Hunting In Iron

[dgc]

New AT Pro owner. Had an hour of daylight when I got home from work and took it out for the first time. I was hunting an iron laden site that has lots of nails and other pieces of iron. I have watched several videos of the AT Pro working in iron and was impressed with the low amount of iron falsing. That wasn't my experience today. I seemed to be getting a lot of falsing off of iron nails and other pieces of iron. Many of the falses sounded pretty sweet and were what I would call repeatable signals. I was hunting in Pro mode with no iron discrimination so I could hear everything. Sensitivity was 2 bars below max. 95% of the iron falses were mid tones. I dig a lot of mid tones in search of buttons and other low conductors so the falses will be especially bothersome if I can't find a solution. I know one hour with the detector isn't nearly enough to learn its characteristics, but I would appreciate any advice on minimizing iron falses that would shorten my learning curve.

Great forum here. Thanks in advance for replies.

 

[ML]

Try turning down your sens a few notches. It helped me.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Back down on the Sens. about 4 bars should do it. Iron audio off. Play with the Iron disc. Start out at 35, back it down till it get's too noisy. Go slow!! It takes some time to get used to what the AT is telling you. It will pick out the goodies if you don't try to over amp it. When you find a sweet sounding target, flip the iron audio on. If you hear a low grunt on both sides of that sweet sound, it's probably iron. You'll have to dig some till you learn what it is you're really hearing.