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My son and I went to the fairgrounds yesterday and both used an Explorer each with the silver and copper program. We found nothing but silver and copper about 99% of the time but once in a while would dig something other than silver, clad, and copper. We found a 1906, 1944, and 1960 silver dime, and a good 50 other coins that were all clad or copper. I think we ended up with about 23 clad quarters with the others being dimes and pennies. This was my son's first time with the program as he has been using another detector which I think now will be his second detector.
The silver barber read at 2/27-28 which threw me so I was not expecting to see a barber. The digital reading are extremely accurate once you see what is reading where in the particular soil matrix. I think the soil matrix will skew the reading but am not that exactly how or how much as the silver barber dime readings was not what I thought it would be.
I have not see anyone in the old Fairgrounds since about 1980 so we have the entire area to ourselves and will go back over the areas we have searched in the alloy program I posted. I tried that off and on and like it also but it is difficult to get all the tabs and tails rejected. It seems to do very nice where pulltabs are concerned as I did not dig any and but dig any but could still detect my gold rings. I hope that is true for a ring that has been lost and in the soil a while. I saw a lot of pennies at 3/28 but also saw flattened soda cans at this reading but they would be very shallow and have a larger pattern than a penny that was shallow.
This was a good way to start the season as it gets us back into those sounds and responses that we get to know like the back of our hand. I have pretty much sold myself on ferrous tones and have only dug one nail at the firgrunds since going to ferrous and that was because I did not change the direction of sweep. I never have liked the idea of silver and iron having the same high tone which you don
 
Cody,
Open er up a little so that you start to get some hits on IH's near pulltabs. You will be surprised at the amount of silver that will put in your pouch too! With a site like that I would dig it all, but thats just me. LOL
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HH Tom
 
Yea, that is true which and one reason why I use several different patterns. I also like to hunt with the pattern open all the way to 16 for ferrous which is the same as iron mask at 0. One old park I hunt has some clean ground where I can run IM-15 with the FE coins open and search for those ultra deep targets. I think my finds of old coins in trash vs ultra deep is about 20 to 1 in favor of coins in heavy trash. Co-located targets in trash really defeat a lot of detectors and from the finds it looks like most guys just stay out of the trash. I have reached the point where I look for the trash metals or deep iron as I know there are going to be coins mixed in. The ultra deep coins just don't come around that often for me so I get tired of looking for them.
Good to hear from you and have a great day,
HH, Cody
 
I have read several posts about your program for getting coins amongst the trash. Sure would appreciate an e-mail or response showing what the settings are. I missed any post showing what the settings are and my curiosity is killing me. Thanks. I am not an old enough hand at the Explorer to know what the lingo is so some of the short descriptions like "WOT" etc. throw me off.
 
Cody,
Around here for older coins iron is my enemy whether the coins are deep or shallow. I don't have any large parks and very few fairgrounds to hunt. Mostly small older sites with little modern trash.
I have used a lot of machines and the one that will get them deep in iron is the Advantage. ID is not a factor, I just dig everything that is weaker sounding and repeats in the same spot even if only from one direction. Usually they are coins or other high non ferrous targets. Works for me. <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
Now for the shallower stuff in trash regardless of the type of trash I like something that is fast responding that lets <EM>me</EM>interpret the signal. Jumpy signals that the machine has no idea what it really is but there is an indication of a higher value there somwhere. Sometimes but not always concentrics beat the DD's in that area.
Tom
 
There are a lot of places to hunt here but not anything like in Omaha. Those coins really came out of the ground in great condition.
HH, Cody
 
This is the trash program illustration.
The upper left open will keep a pretty solid threshold. Set the pattern at 0 then use learn to reject tabs then use it to accept rings. I use ferrous tones and semi-auto sensitivity at 28. If looking for deep old coins then set the Audio Gain to 10. In heavy trash is is nice to se the Audio Gain to 3 or 4 and use the modulated audio to tell deep targets from shallow ones. I use the threshold tone to set the low end tone and the upper limit to set the high tone.
There is a very solid threshold with a low tone for iron then high and mid tones for other targets. I hunt in the digital screen and switch to iron mask at -16 if needed to help ID targets.
The silver and copper program is just a modified version with the pattern set as posted. It has FE Coins open and the upper right of the screen open. This is a silver and copper version for heavy trash.
Both of these patterns is for heavy trash for the most part. There are other version that would most likely work better in clean ground. I would simply pull the pattern open to somewhere around IM-10 or ferrous in the twenties. If that is still not enough then one can use IM-14 or -15. I think we would find most items at -10 as Glenn indicates. Minelab seems to think we should be ok at around -6 which would be ferrous at 22 I think.
HH, Cody
 
Thanks a million my friend. That had to take some time and I appreciate it. If I find some stuff this weekend I will post it for you.
 
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