Attached below is my go-to program for hunting in heavy iron.
Its actually a combination of two of my favorite programs. Trashy Park and Tadpole. I call it Dirty Frog. The idea behind it is to get pretty much all US coins and most medium to large jewelry. Fairly open pattern to help prevent masking. I usually run this with ferrous-coin, but if running high trash separation, I would lower the bottom tone break down a few notches.
It will knock out most of the annoying small iron in the bottom righthand corner so that the target ID isn't so jumpy. It also knocks out everything on the back side of nickels. You will miss some tiny rings or other small jewelry, but the trade off is that it gets rid of most small foil and other junk items. Even though the right hand side of the nickel notch is open, you'll still be able to ID nickels by the tone due to the way the bins are set up. Different tones for nickels, indians through wheats, and then the highest tone for silvers or clad dimes and quarters.
Using Ferrous-Coin separation, the machine tries to push good targets toward the 12 line, but I leave the upper right side open so that I will still get large silvers if I decide to switch to High Trash.
Settings are:
Mode: Combined
Separation: Ferrous-Coin
Response: Normal
Fast: ON
Deep: OFF
Seawater: OFF
I haven't checked this thread in a while but looks like you're doing really well with the CTX bibelot!
Do you think the Conductivity reading and depth determines where the FE falls to an extent ?I notice lower conductor numbers tend to fall opposite direction than high conductors ?I've pulled more nickels by opening up the lower FE line from the FE 12 line. I've never seen a nickel read 13.12, 14.12 yet but I've pulled nickels with a 07.09-07.14 ID number due to depth and mineralization in the soil maybe ?
Even though the CTX and Etrac are known for better ID than most other machines, from what I've seen depth will still effect the numbers. Other things such as wear on coins, variations in composition materials (ie V will generally read lower than buffalo), orientation in the ground, separation mode, and other targets being nearby can also effect TID. Even though most nickels seem to hit around 12-12 to 12-13 for me, I've dug plenty that read lower and a few that read higher. I've dug silver dimes that read like zincs too. I don't put a lot of weight on the FE numbers as long as it's in the general range of the pattern I'm using.. I pay more attention to the CO numbers.
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No, I'm not. I have been deciding on whether to sell it or not.Are you still mainly using the 6" now bibelot?
TexasCTX3030 - Mario (NetHunter)
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