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tones
- Thread starter digky
- Start date
Whether you use ferrous or conduct sounds, you will still hear high tone "chirps", this is the hardest part of learning the Explorer, most of the other range is easy compared to this. What you have to learn is to recognise the iron falses from the true high non-ferrous conductors. Another possibility with all metal and ferrous sounds, the far lower right of the screen is open and will signal a high tone on such items like iron bottle caps, some users prefer to disc out that region so the highs don't come thru, this may be what you are experiencing. Some areas of the Country have hot rocks that can cause problems but since I don't have them here, I will defer to those who have learned to deal with them if that is what you are encountering. One method of dealing with high tones off iron is to turn 90 degrees and resweep, if you loose the high tone and it turns into a low tone, then there is a good possibility it is iron, with time though you may want to dig some of those "one angle" hits to see if you can pull a good item out of nails.
dewcon4414
Well-known member
To add to Steves comments, check your depth meter as well. The explorer is very good at ID down to say 6". Those crown caps can be a pain but are easily IDed. As far as hot rocks once you have experienced lots of them you can tell the smooth sound they produce. Check you sensitivity, you may be too high if you are getting chirps that dont repeat. I changed my threshold tone setting and for me that helped. Seems everyone has that tone comfort setting.
There's got to be some here that can help with the hot rocks, I don't have them here. I do know I hunted in one town close to where I live that had that coal spread everywhere, that stuff really is hard to detect in, I am glad I don't have to deal with it regularly, maybe some will give pointers here.
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dewcon4414
Well-known member
like bottle caps they have a certain tone also most register 00/31 or upper right corner. In real trashy areas turning down your sensitivity works for me just because you tend to pick up too much DEEP iron. Moving you sensitivity down puts your depth at just above those deep iron pieces and you get a little better seperation.
Steve(MS) said:
Hot rocks will sound off 'like silver'. They basically tend to be a bit softer, and the sound is sort of a smooth bounce rather than the solid silver sound, the cursor tends to be all the way buried to the top right. If you are fortunate or unfortunate enough to hit a bunch of them you will be able to tell the difference. I have not found any setting that will remove the hot rock signals that I come across from time to time. Hope this helps.
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