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getting used to my new 3D
- Thread starter grouser
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joe dirt_1
Active member
sweep your coil real slow and go around the target like tvr said. I have dug several deep dimes on edge that were around iron and they only read in a certain area around the iron, but if you can get the high tone to repeat dig the signal. you never know what might be there.
Roger
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tincanalley
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Grouser... If you're new to the 3d, the best advise I would give is to pass up anything that doesn't give an unmistakable repeatable sound for now. You can't learn everything at once, so digging the really good sounds will give you coins and confidence. I made the mistake of trying to learn everything at once when listening to my 3d and it was not a happy experience.
If you watch Tom Dankoski's "Metal Detecting Real World Techniques Inland Coin and Relic Hunting" DVD, you will see him pass over a ton of iffy signals. He was like a hound dog sniffing out the best repeatable targets he could find... for the most part. He "did" spend a little time showing how he could hear different metals when they were close together, something he didn't learn overnight, but he also showed you that even he will give up on a hole and cover it back up sometimes. After watching his DVD, I began digging only the really good signals and the coins began to show up. I'm getting now that I'll dig something that's not a sure thing if I get bored... just to see what it is... and 95% of the time it's something of absolutely no interest to me. Of the 5% left, about half will be something that's interesting, but of no value, and the other half it might be a coin... usually a nickle for some reason. You can spend a lot of time digging junk (questionable signals), or spend the same time digging good coins.
I learned the same thing gold panning. I've watched people play around with a pan of dirt for 10 or 15 minutes because they were afraid that they would loose a speck of gold dust. I could pan 6-9 pans in the same time they were playing around. Yeah, don't stand beside me while I'm panning, you "will" get wet, but if the gold is there, I'll find 4-7 times more gold than you in the same amount of time. I might loose a speck or two once in a while, but I've recovered so much that I can afford to loose what you might have found in your one pan.
Go out and ignore those "iffy" signals for now. Learn what a good tone really sounds like and increase your odds tremendously. After you get an ashtray full of silver, you will have learned more than you would think! Then you can go out and dig all the junk you want to
C.
If you watch Tom Dankoski's "Metal Detecting Real World Techniques Inland Coin and Relic Hunting" DVD, you will see him pass over a ton of iffy signals. He was like a hound dog sniffing out the best repeatable targets he could find... for the most part. He "did" spend a little time showing how he could hear different metals when they were close together, something he didn't learn overnight, but he also showed you that even he will give up on a hole and cover it back up sometimes. After watching his DVD, I began digging only the really good signals and the coins began to show up. I'm getting now that I'll dig something that's not a sure thing if I get bored... just to see what it is... and 95% of the time it's something of absolutely no interest to me. Of the 5% left, about half will be something that's interesting, but of no value, and the other half it might be a coin... usually a nickle for some reason. You can spend a lot of time digging junk (questionable signals), or spend the same time digging good coins.
I learned the same thing gold panning. I've watched people play around with a pan of dirt for 10 or 15 minutes because they were afraid that they would loose a speck of gold dust. I could pan 6-9 pans in the same time they were playing around. Yeah, don't stand beside me while I'm panning, you "will" get wet, but if the gold is there, I'll find 4-7 times more gold than you in the same amount of time. I might loose a speck or two once in a while, but I've recovered so much that I can afford to loose what you might have found in your one pan.
Go out and ignore those "iffy" signals for now. Learn what a good tone really sounds like and increase your odds tremendously. After you get an ashtray full of silver, you will have learned more than you would think! Then you can go out and dig all the junk you want to
C.
very good advice my friends,,,,THANK YOU all very much for the kind words and encouragement. I am getting better at it and just hoping for a really deep find that will confirm that I needed the 3D to compliment my Tesoro and find more/deeper targets. So far I have just not run my coil over one yet,,,but it's fun trying !!!