reading of -6 on vid of x70

[Nock]

I was in my back yard today and getting alot -6 on my x70 vi. can anybody tell me what metal that number could possibly be ,thanks

 

[Beale]

Ypo must be running all metal? I dunno I run pattern #1. Dig it and find out, Beale.

 

[christopher-ohio]

n/t

 

[Nock]

I was running in all metal and getting alot of spots with that number was using a 3 khz coil

 

[Furious T]

I would think it would be iron, maybe lots of it.

 

[christopher-ohio]

"Back to the coils....... as I said, I like the 3 kHz. Not only because it is theoretically better with higher conductive silver and copper. But being better suited for higher conductive targets results in it not as well suited for lower conductive targets (like deep iron). I hunt a lot of old farmsteads. As such, many of them are littered with broken pieces of implements and rusty nails from fences and barns. Simply put, I find these ferrous targets produce a very distinct audio response that is more easily distinguished by my using the 3 kHz coil. When I get an "iffy" target, I simply sweep back and forth over it, while dragging the coil back toward my feet. As the target leaves the detection field, if it produces multiple low audio tones, you can bet it is not a coin. If I were in a Pattern mode, with specific notches rejected, the detector could "blank" over all of them. And even if I were hunting with all notches accepted or all metal, using anything less than multiple tones will result in the detector only producing the same "one tone" for all the ferrous targets. For example, if the TID on a piece of iron bounces between -6 and -8 in multiple tone mode, I will hear one tone when the -6 registers and a different tone when the -8 registers. Multiple tones. If in one tone, two tone, three tone or four tone mode, all ferrous targets provided the same audio tone. As such, I wouldn't be able to hear different pitches of tones or a "blending of multiple tones" that I do with the multiple tone mode. This could result in my not being able to identify the target as iron until I dug it up. These pitch differentiations are best heard with the 3 kHz coil, because the properties of ferrous targets are more easily identified at lower frequencies. As the detector's frequency increases, it becomes more difficult to identify those ferrous properties. By combining the 3 kHz coil with target sizing and other techniques I've learned, I'm able to effectively eliminate most of the deep iron from my hunts."


I run 4 tones, all metal almost always with my X-Terras,,,one of the things I love the best about an X-Terra is full tones in all metal. It still gets great separation in the trash with the stock concentric coil.

 

[Goes4ever]

I'd guess -6 would be nails

 

[Nock]

THANKS TO ALL ON YOUR IMPUT!!

Nock

 

[JHM]

n/t

 

[David]

christopher-ohio, did Randy(Digger) write that about the 3 kHz (LF) Concentric coil (CC)?? If so he also said the iron has a certain harmonic(in multiple-99 tones) with the 3 kHz (LF) coil to identify it. I wish there was also a round 10.5" LF DD made, or an elliptical 11x18" or 11x22" LF DD for large homestead fields.

Last year I was looking for a iron property corner pins with my X-70. They read at about -8 or -6, I can't remember exactly. So I blanked out all other numbers except that one, and it worked!

 

[TURNMASTER]

Junk, Well maybe not junk but iron anyhow. Could be some iron age relic worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Dig it up and see.

Jeff

 

[Alcymart]

It's a Cache of Canadian Clad...LOL