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What do you all think of the ALTERNATE MODE of hunting with the trigger pushed forward? I tried it yesterday and it made a world of difference in find
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basstrackerman
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i tried it the other day and really like it. that is in relic mode, i like the high tone its alot easier for me to hear.
The ferrous trash is still present and that means the target masking is unchanged. I'm presuming you're using some level of discrimination above '0'.
Personally, I prefer to hunt a LOT in an all metal accept mode so that I can hear the presence of iron. I set the Discriminate level to '0' on an MXT and in the Relic mode I flip the trigger-toggle forward. This does a very decent job of letting me hear a low, bassy audio response for the ferrous junk and the higher-pitched audio response for everything non-ferrous.
If a site is quite littered with iron, such as nails and small ferrous junk, then by hearing the ferrous I can slow down and work my coil around the unwanted trash to see if I might pick out a possible good-target response from a masked goodie. Keep in mind that I prefer to use a 5.3 Eclipse (6
Personally, I prefer to hunt a LOT in an all metal accept mode so that I can hear the presence of iron. I set the Discriminate level to '0' on an MXT and in the Relic mode I flip the trigger-toggle forward. This does a very decent job of letting me hear a low, bassy audio response for the ferrous junk and the higher-pitched audio response for everything non-ferrous.
If a site is quite littered with iron, such as nails and small ferrous junk, then by hearing the ferrous I can slow down and work my coil around the unwanted trash to see if I might pick out a possible good-target response from a masked goodie. Keep in mind that I prefer to use a 5.3 Eclipse (6
Curt_in_W.Mass
New member
Just curious..in alternate mood relic with triGger forward and disc low..im not going to lose gold rings with trigger forward am I?
Curt, run your machine in the relic mode just like Monte advised,No Disc. You won't miss the gold ring. You can have a better chance of picking up a masked target with the no disc setting. A lot of times you will hear the low bass signature of an iron target followed by weak high tone which may indicate a quality target in close relation to the iron, and being "masked" by the iron. This could be your ring or an old coin,or in most cases it just could be a piece of non iron junk, but you have to dig. This is how you can get those old coins buried in old "relic" locations that are often infested with iron. The MXT in MHO is quite the effective detector for this style of relic hunting. Txquest.
I use both relic modes and use my 10 inch DD coil. When I am hunting in good ground I will run trigger forward and the gain as high as I can without making it unstable. The Desc. is at zero. I have noticed some types of dirt I can get a little more depth with the trigger center, desc. around 2 or 3.
When I am in mineralized ground or trashy spots I will sometimes switch to the 6x10, but I am sacrificing some depth. On the plus side it is more stable, less chatter. Yesterday I was hunting in a pasture and was digging deep 69's. They were around 8 to 12 inches, the signal was weak at times but with good headphones you will hear them.
The main thing here is you have to slow down, once you dig a deep 69, slow down. You will dig more if your patient and slow down and pay attention. What I am hearing is broken high tones mixed with a few low grunts, When I am in a situation like this just slow down watch your vdi, I pretty much will dig anything questionable. Something metal, iron will give you the same high, low tones, but the vdi will bounce, between neg. and a high positive. I will dig these simply because these iron signals could be gun parts, sword scabbards, gun molds, bayonets, etc..
Last week I was in a spot where I had a signal that was very erratic, the low grunts, and occasional high beep mixed in. I was surprised it was a 69 fairly deep, around 8 to 10 inches. I initially bought this detector for digging in the red dirt in Virginia, I attend the DIV hunts, I really got
where I liked it here in Mo. as well. I have never used the stock coil. When I hear that faint beep that is deep, I know I am usually on a bullet, possibly one another detector may have missed. A fair amount of these bullest were deep in a cow pasture, I learned my MXT by digging these types of signals I mentioned and recovering these. This was posted a few weeks ago on a post that is a couple pages back.
When I am in mineralized ground or trashy spots I will sometimes switch to the 6x10, but I am sacrificing some depth. On the plus side it is more stable, less chatter. Yesterday I was hunting in a pasture and was digging deep 69's. They were around 8 to 12 inches, the signal was weak at times but with good headphones you will hear them.
The main thing here is you have to slow down, once you dig a deep 69, slow down. You will dig more if your patient and slow down and pay attention. What I am hearing is broken high tones mixed with a few low grunts, When I am in a situation like this just slow down watch your vdi, I pretty much will dig anything questionable. Something metal, iron will give you the same high, low tones, but the vdi will bounce, between neg. and a high positive. I will dig these simply because these iron signals could be gun parts, sword scabbards, gun molds, bayonets, etc..
Last week I was in a spot where I had a signal that was very erratic, the low grunts, and occasional high beep mixed in. I was surprised it was a 69 fairly deep, around 8 to 10 inches. I initially bought this detector for digging in the red dirt in Virginia, I attend the DIV hunts, I really got
where I liked it here in Mo. as well. I have never used the stock coil. When I hear that faint beep that is deep, I know I am usually on a bullet, possibly one another detector may have missed. A fair amount of these bullest were deep in a cow pasture, I learned my MXT by digging these types of signals I mentioned and recovering these. This was posted a few weeks ago on a post that is a couple pages back.
coloradocav
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It's the only way to go!!