Well, I think I have on my hands probably the worst iron loaded site I have ever hunted in my life. It is where a colonial home stood, and the site has so much iron that running all-metal you hear constant noise. It's so bad you hit a couple pieces of iron on every sweep! 
I couldn't take running all metal here very long, especially since I run my headphones & volume maxed 
Going to disc, with sensitivity on 8, that was too much power & I gut alotta added chatter & iron falsing. I had disc on zero to keep noise down. I gut fooled by some iron & dug it, but figured that as OK & I was cleaning out the area a bit. Dropping to sens. 5 seemed to help, but I still wondered about all the masking. The sites been hammered hard by different units over the years, so the "easy" stuff is long gone. But, then I dig a brass toe tap with the Excel & you think there's a very good chance a nice coin or button is in that mess. Last year a 1/2 Reale came up. In VA., I had success using Excel all metal in a section of a camp with some iron & when I saw a +...I dug. But, here there's almost too much iron to do this the same way 
This is the trashiest site I know, & the perfect place to test any unit that's supposedly "great in trash". Really it's kinda a fun challenge (especially since some others told me it's "cleaned out"). Using the C$, I dug a colonial copper everyone including me had missed.
Well, with the Excel last night I next tried the -36 disc setting. This seemed to work better than all metal mode as I could use the 4 tones. But, again every sweep I heard like 2 low hits. I did find a button & musketball this way.
Basically, all this rambling I wanted to try to generate a thread with Excel users favorite "trash settings". I'm more usted to the C$, but wanna see the Excel do well here too. Another possibility is maybe lifting the coil off the ground some to make the smaller part of the "cone" maybe get between some iron. Yea, ya lose a couple inches depth, but again this site is no joke. Another thing maybe to do another "Clean up crew" & just go in with a 5 gallon bucket & dig out everything. If anyone remembers that story alotta nice coins were masked. A third possibilty is borrowing a x series unit & putting the 3.5" coil on it. That would "git R Dun" i bet
The real answer would be if SunRay gets a 5" coil done for the Excel. If so, I have the perfect site for the field test! 
Anyhow, any idea's or settings for the Excel or even C$ lets get some feedback goin' on iron trash..... Bill
I couldn't take running all metal here very long, especially since I run my headphones & volume maxed Going to disc, with sensitivity on 8, that was too much power & I gut alotta added chatter & iron falsing. I had disc on zero to keep noise down. I gut fooled by some iron & dug it, but figured that as OK & I was cleaning out the area a bit. Dropping to sens. 5 seemed to help, but I still wondered about all the masking. The sites been hammered hard by different units over the years, so the "easy" stuff is long gone. But, then I dig a brass toe tap with the Excel & you think there's a very good chance a nice coin or button is in that mess. Last year a 1/2 Reale came up. In VA., I had success using Excel all metal in a section of a camp with some iron & when I saw a +...I dug. But, here there's almost too much iron to do this the same way This is the trashiest site I know, & the perfect place to test any unit that's supposedly "great in trash". Really it's kinda a fun challenge (especially since some others told me it's "cleaned out"). Using the C$, I dug a colonial copper everyone including me had missed. Well, with the Excel last night I next tried the -36 disc setting. This seemed to work better than all metal mode as I could use the 4 tones. But, again every sweep I heard like 2 low hits. I did find a button & musketball this way.
Basically, all this rambling I wanted to try to generate a thread with Excel users favorite "trash settings". I'm more usted to the C$, but wanna see the Excel do well here too. Another possibility is maybe lifting the coil off the ground some to make the smaller part of the "cone" maybe get between some iron. Yea, ya lose a couple inches depth, but again this site is no joke. Another thing maybe to do another "Clean up crew" & just go in with a 5 gallon bucket & dig out everything. If anyone remembers that story alotta nice coins were masked. A third possibilty is borrowing a x series unit & putting the 3.5" coil on it. That would "git R Dun" i bet
The real answer would be if SunRay gets a 5" coil done for the Excel. If so, I have the perfect site for the field test! Anyhow, any idea's or settings for the Excel or even C$ lets get some feedback goin' on iron trash..... Bill
No good coin yet, but 2 days have produced a handful of little bits everyone missed including a beat indian head (I'll post a pic later). One good "bootin" or early coin makes it all worth it 
