New 305 coming Thursday!

[bubbadirect]

Hello all! This is my first post since I found this forum! Anyway, I recently bought and tried out a Garrett Ace 250 for relic hunting, but have since returned it and am awaiting my first Minelab. I am super excited and can't wait to get to hunting.

I will be looking for old coins, civil war bullets (lead) and brass buttons, and there will be small iron nails (old) and other trash here and there where I will be hunting. I used the 250 last weekend and got my rear kicked from others using their white's and nautilus units.

What settings do you use on this unit for relic hunting? Are there any "tricks" that you would recommend to me? If I notch out the iron items on the 305, will it still pick up large iron (civil war shell casing?)

Thank you in advance,
bubbadirect

 

[Beale]

Welcome to the site Buba! Glad you are here. Check out the FAQFAQ at the top of the site and happy hunting, Beale.

 

[7centsworth]

welcome to the forum. I have a 70 but I would hunt in all metal for relics and dig all signals above iron. Negative numbers are usually iron , big iron is sometimes in the high tones and upper forties on the id.

 

[bubbadirect]

7cents---Thank you! I have read the FAQ at the top of the forum, but was wondering what the big iron would read. I am hoping that I can "notch out" or use the pattern 2 (for the 305) to block out the small iron, yet still pick up the big iron. Does that make sense? If so, then big iron (bigger than say 2 inches) would still pick up and give "high tones" and a number on the ID. That is awesome! I just wanted to make sure that this ML will do me good in the field! Thank you!

 

[ohio mike]

it will take some time to get good with it, so don't get discouraged the first few times out..it's a good machine