Hunting with discrimination

[BarberBill]

This thought/suggestion applies mainly to those that typically hunt with a fair bit of discrimination tuned in. I have gotten in the habit of using little or no discrimination until I hit a target. Then I turn the disc. knob up to see where the tone crackles and falls off. I've marked where the different targets fall off, nickel, tab, zinc penny, clad and silver etc. Hunting with this method helps assure that you don't swing right over a small bit of jewelry etc. and not hear a response at all.
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[Dan-Pa.]

Its called thumbing and takes a lot of patience and time..Might look into a more expensive unit with a notch, VDI number, tone ID etc. to make your hunting trips more pleasurable and perhaps more goodies in the pouch. Metal detecting is certainly hard work and personally would upgrade depending on your financial situation..

 

[Elton]

Your both right of course, and I would agree with both.. I think it's more of how you want to do it. What you like, what you have perfected in detecting know how.. Just goes to show there are many ways to enjoy our great hobby..and get good results.. Thanks Guys for your very sound advice, and oh so much knowledge between the two of you. BarberBill, I used a Fisher 1266 for many years and did just as you suggested. Saved me digging lots of junk, yet still insured I would not lose good targets.. Dan, I have used notch machines Minelab SOV-XS BBS.and that notch worked perfect..Took out the most saturated junk items where I was detecting..yet let me hear the other targets.. Again, thanks guys for your great knowledge and proved "KNOW HOW"...

 

[Sven]

I have been using an older D-tex unit and hunt mainly in VLF (all metal) non-motion mode. Then switching over to TR/disc. for a quick check. Disc. is set low that I still pick up
small foil. But, have found that if I get a loud signal in VLF and switch to disc, if the signal drops off really quiet, it's foil everytime. If the signal sounds more defined and half as loud then it's usually a good target. I found I can disc. out bottle caps (most of them) so they are silent or just crackle and still find the Canadian clad coins, found a US quarter and a Kennedy half last time out. I can get a good feel what's under the coil now in VLF when coinshooting in schoolyards without going into disc. mode all the time. The nice thing I found is that
I have the option of using a slow or fast automatic mode, which is really nice when using TR/Disc mode. Almost like using a modern motion machine.

Modern machines I had when running disc. mode, would usually set my disc. just to knock out small rusty nails. And dug the rest. Unless the foil became unbearable.

 

[BarberBill]

I've got two TID machines, but I find I have to watch myself to not get lazy and let the ID convince me not to dig the "iffy" targets that fairly often turn out to be goodies.
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[Ron from Michigan]

Bill,I agree too much cherry picking with the TDI machines make us lazy and less gold.The only way to increase gold finds is the old fashion way dig lots of aluminium.I have a Classic lll for my basic hunting.More gold finds is my new priority,but when in the field old habits are hard to break..