Need help with trashy sites

[Anonymous]

I am detecting at an old school and there seems to be targets about every 6-10 inches at this site. The audio sounds like a church organ and the cross hairs are bouncing everywhere. I know that there must be some coins there, but I am having a difficult time since the site seems so trashy. I am using the 10.5 inch coil, running the factory preset program in discrimination mode, sensitivity at 21 manual. Any advice on better settings to use at these types of sites would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Anonymous]

While a smaller coil would help, targets at 6 -10 inches apart aren't too bad ... just slow your swing way down. With the double-D coil you should be able to work targets with that kind of separation.
You might also want to turn your sensitivity down (try to do it in steps from 20 to 10 or so and see what works best). Also make sure it's in fast recovery mode. They say Audio 1 to 3 response is good in trash but so far I agree with Jim Yates that I seem to do better in the normal response mode.
Could go to an extreme disc pattern, such as, only the upper right-hand corner clear if you're hunting for coins. This can help in ground that's so trashy that it's hard to tolerate otherwise. It's not ideal but it does work.
That's about it just off the top of my head.
HH ... Gord.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Gord, if Curtis is hunting in an area that has a lot of trash and had only the upper right section of the screen clear, he would be hunting in the null most of the time.
The reason I bring this up is, I am having a heck of a time with a park that has a lot of ferrous trash. I can't move my coil a fraction of an inch without nulling.
I think I have tried almost everything with the 10 1/2" and the X-8, as far as settings go and swinging the coil slow but still no luck. I can't seem to find a thing while in the null at this park.
I opened the iron mask to -16 and the crosshairs peg out in the upper left section of the screen. I may need to dig some of trash to find out what it is.
I know this may not help Curtis but I thought it deserved mentioning here.
Val

 

[Anonymous]

Curtis,
With this many targets it is confusing isnt it?? well first thing I do is forget looking at the crosshairs and consentrate on the good high pitched signals that will repeat, and then look at the crosshairs after you know you have a solid high pitched tone of a good coin.
In some of these areas that is littered with pulltabs and other junk, I will set up a program for my coins so I dont have to listen to all of the tones, but you should go slower, run fast response and maybe lower the sensitivity.Now if it is iron that is giving you all the problems than I run iron mask at a -8 and still go slow and listen for the hight pitched repeatable signals that you can get more than from one direction before you look at the crosshair and dont always beleive the crosshairs as the tone is more accruate if the target is repeatable from more than one direction and dont move.
Good luck and have some patience with this detector.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

idea.I usually run an old coins program.Going slow usually with intermittent threshold,sens 22 to 25 manual,Drop down to ironmask to check hits that come thru.If tone stays the same in audio 1,I dig it..Still get copper trash,zinc jar lids(no caches yet)and no telling what I miss,but its quieter.I scanned mine in with the midsize cursor.Doing the same with the large would open this program up considerably.If you go slow and check out any high pitched hits by circling the target in ironmask,I dont feel you will miss a lot.Kinda new at this but thats my view on trashy areas...cs

 

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty new to the explorer but I've found lowering the gain way down (sometimes even to 1) helps me get through trashy areas. (I leave sensitivy at 22-25 and just use Iron Mask -6).
As someone else said, it really depends on what you're looking for....if your looking for some quick clad - they'll ring loud and clear w/ a high pitched sound. The deeper stuff will still ring but be much fainter. I usually do this first to clear the top.
Once I get used to what coins are there...and more used to what junk is there. I'll either go into Learn mode and discriminate just that junk or learn to ignore it when I hear/see it.
One last thought for ya....make sure you hit that noise cancel button when you're in the field...maybe you are picking up a stray signal which isn't helping you either. (Been there/done that)
G'luck
~Tim

 

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