Frustrated with SE...

[grumpymedic]

I am working my usual spot that has quit a bit of nails/iron in the ground and I am getting really frustrated. I have been running IM at 22 with conductive sounds and it will stay in a full null the entire time I am hunting and the recovery is excruciatingly slow..I switched over to AM and ferrous sounds but the constant barrage of sounds overwhelms me after a 1/2 hour or so..Are all metal detectors this slow to recover in iron when trying to run a little discrimination? Man I love my explorer and it has found me some really great stuff but I find myself becoming more and more upset with it's performance..anybody else feel this way and if so how do you deal with it? Thanks and have a great week!!

Rex

 

[sgoss66]

Sounds to me like you might like a different (fast recovery) detector for specific cases where you are working in an iron pit. Some, like Bryce, do a great job of picking coins out of the iron with an Explorer, but most feel there are other machines that do a little better in that one SPECIFIC application. PM me if you want any suggestions...

Steve

 

[dewcon4414]

A lot of people run way to much sensitivity as well in those locations. The higher you run the more iron it wil pick up and coil shut down happens (you are loosing depth anyway). Auto sensitivitry and running your gain high may helps..... you dont loose those weak sigals that could be coins since everything sounds the same. You really have to learn to WORK an area very very slow. Thats something the SE does better than most machines.... faster machines do need a faster sweep to take advantage of the filters. Take someone with you who has a faster machine and compare signals and see who walks away with the finds. Use a small coil they dont take in as much soil.

Dew

 

[Jim Vokes NY]

One time I was detecting a fairgrounds. The Midway area had 2 pulltabs to the inch. I was really frustrated. I decided to set the detector with HIGH discrimination in which only silver targets could be heard. Well, I can tell you that I found a lot of new and old silver using this method! It has worked well for me at many old trashy sites. Remember discrimination is a tool not to be placed at one setting but to be changed as each site requires.

 

[MINELABMIKE]

Rex, try running your IM at 27 it will accept more targets you probably still won't any threshold but move slow if there is a silver coin there you will have a better chance of hearing it, i have gotten silver coins in heavy iron with the higher IM setting