Plowed field hunting

[Bigtom123]

I'm looking to get some insight from people who hunt these plowed fields,corn and bean.Also just plain old fields that aren't plowed.
I have a racer 2 with the makro 5x10 coil..How do you set up your racer 2 for these areas for optimal performance and depth ? 2 tone,3 tone,all metal? I'm more of a coin Hunter but relics are cool too,and I rarely break into the 1800s in coins.I find alot of 1900 and up in yards and sidewalks,but I'm looking to get older stuff and I'm thinking fields is the way..My town was established in the 1830s,and my oldest coin is a 1844 LC...Any help on setting for fields is appreciated,I only have the 5x10 for now tho.

 

[pick]

I just got a Racer 2 a few weeks ago and would love some insight on this also.

 

[Monte]

Here in the western USA where I live and have been detecting for over half-a-century, my searches have occasionally taken me into plowed pastureland or open rangeland to search where human activity once was, such as looking for the remains of an old homestead, church or school. How I hunt them is affected by the terrain surface either being open, relatively flat and unobstructed, or after a harvest that leaves stiff stubble or other vegetation that hampers search coil sweep and requires a greater coil-to-ground search height.

For best results I rely on at least two sizes of search coils, and sometimes three. Due to the larger area to be hunted, and especially when I haven't yet isolated a small area of high human activity, I will use a standard to mid-size search coil. With Nokta/Makro devices that would be the 7X11 DD or the 5X9½ DD. Note that both of these search coil are of the open-frame design and, sometimes I can get snagging from shirt, stiff stubble and harvested vegetation, or from weeds. When using my Nokta FORS CoRe I have a solid coil cover I use to prevent that issue, but it doesn't occur that often.

Why doesn't it? Because when I get into those environments I usually use a mid-sized 5X9½ DD, so your 5½X10 solid-body DD will work fine. Often, harvested fields have furrows and I try to hunt with them and not across them in order to keep the coil-to-ground relationship as close to the same as possible. But harvested fields do have a more rough-contour to them and for that I like to use a smaller coil, and with the Racer 2 that could be the 4.[size=small]7[/size]X5.[size=small]2[/size] 'OOR' DD or the 5" DD. Those coils will handily fit in and around brush, clumps, mounds, furrows and all sorts of difficult or confined areas.

Also, I prefer to use Di-2 and run the Sensitivity/Gain as high as tolerable w/o noisy behavior. At times I will also use the 'DEEP' mode, too, remembering that mode requires a slower sweep speed than allowable in Di-2 or Di-3 modes. Just some thoughts on how I usually hunt those types of sites.

Monte

 

[Bigtom123]

I’ve been reading that isat can affect performance even in disc mode,so I’m gonna need to play with that in my test garden.Thanks for the info,I’ve used the racer 2 on and off for a few years,but have decided to make it my main rig and get a better handle on what everything does as far as settings for field and woods hunting.