iron discrimate

[jimzz977]

I was wondering if disc iron can
You lose any gold targets. Should i detect in all metal mode?

 

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[dale68]

I'm not familiar witrh the 2200, but would say iron disc could knock small pieces out. Best bet use all metal, if you encounter a lot of small iron set the disc to maks it sound bad but not silent. Good luck with ur search

 

[ticm]

I find it fascinating that people want to disk it out. Why is that. Does the sound from the detector bother you.

 

[jimzz977]

No but maybe i got tired of digging up trash

 

[SilverorBust]

I listen to the iron but rarely dig it.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

ticm

I find it fascinating that people want to disk it out. Why is that. Does the sound from the detector bother you.

Ticm, I believe you are confusing issues. If a person is using a tone-ID machine, where he's elected to hear everything (and simply use his ears to decide what to dig, verses what to pass), that's not the same as going "all-metal". What I'm trying to say is, the very moment we md'rs use disc. mode TID, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE OUR SCREENS "WIDE OPEN", is still a form of discrimination, because we are still using our ears to pass iron, or foil, whatever else we elect to. If you want to know what real "all-metal" mode is, you'd have to go to a machines pinpoint mode (or all-metal mode, or whatever each particular machine calls it), and listen in that mode. Everything will sound the same, with no TID. Only THAT is true all-metal. The other is still a form of discriminate (albeit with your ears).

ok Jimzz977, to answer your question: no, you will not loose gold, if you knock out iron. Because gold is a higher conductor than iron. But this is a trick question though! Because if you're talking extremely small gold items (ie.: pinhead nuggets, or dainty thin chains, etc...), they can read ssseeeoooo low on the TID scale, that they are dangerously close to the iron range. And the reality is, most machines ........ once you knock out iron, might include the range of wet-salt conductivness, and could over-lap into the extremely low ranges of teensy dainty targets.

But assuming you were talking about normal regular gold jewelry items, no. You can knock out iron, and find gold all day long. You're just going to have to allow foil and aluminum in though, as gold (especially smaller items) can read down to small foil. Bigger gold (ie.: fat men's bands, etc...) read up to tabs and so forth.

 

[gunntekk1]

the answer is no, like Tom said if u use all metal mode u will be digging every thing. good luck

 

[ticm]

Ticm, I believe you are confusing issues. If a person is using a tone-ID machine, where he's elected to hear everything (and simply use his ears to decide what to dig, verses what to pass), that's not the same as going "all-metal". What I'm trying to say is, the very moment we md'rs use disc. mode TID, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE OUR SCREENS "WIDE OPEN", is still a form of discrimination, because we are still using our ears to pass iron, or foil, whatever else we elect to. If you want to know what real "all-metal" mode is, you'd have to go to a machines pinpoint mode (or all-metal mode, or whatever each particular machine calls it), and listen in that mode. Everything will sound the same, with no TID. Only THAT is true all-metal. The other is still a form of discriminate (albeit with your ears).

ok Jimzz977, to answer your question: no, you will not loose gold, if you knock out iron. Because gold is a higher conductor than iron. But this is a trick question though! Because if you're talking extremely small gold items (ie.: pinhead nuggets, or dainty thin chains, etc...), they can read ssseeeoooo low on the TID scale, that they are dangerously close to the iron range. And the reality is, most machines ........ once you knock out iron, might include the range of wet-salt conductivness, and could over-lap into the extremely low ranges of teensy dainty targets.

But assuming you were talking about normal regular gold jewelry items, no. You can knock out iron, and find gold all day long. You're just going to have to allow foil and aluminum in though, as gold (especially smaller items) can read down to small foil. Bigger gold (ie.: fat men's bands, etc...) read up to tabs and so forth.

Well I don't hunt to many modern areas school and parks and such. So I guess I was giving my opinion on places like old home sites and the like. I dig a lot of iron and find a lot of cool stuff. I suppose if I were hunting a park with no history it would get tiring digging up bolts and modern nails. Not to many cellar holes in CA I bet. Lots of people don't have access to such places. So if your coin shooting I guess I would not dig most of the sounds I hear.

 

[ticm]

No but maybe i got tired of digging up trash

If your hunting places with a long history you may want to reconsider. If your just after gold then that's another matter.

 

[jimzz977]

Thanks for your responds you guys are very helpful. I went hunting today and put fresh batteries and started hunting and the detector shut down, put old batteries and start working