Hiding under a (mineralized) rock....Silver Vs. Gold

[Darkflight]

Just as a test I used one of the hot rocks I dug from my lawn to hide a ring behind & do an air test. I use a Tesoro Silver & have a very rocky beach to search.

Since I had some iffy signals get better after moving some rocks.I figured there might be some masking going on.

Most of the rock around here is basalt. I'm not sure what the hot rock I dug up was but I assume basalt. The beach is full of rocks in the small fist on down size.I asume a ring could get under one & shifted down under a few for that matter.

So back to the air / rock test.
I hid a silver mans ring behind the rock & got almost no degradation in signal.

The gold ring-thin mans wedding 10K-was an entirely diffrent story.It was almost complete null with a few pops. I tested my X2 & it was almost silent.

But on both units-all metal hit the target hard. I guess Y'all know where I'm going with this...I guess I'm an all metal user at this spot & will go by target size. I hope it works as I can only assume I have been missing possible targets.

I'm a Tesoro fan. Should I get a widescan so I can still null the local scrap iron?. Or will it be a similar situation due to the local volcanic rock.

Are other machines that much better for a under the rock target?.
Thanks!
Carl.

 

[Monte]

This does not apply only to certain "hot rocks" but it can be ANY rock or even a good Dirt Clod, or perhaps some nasty pea gravel, or smaller rocks, or nasty dark, black mineralized beach sand like we have on the two major rivers that intersect Portland, Oregon. I've done well, better than many/most on some of those challenging beaches, and when working renovation sites with rocks and dense dirt clods, or other 'chunks' because I opt to hunt so that I accept all metals. No, that doesn't mean in a true, Threshold-based All Metal mode, but with a model that allows full acceptance in the motion Discriminate mode. Models like the White's MXT or M6 or XL Pro or IDX Pro or Classic III SL, or maybe a Tesoro Eldorado (