What's your best program for dealing with high iron "infestation"???

[CZconnoisseur]

Hey guys - I've been having great success hunting in the trashiest parts of my sites, and along the way I've been using several different programs to handle mostly ferrous trash - things like nails, bolts, nuts, flat washers, screws, etc. Bottlecaps are almost an entirely different animal, but for the most part digging the occasional cap is no big deal, I'm interested to see what's hiding underneath it...

So far, Coop's bottlecap program has been the most discriminating of programs as far as iron and steep bottlecaps go, before I was using a similar 4 kHz program but it would still hit on the caps pretty hard. What I'm trying to do is further refine this program and enable it to further sift through the junk to find the non-ferrous goodies. I thought initially that depth would be a problem with this program, but I have found some 7-8" deep keepers with nails and screws literally all over the place - over and under non-ferrous targets which came as a surprise!

Just last night I dug a clad quarter that was 6" deep...not before I pulled a silver-dollar sized flat washer that was resting directly over the quarter (at 3-4" deep) along with a 5" long nail and some smaller 2-3" nails in the same 6" X 6" hole - it's simply amazing how this machine totally negates all the junk to see what's below - it surprises me almost every hunt!

I've been using tips and tricks from anyone and everyone, and the finds continue to pour in almost every time I hit those fairgrounds...I wanted to see what other programs you guys are having great success with IN THE TRASHIEST AREAS YOU HUNT! What do you use to get around trash besides the audio or VDI - I'd love to hear what's working for y'all as well!

Happy hunting!

 

[Dalpal]

For old nail infested sites I use:

11 khz
Sen 85
Tx 1
Reac 3
Silencer -1
Iron vol 2
Aud R 5
Desc 3
5 tones

Adjacent 4khz for iron id. Some rusty nail clumps will sound good and give a good vdi but can be ruled out with 4khz. Investigate all high tone blips. If iron thins out farther away from foundation setting can be increased.

Dalpal

 

[Sleepyjim]

For the heavy trash areas I use and had great results with:

Disc Setting 10
Pitch N
Tones 5
Brk-Hrz T1 10-200
Brk-Hrz T2 11-322
Brk-Hrz T3 49-749
Brk-Hrz T4 57-800
Brk-Hrz T5 97-200
Sensitivity 80
TX Pwr 3
Freq 12
Iron Vol 0
Reactivity 4
Silencer 2
Audio Resp 3
Overload 1
Notch 57-70
Ground Notch 57-70

 

[CZconnoisseur]

What kind of depth do you get with that R4 program, Jim?

 

[Sleepyjim]

Pretty good, tokens found down like 6: or more, neve measured but it was close to that.....

And it is a HEAVY trash area......

Jim

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Pretty good, tokens found down like 6: or more, neve measured but it was close to that.....

And it is a HEAVY trash area......

Jim

It's great to compare notes...I've had similar results while running R4 at some of the rental houses...remember also that after I hit a small area with R3, I came back later with R4 and found a few coins still hiding!!! Don't think you lose too much depth in r4 over r3, not like r2 to r3

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

Vance DEUS SETTINGS
DEEP COIN

disc: 8.0
Sens: 90
Tx power: 3
Freq: 11.7
Iron vol: 1
Reactivity: 2
Silencer: 0
Audio resp: 5
Audio overload: 1
Notch: 97-99
5tones
1) 155 breakpoint 8
2) 300 breakpoint 39
3) 650 breakpoint 56
4) 800 breakpoint 97
5) 155

RELIC 2 TONE PROGRAM (for civil war camps no modern trash)
Disc: 30
Sens: 90 ( high as you can run, if in lots of iron run at 80-85 think of iron like headlights in fog too much light you can't see, too much power the detector can't see through iron)
Tx power: 3 (turn down to 2 in heavy iron)
Freq: 7.8
Iron vol: 2 (turn to 0 if iron noise bothers you)
Reactivity: 3 (run at 4 in heavy iron, run at 2 for more depth)
Silencer: 1 (0 will get more depth)
Audio response: 5 (run 6 or 7 to hear deep faint signals but remember anything above 5 the sound doesn't differentiate for shallow and deep it's all amplified)
Audio overload: 1
Notch: 97-99
3 TONES
1) 157 breakpoint 38
2) 665 breakpoint 45
3) 800 (remember and go to notch and notch 97-99 for wrap around iron)

VANCE MAIN RELIC PROGRAM. (I call this program VANCE 007)
Disc: 10 to 35 (depending on site)
Sens: 95 ( I push sens as high as I can when not in iron, back off to 85 when in heavy iron)
Tx power: 3 (unless heavy iron swap to 2)
Freq: 7.8 (run this program in 4khz for extreme depth,)
Iron Vol: 2 (I like hearing the scratchy noise in the background)
Reactivity: 3 (run at 4 in heavy iron run at 2 for depth)
Silencer: 0
Audio resp: 5
Notch: 97-99

5 TONES
1) 100 breakpoint 10-25
2) 400 breakpoint 35
3) 710 breakpoint 58
4) 800 breakpoint 97
5) 100 (97-99 iron wrap around)

*You can run all of these programs at 4khz for more depth
*If your hunting around power lines run 18khz to get rid of EMI interference however remember at 18khz your TID numbers get high a quarter will hit 95 sometimes

* if you need anything for any machines questions or accessories
Or need a new or used machine cash or trade CALL VANCE 502-262-0356

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Every place and situation is different. You have to be able to adjust your machine to the surroundings. No one set program will "do it all". Slight adjustment to your surroundings is key. In really trashy or iron Deus fast is a great place to start.