hello i'm the new guy

[elmo49]

i've been looking at all the great posts and information you guys been puting out. thank you.
my name is jim
just retired this year bought a racer . i hunt almost every day with the heat so bad sometimes just short hunts.
my wife and i live in northern texas only a few miles from oklahoma.

 

[JimmyCT]

Welcome Elmo. Congratulations on retirement! Hope to see some pictures of your finds with the Racer. - Jim

 

[elmo49]

I will post any old or unusual finds. I'm still learning the area trying to find old and forgotten places .
unfortunately the forgotten spots are just that forgotten . research...research .
Jim

 

[Monte]

i've been looking at all the great posts and information you guys been puting out. thank you.... It's Great News that you've been following the Makro Forum and picking up of some of the helpful things you're read.


my name is jim... Hi Jim! Welcome to the Makro Forum at Findmall, it's Great News to have one more participant.


just retired this year... And you still remember your name?!?! That's Great News because it seems some folks who post are older, are retired, but seem to have forgotten how to spell, proper grammar, and I wonder if some might have forgotten their name, too.


... bought a racer.... Great News, period!!! If you bought the Pro Package or at least that little search coil they offer, that's even Greater News because it is a must-have for working any trashier site.


i hunt almost every day with the heat so bad sometimes just short hunts.
my wife and i live in northern texas only a few miles from oklahoma... Great News to be able to get out detecting often. I wish you the best of luck, and as you do get to know the Racer better, and make some interesting finds to post, would you mind including a little 'educational info' in the post such as: Search Mode used, the Gain and ID Filter settings, etc? It helps others to get an idea how the Racer works in a variety of locations and how the different operators like to work their Racer.

Thanks, and Welcome.

Monte

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

welcome

 

[Elton]

You will find some really nice people on this forum..and they have a lot of good tips etc.: for detecting..

 

[elmo49]

thanks guys , appreciate the welcome.
as far as the racer settings go just turn on, press 3 tone and take off. I'm using the standard coil for right now as we are trying to take off the first few layers of clad.
we[ wife and i ] are new to this area and still learning . although we have about 10 schools and parks that we have obtained permission to hunt . we actually are looking for old fairgrounds. but nonetheless having a ball with the clad for now.
as far as remembering my name wife uses it more than ever. at work i could get away with stuff not at home lol from time to time i do have to reduce the sensitivity in old rusty iron down to 30 helps to be more stable . our ground here is kind of clay to a clay gumbo mix.with a mild ground phase of 55-65.
i have been watching the forum for 4 months now and i know there are a lot of great people giving great advice..
Jim

 

[Monte]

When I travelled and hunted in Texas and Oklahoma, and many other Central States back in '87 to '90, we didn't have a bunch of detectors that provided a Ground Phase reference, but that didn't matter. I prefer to use models with manual Ground Balance adjustment and using a few I traveled with, it was a notable GB setting change from where I generally hunted, from NW Oregon to many ghost towns sites in Utah and Nevada. I could also tell the difference with easier ground handling in the motion-based Discriminate mode and attaining a bit more depth of detection.

Enjoy your favorable ground, time spent enjoying the hobby with your wife, and the delight of using the Makro Racer.

Monte

 

[3RINGER]

Welcome Elmo, it's a real eye opener for sure. Enjoy and keep us up to date on some great finds in the trash.

 

[elmo49]

we went to a park we obtained permission for a couple of weeks ago. just going along finding clad , up down ,up down, just pocketing the clad one after another . default settings with reduced sensitivity. we decided to break started back to the, car looked up at a sign it said [putting course] i froze. wondering did i make perfect plugs ? forgetting how pooped i was i went back and checked each one, yep did it right the first time talking about blood freezing had to be 90 degrees with 44 percent humidity. reall high chill factor lol.
well we came home with,
9 quarters
13 dimes
4nickles
35 pennys
nothing special and not one golf ball

jim

 

[Monte]

... had to be 90 degrees with 44 percent humidity. reall high chill factor lol.
well we came home with,

9 quarters
13 dimes
4nickles
35 pennys
nothing special and not one golf ball

jim

take a drive to my little town. We have had over 26 days this year of 100°+ weather, but 'fall' slipped in, or a hint of it, this past week, and today we're supposed to hit 70°, according to NOAA, or 75° according to AccuWeather, and warm to the 85°/90° range by Friday. That should be the last of our hot days for the year. We'll have a comfortable breeze at our local park and it has ample trees to shade you from a pleasant sun. I can assure you that I could go down there with my Racer and little 'OOR' coil I keep mounted full-time, and match your 62 coin count in somewhere between 1 and 2 hours. No golf balls here to be found, but with summer over and school back in session the adjacent sandy beach is also free of the summer crowds should you like a sunlit stroll.

