z118
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Received the BH Tracker IV yesterday, hit my back yard after dinner. What a great time! I only had a little while to play around, and I was really trying to figure out the different settings, but I think I still had some pretty good luck. I will attach a scan of the keepers below.
A few thoughts...
1. I had been thinking that I would just always scan in "All metal" mode. Wrong! Holy cow there are a lot of rusty nails in my back yard.
2. Figuring out how to dig a hole in the ground is more difficult then figuring out how to use the metal detector. I can't believe how difficult it can be to find a penny in a few cupfulls of dirt. It was an especially large hassle when whatever I detecting was in the middle of the turf roots, and not in the loose dirt below the turf. I need to work on digging holes.
3. After my yard, I ran down to a local park, but it was starting to get dark. I hit seemingly endless good signals, but based on my poor hole digging skills and the impending darkness, I opted to wait for another day.
4. It can be cold in October.
Below is a scan of my good finds... $0.22 in clad, two wheat pennies (1937 & 1940), and a cool copper looking arrowhead with a Native American etched and painted on it. Not pictured is all the junk I found, including a disintegrated metal mason jar lid with porcelain inserts, a ton of rusty nails and screws, a little piece of pipe, scraps metal, and foil liter.
Today I need to look at old posts to see what settings people have had success with on the Tracker IV. I'm afraid to discriminate, because i don't want to miss anything, but I don't want to spend all day digging up junk either.
Thanks!
A few thoughts...
1. I had been thinking that I would just always scan in "All metal" mode. Wrong! Holy cow there are a lot of rusty nails in my back yard.
2. Figuring out how to dig a hole in the ground is more difficult then figuring out how to use the metal detector. I can't believe how difficult it can be to find a penny in a few cupfulls of dirt. It was an especially large hassle when whatever I detecting was in the middle of the turf roots, and not in the loose dirt below the turf. I need to work on digging holes.
3. After my yard, I ran down to a local park, but it was starting to get dark. I hit seemingly endless good signals, but based on my poor hole digging skills and the impending darkness, I opted to wait for another day.
4. It can be cold in October.
Below is a scan of my good finds... $0.22 in clad, two wheat pennies (1937 & 1940), and a cool copper looking arrowhead with a Native American etched and painted on it. Not pictured is all the junk I found, including a disintegrated metal mason jar lid with porcelain inserts, a ton of rusty nails and screws, a little piece of pipe, scraps metal, and foil liter.
Today I need to look at old posts to see what settings people have had success with on the Tracker IV. I'm afraid to discriminate, because i don't want to miss anything, but I don't want to spend all day digging up junk either.
Thanks!
