Guys what's your favorite set-up on relics and coins?

[88junior]

Guys share your favorite set-ups I am new to the Quattro and figured you guys might could help me get past the learning curve faster! I love to relic hunt and also love to coin hunt. So if you guys could help me out I'd appreciate it.

 

[KinTN]

For coins I mask out everything except 14-16 and 36-39. Realize that you will miss some depending on soil conditions, but this is what I use in trashy parks.
Cant help at all on relics.

 

[kschae4]

Junior, I agree with KinTNs coin settings but I open up the tid to run from 39 down to 32, as that's where my IHs are found (32-34) in factory settings or custom coin, coin/jewelry modes.
As I'm mostly a relic hunter, and I prefer woods, fields, I don't discriminate out any numbers. If the site is clean,or relatively free of trash, I'll hunt in all-metal, if somewhat trashy, I switch to relic. I've gotten in the habit of digging all targets and becoming familiar with their tid and audio responses. I once found a steel WWll cent that read -2 (in all modes). In fact, relic is my preferred hunting mode overall, as silver coins will sound a tad sweeter in relic than in either coin, & coin/jewelry beacuse of the ferrous audio.

 

[KinTN]

Wow kschae4, you are the first guy I have heard of that found a steel penny; what kind of condition was it in? I would have expected it to be a mass of unidentifiable rust!

Also agree with using the relic/all metal mode. I hate those icons and prefer the tones of ferrous.

 

[88junior]

So do you guys run yours set on high trash or low trash? And as far as sensitivity auto or manual? Thanks

 

[KinTN]

Trash depends on where you are running; about the only place I run low trash is at the beach. I wonder if that says something about me......
Also I use a SEF 6x8 in hi trash areas. I normally run sensitivity in auto unless I have a reason to hunt otherwise.

 

[kschae4]

KinTN- 1943 wheatie, decent shape, with little rust,found in sandy soil. Think I found it a couple of years ago.

 

[kschae4]

n/t

 

[88junior]

That's a pretty cool find I just wonder if it was in the ground very long to not be rusted that bad? At school yards I have found Chinese coins, Mexico coins, along with American coins like Susan B. dollars and even a walking liberty half once I figure they bring them for show and tell and end up losing them on the play ground.

 

[KinTN]

Amazingly good shape for that steel wheatie! I suspect 88junior may be correct unless it was found in the desert or something.

btw, I found a Cuban 25cent coin earlier this month on a local (TN) soccer field. Thats my oddest place coin; T mean, I thought we are still embargoing them and only pure blodded commies go there these days.....

 

[TNdigginsafari]

88junior, I thought maybe I would give you a few target i.d. numbers for relics to let you know where they ring up on my machine, I think yours should be close. Civil war minnes .58 caliber = 33 thru 35 .69 caliber bullets 35- 37 smaller bullets such as .32 and up start at about 15 and go up to 30 on the i.d. buttons as small as cuff buttons start at i.d. 9-12 and larger buttons start at 11-14. Almost all the hunting I do is relic hunting, I have a few vids on youtube that you can link to thru this site. My Safari is always set with all iron blacked out, with that said I still get signals that are iron relics,,,very rusty objects will ring up all over the screen till you get them out of the ground. I hunt with sensitivity on at least 16 or more depending on how much trash is around. Threshold set at 12 and always hunt in high trash mode regardless of where I am because it just picks up targets faster it seems. Hope this helps Happy Diggin