First day with 6x10

[Wrench]

Hello all,

Took the advice of the experienced veterans in this forum and ordered the 6x10. Hunted a friend's home built in the 1940s. In about 30 minutes I found less than a dollar in clad and "lots" of tabs. I even located his water line, down about 9". This loop goes deeper than the 4x6.

My question is, what settings are recommended for the old silver coins? I used the DX-1 probe and it helps a lot. I tried the relic mode, but its a bit confusing, so I stayed with coin and jewelry mode. I guess I must read Jeff Foster's book a bit more. I read somewhere that disc at 5 or 6 is recommended for deeper older coins, is this true? Any help would be really appreciated.

Tomorrow my friend and I are hunting an area where they're leveling older home sites and he is borrowing my wife's Ace 250. I just want to have some extra advice form the veterans in this forum.

Again, thanks for any assistance.

Wrench

 

[srf2112]

Hey Wrench, I answered your question as best I could in another thread on this forum but I wanted to ask you how did your watch find turn out ? Was the Rolex real ?
HH
Scott

 

[Topo]

a really nice coil to have, share your experiences with it

good luck!

 

[Monte]

I used the DX-1 probe and it helps a lot. I tried the relic mode, but its a bit confusing, so I stayed with coin and jewelry mode. I read somewhere that disc at 5 or 6 is recommended for deeper older coins, is this true?

Just remember that Discrimination is used to REJECT or IGNORE those target you do NOT want to find. It doesn't help you when trying to locate something like older silver coins.

A setting of '5' or '6' will knock out smaller foil and other lower-end good conductors than a setting of '3', and it will also cause more bias or negative rejection of iron trash than a setting of '3'. If you are looking for older silver coins that you know are going to be relatively shallow at a site, then running with a little higher rejection simply means you're going to be concentrating on hearing only the higher-conductive targets.

The problem is that the more rejection use use, there will be some loss of responsiveness on deeper targets, or even overall attainable depth of detection. Thus, if your goal is to find older coins, especially those of silver, that have been missed at some well-hunted old parks and schools and such, the ones you anticipate as being deeper in the over 4" to 8" range or so (honest depths), then you're going to be better served if you use the minimum amount of discrimination you can tolerate, AND, recover ALL targets (or as many as possible) to eliminate shallower masking targets (good and bad).

This is actually more important than search coil selection. So, use the best coil for the site environment. The least amount of discrimination you can tolerate, the highest sensitivity you can get by with as long as the detector is not unstable, then work methodically, overlap, investigate 'iffy' responses, dig a lot, and best of success to you!

Happy Hunting,

Monte

 

[srf2112]

Monte's exactly right . His last paragraph describes exactly what I have been doing and it is working very good for me. I have been finding a lot of small silver jewelry pieces ( one earring back at a good 6" in wet sand ) so if it's silver coins you're looking for follow Monte's advice and they won't be able to hide from you.
HH
Scott