I finally got to get out for a decent hunt this afternoon with the Cutlass II uMax. Spent the first 2 hours just digging strong signals and honing what the different sounds were telling me. I'm loving this thing! Anyways, after the first 2 hours of digging everything it seemed I was digging more than I was swinging so I decided to start playing around with the discrimination and actually found a pretty sweet way to make a good judgement as to what may be in the ground. First off though, i'm using a Cutlass II uMax which is basically just an older Silver uMax, so I don't have the writing on my disc,. just 1-10. So I put a pic of both machines on this post to show a little better reference. So I always hunt between 3 and 4 (foil), when I would get a signal i'd start rolling the disc. up as I was sweeping the target. If the target would drop out by the time I had the disc up to 6 or 7 (just past Tab or so), I would dig as usually after that the nickel, ring, jewelry would be disc. out. This did work as I found a couple nickels this way, but also a hat pin backing and a piece of copper something or other.Now if the signal stayed until I got up to 8 (1 cent), but dropped out after, then if was usually a Tab, trash, etc., so I left it. And obviously, if I could disc. all the way to 9 (max), I would dig. I played with this on each signal I would hit for probably the last hour or so of the hunt and it seemed to be very effective. I did occasionally dig those signals that would drop out after 8 (just past Tab), and it was always a tab or trash. Not saying this would always be the case or anything, but the place I was hunting was packed full of beaver tails, and honestly, I was actually getting tired of digging! BTW, I was using the 5.75" concentric since this place was quite trashy, and the soil was good enough that I could run wide open on the sensitivity, so I was digging dimes, quarters, and pennies at 5"-6" even with the disc. cranked up to the max. As far as the goods for the day, all clad except one 47' dime, guess that a silver, first of the season! 