Mike or Dave J. Goldbug SE cold rock trouble

[Detectorguru]

I hunted a site in Culpeper Va. that was loaded with cold rock. In addition the ground balance and phase was up as high as 98 and the ferrous bar was maxed out. I was unable to use the detector in the all metal mode because of the constant boing of the cold rock. Without a non motion based all metal metal mode how can future models be improved? I have never hunted in Arizona but this would be problematic digging in areas with both conditions present. George Kinsey

 

[Jackpine Savage]

George I have been running into a lot of them lately on northern Lake Michigan beaches. The recent wind storms and high surf re-arranged things to where they are everywhere. Even the Omega is hitting on them constantly where in the past they were not a problem. Fortunately they are mostly coming in around the mid 80's and since the sand balances out at around 70 I have room to adjust.

Today I decided to run the G2 wide open at max sensitivity and rather than balance them out I turned the threshold down to silent (-3 to 0) which got rid of the deeper ones. Some times you have to sacrifice a little performance to make hunting possible. No gold today but the depth was still very impressive, hit a tiny kids ring about as thick as 14 ga. wire at a depth that surprised the heck out of me. The Omega kicks the G2's butt at ID'ing some of the deeper iron but when it comes to sensitivity / depth on the low to mid conductors there's no comparison.

Tom