Deft Tones
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- Mar 24, 2016
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Unbelievable luck today!
I took the new Sovereign GT to the park for the first time. Mainly to see how she handles trash. Take it slow and easy. Dig signals I think sound good. School is in session. This machine is a heavy slow tortoise and very highly rated, so when a NIB unit came up I pounced.
A little background. I received the Sov in the mail on Friday afternoon and had it assembled quickly, ready to go. turned it on. few tone checks and shut it off. It was dark and cold by the evening with bone chilling winds. I had to go outside because of EMI. Barely could do air tests and I wondered if something was wrong and needed to confirm proper operation. I was underdressed for the wind wearing a fleece pullover. I got out for about 12 minutes and confirmed it was running very smooth. Machine was set using Gary Drayton’s suggested settings for noob SovGT owners. That’s me!
Ready for tone tests:
Welcome to the family!
Saturday I got a few hours at a soybean field and then an adjacent freshly harvested cornfield. I wanted to make sure I could pinpoint with this thing, and I also didn’t want to look like an idiot out in public trying to familiarize with the machine. Pinpointing was a breeze. BANG ON! I was concerned because I've been reading ancient posts... guys new to DD coils I guess.
Edge of the bean field:
Ancient oxbow to the left
Nothing much was found lead, .22 casings, a .243 shell, and the best thing... a very small piece of cut lead. At least I know it should hit a large stud earing now. Mistakenly for that entire hunt I was not in Auto Sens as I thought I had set it – it was maxed out!
Whoops!
But it ran smooth as silk with not one peep of iron or EMI …silent with a smooth as glass threshold. Nulling yes, but not one false signal. Amazing! 
So, today I go to local park to take a very casual hunt/stroll. After ground balancing, my first signal sounds good enough, so I dig and end up with the religious pin from 4 inches, right near the playground. "Light Of Christ". Sounded like 2” deep to me and I was a little short on retrieval at first. Cool, I think to myself. I sarcastically hope this machine only finds good stuff and no trash!
Perhaps in the least it might make it easier to recognize.
I stroll around the trees and picnic area for a bit. Dig some clad coins. And then the ring pulls appeared. They sounded good too! After 15 or so ring pulls and a few unusual signals that turned out rusty crown caps, I noticed a certain undertone to the ring pulls. I guess “tinny” characteristic. Similar to the Deus on aluminum. The bottle caps were easier to ID by tone and I only dug a few more of those signals the rest of the hunt.
I decided to move off Into the wooded areas. Just swinging and listening along the way. First signal was ten feet in, and I about had my eardrums blown in by a massive signal from an already long drawn out audio response. Turned out to be the toy gun at 3”. That’s like my 5th one this year. When’s the real one come?!
Messed around in the woods digging more ring pulls. Some rang in loud and clear, and I would dig a full Raptor sized plug, up to the bottom of the handle, and the ring pull would still be another 2 inches deeper! Some were even on edge at depth. I like that! Now if I could only stop digging those sweet sounding ring pulls!
Out the woods and back across the park to hit an area where there used to be an old tree and is now a circular depression. I came to this spot because I found my only silver coin from this park at this location. I have pounded this 50’ diameter area around the depression with multiple machines/coils. There isn’t any silver left, or I didn’t find any, but I did hit on a nickel/wheat penny spill within feet of that depression. Pulled them from a conservative 7” and they sounded nice and clear too.
20 feet away I’m hearing those ring pull signals on and off again. I’m skipping them looking for different signals. Dug a foil ball that was scratchy at 5”. Oh! That’ll be enough of the scratchy signals for now, I think to myself.
3 more sweeps from the foil and I get a “different” tone. It sounded like those ring pulls except without the edge to it. A more complete, full tone. I thought maybe this is my Sov’s first nickel.
Dig a plug deeper than I thought I'd need because I catch on quick, and what reveals itself? The elusive gold! Ended a more than 50 day drought right there!
I knew immediately. Whipped out the phone camera and took these:
First glimpse.
New lover already trying to come between my wife and I. It fits too!
In a way I wish I had not found gold with the Sovereign GT on my first park hunt.
Tough bar to overcome I think.
I was intending to wind down the hunt, but the ring find blew that plan to shreds. I stuck around another hour hoping to hear one more full sounding tone. Wasn't happening.
The rest of the hunt, as it goes, was somewhat of a let down. Ring pulls galore. It’s hard to top gold, but I did recover some very small denim rivets at depth, so I was impressed with that. The Sovereign GT is more than enough sensitive for my purposes. And so the saga goes on...
All targets recovered.
All marked up!
Weigh-in
The parting shot.
*edit*
Found the same ring here $580!
