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I am no expert on the Explorer but have notice a few things that others may or may not have noticed.
Never beleive the cross hairs on the smart find screen as I have been finding out as I have dug several coins that showed iron in the iron mask mode, infact I took a area where there was a lot of nulling and laid a dime down on the ground and while in iron mask at a -9 I run the loop over it and got a nice high pitch tone to it, but could not get the crosshairs to show anything but iron (far left top of screen), tried it in the disc pattern and got no signal unless you went over it just so. In iron mask at a -9 I could still get a good signal at around 10 inches away from the dime while in a disc pattern it would only get it around 5 or 6 inches and only it swept the loop just so.
Found you have to go more by the tones than the crosshairs, but this is not in every case as some times they will lock on real good.I did see that the tone are good sounding more so on the good targets than the falseing on iron as the good targets will sound solid and can get from more than one way while the iron may sound good but when you come at it from a differnt angle it will change or move.
Out of all the targets I dug today and only 2 were keepers (50 cent trade token and a 1907 IH) as i knew they were good as they were solid sounding and good solid tone to them while the other iffy signal I dug that were junk had a differnt tone to them and would change there tones or their location when coming from a differnt angle.
I also found out what helps good is to pinpoint both in disc (or iron mask) and the pinpoint mode to see if the target has moved and also for other bigger junk in the area. I do a lot of this with my Sovereign on odd signals as I will pinpoint it in all metal and when I have it pinpointed I will hold the loop still and switch to disc and see if I get a good signal or a null when i move the loop slightly as this will tell me if it is good or bad.
What do some of the others think.
Rick
Never beleive the cross hairs on the smart find screen as I have been finding out as I have dug several coins that showed iron in the iron mask mode, infact I took a area where there was a lot of nulling and laid a dime down on the ground and while in iron mask at a -9 I run the loop over it and got a nice high pitch tone to it, but could not get the crosshairs to show anything but iron (far left top of screen), tried it in the disc pattern and got no signal unless you went over it just so. In iron mask at a -9 I could still get a good signal at around 10 inches away from the dime while in a disc pattern it would only get it around 5 or 6 inches and only it swept the loop just so.
Found you have to go more by the tones than the crosshairs, but this is not in every case as some times they will lock on real good.I did see that the tone are good sounding more so on the good targets than the falseing on iron as the good targets will sound solid and can get from more than one way while the iron may sound good but when you come at it from a differnt angle it will change or move.
Out of all the targets I dug today and only 2 were keepers (50 cent trade token and a 1907 IH) as i knew they were good as they were solid sounding and good solid tone to them while the other iffy signal I dug that were junk had a differnt tone to them and would change there tones or their location when coming from a differnt angle.
I also found out what helps good is to pinpoint both in disc (or iron mask) and the pinpoint mode to see if the target has moved and also for other bigger junk in the area. I do a lot of this with my Sovereign on odd signals as I will pinpoint it in all metal and when I have it pinpointed I will hold the loop still and switch to disc and see if I get a good signal or a null when i move the loop slightly as this will tell me if it is good or bad.
What do some of the others think.
Rick