How deep the Quattro??

[budsmith]

I have my test garden , coins at 2, 4 6 inches deep....I get good strong readings at two and four inches but at the 6 inches I start to get iffy signals and dont think I can get a signal any deeper than 7 inches....Even in pin point or all metal 7 inches is iffy and readings may change...This is in regular soil, not sand.... What do you think about the depth you get///???

 

[Black Davy]

Two weeks ago I was hunting the public swimming hole at the old third beach that is all grass, I took out a 1953 nickle at 8" all the coins I dug in this location were at least 6" deep theay must be the ones that the less powerfull units were missing as this area gets a lot of hunting.

 

[Golden]

I've dug large flat bed sinkers in sand at over 24 inches deep, and old goldfield relics like door knobs, lantern parts, etc at over 14 inches in heavy iron infested or mineralized ground. Particularly you need lots of experience to pick out targets in harder ground due to the iffy and unstable signals. With lots of practice and patience it pays off. You'll get an idea of what you're listening to/for and better understand what to expect. In my opinion, hunting in All Metal Mode is the best way to learn to read what your detector is telling you. Also wondering: what do you mean by regular soil? Is it black, red, brown? Do you have any type of minerals in the soil? Are you detecting close to power lines, on a windy day and is your coil clean between it and the coil cover, if you're using one at all? I don't think any one can say what depth you should be picking out targets at. It all depends on you and what settings you're using, and how well you know you're detector. By the way, on-end targets will give iffy signal, or you may get a signal coming at it from one direction, but not another. This can produce some of your iffy signals. Golden

 

[Mark in Alabama]

Like a tiny little copper zipper part I dug at 8 or 9 inches! it was just the little pull flap not the whole zipper! you can read my post titled "tested the Quattro out today" from a while back. I think the soil in natural condition with a coin lost years ago with metal corrosion which "bleeds" into the soil surrounding the coin and all kinds of different conditions make the depth go way up on the Quattro and the other multi frequency Minelabs too. I know when I got a Minelab Sovereign in 2001 I was not impressed with its depth when the salesman did a demo, but once I dug an 1840 seated liberty Quarter at 12 inches on my third day out with it I knew it was a super deep machine and I knew Minelab had created something special with their multiple frequencies. I could get real technical with the soil and different conditions that can make your detector pick up those deep coins and such but it would take a while. You can read lots of info online that is very detailed. I learned a lot from people on the forums. If anyone wants to discuss this further I have my own in-depth ideas on how you find very deep items using multi frequency Minelabs. There are many different things that factor in, but in short, the older the item is and has been exposed to the elements and in naturally packed soil the better the signal you will get, and better depth. That means Minelabs love old deep objects lost and buried long ago

 

[budsmith]

well, thanks for your replys..I have my garden in the woods with regular brown soil...The coins have been buried for about three months..I have checked it with different sen settings and in all modes...Does anyone else have a test garden and how deep are the coins buried??? I am beginning to get the drift of the quattro and getting better with it...Does anyone have a problem with the glare of the readout?? somestimes its hard to see...It could use a backlight....Bud

 

[backslyder]

I'd certainly concur with all the above responses on this post, and I'd certainly check all your settings, maybe even run the sensitivity on manual if you can get away with it, but also on the glare thing, I didn't know if you know you can set the intensity or whatever you call it of the numeric readouts in your menu. Also, on this whole thing, I'm thoroughly convinced that the longer the coins are in the ground and the bigger they are, and the wetter the ground, the deeper you can find them. That's my feeling on it, at least. Marc.

 

[Wirechief]

Just my 2 cents worth but I know the Quattro if used properly can do 12" easily. You just have to go slower and work the machine.

John Tomlinson,CET
John's Detectors

 

[backslyder]

One more kind of "adjunct" to all this is, I was reading a Charles Garret book on detecting some time back, and he talked about a kind of "aura" that can develop around coins or objects that are buried for a longer period of time. Something about the metal or minerals or something kind of seeping out around the object that allows the "treasure hunter" to detect the object at a deeper rating because your not just detecting the object, but your detecting the edge of the aura of the object. I know this may sound like "star wars", but I think it's true, and therefore, the longer the object is buried, the deeper you could find it. I know without a doubt that I found a penny one time in damp salt water, beach sand at the beach at about 12 inches deep, but when I buried a penny in dry beach sand and tried to find it, I started losing the signal at about 7 or 8 inches or maybe even less. I'm pretty convinced that moisture and length of time the object is buried has a great deal to do with more depth ability. Marc.