Giving the T2+ a try!

[LittleJohn]

I have been using variants of the F75 for year now and decided to give the T2+ a try. I primarily relic hunt in iron littered sites and this will be its primary use. I will keep a shrew coil on it 90% of the time to be able to sift through the iron and look forward to hunting with this machine in the next couple weeks. Any suggestions on settings or nuances for this machine are sure appreciated. Thanks

LittleJohn

 

[LittleJohn]

I have been using variants of the F75 for year now and decided to give the T2+ a try. I primarily relic hunt in iron littered sites and this will be its primary use. I will keep a shrew coil on it 90% of the time to be able to sift through the iron and look forward to hunting with this machine in the next couple weeks. Any suggestions on settings or nuances for this machine are sure appreciated. Thanks

LittleJohn

Thanks!

 

[757Relics]

I have a T2se with a Nel 5 x 9 coil and it does pretty good at trashy sites. I usually run in 3 or 4 tone at 90% sensitivity with discrim set at 8 (I like to hear the iron).

 

[Monte]

I have been using variants of the F75 for year now and decided to give the T2+ a try. I primarily relic hunt in iron littered sites and this will be its primary use. I will keep a shrew coil on it 90% of the time to be able to sift through the iron and look forward to hunting with this machine in the next couple weeks. Any suggestions on settings or nuances for this machine are sure appreciated. Thanks

LittleJohn

I've owned a couple of F75's but didn't like them as well as I did the T2's which came along first. I've owned at least 3 original T2's, a T@-SE, 4 T2 'Classic' units and a T2+. Of them all I liked the T2+ the best.

I do both Urban Coin Hunting and remote Relic Hunting, but have spent about 90% of my time Relic hunting old Iron Nail and other ferrous debris sites since mid-'83. The ghost towns, homesteads, stage stops and RR siding and depot sites, to name but a few, can have a very dense amount of ferrous debris to deal with so I always want some of the best detector / coil combinations for unmasking. Since the first T2 came out in 2006 I have used the stock 11" BiAxial coil no more than a total of 1 hour hunt-time. I've used a mid-size coil, like the NEL Sharpshooter, about the same amount. All the rest of my T2 hunting has been with their 5" DD coil. I have compared it side-by-side with some other smaller-size coils for the T2, and the T2 & Teknetics 5" DD coil matched or bettered their performance.

Until early January of 2015 I kept a T2 'Classic' w/5" DD in my Detector Outfit to complement my White's MXT All-Pro w/6½" Concentric and other makes/models that I relied on. The T2 w/5" DD was, at that time, my go-to detector for dense Iron Nail contaminated sites. Disc. at '10' and usually using 2+ or 3 Tone ID modes. Through Dec. 2014 I felt the T2 was the best model on th market that featured Tone ID and numeric VDI read-out for serious Relic Hunting in very ferrous-littered sites to complement my non-TID Tesoro favorites w/6" Concentric coil. Since January of 2015 I have changed up my favorite Relic Hunting models with some that out-perform the T2's and most others in some very challenging comparisons I've done and side-by-side in-the-field comparisons. During that period over the last 5 years I have re-acquired a TE SE, 2 T2 Classics and a T2 + w/5" DD coils to compare against my chosen favorites with their ±5" DD coils ... then parted with the T2's, my last being a T2+ about a month ago.

I still prefer them to the F75. I still find their physical package and control feature and adjustability to be some of the best ever produced. I also still like the 5" DD coil the best on the T2 series for really challenging environments compared with any other coil on the T2 series. The weight and balance is exceptional. It is tough to match or out-hunt my Tesoro Bandido II microMAX w/6' Concentric coil in the very dense ferrous litter with any detector, but when it comes to also have Tone ID and Target ID, the T2's come close in performance and provide the audio and visual additions.

I use a Disc. setting of '10' which happens to be the default setting, because it is low enough to still accept most Iron Nails. I run my Sensitivity (on the T2's and virtually any detector) at or as close to maximum as possible w/o instability (EMI) and I use either a 2-Tone or 3-Tone mode (Never 3b), and always hunt in a slow and methodical sweep presentation. I also overlap an ample amount for more effective coverage. Don't use a fast sweep speed, especially if hunting in higher mineralized environments or if it is pea gravel to rocks, etc.

Monte

 

[Neil]

Give the all metal mode a good workout. It has a good feel to it, its like your connected to the ground.
Your gonna have to deal with alot of targets but the meter makes that easier. Very sensitive all metal is.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

All metal is where it’s at with the T2, especially with a small coil, there’s some Utube Videos showing depth test in a test garden using disc first..... unable to hit all the targets....... then All metal ........all the Targets were jumping out of the ground.

 

[BH505Man]

All metal is where it’s at with the T2, especially with a small coil, there’s some Utube Videos showing depth test in a test garden using disc first..... unable to hit all the targets....... then All metal ........all the Targets were jumping out of the ground.

Yes, The T2 is certainly a deep seeking detector when set up properly by an experienced user. I own both the T2 Classic and the T2SE. I really enjoy using both of them. I've been teaching my wife how to use the T2 Classic. She's starting to get better at finding targets and learning to discriminate between treasure and trash signals.

