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Question for the barber/seated dime pros

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I've had my XS for about 2 months now and have been able to sneak in a fair amount of hunting and experimenting at some my favorite older parks. These parks are light-moderate trashy (mostly nails and foil) and date back to the mid 1800's. About 7-10 years ago, we cleaned them out of Indians, Barbers, and Seated dimes down to 7" with XLTs and CZs, but we know the coins go deeper because the parks predate the age of the finds by another 30 years. Any ideas on how to get the extra depth? Have been running iron mask -8, normal audio, conduct, sensitivity 22-26, Fast recovery, and am only digging signals at 1/2 scale or deeper.
Also, noticed at another site yesterday that dimes at surface to 2" were reading 6" deep on the meeter in heavy nulling. Is this normal?
Thanks in advance for any advice. Scott(NH)
 
Dear Scott, I am in the learning process myself, but I've found that increasing the gain by one or two clicks gives a little extra depth. goodluck, John
 
the depth meter is probably confused reading whatevers causing the nulling and maybe averaging the depth of both items.. what coil you using? should be able to get dimes down in the 10 inch range no problem, but might need an eight inch coil to do it in nails, might want to also try deep recovery with the 10 if its not nulling too much, and maybe even lowering sens.. might be overdoing it at 26 in the iron
 
Hi jim, can you explain alittle more about what you said by over doing the sens. ? can that interfer with the depth ? also another question. i was detecting today with my joiy coil and i got these setting from beachcomber that doc had posted the other day. i tried to run the ferrous mode and audio 2 but it sounded like i was getting these long whinnie signals. is that the way that mode should act? i was at a school that dates back to 1800 which i really dont think many people have detected this site and i was only getting surface coins at about two inches. i'm going back with the 8 incher and give it another try. maybe i was just not use to the joey coil because its the second time i only had it out.
thanks ,
stan sjmdc
 
If your in iron, over doing it on the sensitivity can get you less depth then a lower setting, usually if I am in a constant null I dont go over 20 on the sensitivity.. I never use anything but normal audio so really cant say about the sounds your talking about
 
I did manage 3 coins at an 1880's park that still produces for the XLT. However, 2 coins were solid hits at 6"+ that the Whites has consistantly missed. Two more questions:
I'm using the stock 10" coil. Is their an aftermarket coil that still gets 7" or more in trashy areas? (that is, lots of nails, foil, and other little bits of stuff)
On those 7-10" dimes: what kind of signal are you getting in normal audio and gain of 6 or 7: are they solid and repeatable from various directions or are they very soft and choppy and easily confused with small or deep iron?
Thanks again! Scott(NH)
 
I have gotten dimes down in the 9-10 inch range eith the SR8.. usually if its fairly clean its a solid repeatble signal just lower in volume.. if its in nails, it might get choppy, nut thers just something about the audio thats saying its a good target not a nail..
 
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