Getting high tone on pull tabs?

[hihosilver]

Any one else occasionally getting a high tone on alum pull tabs, with the golden umax? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[rapidroy7]

All I can say is some will report high-tone, if I remember correctly they are the larger rounder type ? HH

 

[JB(MS)]

If you have a new tone Golden

 

[underwatermetalman]

I just bought a new in the box old tones golden, what settings are you using to produce the results you described?

Joe

 

[JB(MS)]

I set the notch to just accept a nickel and turn the notch width knob until a tab doesn't give a signal. Set that way a nickel gives a short, abbreviated response. So do bent and broken tabs. some tails from the old beaver tail tabs and assorted pieces of foil and can slaw. I only use it set that way when I only have time for a short hunt. The rest of the time I dig tabs and turn them in at a collection center here to be sent to the Ronald McDonald Foundation .

 

[KennyD]

WOW! That's alot of tabs! Kudos to to sir!

 

[hihosilver]

Now that I have spent more time with the uMax I can definitely say that I consistently get the high tone on some of the deeper pulltabs or even just broken up pieces of aluminum. Recently I even pushed my disc nob all the way up on some of the high tone hits, only to recover a pulltab. So again I want to ask those of you who still use or who owned a golden uMax with the old tone configuration if you were experiencing the same thing, or is my detector in need of an adjustment?

 

[Mike Hillis]

Did you buy it new or used?

Sometime folks fool with the notch pot, which affects the tone break points, and can't get it back to normal.

HH
Mike

 

[hihosilver]

Mike,

I bought it brand new from a dealer. The box was sealed. It does not do it while air testing, only with something in the ground. The ground balance was off for my area and I did make a small adjustment to the GB pot, but I know that I did not adjust or move anything else.

 

[PostalTwo]

Are u by chance swinging a dd coil?

 

[hihosilver]

Are u by chance swinging a dd coil?

No, I am using the standard 9 x 8 concentric that came with the machine. Is it possible that my soil conditions are causing the detector to somehow see some aluminum as a higher conductive?

 

[mojotrout]

All of my Tesoros hit nicely on old beaver tail tabs, especially the deeper (4" +) ones. Nothing you can do about it, just dig 'em and move on.

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, you are fine...make a sport out of it like JB evidently did...pulltabs that is...see if you can get 1000 of them..they sure teach a guy a lot about locations age and human travel patterns/habits...if you make a sport out of hunting them and evaluating what each one tells you about the place and age, they can become your best friend if you are a gold hunter....dont get distracted too much on their nice solid signal though...get the little foil signals too...only girls tear off pulltabs, so where you find them, you will find small gold rings in foil, and perhaps a chain..beaver tails are older, so thats a good sign nobody else hunting gold ever had a coil over that piece of ground before....beaver tails mean you got a very good chance for gold...

4yrs ago, as I just started this crazy sport..i ran into an old guy who was also out swinging coil and he told me if I wanted to get real good real fast, to "dig 1000 pennys, and dig 1000 tabs" best danged advice I ever got!
and we are still friends if you can believe that!
Mud

 

[hihosilver]

Thanks to all who responded, I am encouraged. I thought that maybe there was something wrong with the machine, but it sounds like this is just par for course. Hey, Mud, I hope you are right about the location not being hunted for gold because of the deep tabs. I mean deep too, I pulled a tab out the other day must have been 8 inches down. I should mention that my area has gotten a great deal of rain and the ground is pretty damp.

I am loving it. I went out last Sunday for what I planned to be just an hour and soon I realized that three hours had past (it was Mother's Day, so that didn't go over so well).