Where I live we have some areas where the soil conditions cause hunting to be difficult, but not impossible. The Explorer 2 will have some difficulty penetrating to the depth required to find those nice old coins. I have tried running the machine in both Auto and Man Sensitivity. I really have to work the signals to get a repeatable target. I also swing as slow as possible. When I get a repeatable, deep target, the readings are very inaccurate. I understand that this happens. I've pulled out silver quarters thinking that I was digging a penny. It's not the machine. My buddy has the same machine and experiences the same conditions. I'm just wondering if there are some tweaks that I can perform on the settings that would help in difficult soil. It's not like the machine can be ground balanced. The coins are there and we are slowly finding them, but not without a lot of hard work. I am just looking for some ideas that might help in this type of situation.
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Tweaks for getting more depth in difficult soil
- Thread starter Sridge
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dmckee17
Active member
I too have to "work" or "develop" fringe targets sometime also, In a way convincing myself to dig. I have a similar area like you described, a 1920's schoolyard that I think was filled with mining debris during construction, I always hunt by sounds and just glance at screen occasionally and have dug the lousiest, broken signals at this place to be surprised by silver or wheats.
sasquache
Well-known member
I dont think there is much you can do i run the Explorer XS and man i dig some wierd signals i also run Auto sensativity in those soil conditions but i would also run in fast not deep on the recovery rate also i found that useing the 12x10 excellorater coil helped stablize ground effects as well at least in my area. Hope this helps and happy hunting
I am using the stock coil. I was wondering if either a larger or smaller coil would work. I'm going to try both. I don't have an 8" coil, but I gave both an X-5 & X-12. I'll give each a try and see what happens. I am hoping the X-12 will give me some added depth, but am concerned about too many targets being under the coil at any given time. By trial and error, I hope to find the best coil to do the job. Maybe an 8'' coil will be next on my list of things to buy. Thanks.
much, much, much more depth than a 5" coil, almost as much as the stock coil. You are right about having too much under the coil. Often it's not too much metal under a big coil but too much ground with minerals and it just won't pick out goodies. I recommend the Sunray x-8 over the Minelab FBS 8". It's much lighter and actually a tad bigger.
Neal
Neal
Just keep coil low and try to use different noise cancel channels 1 and 11 a bit different. Small coil will not necessary will help if tuned in factory to hot, you have to make times consuming experiments to see different results, but I would stick to original coil use manual sensitivity probably without discrimination and keep coil on ground scratching it. If this not help try single frequency detector.
dirt doctor
Well-known member
NealNoIN said:
I have found this to be true plus the signal sounds sharper to me .
CBAILEY IN GA
Member
the 5x10 nel coil may be an option too. can be had used for 80 to 90$
CB
CB
The Magician
New member
Have you tried changing frequencies? 11 is the lowest, slightly, but it should still help a bit. Using smaller coil helps, with other detectors as well. Turning down all discrimination should help, the detector sometimes sees mineralisation as an iron target and discriminates... and masks.