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David and it might have to do with better coverage of a site also. I'm thinking most coils have "sweet" spots along the detection field. Can't prove it very easily but it seems so. OAN being a meticulous hunter/ground scanner for me makes a huge difference. It could be any of the above I'm guessing but being meticulous puts a lot more targets in my pouch. Painting the gro
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Jack Flynn
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Don71 Wrote:
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> I am wondering if you have a problem with your
> machine. I had the same problem with target ID's
> all over the place and lack of depth on my Fors
> Relic. I sent the machine back and now waiting for
> replacement. I had no problem with my AU Gold
> Finder or F19 discrimination at the same site.
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Jack Flynn
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say upwards of 95% of any place around where you live hasn't had a detector ran over it. What's your thoughts on that. Then there's the "that's been hunted" type places that in reality haven't had a decent/correct search made on them........
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Jack Flynn
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dewcon4414 Wrote:
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> Sooo its ok to make it a personal competition as
> to how many coins u dig..... but what makes it ok
> is u dont show them? Still sounds like u hate the
> competition. Sounds a little jealous to me
> because they are killing it and u arent. So you
> want to challengetheir finds or talk about t
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Jack Flynn
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I haven't used the Relic "yet" lol. But nails are very easy to master on these machines. While detecting listen carefully and dig, start putting 2 and 2 together. These machines have the best iron disc I've ever used. Make sure you dissect your suspected target very good walking around it. The R2, R1, CoRe, Gold+, CF77 all have great iron disc on them. The machines will tell y
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Jack Flynn
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The public perception 99% of it comes/came from the TV shows. What you see on these forums is hardly ever seen by anyone except us. In a day and age of instant gratification by at least 75% of the population. Great for sales, then into the closet it goes from the TV shows.
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Jack Flynn
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David I killed the nickels with mine, more than I've ever dug in a couple of outings. Same place I'm hunting now with the R2, see my recent posts lol. This was I think first time on this couple of lot's I'm still hunting and using fe/coin and combined lit the place up. But the amount of trash has so many targets masked that the R2 is finding now. Right tool for the job.....com
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Jack Flynn
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Wayne you'll never get that crud off. We find a lot of coins around chimneys "not there anymore" where the old houses used to stand. This one was in such a place right where the chimney stood. The bricks are still in the ground there. Whether they've had the crud burnt on or what, don't know. It just don't come off. With that said it's in the tumbler right now t
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Harold I don't have a problem at all. The places I hunt are full of everything, modern back to the who knows when. At first until I moved the second tone break I was digging crown caps left and right. Not unless it's a substantial piece of aluminum you won't dig it either, TID all over the place and sounds washed out just like the CoRe and Racer. Foil, haven't dug a piece yet.
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Jack Flynn
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Harold the machine is killin it! These places a lot of people have spent a lot of time in detecting. More than imaginable really. I'm just running it and letting it teach me. It's doing a pretty good job of it too.
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Jack Flynn
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I usually run mine 85-95 even in the trashiest of places. If I'm getting overloads I just raise the coil. Somewhere in the mid 90's the machine goes into, my explanation now, a hyper mode. Purring splatting chatting but when it hits good metal you know it. 3 tone is the tell tale of what's there, accompanied with the best audio in a detector, your on a track to success.
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Went to a new spot that a lot of people have hunted where a small shotgun mill house was torn down last fall. Got my 6th silver in as many short hunts. This house wasn't bulldozed, it was taken down by hand and nails removed and the lumber saved. You can guess where most of the nails ended up. This was my ultimate task with the machine. Pulled out a barber dime, 2 wheats, mother of pearl cuf
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David I'm very sure all that happens is you are amplifying the sound on the ETrac. The CTX I can't say but I have observed it "at times" here lately see a lot more stuff in the ground when turned up in manual. However when slowed down sweep wise in auto, unknown target, it would hit the same target.
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Jack Flynn
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Got about an hour and a half in after the breakfast for dinner and got another silver. Same place small area and digging anything that blipped up into the 80's TID wise or even if it didn't give a TID if it was the highest tone chirp I have set above the second tone break of 79 it got dug. Worked great in the heavy trash, very heavy trash. That's 5 hunts and 5 silver now, I hope it
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tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Just makes one wonder,,, how many more are there
> in those sites Jack??
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> You are after them no doubt.
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> Good find,,here in the poor ass south-- beggars
> sure can't be choosey,,,,silver is silver!!!!!
Believe me my mind was churning about just that subject and all the other
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Jack Flynn
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TabWhisperer Wrote:
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> Just think, that could have been mine...
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> Glad you kept it!
Almost sold it to ya but that 5 hour stint proved me wrong, crow is good......
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Jack Flynn
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Des cheating the iron is what it's all about to me. Anytime I can hunt over and over in a place and an something comes along and makes it come back again. That's what I like. I get excited about a penny when it's in someplace I've hunted a lot, small areas especially. Every target is a question of how and why have I missed this before. Other metals being the culprit. Heading o
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Jack Flynn
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Still hunting the same spot in the ghetto. I mean a small spot at the edge of a now long gone houses front porch. Hunted this area for a long time and well I'll say the iron audio did the trick on the R2. 4 silvers in 4 hunts just doesn't happen here at all. Not 2 inches in the ground with a piece of iron laying with it almost covered.
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Jack Flynn
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Quote "The machine runs just as hot/if not hotter than the FG+"
That's a hot machine then! The FG+ will bang out a coin hard and deep too! I dug several headstamps in the 12-14 inch range in a field in the LC of SC with it. Might have to venture into that machine. My first post about the FG+ was if it had 3 tone it would be amazing. This was in the making as I typed that. Just
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Jack Flynn
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For down here as poor as this place was 3 silvers on 3 hunts is a milestone! lol. Got another Merc. Had iron laying on part of it as the rust stain shows.
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Jack Flynn
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Dayum Keith I'd forgotten about that thread! I fell asleep somewhere in the beginning per it went way over my head! The volume thing and pounds and such, just way to many numbers and I've only got five fingers on each hand. Somebody else can just figure out 25#'s of assorted change, just how many could be there. I'm just gonna keep on digging in the ghetto and throwing em in t
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Jack Flynn
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I have no idea and ain't counting em either............ The jest of the post was that's a lot of coins but most all came off places a lot of us have hunted "a lot" and had dried up until the Turkish metal detectors.
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Jack Flynn
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Cal_cobra Wrote:
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> Nice, now go visit a CoinStar machine - lol
No my Babygirl get's em later. She has several pillow cases with more than she can pick up in them. She has been getting my change out of my pocket for 10 yrs + when I lay it down daily. There's a lot of wheaties in that 25 #'s and about 20 or 30 silvers.
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Jack Flynn
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Here's what I'd do until the audio clicks with ya. First off the great thing about the Turkish machines is they alert you that something is there like no other. Then you can dissect what might have gave you that high tone. Set the iron audio at 1, run the second tone break up to 78 or 79. Make the 79 and up tone at the highest khz. Then the mid tone move it enough away from the highest
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Jack Flynn
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I was at a GB of 90 after starting it back up. Looks like in deep it might not make "that" much difference lol.76 to 90 might not be that much of a curve ball for the detector. IDK.
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Jack Flynn
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