Upgraded Ace 250 to Terra 705, quick question

[Mracquis]

I did read the manual + I understand that I'm going to have to spend time with this new machine to understand whats it telling me.

Question: what is the best setting to hunt in relatively trashy park area ? I need to eliminate foil, iron, tabs etc, however, coins, gold and silver have to be findable. By gold I mean rings, bracelets etc, not nuggets.

Ace had big disadvantage that golden rings frequently sounded like trash, making me dig nealy everything.

Please give me advice and I will go from there.

 

[7centsworth]

Welcome to the forum . Read the faq faq post at top of page. There is alot of good information there. In my experience if you disc out tabs and foil you will miss some gold. I would hunt in pattern 1 or 2 . If you do not have one I would recommend a 6 inch dd coil. That little thing has found me loads of stuff in super trashy spots that I have missed with my stock coil. And it has found lots of coins in trash that many paople have walked right over. Hope this helps.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

The Aces audio, holds it at a disadvantage. I've owned 2 of them. It was it's abrasive audio that caused me to sell it. That said, it was able t tell the difference between coins/rings and pull tabs. But that's another story; now onto the X-Terra.
I must confess that I've been a bit rusty on the X-terra and have only just started getting out with it again. One of the big give aways for pull tabs (on most detectors) is the fact that pull tabs have a strong tendency to cause the numbers to bounce around. The bounce around is more random than you might get on a coin or ring that may not lock into a specific number. Sometimes if you pass the coil over the target at 90 degrees to each other, a pull tab can give a single tone in one direction but 2 beeps in the other direction.Using the prospecting mode or the sizing pinpoint can give you some audio variation that once you've trained you ear, can offer some clues as to what you have.
A tip that Des Dunne (From Minelab) gives for telling good targets from pull tabs, is to use the multi tone feature. A pull tab will you give you a multi tone that a coin/ring won't.
Once you get comfortable with you detector, the key things to train your ear for, is to first listen to how wide a signal is, then listen closely to how a signal starts and stops (sound attack). These are subtle things that you are not going to hear for a while, but as you gain experience and master other aspects of your detector, you will start to pick up on. Listening to how the tone sounds to, also gives you info as well. Don't be surprised if you don't hear it for some time, but by being aware of it, will help in knowing what to look for in developing.
good luck with it.
Mick Evans.

 

[goldseeker4000]

To add to Micks comments, I would highly reccomend hunting in ALL METAL and then switch over to one of the program modes to double check. You will need to open up some of the TID spaces at the bottom of your LCD panel after testing many different gold rings and if you can get your hands on a Gold coin to test for the TID # to see where on the scale it is hitting. Play with your TID panel with targets and the plus/ minus buttons and learn how to take out targets or add them and custom set your preset search modes. Test every type of target you can get your hands on. I missed some good targets because I didn't do this. I won't make that mistake again. I missed a 1905 V nickel, a 1882 Indian head pennie and some other sweet targets because I didn't test first and play around with preset modes.I hunted in #2 mode only for coins and missed these targets. I had some depth loss because of this also, which cost me. I use the ALL METAL now. Hope this helps.