What is the Highest FE number you have gotten???

[Gonehunting]

On the E-Trac my highest number ever was a 22-40,23-35...

From all the good targets you have dug.. I am wondering what has been the highest FE(1st) number that you have gotten, and I mean solid and not jumping around, for a good target say coins. Really needing the precise number..
I have noticed that it really hits more exact FE numbers than the E-Trac.. The highest I have had was 15..... it was a clad quarter 15-47......

 

[Niffler]

In my area we have a lot of iron in the soil and imported acid rain thanks to tall smokestacks in the rust belt. As a result, any sandwich coin and most silvers get iron plated soon after they're driven into the soil. Local parks often give me countless and constant readings of FE35/CO48 which, when dug out of curiosity, usually yield balls of rusty soik with an occasional bit of rusty nail I also have coins regularly come up red with rust. Even so, a FE of 15 is the highest I've yet gotten for what proved to be a good target.

 

[Digger]

with the exception of big silver in High or Low Trash Separation, the FE range on US coins I've found has been between 9 - 15, with 95% of them between 11 - 13. HH Randy

 

[earthmansurfer]

With the E-Trac - I would say around 15 ish, maybe as high as 18. Beyond that, they bounced as you said. But sometimes, the Fe numbers were very solid in the lower 20's and then by adjusting my swing the Fe numbers started to once again bounce.
My ground is somewhat iron mineralized.

With the CTX - I haven't been paying as much attention so can't say with certainty. But what is interesting is that with high trash, the cross hairs on a good target sometimes drops in the 20's (someimes it doesn'tbounce but you can see the target trace shooting towards coin, button, non ferrous area from iron). Then, when I switch to ferrous coin, the VID solidifies near the 12 Fe line. Sometimes when ferrous coin gives a good Fe number, then when I go to high trash, the Fe number jumps to the top of the screen! I never observed this much jumpiness on the E-Trac in high trash. I tend to run ferrous coin on the CTX most of the time as the jumpiness of high trash on the CTX (in my somewhat iron mineralized soil) would clearly cause me to miss targets. I imagine it is my soil causing the jumpiness in high trash.

Here is a short video on an approximately 3" or 4" deep screw (non iron) which describes some of what I said above. I edited the end out because some people came up to talk with me and I never showed the target, but it was a screw.

Albert

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lpZkdao3Q[/video]

 

[BarberDan]

15 is the highest I've gotten with the CTX and it turned out to be a coin. It was pretty solid @ 15.

 

[Gonehunting]

That's what I have been seeing and wonder if a descrim setting can be raise for just shooting coins, because of this.. Like a heavily trashed site?? or someone who just wants to cherry pick??? I have been scanning small strips that have some coin targets and I had a 50 tone high trash with the ferrous line at 16 and I didn't miss any of them compared to my other setting.. Not really something I would use but might be beneficial to someone who hunts really trash sites for just coins.. and wants a really quite operation..

 

[Larry (IL)]

That is pretty much what the High Trash Program is, it rejects FE16 to 35. It has a small window open from CO 10 on up to 50. I have the Combined audio set for it and I use in the very trashy ground. It seems to work pretty good in trash at the expense of losing a little bit of depth.

 

[Gonehunting]

Cool i learned something thanks man.

 

[Bell-Two]

With my E-Trac I got a solid 20-42 both directions and it was a wheat penny. There was a small piece of iron right with it so that accounts for the high FE

 

[Gonehunting]

Yes that is high, but looking for numbers on the CTX.