First day with Tigershark

[JoeinMemphis]

Got out to a lake today for about 4 hours, the first time IN the water with a detector!! I only hunted about a foot or so deep (looooong sloping bottom so I still got out there a ways) found a quarter, Zn penny, a junk toe ring, and some fishing tackle. Oh yea and a nail, I was under the impression I could descriminate them out with a VLF machine, ahhh did I mention the nail was 10" long. I also found the norm, foil out the wazoo, screw tops, little bits of Cu wire, and broken bottles, I wont be swimming on this beach without SHOES!! Didn't find much but had a blast figuring out the machine.
HH
Joe

 

[waterhunter]

I think you wil thoroughly enjoy the tiger Shark. I have used one since they first came out and they will find the small earrings and necklaces if yhou keep the discrination real low. I dont like all metal, and with disc on about 1 you can still eliminate the very small iron; however, on some on the beaches we hunt heavily and signals are almost nonexistant we go to the bottom of the discr mode and get the bobby pins as well as post earring gold. I also use a fiosher CZ20, which goes deeper than the tiger shark, but on inland lakes the stuff doesnt get much deper before its found so extra depth isnt necessary, but after the season I use the CZ and continue to get rid of iron and other things that mayh have been missed. Ken

 

[JoeinMemphis]

Thank you for your input. I was amazed at how deep (4 ~ 6 ")it was finding bits of pultab - just little pieces of the ring, and was doing it with discrimination set to 4. I spent the day just trying to get the feel for the audio, but am still not comfortable picking the good targets from the bad - I didn't get enough good targets to learn the good signals! Like you I was using discrimination mode, it seamed to make the audio a bit "sharper". oh, one more thing, being a land hunter till today, I wasn't familiar with the "breaking up and floating away" of foil. I would get a signal, start moving sand, and all of a sudden my strong signal went to iffy, then I couldn't get it at all. About that time I noticed all the foil floating around. HH!!
Joe

 

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