Sov GT, went to dig?

[SurfPro]

]Greetings fellow pirates,

I'm new to the Sov and have only been out 4 times with it, I've found plenty of coins and a couple of nice silver rings as well. I'm strictly a beach hunter, wet/dry, running with disc/notch at 0, sensitivity at 12-1, occasionally switch to AM/pinpoint to locate target.

When swinging over a penny, clad dime or quarter, the threshold changes, usually from that low iron buzz to a very distinct high tone. When I stop to locate the target it's always there. Occasionally I'll hear the threshold change to more of a medium tone, when I go back to locate the target (in disc), it will occasionally null or I can't find it, so I keep on truckin. The last time out when this occurred, I switch to AM/pinpoint to try to determine what the machine was seeing and finally dug a deep dime. As I dug and got closer to the target (switching back to disc) the tone got higher and higher which is what you'd expect with a dime.

Is this typical for this machine? Up until now, If I couldn't relocate the target (in disc) I kept on walking. I'm finding that with clad there isn't much of a tone difference, what I think will be a penny can come up a dime or a quarter, so I'm digging all of those high tones.

What about those medium tones a little above the iron buzz?

Do you investigate every change in the threshold if it isn't that low iron buzz or that funky catsup package kind of synthesize sound, that I also never dig.

Thanks,
SP

 

[joeforthegold]

There is an area on a beach here close to where I live that has a high concentrations of good targets both shallow and deep. We started hunting in all metal and on some targets that would null in disc turned out to be a deep coin. Once some of the sand was removed the machine would correctly id the target. I believe this to be normal. I have a CZ20 that does the same thing, it gives me an indication of iron until I remove some of the soil, where the Sov would null. This is on deep targets and I have dug some coins deep with both machines. I prefer the Sov because it gives a more clear signal on gold. I don't get excited about walking away from a high coin tone at this spot. We try to dig the tones from zinc penny down to foil and have been rewarded with some gold lately. In my race against time I prefer to spend my time digging the gold tones as there is no shortage of good targets due to the recent higher than average surf and a little storm we got last month. My last gold ring was a 1/2 ounce 14K that my Sov said was a Zinc penny. I might not have dug except that there were so few zinc pennys at this spot. Hopefully the pic works.
-Joe

 

[kered]

those medium tones could be gold, the excaliburs are known to be deeper in AM/pinpoint than Disc so many hunters me included hunt in am and flip to disc to se what it is, quite often disc does not register anything so you have to take of a couple of inches of sand out to get any response, if its a solid null carry on but if it starts to give a signal dig. Maybe your GT is slightly deeper in AM mode too, i would suggest you investigate all those targets until you get a solid null.
The gt may also give you a chirp + null on targets at extreme depth/range letting you know something is there, do the same, dig a bit of sand off and see if the signal improves one way or the other, big iron can also give these types of sound so also try lifting the coil.

If in doubt dig it out

 

[SurfPro]

If in doubt, dig it out. Will do.