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Here's my haul for today...

Patrick(MI)

Patrick(MI)

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Got out today with Cedarswamp to one of our old spots. Managed to find the old marble door knob. It was every bit of 12" down in the ground.
For those that are curious here are my settings.
Di2, 85 Sensitivity, 40 ID Mask, Ground Tracking On.
Love that ground tracking. I hunted all day yesterday without it and couldn't understand why I was digging so many bottlecaps. Turned it on today and no more bottlecaps.
Then we went to another spot and I got what sounded good and read 86 so I started digging. Down I went until I reached a bar in the bottom ot the hole that was easily 15 to 16" deep. This machine is just great.
 
Just curious. My sites are trashy so I leave tracking off.


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Well after watching the video over and over and the guy showing that ground tracking knocks out hot rocks I decided to run with it. We have a lot of hot rocks here in my area so it helps with those for sure. But I discovered one of the by products of running in that mode was that junk iron has a broken scratchy sound that I can hear while sweeping the coil. It's working for me here in Michigan but it may not work in other areas of the country. Saturday's hunt had me listening to all kinds of good sounding signals and I was digging a ton of bottle caps every time it sounded good. Plus it was giving me a display number of 83-85. It was driving me crazy. Kept thinking that's a dime, nope bottle cap. I don't want to listen and interpret a gazillion sounds so Sunday I tried with the tracking on and not a single bottle cap. I only stopped to listen when I heard that sweet sound of, "nectur", LOL.
 
Patrick(MI) said:
Well after watching the video over and over and the guy showing that ground tracking knocks out hot rocks I decided to run with it. We have a lot of hot rocks here in my area so it helps with those for sure. But I discovered one of the by products of running in that mode was that junk iron has a broken scratchy sound that I can hear while sweeping the coil....................so Sunday I tried with the tracking on and not a single bottle cap. I only stopped to listen when I heard that sweet sound of, "nectur", LOL.
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Patrick, thank you for this information! On Saturday I ran into a section of field that had quite a few hot rocks, soooooooo I will try the GB tracking "on" in this section next time!

Also, I want to hear how much different the junk iron will sound! Maybe it will help with me not digging so many "trickies"found here!

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And as to "not digging as many bottle caps with the GB tracking turned ON", I'd like to try this too in the junk laden park sites !

Thanks for the info,
Bubba
 
What I found with the ground tracking on is that hot rocks disappear very quickly with a sweep or two. Just like the guy says in the video on the CD that came with my machine. He says that they only recommend using it in all metal mode but I find that using it in either of the discrim modes makes iron targets sound scratchy. So I figured that just because they don't recommend it doesn't mean I can't try it. LOL I'm just twisted that way. LOL So I did and if they don't know about the added benefit well I do. LOL Another thing I started to do with it on was to dig everything that sounded good in two directions if the display numbers were bouncing around into good numbers. That's how I recovered that door knob. Now that is how my explorer works. So either I've stumbled onto something with the ForsCoRe or I got a mo-sheen that shouldn't have left the factory. LOL Give it a whirl.
 
Patrick! Thank you for the response. I can't wait to try it out.

You're saying that if you get a decent signal bouncing into higher numbers then you dig it? Still in using 2 tone Di2?

Thanks
Bubba
 
If it sounds good in two directions, and the numbers are high but varying, I dig it. Just like my minelab explorer. Yes I'm using Di2, 85 Sens., 40 ID Mask, tracking on.
 
Thank you Patrick! Dies the mask set at 40 muck up the iron grunt sounds, say at 10, or 17, etc? Why did you pick 40? Just curious and learning

Bubba
 
bubbadirect said:
Thank you Patrick! Dies the mask set at 40 muck up the iron grunt sounds, say at 10, or 17, etc? Why did you pick 40? Just curious and learning

Bubba
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If you run ID Mask to '40' then you haven't "mucked up" the iron grunt sounds, you have eliminated them. In DI3 the FORS CoRe becomes a 2-Tone function detector with mid-tones and high-tones because the low ferrous range is zapped. Now, if there is an iron target that would respond below a '40' Target ID and it is either too larger and/or too close to the search coil, you will still hear the Saturation or Overload audio response, but if you lift the coil away to defeat the Overload audio, the rejected target will then be just that ... rejected.

That's why I personally work at '10' most of the time, or '23' to just barely reject iron nails, but not higher unless a site is absolutely annoying. Just remember that some iron/ferrous based targets, due to their shape, can respond with a higher Target ID number, if swept with the center-axis of the search coil.

Monte
 
I run the ID Mask at 40 because I've yet to dig anything good below the 40's. So why would I want to listen to that noise. I'm a coin hunter not a relic collector so I only want to hear coins. Maybe you're a different type of hunter and you want to listen to all the stuff I consider junk. Go ahead. Don't forget I'm just getting to know this machine and am by no means an expert on all of it's functions. Monte likes to run his ID Mask lower and that works for him. It's just too busy for me.
 
Patrick I just made ya a video of why Robert is kicking it lol. A video of why you really don't want to run that disc that high and it'll be loaded within the hour and I'll post it for ya. Ole time metal detecting like Robert is doing and listening to most all of it and picking what you want to dig. I'd say you might be cutting your conductive finds by at least 50%. You should be slaughtering Robby boy! :starwars:
 
I love this site and learning so much, from so many users. Thank you all! :clapping:
 
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Patrick(MI) said:
I run the ID Mask at 40 because I've yet to dig anything good below the 40's. So why would I want to listen to that noise. I'm a coin hunter not a relic collector so I only want to hear coins. Maybe you're a different type of hunter and you want to listen to all the stuff I consider junk. Go ahead. Don't forget I'm just getting to know this machine and am by no means an expert on all of it's functions. Monte likes to run his ID Mask lower and that works for him. It's just too busy for me.
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Very true. Higher ID mask will quieten your machine down, but at 40 your machine will not unmask good nonferrous targets as well-the ones in close proximity to iron are the most vulnerable to be missed. It's all in how the CoRe unit is designed and set up. As long as you are aware it's your choice. Just don't be surprised if someone hunts behind you and pulls some goodies.
 
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