Log book

[mwaynebennett]

I am going to carry a small log book with me when I go MDing. When I detect a target I want to dig, I am going to document the indicated depth and type of target indicated as well as if the tone was constant from different angles etc. prior to digging. Once I dig the target and determine how deep it was and what it was etc. I will record that info also and compare it to the original readings. The problem I have now is that when I do find a target, I too often start digging and have not associated the valuable targets with the indicated readings.

Mark
Elite 2200

 

[GoGoGopher]

Sounds like your turning your hobby into a job...When you do that, you will soon loose interest, unless this is something you REALLY want to do...I just put all my coins on my flatbed scanner after I clean em up, then I tag em with info in my photo program...All other items get recorded in a log book of sorts...date I found em, how deep, where, etc. I do not go into detail as to what they sounded like, or whatever...My suggestion to you is to still learn the detector you have, then upgrade to either a Land Star, or something like a Tesoro Compadre, or White's Classic ID or IDX Pro. The Compadre has no LCD screen, so you go purely on sound...You have to train your brain to recognise what the detector is telling you (headset is a MUST)...The last 2 have LCD readout, and tone, and with Mr. Bill's Mods, go DEEEEP, and find the good stuff...
If the logbook is something you really want to do, by all means, go for it, but I like to spend my time hunting and digging, and not writing.

Happy Huntin'

 

[mwaynebennett]

I would only record the first several dozen of dug targets. My problem is that I don't remember if copper clad coins etc always give a ping and never a honk, regardless of swing direction.

 

[GRAY GHOST]

n/t

 

[GoGoGopher]

I think you said you have a Tracker IV...If memory serves me, and it seldom does these days...lol...the Ping is for targets that should be coins, gold, or silver, and the honks are junk and iron...If you get mixed signals all the time, turn your sense down until your signals are clean when you drop a US nickle on the ground and scan it...the sound should remain constant from all directions you scan it...Just because the knob can go all the way up, does not mean that is where your detector was tuned to...My Land Star is quite happy with it's SENS only at 10 o'clock to noon...Any farther and it starts to chatter with the slightest movement of the coil...keep your DISC either all the way down and dig it all, or at about 9-10 o'clock to mask out Iron and most pull-tabs...

HH,