Believe me I am looking at every piece of ground that don't have snow on it.
There are ways to discern crown caps. And actually there are some very distinct nuances in the audio, but they take time and technique to learn.And also for the bottle caps says "non-ferrous"
For me, this machine is not so good. Discrimination for some complex signals is poor.
I hunt with a guy that has had a 705 since they first came out. When I read people saying that if the 705 says iron it's iron I know for a fact they are missing good targets,as in deep coins. After hunting with my buddy and comparing 100s of signals with my explorer the 705 struggled with I'd on coins after about 7 inches it would Id with negative numbers and occasionally flash a positive number. I recently bought one myself and it did the same thing. I'm not picking on the 705 just saying it will id deep coins as iron. After comparing signals and learning this my buddies old coin count went up dramatically. Through this process he was calling minelab and they would tell him that the 705 wouldn't do what we were experiencing but after finding a good deep target and the 705 calling it iron and still digging a coin his old coin count grew.
To clarify, are you referencing a stock configured machine? In C/T Mode only?I hunt with a guy that has had a 705 since they first came out. When I read people saying that if the 705 says iron it's iron I know for a fact they are missing good targets,as in deep coins. After hunting with my buddy and comparing 100s of signals with my explorer the 705 struggled with I'd on coins after about 7 inches it would Id with negative numbers and occasionally flash a positive number. I recently bought one myself and it did the same thing. I'm not picking on the 705 just saying it will id deep coins as iron. After comparing signals and learning this my buddies old coin count went up dramatically. Through this process he was calling minelab and they would tell him that the 705 wouldn't do what we were experiencing but after finding a good deep target and the 705 calling it iron and still digging a coin his old coin count grew.
So, is the moral of the story to pay special attention to deep iron targets below ___? deep, and use our other id methods (size, tone quality, etc.) to determine to dig, or not? If I'm not mistaken, I believe that I've read about most VLF detectors loosing correct id at about that same depth, and then reporting iron.
Thanks for the info on your testing. I'm sure that will help other users in identifying those deep coins, myself included...
To clarify, are you referencing a stock configured machine? In C/T Mode only?