Silver Umax in all metal

[Bill in Texas]

Monte or anybody that can answer this problem. I recently purchased a used Silver Umax (for the bang it seems to be a great machine). I have owned a Mayan, Inca and Toltec, but no longer have them . I have been hunting in the all metal mode to get extra depth. Even at a lower sensitive setting it still picks up very small bits of iron (smaller than a bb). I have trouble finding them even with my Tinytec. I am basically a gold hunter in this mode. If I hunt in the discriminate mode, even at a very low setting I seem to lose some depth. Can someone give me some pointers? By the way Monte I Have hunted with the old Red Baron I bought, but have not found any gold with it yet. I have been doing some horse trading and have a couple more old machines lined up. Bill

 

[slingshot]

I had an exciting?!? couple of days w/my Silver in the am mode and thought that since it was not a true all metal mode that maybe these small pieces of iron,etc. wouldn't bother me - WRONG! I didn't know that people lost so many hairpins, paperclips, nails, etc. Unless I'm in a tot lot where all I have to do is kick back the bark chips or shove away the gravel, I stick to the lowest disc level-you will then find most of the thin rings and of course all rings above that level. I may be wrong, but the loss of depth is more attributed to the softness of the signal in the am mode-I found a quarter at about 6-7" in a tot lot that I'd gone over before in the am mode, and when I switched to disc I realized that I would have to have been hunting w/tight sweep patterns to not have missed it in disc. In the am mode,it was wider but much softer. Hope this helps.

 

[Bill in Texas]

Thanks Slingshot for the tips. By the way many call me Slingshot-Bill as I am a shooter and won the nationals in 2003 and 2004. I also found and read a couple of older post by Monte that helped.