Need advise

[JC99328]

I'm new with this machine (one week) and need some advise on settings and what I'm reading. I've read this forum a lot!! I'm playing with settings and running the dials generally lower than the "triangles" as the owner manual suggests (on coins setting). So far my digging has been camp grounds..trash up the shorts, and one time a kids fishing pond that was shut down, also a fair amount of trash. I haven't been able to really get into a good, clean area like an old home site (one upcoming however). I know a home site is not "clean" but this one should be as it's a long gone house way out in the boonies.

Here's what I'm finding: When I get a good hit, high tone, and I stick my propointer in there, if it's a wide (3-4" pull tabs, some times huge, 8-10" as in cans) hit with the propointer it's been aluminum, pull tabs usually. Is this a reliable way to do things?? Should I be digging these? So far, it's been a pretty reliable way to determine junk.... However.. I did dig some like that and got a penny and an aluminum face plate off of?? A problem with that was that I did not note the setting at the time. When I've gotten a tight hit with the propointer, I'm finding coins, brass (shells), buttons or other more desirable things. This is only as good as the propointer for depth after pointing it with the machine. I've dug a few before the small pointer will read.

I'm open to any suggestions as I'm really green with this machine.

 

[John (Ma)]

Those are hard targets to ignore and tough areas to hunt. Remembering numbers will help and come with time. Though, what may seem like trash and be tiring, can sometimes be good. Only experience, patience and yes some trash will help find more of the good stuff. You have an excellent detector that you cannot learn in a week.

 

[PSS1963]

I can't claim to be an expert with this machine, but here's what I do . . . in trashy sites (which is most of them) that tend to be wall-to-wall iron, I first of all run a very small concentric coil in order to get good separation - the 5.3 Eclipse is hard to beat for the MXT in challenging conditions. I use 0 discrimination and the maximum gain setting I can get. I haven't had much issue with EMI so this is usually maxed out. Ground balance on clean ground then lock it! I run in "relic" mode for quieter threshold and have it set to 7-tone. Take advantage of that cool software "bug" to do this. Set 7-tone while in "C&J" mode then switch the toggle to "relic". The "high" tones will be obvious but it may take some training to hear the "mid" tones so refer to the VDI to get a feel for it.

YMMV

-pete

 

[JC99328]

I can't claim to be an expert with this machine, but here's what I do . . . in trashy sites (which is most of them) that tend to be wall-to-wall iron, I first of all run a very small concentric coil in order to get good separation - the 5.3 Eclipse is hard to beat for the MXT in challenging conditions. I use 0 discrimination and the maximum gain setting I can get. I haven't had much issue with EMI so this is usually maxed out. Ground balance on clean ground then lock it! I run in "relic" mode for quieter threshold and have it set to 7-tone. Take advantage of that cool software "bug" to do this. Set 7-tone while in "C&J" mode then switch the toggle to "relic". The "high" tones will be obvious but it may take some training to hear the "mid" tones so refer to the VDI to get a feel for it.

YMMV

-pete

I will give that a try. I did run the 5.3 coil for a while when I was at the kid's pond site. It wasn't all that trashy and I went back to the big coil so I could cover more ground. I have another old house site that I will use the 5.3 on as it had tons of nails. I found 2 neat military buttons there and want to give it another run. That house was the first time I'd used the new machine and I'm getting better with it. I have used the ground lock and that helped as did cutting down the discrimination.

I've only got about 12-15 hours on it and after another few sites and another 20-30 hours it should start coming together for me. I have good site coming up when I get time and that one will help the learning curve a lot. The machine also came with a 14"DD eclipse which I haven't even tried yet.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Your main Adjective is Finding Jewelry, Then you Must dig all Repeatable Signals above Iron, Including Pull Tabs, Can Slaw
Sports drink tops, Tin Foil, Zinc Pennies, Hot wheel cars, Car Keys, 22 Cal Bullet casings, No two ways around it

Hunt in area's known to have lost jewelry, like active sports fields & ToT Lots . Don't care for Jewelry, just coins, then turn your Discriminator up, dig high tones..........Good luck H&H

 

[JC99328]

I put 3 hrs on it last night and dug over 25lbs of steel...not a single pull tab or can!!! None are on this old home site...but steel!!!! everywhere!!! This was a homesite that had several building that burned in a wheat fire many yrs ago. Some large iron and a lot of nails. The only things I found that weren't steel was a salt shaker lid and a whatzit (post up on the whatzit forum).

OK, now to the real deal. I stopped at the farmers house (property owner) and showed him the trash removal service that I did Now, he mentioned that he lost his wedding ring..... 50 yrs ago!!! BUT he said he could put me within 100' of where he lost it!! It's in a wheat field and he's going to flag the area. I have the next 25-30 days to find it and then the field will be worked again. If I can find this, I would be over the top!!

What settings would you think would give me the best chance?? I have the std MXT PRO DD and I also have a 14" eclipse coil I've never used. The good, there should be NO trash on the site, middle of a field. The bad, it had 50 yrs to go deep. That field has been plowed many times. I plan on getting flags and laying out a grid and going for it!!

 

[JC99328]

n/t

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Gold ring will come in low VDI numbers so likely dig all the junk/trash signals.
With the soil having been turned some that will be another challenge.

 

[Fletch88]

I would just hunt in 2 tone Relic mode with disc at 2-3. That setting will make everything above small iron a high tone. Relic mode is a tad deeper and has much smoother threshold to listen to for deeper targets.

 

[JC99328]

I would just hunt in 2 tone Relic mode with disc at 2-3. That setting will make everything above small iron a high tone. Relic mode is a tad deeper and has much smoother threshold to listen to for deeper targets.

I will be doing some air testing tonight with different coils. I'll compare that with what I tried last night.
Thanks
Jim