Just trying to help you out as I know I do not like hot days, and can't tolerate them, physically, like when I was younger and healthier. I hope you be able to find more productive sites to hunt where the two of you will also have better weather. What Gain setting did you end up using? Which search mode worked best for you?

Happy Hunting!

Monte

 

[Richard@BackwoodsDetectors]

Hey, Jim to see you here.. Good to talk to you.. Richard

 

[elmo49]

Monte,
I use default settings with sens. at 30 . my mode is 3 tone. nickles here are 57-58 vdi .they are the same as the pull tabs so i end up doing a lot of digging . actually ends being about 20 to 1 ratio tabs to nickles.
what is your town ?
jim.

 

[Monte]

Monte,
I use default settings with sens. at 30.

I usually use most of the default settings, but seldom reduce the Gain. Instead, unless there are EMI issues, I often bump it to '85.'

my mode is 3 tone.

That's my choice, as well, for most of the places I hunt due to the amount of targets present, trash or keepers. I only opt for the 2-Tone when I'm in a very clean area, such as a plowed field, etc.

nickles here are 57-58 vdi .they are the same as the pull tabs so i end up doing a lot of digging . actually ends being about 20 to 1 ratio tabs to nickles.

I have recovered the US Nickel coin with Target ID numeric read-outs from '54' to '58,' but only one has registe4red '58.' Most have ben '55' to '57.'

As for Pull Tabs, it really depends on which type of "tab" you are referring to. The old "original" ring-pull tabs could vary depending upon their alloy content and if the ring portion and 'beavertail' portion were still attached or not, and if so, if they were straight out or had the 'tail' folded into the 'ring.' Typically, if the two parts were separated, the 'beavertail' would usually have a numeric read-out that ranged from a little below the US Nickel coin to similar to the Nickel, and the 'ring' portion would generally fall in a range above the Nickel coin quite a bit. Combined, they still spanned a certain range but it was often from just more than a Nickel on up the conductivity scale a ways.

Then they changed and we ended up with the very annoying rectangular-shaped Pry-Tabs found today on most beverage containers that don't have a screw-on cap. The bulk of those are made of metal alloys that have been very close in conductivity and have a Target ID numeric range that closely duplicated a Nickel to very slightly above.

In early July, however, I was detecting a few playgrounds in northern Utah with my oldest son who found a typical-looking Pry-Tab [size=small](which we still refer to as a Pull-Tab)[/size] and it has a very repeatable audio response and produces a TID numeric read-out of '82!' Yes, a spot-on '82' on the Racer and FORS CoRe, and matching readings on several competitor's models. I haven't yet figured out who's container is now providing us one yet another annoying trash target, but I kept that Pry-Tab so I can demonstrate how it seems Coin Hunters are going to have to face a new annoying piece of mimicking trash.

what is your town ?

What is my town, it is small. The last census had Arlington, Oregon at about 585 and we're likely still close to that, give or take a handful.

Where is my town, it is on the NE Oregon border along the Columbia River, so my invite still stands to come and hunt our city park, but I doubt too many readers are all that close to pay Arlington a visit.

Monte

 

[Hardrock65]

Welcome Elmo,
I have the fors core and am looking at the racer after all I'm seeing here.
HH
John

 

[elmo49]

There are a lot of good machines out . single freq. multiple freq. heavy ,light. black, white ,green,ect.
The differences are inneumerable, but i think for the money and it's ability you can't best the racer
I sold my love f 75 and t2 because racer can [in my opinion] out perform both . course i'm favored towards
the racer. because i own one,
soon to own two. so my opinion and 50 cents will still buy a cup of coffee [smallof course]


jim