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Hunting Trashy Area's

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RONMETZGER

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Hello all, this past weekend I was hunting a trashy park in upstate NY, and I was able to pull a 1932 Wheatie and a 1951 Rosie, also about 50 or so pull tabs (hoping for a ring). I was using the stock setting on coin mode with the RX 7 and Disc. 75. This was the second time using my new 5.3 coil ( the first time I pulled a1902 Barber Half and 5 inches. I guess the question is, should I be using or adjusting any other of my settings? The ground is pretty good, I never hit and hot rocks or get ant false readings. I still have much more of this park to hunt and I want to be sure that I am using the correct settings. This forum helps me out alot and I believe most of the V3 users are more advanced than myself, but I'm learning. Working on posting pictures of my recent finds. Any advice on hunting this trashy park would be appreciated.

Ron in Henrietta NY
 
What do you have your recovery speed at? If its really trashy, I would use between 40 and 60 depending on the trash.
 
Work..very SLOWLY! (I use the 5.3 in very trashy parks) I can tell you that for me the slower I work the better my finds become. The 5.3 has great separation due to it's size and pinpoints extremely accurately. I would also recommend you put a few targets on the ground and see how the coil separates between them. I've found this a good way to learn and visualize what's happening under the ground. I tend to use a recovery around 100 even though it's trashy, by working slowly you enhance your separation of targets by listening to when you hit good vs bad stuff. And I dig ALL the iffy targets. In my experience the iffy targets are items that are to close to separate, hence diggable.
 
Thanks Magic for the reply. What will I notice different when I set the recovery speed between 40 and 60? I am charging the battery now and I am not sure what the stock recovery speed was set at. Will changing frequency's help at all?
 
I use 3 Freq myself, TX on sometimes. I also max the RX as long as the coil is stable, and not overloading. Play with recovery..and see what works best for you. But the thing that worked best for me.. was go SLOWLY. (swing the coil very slowly) I do one step, pause..as I swing...maybe even swing twice slowly then one step. Trashy area's are not speed areas.. you'll uncover targets that you will be shocked you found..with the 5.3.
 
As Magic said, lower your recovery delay. In trash by using a faster recovery you have less masking and better separation. RD=40-45 emulates DFX target processing. 35 - 40 emulate the MXT. I'd keep the RX down 5-7 but I don't know why the the sensitivity can't be raised. In this stage of hunting the trash until you clean out some of the surface trash, depth isn't the priority.[attachment 162471 Reading.gif].........Rob
 
Until you get used to your V3, you might want to try the High Trash program. Recovery Delay is already set at 40 and most of the trash has been discriminated out for you leaving most of the coins open. BUT, in that discrimination pattern, you will lose most jewelry and the Indian Head and wheat cents targets. Small gold rings and nickels will still come in for you.
 
Great advice everyone. One thing you can also do is find a good signal and play with recovery delay,lower it and raise it over the target and see how it reacts. I was running my 5.3 with rd. set at 45 and hit a nice 36 merc. but the vdi was very jumpy it would go from high fiftys up into the low eighties but, it had a good tone. I'm wondering if it was because my rd. was set so low? Did not thjink of it on site or I would have played with rd. over that target. Also in high trash program you could change discrimination to except indian heads and wheats if you wanted. Thanks all
 
Thanks to everyone on the excellent advice. I will try all options (slower swing speed, recovery, RX...) and see what works best for the park. Watch for upcoming photo's of my finds. Its been a great
spring for silver finds in Rochester NY with the V3.
 
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