Explorer in Iron

[Anonymous]

Out at a site yesterday which wasn't giving much up so I applied my previous detector style of digging the ify broken tones. For the next 2 hours I dug not one good target most of the time getting nothing in the hole. Today I ran iron mask -10 and dug every solid repeatable signal and did much better. I guess my question would be ..In heavy iron would a coin always sound strong through the nulls? Or, could it be a broken tone like most other detectors would see it. Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

Chris in my opinion the explorer is the best iron hunter out there, at least that I have tried.. if you stick to the signals that repeat and hit well from at least one side without the iron ping you wont dig much iron.. digging iffy ones will though.. so far I havent been suprized by digging a signal I thought was iron and it not being iron.. once in a while I get fooled by good sounding iron though.. Just go slow, use one of the smaller coils and a low iron mask setting and listen, you might get some decent hits on iron but, most good targets will lock in without that iron tone even in the worse iron when you work the signal with the coil.. Sometimes I cant belive I am hearing such a good signal in areas I been over a hundred times with other machines in those iron fields

 

[Anonymous]

That's always been a feature of the Sov & Explorer technology ...
Most traditional detectors when they see a ferrous target (or one that has been disc'd out) do not respond whereas the Sov/Explorer first checks to see if there is also a non-ferrous target (or one that has not been disc'd out) in the area as well. If there isn't, they don't respond ... but if there is, they generate a response.
I remember that this was one of the features that first caught my eye when looking at Minelab's new multi-frequency detectors years ago. It would appear from reading many people's experiences in getting good targets out of iron over the last few years , etc that this feature does seem to work (at least to some degree).
HH ... Gord.

 

[Anonymous]

I usually run iron mask -8. At the old boy scout camp I go to there is an area that must have been a dump site. The XS would be in a constant null no matter what the sens was set at. Initially, I was just going to make a few quick passes because I didn't believe I would here anything at all but I started getting very repeatable clear sounds. One of which was a walking liberty half. All the wheats and other coins rang right through the constant nulling.