Repetition

[Anonymous]

One of the things I heard recently was from an experienced XS user who said he has learned the sounds good targets make so well that he hardly ever looks at the screen. It occurred to me one of the best things we can do is practice with coins and jewelry items airtesting them over and over again to memorize the various good sounds. Anyone agree of have another opinion? Eric

 

[Anonymous]

it's a good idea to use known targets in air or on the ground, both good and bad, but i wouldn't get carried away. field experience is the best teacher.

 

[Anonymous]

There have been times that I have said what was in the sand or the ground before I had dug it, but. pull tops still sound like medium size rings and small rings still sound like foil...so go figure. I have programed all my gold into the Explorer XS and the ratio is 60% gold and 40% tabs and foil. I also believe that how you set up your Explorer to hunt makes a big difference, because, in the book Mastering the Minelab Explorer XS & S page 59, it states that working with the audio setting 1-3 aside from normal, is the most difficult to learn and most profitable, check it out for yourself. It says that it sounds like a circus calliope, but once mastered even the most trashy site can be hunted with confidence. I hope this helps you with the matter of distingishing targets.
Philo

 

[Anonymous]

that way you will be able to compare to what yur going to hunt in the feild. If you don't have one build one it is simple and you will get alot of use from it. When I get a new coil the 1st place I go is to my test garden. If yo need advice to build one post it and we will help..
HH
Shellback

 

[Anonymous]

I am very new to this,detecting stuff but I will put my 10 cents (hopefully silver) worth in.I have read the book and the manuel and rereading them again.When I found that small womens ring in the volley ball court,Yes it sorta sounded but not the same as a pull tab and it almost registerd like a pull tab but when I went to digital it read a 1 and the pull tabs read 8 in the area I hunted.So I figure yes it takes a little more time to do the three C's 1.check the pul tab sounds.2 check where the ones you find register the cross hairs at on smart find or whatever screen your on then,3 goto digital and get a number check on it to.After I found that ring I thought I better double check and went over the same area and the hits I didn't dig where pull tabs and other junk I ended up throwing in the trash can.When I am out hunting it is not a race and I enjoy being out so I am in no hurry and I just play yaround with what I have read and for coin hunting I think I have a good system thus far.by the time this snow melts in West Virginia I will have a nice mud hole to dig in yeah!

 

[Anonymous]

the thing to understand about gold jewelry is that it varies so much in mass, carat, alloy, shape, etc. if you try to determine aluminum junk from gold with out much digging you will miss gold on occasion. there's no way to be sure because gold objects vary so much and will ID in a wide range, including sometimes exactly like a pull tab! the answer is decide for a given site how likely gold jewelry would be lost there in comparison with pull tabs or foil. personally, i am not going to dig all those tabs and foil around a heavily used bunch of picnic tables to find if there's a gold ring there. on a beach i might dig more tabs since there's certainly jewelry lost on beaches. just don't think you can tell by the ID number as no detector can distinguish gold from aluminum. hope this helps.

 

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