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TOT-LOT HUNTING : the 1236-X2
- Thread starter dahut
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John 'n' W.Va
Active member
My F-70 goes below the wood chips, past the vinyl ground cover and deep into the older soil. I can't get anywhere near the equipment. I have used it in tot lots, but it isn't the best choice. I have turned the sen. down to 20 and it acts really strange. It seems to act like a drunk detector.
The tones are drawn out and seems to respond slow. It clears up at sen. 30. I can clean up with my Ace in a tot lot and get with in an inch from the equipment, but I can't go 14 inches on a quarter.
The tones are drawn out and seems to respond slow. It clears up at sen. 30. I can clean up with my Ace in a tot lot and get with in an inch from the equipment, but I can't go 14 inches on a quarter.
Dave,very nice hunt.
Interesting distribution of finds. Lots of quarters, with many of them looking like recent drops, few nickels, almost no tabs, but you have paper clips! Looks like a hunt in low discrimination with not a lot of trash where others have hunted looking for mid-range conductors. Is the paper clip shape causing a false? Maybe most of the change the kids get is rounded to a quarter?
Anyway ... Very nice ring! I always thought silver and turquoise was a terrific mix.
And nice hunting.
tvr
Anyway ... Very nice ring! I always thought silver and turquoise was a terrific mix.
And nice hunting.
tvr
There are fewer tabs in tot-lots than in other areas, at least in my experience. I was experimenting with the DISC, running below "4" at times. This is about the iron cutoff point, and so the paper clips appeared when I ran below that mark. A few bobby pins and bits of steel wire made an appearance, too. In the end, I kept to the IRON preset for the most part. This detent switch position brings you into the DISC range at about "4" cutting out most of the iron. BUt, occasionally I would switch to low iron just to verify a few of the pop's and clicks I was getting.
Thats something about the 1200 series detectors, they discriminate iron with a pop or click. Most non-ferrous trash is cleanly discriminated out, but iron gives the characteristic "snap-crackle pop" these untis are known for.
The lack of "mid range conductors" as you put it is coincindence. So were the quarters... just one of those things. Since you never can tell what will be where, you sort of take iwhat you get. There were also snap closures from clothes, zippers pulls, pencil erasers, metal buttons - all mid range items. You see some of them in pic 1. SO, the midrange targets were there, just not in the form of gold rings!
Thats the nice thing about this sort of hunting - you set it and forget it. I switch to IRON preset, set my SENS and recover everything. I dont spend much time in analysis of signals, nor do I look at the controls much, other than to make sure they are where I put them from time to time. I'm covering ground an scooping targets!
Thats something about the 1200 series detectors, they discriminate iron with a pop or click. Most non-ferrous trash is cleanly discriminated out, but iron gives the characteristic "snap-crackle pop" these untis are known for.
The lack of "mid range conductors" as you put it is coincindence. So were the quarters... just one of those things. Since you never can tell what will be where, you sort of take iwhat you get. There were also snap closures from clothes, zippers pulls, pencil erasers, metal buttons - all mid range items. You see some of them in pic 1. SO, the midrange targets were there, just not in the form of gold rings!
Thats the nice thing about this sort of hunting - you set it and forget it. I switch to IRON preset, set my SENS and recover everything. I dont spend much time in analysis of signals, nor do I look at the controls much, other than to make sure they are where I put them from time to time. I'm covering ground an scooping targets!
jackintexas
New member
I own three fishers but my favorite for tot lots is a Tesoro Compadre.....Jack
Yeah, those broken chirps in tot lots often turn out to be chains sez I, some 50-60 chains later. One tot lot nearby has brought me 10 gold rings over half as many years. Using the old 1235X myself for this end of it. Only 6 gold this year at the playgrounds though. But when you're carnie chasing for clad, you want the higher-end machine because you want to know it's on the surface and it's good. That's where the CZ comes in very handy.