Anyway, thank you for peeking.
I took the new Sovereign GT to the park for the first time. Mainly to see how she handles trash. Take it slow and easy. Dig signals I think sound good. School is in session. This machine is a heavy slow tortoise and very highly rated, so when a NIB unit came up I pounced.
A little background. I received the Sov in the mail on Friday afternoon and had it assembled quickly, ready to go. turned it on. few tone checks and shut it off. It was dark and cold by the evening with bone chilling winds. I had to go outside because of EMI. Barely could do air tests and I wondered if something was wrong and needed to confirm proper operation. I was underdressed for the wind wearing a fleece pullover. I got out for about 12 minutes and confirmed it was running very smooth. Machine was set using Gary Drayton’s suggested settings for noob SovGT owners. That’s me!
Ready for tone tests:
Welcome to the family!
Saturday I got a few hours at a soybean field and then an adjacent freshly harvested cornfield. I wanted to make sure I could pinpoint with this thing, and I also didn’t want to look like an idiot out in public trying to familiarize with the machine. Pinpointing was a breeze. BANG ON! I was concerned because I've been reading ancient posts... guys new to DD coils I guess.
Edge of the bean field:
Ancient oxbow to the left
Nothing much was found lead, .22 casings, a .243 shell, and the best thing... a very small piece of cut lead. At least I know it should hit a large stud earing now. Mistakenly for that entire hunt I was not in Auto Sens as I thought I had set it – it was maxed out!
Whoops!
But it ran smooth as silk with not one peep of iron or EMI …silent with a smooth as glass threshold. Nulling yes, but not one false signal. Amazing! So, today I go to local park to take a very casual hunt/stroll. After ground balancing, my first signal sounds good enough, so I dig and end up with the religious pin from 4 inches, right near the playground. "Light Of Christ". Sounded like 2” deep to me and I was a little short on retrieval at first. Cool, I think to myself. I sarcastically hope this machine only finds good stuff and no trash!
Perhaps in the least it might make it easier to recognize.I stroll around the trees and picnic area for a bit. Dig some clad coins. And then the ring pulls appeared. They sounded good too! After 15 or so ring pulls and a few unusual signals that turned out rusty crown caps, I noticed a certain undertone to the ring pulls. I guess “tinny” characteristic. Similar to the Deus on aluminum. The bottle caps were easier to ID by tone and I only dug a few more of those signals the rest of the hunt.
I decided to move off Into the wooded areas. Just swinging and listening along the way. First signal was ten feet in, and I about had my eardrums blown in by a massive signal from an already long drawn out audio response. Turned out to be the toy gun at 3”. That’s like my 5th one this year. When’s the real one come?!
Messed around in the woods digging more ring pulls. Some rang in loud and clear, and I would dig a full Raptor sized plug, up to the bottom of the handle, and the ring pull would still be another 2 inches deeper! Some were even on edge at depth. I like that! Now if I could only stop digging those sweet sounding ring pulls!
Out the woods and back across the park to hit an area where there used to be an old tree and is now a circular depression. I came to this spot because I found my only silver coin from this park at this location. I have pounded this 50’ diameter area around the depression with multiple machines/coils. There isn’t any silver left, or I didn’t find any, but I did hit on a nickel/wheat penny spill within feet of that depression. Pulled them from a conservative 7” and they sounded nice and clear too.
20 feet away I’m hearing those ring pull signals on and off again. I’m skipping them looking for different signals. Dug a foil ball that was scratchy at 5”. Oh! That’ll be enough of the scratchy signals for now, I think to myself.
3 more sweeps from the foil and I get a “different” tone. It sounded like those ring pulls except without the edge to it. A more complete, full tone. I thought maybe this is my Sov’s first nickel.
Dig a plug deeper than I thought I'd need because I catch on quick, and what reveals itself? The elusive gold! Ended a more than 50 day drought right there!
I knew immediately. Whipped out the phone camera and took these:
First glimpse.
New lover already trying to come between my wife and I. It fits too!
In a way I wish I had not found gold with the Sovereign GT on my first park hunt.
Tough bar to overcome I think.I was intending to wind down the hunt, but the ring find blew that plan to shreds. I stuck around another hour hoping to hear one more full sounding tone. Wasn't happening.
The rest of the hunt, as it goes, was somewhat of a let down. Ring pulls galore. It’s hard to top gold, but I did recover some very small denim rivets at depth, so I was impressed with that. The Sovereign GT is more than enough sensitive for my purposes. And so the saga goes on...
All targets recovered.
All marked up!
Weigh-in
The parting shot.
*edit*
Found the same ring here $580!
Anyway, thank you for peeking.
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