Relic Expert Out There

[wrong way ron]

Using my MXT 300 today in Relic Mode with a 10" 2D coil. OK here's the question. What are the best setting in relic mode??? I was hunting with the the SAT at plus, 1 Discriminator set at 3, And the trigger in the middle position. Can any of you EXPERTS give me some advise on setting ??? I get this dull sound VDI in the negative numbers and I get chirps I dig on Chirps, But you get mixed Dull sounds with a chirp do I dig those targets??? I was always using coin and jewelry mode. So I could use your guys help. Thanks for all the support. I did find $2 in clad and a ??? I don't know tell I look it up I should take PIC'S to show my finds. That's the next thing to learn is to post PIC'S.

 

[Horsesoldier]

Relic Mode
Threshold: 11:30 - 12:00 (barely audible)
Gain: +2
Disc: 2
Trac: on
Dig everything that gives you a high tone.
Good Luck!

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[wrong way ron]

Thanks for the support. Horsesoldier: detecting:

 

[ohio fred]

If iam not wrong sat only works in prospecting mode.

 

[Greg in Bedford VA]

I am strictly a Civil War relic hunter. In the 3 months since I've had my MXT300 I've found dozens of Minie balls (average depth 9-10"), a dozen or so iron artillery frags (some 15"deep), and a complete live 10 pounder Union Parrot shell. I also found 1 Confederate Virginia state seal button and a North Carolina sunburst button and numerous other relics. These came from a completely "hunted out" battlefield in West Virginia.
I used the 12" coil that comes with the 300. I set the gain at +2 or +3, the threshold at about 1:00, and the disc at 3. The deeper bullets will not ID properly on the meter therefore you have to go mostly by sound. Using the crisscross pinpoint method many of the bullets would read small iron (low tone) on three of the sweeps and the maybe on the fourth sweep a higher tone say from 12 to 85 on the VDI. When you get one of these funky signals check the depth and if it reads 7" or more dig it.
That being said I just bought a 10DD coil and only had a few minutes to use it at this battlefield site last Friday. I went to a spot near a small cattle barn which is now in the middle of where some of the heaviest fighting took place. This place is loaded with semi-modern nails so I thought it would be a good place to try my new coil. Within 5 minutes I found a fired 3-ring Minie ball in an area where I hunted with my 12" coil the week before and my buddy using his Fisher's CZ5 also hunted the week before. The 10DD spotted it just fine in that mess of old rusty nails.
I can't wait to get back out there later this week when the rain stops. I hope this helped.

Greg

 

[Rob (IL)]

I was hunting with the the SAT at plus, 1 Discriminator set at 3, And the trigger in the middle position.
As Fred said the SAT only works in prospecting mode. You can't have the control set both to 1 and 3 at the same time??????

I agree with : Horsesoldier. If I'm hunting in relic with the trigger centered these are where I hunt except many times I can run all the way to +3 on the gain. Sometime I will run the Trac locked.
Relic Mode
Threshold: 11:30 - 12:00 (barely audible)
Gain: +2
Disc: 2
Trac: on
Dig everything that gives you a high tone.

Because this mode is more filtered I'll use this set up if I'm getting EMI interference, it quiets right down. Rob

 

[JOE in MD]

I hunt in Relic mode
gain at + 2 or 3
threshold slite hum
zero disc.
Trigger forward and go real slowwwwww and listen.