Lazy detecting

[jspoon]

I've been discriminating everything below 80 with my MX5 and just plucking quarters, can the fors do the same thing by eliminating everything below quarters?
Thanks HH

 

[Patrick(MI)]

I think it will if you just crank up the ID Mask to just outside the quarter range.

 

[Monte]

I've been discriminating everything below 80 with my MX5 and just plucking quarters, can the fors do the same thing by eliminating everything below quarters?
Thanks HH

I have found Quarters using the MX5, MXT Pro, Omega, F19 and many other detectors that had a lower Target ID number than a clean, in-the-air or on-the-ground response. They can off-read due to their depth and or being on a cant. They could have another coin or non-ferrous object by them, or they could have a piece of iron junk messing with their response. That's why there are still good things out there to be found, they have been masked and their resulting response could be too low or too high than normal, or could be jumpier and inconsistent.

That is true to all makes and models, but if you only want to look for likely-to-be US quarters, you can increase the ID Mask to a point just below where a quarter reads. Dig what responds as possible, but realize you're probably leaving a few keepers behind.

Monte

 

[bubbadirect]

I've been discriminating everything below 80 with my MX5 and just plucking quarters, can the fors do the same thing by eliminating everything below quarters?
Thanks HH

Jspoon, the answer is YES! See the very bottom paragraph here at http://www.detectorprospector.com/gold-prospecting-equipment/nokta-fors-gold-metal-detector.htm

 

[jspoon]

Thanks everyone,
I realize I'm missing stuff but I didn't feel like digging dimes and pennies. The MX5 seems to get just the quarters if that's what I'm only after. I'm liking these fore cores from all the videos I've been watching but here in this hard dry CO soil I don't want to be digging 10+" coins in the park. That's why I sold my sovereign GT with the sef 10x12 But I'd still like to get a nokta.
HH

 

[bubbadirect]

Jspoon, I purchased mine a month or so ago, have been coin shooting the first day for an hour, and have been out relic hunting 2 times since, for a total of about 20 hours. I dont have the knowledge of the unit like jflynn, monte, wayne_etc, keith southern, greaser, farmerstan and others.

Now that being said, I am still learning the unit, after coming from a GBPro, and a whites XLT. But what I can tell you is this. This is one amazing unit. It is more stable than the GBPro and does dances over the XLTs in iron separation. This is not an easy feat. But my CoRe and maybe a racer (as a backup unit) will be in my hunting arsenal for a long time.

Bubba

 

[bubbadirect]

Sorry jspoon. It is not the last paragraph. But the last paragraph I read. Lol. Anyway here is what he said

"...If I turn the ID Mask up to 99 nothing goes beep so the control operates over the entire discrimination range unlike many detectors that do not allow the control to run into the coin range. The ID Mask control has exceptional range all the way from ground on one end up to silver coins and above on the other end..."

 

[JFlynn]

You will actually do better not doing that. The audio is going to get skewed some, choppy a little. What is so great about these machines is they "teach" you how to metal detect. They have such a good disc circuit that once you have some hours under your belt should not dig iron at all. Superb iron disc. Everything has it's own signature, nuance sound that once learned will keep you digging just good metal targets pretty much. In fact with the preset settings you are better than most any machine you want to put it up against. In a day and age when a lot want to have every bell and whistle and be able to adjust everything just "because" it's a feature, well they are missing good stuff. These machines are finding that stuff. Audio detecting 101 is what you'll learn as the machine teaches you. TID for that check right before you dig it. When you learn the audio you'll be in another zone and the machine makes it real easy.

 

[jspoon]

Is the GB pro the gold bug your referring to?

 

[bubbadirect]

Is the GB pro the gold bug your referring to?

Yes. Sorry. Got in a hurry.

 

[Farmerstan]

To me it seems the lower I keep the aid mask the better lock I get on targets, I would not run the CoRe or any other linear disc machine with the disc that cranked, now if it was a notched system it may be different because it's still receiving the signal just not giving you audio. The reason why the CoRe is unique is the unmasking ability, but if that's your way of hunting and it's fun good for you.

 

[bubbadirect]

To me it seems the lower I keep the aid mask the better lock I get on targets, I would not run the CoRe or any other linear disc machine with the disc that cranked, now if it was a notched system it may be different because it's still receiving the signal just not giving you audio. The reason why the CoRe is unique is the unmasking ability, but if that's your way of hunting and it's fun good for you.

Hey farmerStan , I'm just wondering how you like the big coil. Anything good/bad vs the stock coil? Any nuances you can recommend? Any different settings you use with it?

I'm very curious to know your thoughts.

Thank you
Bubba.

 

[Farmerstan]

Well that Biggin has its uses and its some fairly clean areas where trash targets are kinda sparse, I'll run in DI 2, sens 77 ,mask at 10 ,tracking off. And my preference of tone at 5, the only drawbacks I see of this big ole loop is A. The size ( it's kinda tough to swing in the woods) it looks pretty comical it's so darn big

 

[bubbadirect]

Thank you farmerstan. I can't wait to try it out to see how it does with iron separation, hopefully this weekend.