My Discrimination Experiences With The Infinium...Any One Else Have Any More Tips To Add?

[John-Edmonton]

- As a general rule....gold = Hi-Low signal, silver & copper = Low-Hi signal and iron reads both, so you need to utilize the iron check

- Use the reverse discrimination...If there is a change in tone, dig it. If there is no change in tone, it's usually iron

- Just searching for gold? Just dig Hi-Low signals

- Looking for silver and copper coins or rings? Just dig Low-Hi signals

- Bobby pins/ straight nails give a distinct double bleep, especially in certain directions over the targets.

- A long drawn out audio duration from going over a target means that it is a large target like a tin can.....just leave it!

- Gold rings tend to give a more softer sound (high-low) compared with bottle caps, which really like to scream at you due to all those extra eddies formed from the uneven ridges

- Increasing the thresh-hold gives you even more depth

- dig those targets giving an echo, as they can be two coins close to each other, a bi-metal coin, a large copper or silver coin or as I recently discovered, a ring made up of two different metals. In my case, it was a stainless steel ring with a gold band around it.

 

[metalhead]

Nice ring! Congrats!Well said. I couldn't agree more. You should write like Uncle Willy did!Thanks for sharing!Happy Hunting!

 

[bearkat4160]

Right on tips there John....I have notice the exact same with my Infinium. I did a test the other day in the field with threshold settings after I dug a .22 bullet at 5 inches with nice smooth signal, hoping it was a nugget. At 4 threshold was ok signal still would have dug it...but I didnt hear it at 3 threshold. At 6 it was nice and loud. My standard setting is 5. At 8 (max) it was a screamer. Therefore as John said...you will get more depth with higher threshold. My take on it is that is is also a sensitivity adjustment also which I mentioned on another Infinium forum months ago after realizing this on a prospecting trip.

Infinium rocks!... My main coil lately is the 10x14 mono. Nice and light, covers alot of ground and is deep. Not as sensitive as the 8" mono, but almost. Going to the motherload in californa for nugget hunt trip tommorrow with a fellow hunter. Hope it goes well.

Alan

 

[Goldringer]

Take some photos and let us know how the hunt goes. I would like to know where to hunt for nuggets in Northern CA.

Ken

 

[John-Edmonton]

Good luck!