Truth
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I have found my fair share of wonderful things with the 800 at great depths but I want to know is there a setting or tips that works best with these square nails. Anything would be appreciated thank you
Truth I can't vouch for the Nox because I don't run one, but I often wonder what makes them dang things ring so good too. I run my machine where it discs out much iron and still get hits on square nails that have me thinking non-ferrous..I dig most iffy signals anyway but still get surprised with their numbers.
I'll not begin to tell you what to do but were I in your shoes, I'd set up a test garden in the type of soil I normally hunt with good targets interspersed with iron nails at various depths. Then I'd adjust the recovery, sensitivity and F2 iron bias to where I achieved the best target ID and separation....under those conditions with those test targets.
This isn't a cure-all by any means as conditions are certainly not uniform throughout any area of operations but it helps me become more familiar with what my EQX is trying to tell me under various conditions when faced with detecting pesky targets mixed with the good ones.
Just the view from my foxhole....
I live and hunt in Birmingham Ala. that has areas with red, mineralized dirt and clay and also massive issues with iron of all kinds both big and small due to my geographic location and the history of so many major iron and steel plants that used to be here.
Also most sites I hunt, including public parks, used to be areas where old homes and even entire neighborhoods used to exist so everywhere I hunt seems like old, razed homesteads with all the crazy junk you usually find at sites like that and masking is my biggest challenge along with a million of those falsing, high tone, fairly solid sounding iron issues.
Here are a couple of tips I use to keep me from wasting time digging tons of iron junk that seems to help.
I turn the horseshoe on over higher tone iffies and if I get a constant iron growl along with the higher tone most times it usually is just iron.
If course there could be a high conductor down there hanging out with iron, too, but I have dug a ton of these types of signals and it usually turns out to be just iron.
I hit iffy targets from more than one direction, on lots of iron if the signal changes a lot that is usually iron junk.
Nails especially, signals I get going "down the pipe" compared to crossing them sideways are usually very different.
If I get some signals in the higher sections up in the 20's that seem fairly solid and repeating and hit from several directions before digging I stick my digger in the dirt and lift up slightly before I dig a hole and then rescan...I can't count how many of those 20's signals just disappear completely from all directions.
I guess if there is such a thing this "breaks the iron halo" and converts the signal to a much better, and real, actual iron only signal.
Just doing that one thing has saved me more time and wasted effort than you might believe.
I still dig iron, some of it just can't be avoided, but anything I can do to free up my time to be able to go after the better, and actual, good target signals definitely helps.
Thank you for giving me that advice.
You're welcome.
I lost almost all my patience years ago digging tons of holes with mostly junk, or wasting time and energy spinning my wheels to find garbage.
Funny that I ended up aiming for and mostly hunting some of the trashiest sites you have ever seen and then ultimately living in a place with weird mineralized devil dirt and more iron than you might think possible...even in lawns at private homes, I just can't seem to avoid it.
A long time ago I decided to hunt in a more "High Percentage", way, figure out how to avoid most of the trash, junk, garbage, and here, the tons of iron and still find the good stuff.
Nowadays I only dig about 20% of the trash and junk I get signals on and yet knowing full well I could be missing stuff I still seemed to have found way more than my share of great treasure.
These tips are just a few of the things I have learned to do out there to attempt to expend less energy, waste less time and find more treasure.
Hope they help.
Same here I’m a 50-year-old who had a blood clot in his pulmonary break and almost kill me so now I have to learn how to dig smartly and not chase every signal like I used to.
Same here I’m a 50-year-old who had a blood clot in his pulmonary break and almost kill me so now I have to learn how to dig smartly and not chase every signal like I used to.
I have a prosthetic left arm, If Im not digging smart Im done in a couple hours but I can dig for 8 hours if I dig smarter not harder lol