I have been using a used but new to me White's Eagle II SL the last couple of days & am really impressed with it. I got lots of coins but very few nickels and no jewelry. Only thing other than a coin I have found is a 1961 dog license tag. I have been runnig it in the Beach mode figuring this would be the best mode to use in the school grounds/tot lots. Another thing that I noticed is that I am not getting many pull tabs, so if I am not getting many pull tabbs & very few nickels I probably am missing the rings and jewelry. Is this because the Eagle runs at 6.9 kHz or do I need to change my settings. I had a fella from one of the forums tell me that there are alot of programs that the Eagle can be set at and he had some that he would send to me but I haven't heard back from him. I really like this detector and would like any help I can get on it. Thanks! Steve.
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Eagle II SL Question
- Thread starter SkiWhiz
- Start date
I hardly ever see a reading of 20 or lower and the very few I had were not smooth sounding. If I waive my wedding band under the coil it comes in as about 9 and doesn't sound real smooth either (I believe my wedding band is white gold). Steve.R-Rocks said:The bh is my mode of choice as well, start digging below 60, the nickles are well below pull tabs around 20. Dig most all the smooth sounding targets regardless of the probable ID.
I found a large mans high school ring at a reading of 55, looking at the scale on top of the detector a 9 reads, WH. Gold Ring just below $1 Gold. If I can get away with it and the machine is not to unstable, I bump up the sens to 5 or 6 and turn down the back ground tone as well. Some targets, I sweep every witch way till I hit that sweet spot. Question if I may, are you using the Blue Max 950 loop?
sniffitout
Member
Hey Steve: accept on the beach program is 8 to 95 , so if your ring is coming in at 9 it may not sound so good ........Try program " B" Prospecting , the accept range is minus 19 to plus 95. Or set accept starting at zero (0) to 95. See what happens..?? ...Just something to try.
Matt
Matt
Thanks for the reply folks. I don't care for the Blue Max 950 coil, I am using the Blue Max 600 Deepscan coil and absolutely love it. What I did was to set it up in Beach mode and edit the disc. settings to allow everything from 10 - 0 - 95 Everything below 10 is disc' out, I will refer to it as -10 as I mean the 10 below zero. I tried this setting in my yard with some items on the ground and it improved things alot. If I get a chance to go out for a hunt today I will be back with my results. Thanks again for the help everyone. Steve.
You are right: the Eagle is not too good on low conductors. It bangs louder and clearer on mid to high conductors, but smaller flittier lower conductors (smaller thin rings - like gold earings, small foil - like gum wrappers, etc...) will have difficulty "locking on". So if you're looking at the beach for gold jewelry, and watching for those low #s, don't necessarily wait for something to sound "round and clear". Because smaller thinner gold items (especially chains, earings, thin bracelets, tiny solitair thin ladies rings, etc...) will be whispy & hard to lock on. Only heavier rings will bang loud and clear. And yes, white gold and platinum will read even lower than yellow gold. So to make sure you've got all the small gold "dialed in", I would, in addition to BH mode, program it to accept everything from about negative 20, up to positive 94. Don't be afraid to edit accept #s that low, because iron (nails, etc..) don't come in till even lower than that. By accepting such low #s, you will give the machine the "benefit of the doubt" when it gets random low bounces (rather than having a periodic low bounce edited out in silence). Of course, if you're hunting junky sites, this also means that you'll be more prone to every tiny little piece of foil too. So it also depends on where you hunt, as per the junk ratios.
There are other machines that excell better in low conductors, from the git-go. But other than that, the Eagle is a pretty versatile machine. I didn't care for it on the wet salt beach, and there have been deeper-seeking machine's that have come out since the Eagle's days, but all-in-all, it was/is a good machine.
There are other machines that excell better in low conductors, from the git-go. But other than that, the Eagle is a pretty versatile machine. I didn't care for it on the wet salt beach, and there have been deeper-seeking machine's that have come out since the Eagle's days, but all-in-all, it was/is a good machine.
Hey Skiwhiz. I've been using the White's Eagle 2 SL since 1996. I hunt in the coin mode - C - two tone. This is where the numbers go on most of the things I've found. Indian head-67-69 Wheat penny-78-80 Silver dime-80-82 Silver Quarter-88-89 Silver half-91-92 Silver dollar-93 Silver ring-82-88 10k gold small-24-25 10k large-54-55 14k white gold-12-14 14k yellow gold- 24-26 Buffalo nickel-24-25 V nickel-22-24 New nickel-22-24 14k girl class ring-25-28 pull tabs-30-40 screw caps-64-65 Sometimes it will fool you but with all the things that I have found they seem to be in this number range. Check it out when you get a chance. To cut out most of the iron, ground balance close to the iron and you won't have to dug much iron. Another trick is when you check the depth, if it's larger than a coin you'll see the 0 number which tells you it is not a coin. Some of these you may want to dig to find the old metal toys. So far I haven't found a better detector than this one, and it may not go as deep, but it will pick through the junk very well.
Mark ( ohio )
Well-known member
I also hunt with an Eagle II s model ( which I also think is a VERY GOOD detector )... and the standard jeffersons ALWAYS are in the 19-20-21 ID range...18 is never a nickel as is 22-23-24..there always pull tabs....
Just my II cents
SeeYA Mark ( ohio )
Just my II cents
SeeYA Mark ( ohio )
Mickfin hear, I started on a Blue Box Eagle in 1988 and upgraded to a Eagle II SL 90 i feel the most comfy feeling with a Eagle, Now shes my backup to the V3, Its still one of the Better units made today, People had to remember stuff to use one , Thats why she was left behind , I Like the 14 bottons on the fly and the Learn / Reject by passing the Target by the coil, The V3 cant do that????? Micfin