Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

John-Edmonton/Uncle Willy (Bill-OR)-long question

Hi Scott. Well, while hunting in true all metal mode, the little cursor always plunks itself below the probable target icon. When it reads under the coin area, that's a hint that there could be a coin there. I just hit the discriminate button, which I have already set to zero discriminate to verify if in fact the target might be a coin. Sometimes it was just a bottle cap, but sometimes there is in fact a coin hiding down there. I also use the imaging, which gives me a pretty good idea of the size of the object, in the first 6 inches. Below that depth, the accuracy just drops off. So, I usually dig anyway.

What I noticed using the 2500 in previously hunted spots was that the machine easily locks on to coins that I have previously missed. The true all metal mode gets better depth, and this is verified in my test garden at home. It can easily give me another 3 inches on some of my targets. So, using the 2500 seems to give me an advantage over my other Garretts, in that it gets better depth in true all metal mode, and really locks on to targets. After getting a questionable target, you just switch over to discriminate mode to verify the target, or just dig it anyway. Now I have the large 12 1/2" imaging coil, and I haven't even used it yet. I think that I will use it after I have re hunted my previous locations with the stock 9 1/2" on the 2500.

There are many other bells and whistles on this machine, and some just don't give you any advantage over the other Garretts available. Treasure Talk sure is a conversation piece when I take it to work. But that true all metal mode is really working out well for me. I wish I could join you on some of your hunts. Having an old baseball diamond, golf course, store and a house all still in the family is really cool. I suspect you will become a legend to the family several generations down the road. :)

If you have any other questions, or if I missed something, just fire away......Hopefully Bill can add to this discussion, as he did the field test on this machine. It really is an under-rated machine as far as I can see.
<center>
 
John, I really appreciate the response. I can't wait to test the methodology. Probably will be at least a week from this weekend (ugh!)The attached pics show my better finds to date from the site. Not included in the photos are say 30 wheats, some Jeffersons, many bullet casings , and one ton of miscellaneous rusty iron. The oldest coins are the Indians 1882,87,07. The Liberty nickels (no date, 1904,1907) The Barber dimes 1900, 1911. And the Walker 1917. Interesting when that Walker sounded off, I thought to myself 'its just a matter of time before a 50 cent signal is real. I dug it and there that pretty baby was. Still looking for that first gold coin, seated coin and large cent. Its just a matter of time. I know they are there waiting.

I'll let you know what happens in all metal... Scott
 
That big coil will scare you when you start digging grave-size holes. :) Do you use Fast Track or manual and do you run your threshold silent or at a very slight hum?


Bill
 
John/Uncle, I forgot one other favorite find from the same site. No, this arrowhead is not metal. Instead, it was in a hole with a coin. I guess if you dig 1,000 holes in an area known formerly as Indian territory you are bound to find one. In fact, maybe I am due for a second.
 
Im fairly new here but i have an idea. go Ahead and dig up those tabs if your spending that much time there. My main spot ive hunted lately has continued to be productive because on certain days i would dig all the surface stuff and get it out of the way. DO a ten by ten spot and get all the surface junk out and youll probably find something hidden underneath.
 
Sorry been out of town. Gee I don't know the material. Quartz, slate. Will have to ask my father in law what all the old chimneys in the area are made of....
 
Sorry Jon, I've been out of town. Yet I've been in the scarp metal business for some time. You are write, if you get the time to continuously work a site, you must get rid of the interference... thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top