starting to love TTF

[gunwolf]

I am starting to use TTF with the relic screen alot more lately on spots I already hit in the standard coin program. so far I have found my seated quarter, and a bunch of clad I missed...especially nickels , seems like I find alot more nickels in TTF.
so this morning I went back to the old trashy park that has been so good to me, and I hit a 50ft x50ft area in TTF that I already went over twice in coin mode. I found two clad nickels, a clad dime, three memorials, a bent 1941 wheat and this cool 1932 canadian cent..

 

[badjim]

sweet Canadian cent very cool

 

[Phillip_in_NM]

I really need to try TTF. I keep thinking about it but just haven't done it yet. I have permission to hunt an area of about 1.5 acres that has given me 21 wheats, 3 silvers and 19 trade tokens - all found using the 4.5x7 Excelerator and the default coin program with the right hand corner opened up.

I think I'm going to put on the stock coil, grid the area and work every square inch with TTF. Can't wait to try that - ought to get everything worth digging there.

Thanks for your thoughts on TTF.

 

[earthmansurfer]

I often check signals in TTF but I am not running it regularly. I do like it however. I run it with recovery fast on and in conductive tones I run fast off. That is the only difference between the two modes for me.

So far, unless the iron is THICK (not medium), I find conductive better. But, when the iron is thick, then TTF seems better but it really depends. I strongly recommend cross checking between modes to find out for your ground.

Oh, Congrats on your finds!

 

[jcweber77]

I switched completely to TTF about a year ago and wouldn't hunt any other way. My Keepers-to-Junk Ratio went up considerably! Some say that you're defeating the whole purpose of having a minelab with the variable tones, 2 numbers, etc., but I disagree. You still get all the same ID circuitry and logic -- only with a simplified audio feedback. The TTF tones and #'s give you all the info that you need to make a decision to dig. Occasionally i will switch to conductive/multi to check jumping numbers on deep targets and if i'm nulling from a couple directions -- but 99%, I stay in TTF. HH!

 

[gunwolf]

I often check signals in TTF but I am not running it regularly. I do like it however. I run it with recovery fast on and in conductive tones I run fast off. That is the only difference between the two modes for me.

So far, unless the iron is THICK (not medium), I find conductive better. But, when the iron is thick, then TTF seems better but it really depends. I strongly recommend cross checking between modes to find out for your ground.

Oh, Congrats on your finds!

beleive it or not this makes sense to me, thankyou...I will try that next time out.
and also as I posted above I don't really run TTF in an area that is new to me, I almost always run the stock coin program in multi tone conductive first...I just love the way the silver screams! then if I have time I will go back over it in TTF.
only one park so far had so m uch iron that I had to start in TTF or it was a constant null.

 

[Goes4ever]

TTF is amazing for finding nickels, I think they hit harder. But I think it has a lot to do with having an open screen. Nickels tend to bounce a lot and by having the open screen the signals are more clear

 

[gunwolf]

G4E, thanks to your whole writeup on TTF I decided to try it...thanks for the great bit of shared knowledge!

 

[cannon]

I used it for a full week over in the UK and it definitly out performed others there at the same time. That was against 2 other e-tracs using conductive, 1 V3I, 1T2 and a gpx5000. It is a deifferent type of hunting over there but I found the TTF really simplified things. Others even wanted the settings for it.