 

[IowaRelic]

The T2SE is still a go to machine for me also. It does a lot of scenarios very well and is super deep in my mild sand soil. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy a T2+ or F75+ if anything happened to my current machine.
I will never admit it to myself but sometimes I regret buying my multi kruzer because I was torn between that and a F75+. The kruzer has its perks and is a great machine. It just gets handicapped by site conditions too easily. You can get equal or better performance from the T2 in most sites. That’s been my experience so far.

 

[relicmeister]

Good information for me, as I just picked up a T2 classic with Stock plus additional shrew coil Lightly used at great price. I had and liked an f75 but found this T2 and figured it a good choice for my relic hunting, and I thought re-buying an f75 Too fickle. My main detector is an XP Orx and I use the same coils with WS4 headphones as a Deus lite. I also just got a minelab Vanquish 440.

 

[REVIER]

This could be some good info for those that like to hunt in all metal.

 

[wildbill!!]

I love mine, found lots of relics with it. Haven't really used the all metal mode much but the air tests I've donein this mode have been impressive. In all metal mode the target ID numbers only work up to a certain depth, with that being said this machine in All Metal mode will get serious depth.

 

[m880]

I had a F75 and T2 at the same time,sold my vs T2 and bought a T2+ and a T2se.No more F75

 

[relicmeister]

Give the all metal mode a good workout. It has a good feel to it, its like your connected to the ground.
Your gonna have to deal with alot of targets but the meter makes that easier. Very sensitive all metal is.

Aquachigger put out a short video on how he manually GB’s the t2 for all metal, and how much harder it can hit on deep targets compared to disc. Mode.
I’ve been digging some really deep targets with my t2 this way.

 

[relicmeister]

My t2 classic came with stock coil , ultimate 13”” and 5” round coils. A 10x5 would have been nice but I have that on my Orx and the f19 that I will have in a few days. Curious about how the f19 with 10x13” coil performs in all metal.

 

[Monte]

Aquachigger put out a short video on how he manually GB’s the t2 for all metal, and how much harder it can hit on deep targets compared to disc. Mode.
I’ve been digging some really deep targets with my t2 this way.

I think it depends on how th3 GB is adjusted for the threshold-based All Metal mode compared with which mode is used for Discrimination and the amount of rejection used. Also, to get reasonable 'depth' performance it is best to not have a too cluttered site with masking trash. I've used the T2's sine they were first introduced on 2006, have owned every version, several of the 'original' and several of the 'Classic' (same-o same-o) because I lik the green color. The favorite T2, for me, is the T2+. I have used a threshold-based All Metal mode for all the decades since we first got it in a GB detector in '75. On the T2's I have had a littler better success, like with the T2+, using the 'BP' 'mode' with my Disc. at '10' in many locations than I did with All Metal. Not a huge difference, but a hearable difference for me, nd that produced better results on deeper small-size targets such as coins, trade tokens, thimbles, buttons, etc.

My t2 classic came with stock coil , ultimate 13”” and 5” round coils. A 10x5 would have been nice but I have that on my Orx and the f19 that I will have in a few days. Curious about how the f19 with 10x13” coil performs in all metal.

The vast majority of all my T2 series work was handled with the 5" DD coil. I never cared for the 11" BiAxial, and I did buy one of their 5X10 DD's and that solid-body coil just didn't feel right. Rod mount too far to the rear and the nose-heavy weight wasn't comfortable. I thought about buying n pen-frame 5X9½, such as the NEL Sharpshooter which I had tried on a friend's T2 .... and I liked it better. Both weight / balance and performance, but I already had a couple of detectors equipped with a 5X9½ open-frame DD that matched or bettered the T2's performance. So, instead of buying a new coil or it, I just sold or traded it away becaus I had all the bases covered with a couple of better-performing detectors with a similar mid-size coil.

And if you have the ORX with the 5X9½ HF DD coil, it is a very good performer as well, and the Fisher F19 is not going to out-perform it.

Monte

 

[Picketwire]

I've had a T2 for quite a few years. To help on bottle caps, I notice that listening for iron tone while using the pull back method works best when the disc is dropped to 6 or 7. It give a little better iron tone. The Cors shrew or Nel Snake are excellent but not as "sharp" as the 5" DD. My main use coil was the Nel Sharpshooter which had more coverage and weighed a bit less than the Snake. I have no complaints about that combination. For discrimination modes, I liked 2+ but where there is less mineralization in the soil, I'd bet BP would be deeper. Three and four tones have nickel as a high tone which to me was kind of confusing. Sometimes when I would get a quiet signal by itself, I could get a better signal by sweeping faster. I never used the stock 11 inch DD very much. For a large coil I liked the Nel Tornado best but to ground balance, I sometimes needed to pump slower and higher above the ground. I have the huge 15 inch Teknetics coil but it is too heavy to use most of the time and with our mineralization I don't perceive that it is any deeper then the Tornado. All metal in any detector is underrated by most people but very useful to those that learn it. I think this is an excellent detector.

 

[Picketwire]

Oh, I forgot, my T2 would get a lot of feedback from my Garrett carrot unless I changed to frequency 3 but other users have said their works fine in 4 and one person said his (or hers, i don't remember) worked best at 5. However on another forum a person noted that changing the frequency could change the depth on the F75 and it was not consistent from place to place, something to do with silent EMI. He recommended raising a dime above the coil at different frequencies and closing the one that gave the best depth. I would imagine that would apply to the T2 also but I have not tried it.