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I took the explorer to the beach today and programmed it with the beach program from the book
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Help a newbie ( 12 hours behind the controls!) two questions (long)
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Let me start off and say I'm not expert and will pass what little I feel comfortable passing on =)) Hey Mike I will pass on what I have heard Air testing is fine but A really worn silver coin will sound different that one that is in good shape, Nothing is better than just getting out there and swinging that coil and digging a few hundred targets and paying attention to what it did sound like "meaning how full the sound was or was it a short cut off sound ect ect" and what you ended up with =))) Your best teacher is experience "hands on training" Just pick an easy area first like your local grade school and dig all the coins in that mulch it's easy digging and will make it easy on you at first while you learn how to pin point and just learn what a good coin sounds like!
As far as using it at the beach I have an Excalibur for that type of hunting. So I can not help you there. You should look through these old posts and you will find most of what your looking for. I know I have seen allot of post that deal with what your asking but don't have the time to go back and look for that post =(( So if you get some free time that's what you should do after you go out and spend some quality time with that machine =)))))) I hope that helped a little bit I know what it's like to put up a question and no one answers it so I thought I would at least give you some stuff to think about...
HH Mike
As far as using it at the beach I have an Excalibur for that type of hunting. So I can not help you there. You should look through these old posts and you will find most of what your looking for. I know I have seen allot of post that deal with what your asking but don't have the time to go back and look for that post =(( So if you get some free time that's what you should do after you go out and spend some quality time with that machine =)))))) I hope that helped a little bit I know what it's like to put up a question and no one answers it so I thought I would at least give you some stuff to think about...
HH Mike
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Tam;
I've been using my explorer for 7 months now have dug 1400 clads, 30 wheats, 10 silver and 9 rings
Have been on the beach several times with the explorer. Gold especially fine rings will come in right where the foil is. If you expect to ever find a womans diamond ring you will dig buckets of foil and pop tops.
As far as the other goes it is a great idea just recognize that a halo will change the sound and cursor position of the items.
Experience is the best teacher. Some of us can key in on pitch and some can't. you know someone that is "tone deaf" someone like that will have a very bad time learning the Explorer.
Best of luck with your hunts
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Rick (TN)
I've been using my explorer for 7 months now have dug 1400 clads, 30 wheats, 10 silver and 9 rings
Have been on the beach several times with the explorer. Gold especially fine rings will come in right where the foil is. If you expect to ever find a womans diamond ring you will dig buckets of foil and pop tops.
As far as the other goes it is a great idea just recognize that a halo will change the sound and cursor position of the items.
Experience is the best teacher. Some of us can key in on pitch and some can't. you know someone that is "tone deaf" someone like that will have a very bad time learning the Explorer.
Best of luck with your hunts
Think GOLD <IMG SRC="/forums/images/biggrin.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="
">Rick (TN)
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I know what you mean about the tone deaf. I hunt with a guy that gets all sorts of indian heads but has trouble picking out the silvers. it has been aproblem for him. This year the thoght is to try new head phones and wath the curser more closely.
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Re the first issue ... if you're going after jewelry the less discrimination you use the better. Your practice of digging just about everything on the beach is a good one if you're serious about getting jewelry. Not sure exactly what program you used from the book ... it did give some examples where you might use disc in special cases but usually on the beach the less disc the better. So if you were using good search practices, such as, hunting slowly and with good focus, etc and you didn't get jewelry then your coil probably didn't pass over it or it was too deep 8^P.
As for the second issue ... the more experience you have with your detector's response to targets, their sounds, etc the better your hunting will be. However, any target identification system (audio or visual) is designed primarily for simple, straight forward situations. For example, they are calibrated for standard targets (ie coins, etc), which are more or less alone under the coil, and so forth. As soon as you get into the real world and have varying minerlization, more than one target which may be a combination of good and/or bad targets, etc, etc. you should use these features cautiously.
While the sophisicated systems of ID used in modern detectors can be very useful, you shouldn't follow them blindly. I find I tend to use them in special cases (ie when I have limited hunt time, or am tired and losing my focus, etc) rather than as a means of deciding to dig, or not dig, every target. When the response is a real good one, obviously I'm not going to ignore it ;^), if it's a real bad one I probably will ignore it, but if it somewhere inbetween, then other factors come into play (type of sound - smooth better than ragged, depth - deeper than normal may be good, past experience show the site has old targets, etc). I guess what I'm trying to say is to be careful and just don't blindly follow the meter and/or audio ID 8^).
HH ... Gord.
As for the second issue ... the more experience you have with your detector's response to targets, their sounds, etc the better your hunting will be. However, any target identification system (audio or visual) is designed primarily for simple, straight forward situations. For example, they are calibrated for standard targets (ie coins, etc), which are more or less alone under the coil, and so forth. As soon as you get into the real world and have varying minerlization, more than one target which may be a combination of good and/or bad targets, etc, etc. you should use these features cautiously.
While the sophisicated systems of ID used in modern detectors can be very useful, you shouldn't follow them blindly. I find I tend to use them in special cases (ie when I have limited hunt time, or am tired and losing my focus, etc) rather than as a means of deciding to dig, or not dig, every target. When the response is a real good one, obviously I'm not going to ignore it ;^), if it's a real bad one I probably will ignore it, but if it somewhere inbetween, then other factors come into play (type of sound - smooth better than ragged, depth - deeper than normal may be good, past experience show the site has old targets, etc). I guess what I'm trying to say is to be careful and just don't blindly follow the meter and/or audio ID 8^).
HH ... Gord.
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Tam;
Sorry for the mess that one person started.
Hope you have been able to sort the wheat (wheaties) from the chaf (pulltabs). Please feel free to ask any questions you may have and the rest of us will try our best to help you.
We all love the hobby and want to be supportive of newcomers.
Rick (TN)
Sorry for the mess that one person started.
Hope you have been able to sort the wheat (wheaties) from the chaf (pulltabs). Please feel free to ask any questions you may have and the rest of us will try our best to help you.
We all love the hobby and want to be supportive of newcomers.
Rick (TN)