I have been trying to use the T-2 as much as I can to get to know this detector. I have tried it for competition hunting and found it chattered too much when around any other detector even when changing freq. I tried it at some of my iron sites and seen where it seems to chatter a bit too unless I turn the disc up to 70. I also see where you cant go too fast either even though it recovers fast as you can miss some good finds. What I notice is sometime you may get a good tone and then a low tone and what you got to do is just try to get the high tone to repeat and the number stay fairly stable as if they jump all over while trying to get a repeatable signal I find it is a trash target. I find after the first 8 inches the audio and visual ID cant be believed as many round pull tabs had the high tone and the 70-75 ID as a coin would. What it all come down too is the T-2 has a learning curve too if you want to use it for old coin hunting and unless you want to take the time to learn it you may not like it.
Now this spot I was at today has been worked over since back in the early 70s and it is flooded every year being close to the banks of the Red River in Fargo, so coins do get deep. I did find the T-2 run smooth at the factory preset on sensitivity, but changed the tones to the 3b and latter to the db.Didn't seem to have much iron around, but did dig only one rusty bottle caps that was iffy. In this case I learned to dig anything that is questionable to be on the safe side. I was able to get some alum screw caps and seen where some pieces of shredded alum can that is not deep can fool you as it will show deeper and where my Uniprobe comes in very handy with this detector. I have seen where some alum foil the T-2 will give a good signal, but the Uniprobe cant see it very good, so we know the T-2 is sensitive. I hit some spot where I got a low of high tones, but the meter was in the 40s and 50s meaning there were some round pull tabs around I learned from experience with it. At time it got so bad I had to turn up the disc to 70 or not move too far checking them all out. Once i did this I notice a few pennies that were the Memorial one with one a 1959 would lock right on at 5-6 inches.
I was just wondering around and not working any pattern when I thought I heard a signal in db that really wasn't high tone, but wasn't low either, just a signal that was very weak and no visual ID either. I worked it from a different direction and it would come and go, but knew there was something there so I dropped the disc to 0 and it still was there and no real low tone like iron would be. I went to pinpoint and seen it was deep and it was weak sounding. I read the meter and it was showing 12-13 inches so I decided to dig a deep plug and went in with the uniprobe and got no signal, so I dug deeper and finally got a signal that was weak too and dug further towards the signal and dug out the dirt when I seen what looked like a piece of alum can until I looked closer and seen it was a half dollar which shock me to see one of these here being this area was worked hard with the Explorer last year. I went on to get another good sounding signal with no ID either and that was a bicentennial quarter (1776-1976) that was a good 7 inches deep too. I picked up another memorial penny that was a 1983 that was a iffy signal at would you believe 8 inches deep by the sidewalk. I dug more trash too trying to check out some iffy signals and seen too where I had to go slower in some areas and just try to work the coil over just a small area and trying to keep the ID from jumping all over as this was trash, but those that stayed pretty constant where the good one. I picked up the wheatie that too gave a great signal, but if you went too fast you would get a high and a low tone, but when trying to just get just the high tone the visual locked right on.
The T-2 is not a perfect detector, but better than most I have used and I don't feel it will replace my Sovereign GT or my Explorer for my hunting at this time, but am hoping to detect and do some signal comparison with the Explorer or the Sovereign soon. I am considering selling it too in the next week or 2 as I have a X-Terra 70 to try out too and never seem to take it out as I take the T-2 and if I sell it I wont be temped to take it out anymore, but maybe I shouldnt sell it either as it is a good detector.
Rick
