Ferrous Or Conductive

[Anonymous]

Here in the UK I tried an experiment with ferrous sounds on my XS. Most people here search on ploughed land for hammered silver coins, some of which are quite small.I usualy search in iron mask 14 when conditions allow, with conductive sounds.
After reading that you folks in the US of A use ferrouse sounds to search for silver I decided to try it.
I searched in my usual mode , but when I got a signal in conductive that I thought could be a hammered coin, I put it into ferrous tones and gave it a try.
I found that if a target was deep, in ferrous sounds, it would give a low tone signal that was very close to that of an iron target, and very easily overlooked. I am not talking of fringe targets but very clear two way signals.
I am now convinced that if it's silver you want,
use conductive sounds. The very high tones are iron,with the crosshair going top left on the screen, tinfoil gives a "good" low tone signal, with the crosshair at the very bottom of the screen and is easily identified. Anything between "DIG"
I wonder if our freinds on that side of the Atlantic are missing deep, fringe coins, by using ferrous tones ??????
Nick (UK)

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Nick,
I think that most of us that use ferrous tone run our iron mask at a -10 or more and rusty nails will give the high pitch of a coin and you have to check the crosshairs more so. Now we have seen many silver coins that will give the high pitch of a coin, but the crosshairs show top left as there is a iron nail beside it, in ferrous we hear the high pitch tone that is repeatable and look at the crosshairs and if it is on top we dig as we know the tones are more acruate than the crosshairs. if it is on the bottom we know it is probably a rusty crown cap is the tone is high.If in a area with not many rusty nails than conductivity works great.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

Nick read your post after sending mine and am glad to see you found the same as me, top left cross hairs with high tone are iron.

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting, what kind of hammered silver.. I used ferrous the whole time I was in england, on the smaller hammereds, the crosshair would be low in the middle, and give a higher tone than they would have in conductive.. I guess if your saying the deep ones gave low tones I would think they would at least read at the bottom and not top left? the biggest problem with ferrous is that tin reads very high toned and foil etc gives a higher tone than conductive.. pretty much a preference thing I guess, and unless your hunting in very high ironized area I thik conductive is the way to go

 

[Anonymous]

Jim! The point I was trying to make, is that in some soils, or the way a coin is laying,or the depth of a target, you don't always get a perfect response from the explorer. When you are hunting, it is the audio sound that will make you investigate, if you are hunting in ferrous mode and you get a deep sounding low tone, it will probably be ignored without a thorough check of the screen or target.
A lot, but not all of the hammered coins here in the UK fall into the tinfoil-ringpull range, which give a medium-low tone when hunting in conductive sounds. If you are already digging the low tones, a coin at the edge of the detectors depth will give a low tone and still be dug.
I hope this makes what I was trying to say a little clearer.

 

[Anonymous]

I've never heard so much rubbish, you don't know what you are talking about. Shut up and leave it to the experts.