to discern every tone nuance or when I need a notch.And while I may have plain got lucky today-I did pull a gold ring from a area very trashed with tabs & caps/foil. I was using power on 2nd level, minimal GB(1/8 less than Pinpoint GB setting).Then I notched out Zincs & screw caps. Good solid repeater mid tone targets get dug with fervor. Tabs & most trash targets seem to vary ID enough to break tone and VDI #'s are all over the place. I still dig most any target that gives a semi repeatable signal. The bad ground & trash can interfere with target ID enough to make it worthwhile. Hey-it beats the lottery & I'm in this mostly for the excecise so diggin is a good thing IMHO.
Cheers!
What K was that ring? It looks huge!