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Just finished my first season and I'm starting to think of things I need to learn in the Spring. Tone clues would be one of them. I have a pretty good trash to cash ratio now, so I must be paying attention to them. But I have to wonder how many good things my uneducated ear left in the ground.

While it's probably a hard thing to explain... what exactly should I be listening for?
 
In the simplest terms, that's what you should listen for. Any "Beep!" that is produced when you have your detector set for maximum performance for the site you're hunting.

Depending upon where you have the Gain set it could be a strong, saturated audio Beep!, or a comfortable Beep!, or perhaps a softer, weaker "iffy" sort of a Beep!

Depending upon the search coil used it could be a strong, saturated audio Beep!, or a comfortable Beep!, or perhaps a softer, weaker "iffy" sort of a Beep!

Depending upon the ground mineral environment you're hunting in it could be a strong, saturated audio Beep!, or a comfortable Beep!, or perhaps a softer, weaker "iffy" sort of a Beep!

In short, there are just too many variables involved for anyone to explain what YOU might ant to listen for. Some audio responses (aka 'Beep') will be very pronounced while others will be more questionable or 'iffy' in nature. If you set the discrimination as low as you can tolerate, and the rest of the settings for peak performance at any given site, the only way to best success is to follow my decades-old encouragement: "Beep-DIG!"

You can use Target ID if you want to be more restrictive in what you put an effort in to recover, but the more discrimination you use, the less sensitive you set the detector up, and the more you rely of visual and audio information to make your decision to dig or not, the fewer the good finds in the end.

Happy Hunting, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Monte
 
Thanks Monte. I think I came to that conclusion after thinking about it a little more. Knowing what "possibly" could be there (based on what you've already found in the past at any given site) would be the biggest determinant. And the only way to know what's there is "beep-dig" until I get smarter.
 
I am new at this hobby, but I can already vouch for the Beep-dig philosophy. My first good find(1888 IH) gave a wandering VDI from 0 to the 50's. Since it was only 2 inches deep I started to pass it off as trash, but thought what the heck, and dug anyway. Some other good finds have been under/near iron trash and produced funky audio and VDI readings. Unfortunately I have a bad back and still don't adhere to this philosophy as strictly as I should, but it does work.

Good luck
Kevin
 
Thanks! I think I'm back to beep-digging like I did when I first started this summer. I found a few gold rings and got probably too confident on what indications they gave me. Late in the season I was honing in on only those things that duplicated those tones and it was actually working for me. But I probably passed up twice what I found.

Sokay though... more for Spring. I'd give anything to beep-dig a hotrock right now under our 14" of snow.
 
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