Salt mode use for "other" hunting

[Blockade Runner]

I was shooting the breeze with my buddy who would rather go canoeing
and catch catfish than relic hunt (loser%^@@(!!!) I was talking about all the tiny iron fragments I have been encountering trying to beat my current site. He said " have you to tried your salt mode to calm the machine down some"?
I said no and asked why in the world would I do that eighty miles from the Atlantic ocean. He swears by it old trash. I can't argue because I have never turned it on. Any thoughts ????
Does anyone have good contact at Garrett they could ask the question?
I also wanted to say that my 1350 7*10 I didn't like is shining on
target seperation in picking good targets out of trash in 0 disc mode.
I can honestly move the coil in a @ 1 in criss cross and pinpoint good
targets with the iron tone continually blazing outside the pinpoint area.
I guess the 250 users may already have seen similar results. I could
contest all the stuff that one time users and reviews say about Garrett's having no target separation.

 

[Blockade Runner]

I re read my post .I just wanted to say I wasn't liking the 7/10 head at first - not the 1350 itself - I love that beast. I had been using the 12" CF in deep woods and avoiding the 7/10. Now I like both and bag them with me each time.
On the target sep I get the best results in 0 or relic. Once you move
to jewelry up I believe that in attempting to reject targets it muddy's the smaller and deeper targets.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Since tiny iron would mimic mineralization and be highly conductive like salt-why not.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah the 1350 can be tricky in some situations because it is ultra-sensitive. I had a fit with the prototype. Over some areas it would sound like a machine gun.

Bill

 

[DavHut]

"...is shining on target seperation in picking good targets out of trash in 0 disc mode."

I distinctly recall one episode with my GTA 1250 that fits here.
We have a park here in my town that was once a housing area. The houses are gone now, all demo'd to make room for the park. ANd as you might expect, it is a subterranean trash nightmare in places from the old house refuse. I have hunted there for years and have been rewarded with plenty of silver and wheat ear coins and other keepers - but it is a challenge, to say the least, to work in some of the trashy areas of the park. I like it because it offers all the barkchip fun of a modern park, with the mix of older things if you know where to look and are willing to work for them DEEP. Nonetheless, I know people who wont waste their time there for all the trash.

I was hunting in the jewelry mode and getting nothing but the ususal "honks, hoots and crappy sounds" from the instrument as I scanned over yet another pocket of junk below ground. I swear they piled much of the trash from the demo'ing into a hill and then just built on top. Then smack in the middle of the normal trashy din, I got a short "booooing" - the sweet Garrett Belltone!

I did the little detectorist dance, coming at the signal from several sides, waggling the coil in short sweep bursts (thanks Bill, for that tip). It wouldnt go away; I kept getting that telltale Belltone, popping in around the bonks and honks from the junk. Good enough for me, so I dug.

After several large rusty lumps and hunks of aluminum came to light, I popped out a '57 Wheatie, at about 5". Good omen - I was born in '57.

So big deal, right? All that for a Wheatie? Yes and Yes.

I'll take a Wheatie any day, over a modern Zincer; I happen to like them. And that little coin, buried among all that iron and aluminum trash, was still seen and processed by the Garrett as something good. I just had to allow the instrument to do it's thing.

Will the salt mode work around the iron? Good question. Try it and let us know.