Tejon Discrimination settings

[Craig]

I have been experimenting with the Discrimination settings. Today I was in a park loaded with Screw caps and Pull tabs. Just for the heck of it I set Desc. 2 to Screw caps and Desc. 1 Between Pull Tabs & Nickles. Cut down on the Screw Caps, but still dug pull tabs.
What setting do you use with the best success?

 

[tvr]

Saw the note on digging so many tabs that your back is sore in the thread on the First week with Tejon. I dig a lot of trash in the foil to tab to screw cap range too.

What I've been mostly setting the discriminators on are first discriminator at the high end of iron to low end of foil. Second between nickle and tab to where a modern tab (as opposed to a beaver tail tab) crackles when the second discriminator is pulled. Takes a couple of sweeps over the target to allow the discriminator to settle. Might hear the tab clearly on the first sweep but then it fades and then just cracks or pops. Set like this a nickle completely disappears nearly as soon as the trigger is pulled for the second discriminator. In my opinion, if the first discriminator is set past mid-foil range, the depth on nickles starts to go off. With this set up nickles are a very nice round beep when on the first discriminator. When that nice tone disappears cleanly on first pull, very good chance it's a nickle; although sometimes the pencil eraser ferules sit right there and sound real nice too.

I will dig screw caps and beaver tail style tabs all day at these settings unless I am just digging between the two discriminators. If I get that crackle on the second discriminator, I can leave it feeling 99% sure it's a square pull tab, but I frequently dig it just to get it out of the way of possible deeper targets.

Foil pieces of the right size and shape sound a lot like good jewelry targets.
Hope you find the right mix for you.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[lurksalot]

Try this and see how you like it. Set disc. #1 to just crackle on a nickle and disc. #2 to crackle on a zinc penny. If you get a good tone then you know it is above nickle, switch to disc. #2 and a good tone will be above zinc penny.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Lurksalot gives excellent settings if in an area with newer coins and of course if in an older area do the same with a V nickle(older nickles come in lower) and depending what older coins you are after may have to set the second disc. lower to catch those old misc. coins, tokens and the like..
Reading between the lines looks like you are looking for gold rings also and above are basically coins settings..
Every park has an abundance of junk that imitates gold rings and of course every area may differ and its up to you to experiment to give yourself better odds to dig a gold ring eliminating the most abundant type of trash and of course we all know or should know to get gold rings one has to be patient and dig junk.
Tesoro's just like gold jewelry and to a trained ear have audio variances to give you better odds to leave the trash and dig the goodies..

 

[Craig]

Thanks for your replys I know I'll settle on settings once I have a little more time with the Tejon. I think I'll go back to my original setting and just dig pulltabs and nickles. Take my time and give my back a rest