What's your favorite mode?

[gobum62]

What mode do you prefer detecting in, All Metal or Discriminate and why? This would be for detecting in town at parks, homesites, etc. Seems like most of the videos done on YouTube are done in All Metal.
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gobum62

 

[BarberBill]

I like to hunt in disc with the setting a tad above iron most of the time. Once in a great while I'll turn the disc way up and cherry pick. IMHO, all metal usually gives a bit better depth and forces one to dig all targets which means some times you'll find a goodie that was masked and wouldn't have responded in disc mode. However this method can get pretty tiresome in heavily trashed areas.
BB

 

[Sailorman]

Totally site dependent. On the vast majority of places I hunt if you don't disc out the iron trash you'd spend all day digging junk in a small area. Maybe some folks enjoy it, I don't! It's trying enough chasing all the pull tab signals in hopes of a ring.

But there are some places where it's either fairly clean or there's relics around and you're going to go for it all. In that case might as well hunt AM as it does seem to get better depth.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

I hunt almost exclusively in Iron Mask 22 on my Explorer. I do end up digging questionable (junk?) signals, which is my style anyways. But sometimes I get lucky with them.

 

[Steve O]

I only use all metal if emi rears it's head combined with very low iron/trash areas. All metal doesn't give me as much noise fatigue in emi areas. So 90% of the time I use disc set at zero. One of my detectors is deeper in disc mode.

 

[Ed in SoDak]

I'll switch back and forth between motion and no-motion modes, but leave the disc off in the motion mode. My T2 and early Time Ranger both have ID in no-motion, so I like to hear all targets but use the ID info to dig selectively.
-Ed

 

[gobum62]

I only use all metal if emi rears it's head combined with very low iron/trash areas. All metal doesn't give me as much noise fatigue in emi areas. So 90% of the time I use disc set at zero. One of my detectors is deeper in disc mode.

Am wondering what "emi rears it's head" means, never heard that term?
Thanks
gobum62

 

[Steve O]

Gobum, EMI is an abbreviation for ElectroMagnetic Interference. I was referring to it making certain detectors go crazy with rapid fire tones, in some areas. It can be caused by power lines, equipment running, dog fences...and the list goes on. Rears it's ugly head is the common saying for "something disliked showing up"

 

[jabbo]

All Metal mode covers a wider path than Disc mode. Depth is about the same on my detector. The wider path gets more targets, I use it in cornfields and woods, not in trashy places.

 

[giuhalftrack]

Site dependent:
In clean areas, All metal then switch to min-disc for questionable target testing...
in trash areas, Disc set on Iron.
in nightmare trashy areas, Disc set on Foil.

(with tesoro silver umax)

 

[oldcoon]

Site dependant.

All metal when relic hunting.
Low iron settings other times.