GT Question

[devilantsva]

I was out hunting today at a site that has yielded a few wheaties some civil war lead and a large cent. Everything was found with sensitivity in auto so today thought i would try manual. So set to about 3 to 4 o'clock position and set out. Now mind you I'm in the central part of Va. so red dirt is the norm, but the threshold was steady if I went slow. I was getting some nice sweet high tones and would just dig old rusted pieces of nails that was all that was there they were around 6 to 8 inches. I also noticed that coins hit with a best way to describe is a boooy boooy in the respective tone. The nails were just the high tone no round sound associated with them. Do coins at depth also hit with that nice round sound or do they just hit with a high tone only. I wonder if I gave up to quickly it was just noisier than I'm used to. I'm still a rookie on the GT any info is appreciated

 

[Critterhunter]

It aint the best real world test but stick a coin on the ground and sweep at it as you get closer and closer with the coil until you just start to get a high tone. That's how it will for the most part sound. Just don't give up on this machine. Even having owned many machines over the years, this one was so different that I was very frustrated at first. Once you get past the initial learning curve you'll fastly start loving it more and more. Just don't give up! I was almost ready to get rid of mine. Screw caps for one kept fooling me but at one angle they have a warble to them that's easy to ID what they are now. Also, the response of coins was so broad it was hard for me to judge target size and I thought they were can tops or something at first. You just have to get used to it. I rarely dig iron that fools me as a coin on this machine. That is, unless I want to take a chance on what I'm pretty sure is a false coin hit from iron. Digging less iron with the GT than probably any machine I ever owned because the audio gives it away as junk. Still, you want to dig a bunch of iffy coin signals for a while to learn what is what. In fact, I need to lower my standards a bit more on the iffy stuff because I pulled some coins yesterday that I normaly would never dig they were so bad. Just that this was a house lot so it was worth digging them as there wasn't a lot of trash to begin with. Only way to learn is to dig EVERYTHING for a while. Hang in there.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

De,I have hunted in Virginia with a Sovereign a few times and would set the sensitivity around the 10 o clock position.Deep coins or other targets may give a faint response and requires a wiggle to get climbing numbers or a ID lock on,to get a better idea if the target is worth digging.Good Luck HH Ron