:please:T2 steals show @ relic hunt again! :please:

[Rick in J-ville]

I heard that at one of those organized Civil War campouts in Virginia that the T-2 was opening some serious eyes! At last count, guy with T-2 had found 20+ uniform buttons surface detecting on a site considered tapped out, while everyone else stopped detecting and dug "hut holes". I hear even the stubborn Tejon crowd wants to borrow T2's now. seriously. The T-2 could become the #1 relic machine as word continues to spread.
Cheers,
Liam

 

[JBM]

Thats exactly whats happening in the UK.

It will be interesting to see if the F75 can do the same or will it be another also ran.Jerry.

 

[Bill Ladd]

watching an ID unit come out of nowhere & find things in a site they have been over with their "relic detectors" will do that.
Heck ,I've seen the T2 find buttons in my Colonial sites I thought were hunted out.....
Bill

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

n/t

 

[jbow]

at some of the best relic sites the Tejon will beat the T2 only because of one thin, the small coil. If the T2 had a 5" coil it would be able to hunt in the trash and iron better than the Tejon, imo but... I find at iron infested trashy sites the Tejon/5.5 coil out hunts the T2 but in cleaner areas the T2 wins. Maybe the F-75 will offer a small coil... then it will be the best machine ever made, if it also performs as well as the T2 in other ways. If someone would mkae a small coil for the T2 they would sell them like pancakes.

Julien

 

[Bill Ladd]

Try this setting on the T2 (if you still have it)....
Disc 21
senstivity= 80+
1 tone only

If one is willing to listen to some iron chatter, the T2's "monotone" feature (NASA Tom talks about) is the best thing I have ever seen in thick iron...that includes any small coil. The DD coil is amazing, and it's size does not matter, it's all about using just enough disc (21) to not bring in masking. Listening to the audio, good targets jump right out....
There has to be a reason a guy with a T2 on that relic hunt found over 20 buttons in a place pounded by Tejons 3x a year....(maybe using this setting which I have posted several times?) Even the "button daddy" is borrowing T2's to re-hunt iron.......
But, I do agree that a smaller DD coil for either the T2/or F75 would make this be not even a discussion....

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Bill you mean the 1 plus tone?

 

[christian_99]

Field test using your settings of sens 80, disc 21, and (1). Your right, with a handful of iron nails and a button in the same hand, the machine gives a good tone, and the target (button) does jump out at you. With only iron nails, the sound is broken...is the depth similar to that of a Tesoro? Air tests on the new Tesoro units are great, however in ground the depth is obviously diminished due to soil matrix. With the T2, the depth on air tests as similar to this test of your settings is actualy pretty good, about 8" to 10" with a handful of square nails and a cuff button- resulting in the finding of the button. Surely you will dig iron, but that is why one needs to have a square nail collection to use in field tests!!!!

 

[Frank in NH]

n/t

 

[Bill Ladd]

But I was told that you only need to change the F75 disc to 4 (instead of 21).....everything else stays the same.
So far it seems to work in iron, but I need more time to be certain if one is any better than the other....
HH,
Bill

 

[jbow]

I'll try that but I usually run my disc on 10 and sens on 75 or so. I almost alway's run in 2+ mode though... One tone, huh... I wouldn't have thought to try that, I would have thought that 2+ was the same thing only better.
As far as the iron grunts... they don't bother me. it's almost constant but with the higher tones of the 2+ it's no matter.

Talk to me a little more about the 1 tone mode. Why is it better in your opinion, than the 2+. I don't see why it would be better but i'm willing to learn!

Julien

 

[dasabighole]

Well my new T2 is on its way. I will now be able to sleep knowing that there is nothing left in the ground. I will rehunt my old sites and be through with them forever! Or until next years new model comes out.