ohiochris
Elite Member
This detector is awesome ,... hunting in target dense ground I can not only identify and remove coins surrounded by dense metal trash but I can usually isolate each of those trash items that have masked these coins for many years. Often I hear the good target and the bad target separately even though they are literally right next to each other. This thing UN masks great. When targets are this tight though , it does mess with pinpointing and the depth meter a bit though. You side to side wiggle over that good target , says its.....for example a quarter bouncing really strong 35-37 from every angle , but then you turn on the pinpoint function and its gone....the detector is now pinpointing 4 inches over to the side.....for one reason or another the pinpoint locked on to another target , probably because its shallower , and its ignoring the target you were interested in completely. Multiple times when this has happened Ive dug the area where the good target is and a coin is in fact there , just the detector in pinpoint mode seemed to prefer the one over to the side. But with patience and working the coil around from different angles I can usually get the pinpoint mode to acknowledge the good target and locate it. It just messes with your mind a bit. Something else I have noticed a few times , with dense or close targets , sometimes it looks like a coin in the middle is really deep....Ive dug some of these that looked like a 6 or 8 inch dime ( according to the depth meter ) surrounded by other targets only to find the dime was only 2 or 3 inches deep but the detector added to that depth the distance from the center line on the coil out to the outer edge of the coil where another target was. The way I know this is whats happening is.....and you may have noticed this too......but sometimes you get a good signal thats reading as being very deep on the meter but as you get farther along and closer to the actual location of the target the meter gets more and more shallow.....now that you are directly over the coin it only reads about 2 inches deep It was reading distance from a target at the outer edge of the coil to the center line as depth Somehow , the detector can factor in both at the same time under certain circumstances with close together targets and be very convincing. Atleast 4 times today this happened to me , I was sure I had an 8" dime surrounded by other close targets....which the detector did independently alert me were there , only to find a very shallow dime.
These are not weaknesses in the machine though , just things I am learning about how it handles very close together targets. Im passing this along to give everybody a head start in the process. If you know what might be happening it will be less confusing. Not claiming to be an expert , Im just getting started with this detector , but this is exactly why I bought this detector and could not wait to put it right into some of the toughest places in my area and learn from it. With all the other reviews I havent seen any that covers what Im seeing here in much detail. So Im listing some strengths Ive witnessed so far as well as some quirky behavior I am seeing with it. It still nails each individual target no matter how close and correctly identifies each , which is by far the toughest part. I didnt find more silver today , but I am finding clad that has been masked to many hunters for decades and even locating and isolating the metal objects that have masked them all this time. Thats crazy !! I didnt know it was possible.
These are not weaknesses in the machine though , just things I am learning about how it handles very close together targets. Im passing this along to give everybody a head start in the process. If you know what might be happening it will be less confusing. Not claiming to be an expert , Im just getting started with this detector , but this is exactly why I bought this detector and could not wait to put it right into some of the toughest places in my area and learn from it. With all the other reviews I havent seen any that covers what Im seeing here in much detail. So Im listing some strengths Ive witnessed so far as well as some quirky behavior I am seeing with it. It still nails each individual target no matter how close and correctly identifies each , which is by far the toughest part. I didnt find more silver today , but I am finding clad that has been masked to many hunters for decades and even locating and isolating the metal objects that have masked them all this time. Thats crazy !! I didnt know it was possible.
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