I've been reading about All Metal Vs Disc 1 here. I felt that at another location, my Disc 1 setting was getting me at least as deep as All Metal. In a different location today, no way.
I had very faint signals in AM that basically consisted of quick "disturbances" in the threshold, that were repeatable. My sensitivity was set at #5 on the Excal II 800, or an equivalent position angle of about 1:30 on some older Excals. Switching to Discriminate 1 to check a very faint AM signal such as these......, no signal at all. I used my new Reilly stainless long handle digger with grab handle and carefully dug not too much in excess to see how deep the faintest coins were. Wow. 8" coil, I was about 2 scoop lenghths deep before recovering some targets. 18" or so. You can see my pics on the coins. I mean, they are beat up clad and one quarter is so eaten away, it seems half the thickness of an ordinary quarter.
Alas, no gold once again!!!...grrrrrrrrrrrr....arggggggggggggg!!!!!!! I am getting grumpy and you know what happens when I get grumpy??? eh??????????
Did recover some other stuff:
Looks like a silver pendant, perhaps plated??? Not stamped. I think it may be plated...and my first ring...yea....copper with enamel exterior. I do see the beauty in All Metal searching. I discerned some targets as nulls in Disc after digging my first load of sand off of the All Metal signal at times, and then reburied and moved on to the next target. Also I could note ferrous in AM occassionaly. Fluttering or skipping in and out dash-type signals that checked out as ferrous in Disc made ALL Metal a mode that could reveal junk sometimes though I'd personally not depend on this as true Discrimination.
The surf was pounding pretty good even on shore in ankle deep water! and at times, the holes filled faster than I could dig. At one dig in the surf, I lost a very low tone. What can I say? Couldn't recover it. Always the low ones, huh? Strangest tone I had all day and it got away. Maybe it was light and junk. Can't see gold floating away that quickly. I feel it was a bottle cap.
So, certainly where I was recovering mostly coins, AM worked very well to find the very deepest targets and after uncovering them a bit and getting a read in Disc, I could determine if I should proceed. The Disc Iron Mask is great. I second guessed several times on nulls and the result was always some wire or nail. I included one null signal recovered as a nail that I kept, and included in the picture. Had a few visitors asking for advice. I think I'm creating competition but I have to tell them what I think is the best way to go: Excalibur ! After all, you guys told me. Pass it around.
I'll be bach.
darksky
I had very faint signals in AM that basically consisted of quick "disturbances" in the threshold, that were repeatable. My sensitivity was set at #5 on the Excal II 800, or an equivalent position angle of about 1:30 on some older Excals. Switching to Discriminate 1 to check a very faint AM signal such as these......, no signal at all. I used my new Reilly stainless long handle digger with grab handle and carefully dug not too much in excess to see how deep the faintest coins were. Wow. 8" coil, I was about 2 scoop lenghths deep before recovering some targets. 18" or so. You can see my pics on the coins. I mean, they are beat up clad and one quarter is so eaten away, it seems half the thickness of an ordinary quarter.
Alas, no gold once again!!!...grrrrrrrrrrrr....arggggggggggggg!!!!!!! I am getting grumpy and you know what happens when I get grumpy??? eh??????????
Did recover some other stuff:
Looks like a silver pendant, perhaps plated??? Not stamped. I think it may be plated...and my first ring...yea....copper with enamel exterior. I do see the beauty in All Metal searching. I discerned some targets as nulls in Disc after digging my first load of sand off of the All Metal signal at times, and then reburied and moved on to the next target. Also I could note ferrous in AM occassionaly. Fluttering or skipping in and out dash-type signals that checked out as ferrous in Disc made ALL Metal a mode that could reveal junk sometimes though I'd personally not depend on this as true Discrimination.
The surf was pounding pretty good even on shore in ankle deep water! and at times, the holes filled faster than I could dig. At one dig in the surf, I lost a very low tone. What can I say? Couldn't recover it. Always the low ones, huh? Strangest tone I had all day and it got away. Maybe it was light and junk. Can't see gold floating away that quickly. I feel it was a bottle cap.
So, certainly where I was recovering mostly coins, AM worked very well to find the very deepest targets and after uncovering them a bit and getting a read in Disc, I could determine if I should proceed. The Disc Iron Mask is great. I second guessed several times on nulls and the result was always some wire or nail. I included one null signal recovered as a nail that I kept, and included in the picture. Had a few visitors asking for advice. I think I'm creating competition but I have to tell them what I think is the best way to go: Excalibur ! After all, you guys told me. Pass it around.
I'll be bach.
darksky
