Just got an ID Excel

[VaBill]

Any tips? Will Fisher be coming out with more coils soon? It did good today in a trial run, 3 gardners, tommorrow its goin to a CS camp.

 

[Bill Ladd]

a couple quick tips for relics would be to run your sensitivity up as high as you can in your soil. If it's not too mineralized, you can run it stable at 8 or 9 for relics like you describe. If your using disc mode, a great tip would be to turn down your disc dial to -36. This gives you almost like an all-metal mode with an addtional 4 tone ID to work with. IF you don't like hearing all the iron "grunts" in a trashy campsite, then put disc back up to 00. Then iron will be silenced, & you'll just hear all + conductive items.....
good luck,
Bill

 

[VaBill]

Thanks BIll, I have the sensitivity turned up all the way and running the Disc on 4. Got skunked in a CS camp today, it preformed weel just no good stuff.

 

[Tony (NC)]

What part of VA Bill?

 

[Bill Ladd]

Tony & I know about how hard it is to find stuff in those camps that have been pounded for 40 years Especially behind Mr. Coopers place right Tony?

 

[VaBill]

Well Im still happy with the 3 Gardners from Thursday. Dont think Im goin out this after noon. LONG night and a early morning, I feel like a nap now.

 

[Tony (NC)]

That's 3 more Gardners than the rest of us got Thursday!

 

[VaBill]

The catch......between the "different" pinpointing system, semi drought, and not having my usual pick (my back-up SUCKS!) I scratched all 3.

 

[VaBill]

Didnt take my nap. Hunted here on the farm a bit, 2 hrs mabey, found a brass toe tap. So I didnt get skunked.

 

[brickdaddy]

has been ok. I have been digging pretty much all the targets that I can to try to learn what the machine is telling me. I have never repeat NEVER dug a keeper that bounces from + to - and back and forth , it has always been trash. Also, I have never dug a keeper that bounces from one extreme side of the positive scale to the other, ie. + 14 to +33 to +09 to +22 and so on they have always been trashy signals, rusty iron bottlecaps and so on. Coin numbers stay real tight together. Maybe the other excel users can weigh in on this. But I am confused on why the excels are such poor airtesters I have a Bounty Hunter that kicks its butt in airtests but it can't find a dime at 4 inches.The excel can. The air offers the least resistance of all ? I just don't get it.

 

[VaBill]

And thats why I dont air test...I read up on the Excel and I know what people are digging and at what depth. I dont need a air test to disapoint me or to get my hopes up. I took it strait to the field.

 

[brickdaddy]

maybe someone can weigh in on them and clarify a few things. I don't mean to be cynical but here is my reasoning and please correct me because I am just probably not understanding this right. If a metal detector airtests a coin to say 6 inches isn't that a best case scenario? There's no mineralization nothing to read thru except air. Then with the soil matrix say the same detector now with " stuff" in the way will only find a buried test coin at 5 inches. The soil clearly inhibits the detection field. So that to me seems to be a one way street. Please, how can a machine airtest a coin to a certain extent and then find a deeper coin in the soil matrix. Deeper than its airtest? I am clearly not getting it. Thanks I am looking forward to some clarification.

PS I do love my excel!

 

[BarnacleBill]

I have a CZ20 that with 8" coil will read most coins at say 9 to 10 inches air test. Yet on a saltwater beach w/ black sand, I can pull coins at 20+ inches. There are several brands & models that are noted for air testing terribly, but in certain soils/sands, magic happens.

HH
BarnacleBill