well, you were right

[epi-hunter]

Went out today for a couple of hours to an old, well-hunted park. Found no silver or other old coins, just some clad that had been in the ground a long time. For the first time in awhile, I dug the high coin signals that dropped to zinc after switching to salt mode. I got a handful of zinc pennies (expected), plus one 1975 dime. Blahhh.... I am walking over coins that are not just zinc pennies. I am going to have to take your approach Bill, and dig all of this stuff if I want to use enhanced, or else hunt in salt mode (seems to defeat the purpose of the 3d, since all my sites are this way).

NOTE: sorry, I meant this to be a reply to my CZ3d post from yesterday, not a new thread.

 

[Nick A]

Here's what I've been doing with the 3d. Run headphone volume at max, detector volume at 2-2.5 and over time, I can tell the diff between deep and shallow to some extent, as well as sizing the targets somewhat. For example, I saw a zinc hit and knew it did not sound shallow, I checked depth... 7" and I said, that's an indian... right enough, 1903. I run in salt all the time, as many of my sites are similar to yours. I dig iffy signals and feel I get the things the enhanced mode might "help" me get by doing so. If in doubt, dig. Sweep slow and overlap a lot. GB every so often. If sites are really trashy a smaller coil might help, but by slowing your sweep and overlapping you'll probably have better results than just getting a smaller coil and retaining a sloppy fast sweep pattern. Also do not run your sens too high... I keep mine at 4" and feel I'm getting deep enough to get everything.