"All metal" - Horseshoe button

[saanich2018]

This post goes along with my other post from yesterday about figuring out my VDI signals.

Some people had said to use the "All metal" or horseshoe button at certain times.

There is only a brief paragraph on page 49 of the manual about this button and there are no videos I can find about it.

Will someone please go into more detail what it is for and when to use it.

Thank you.

 

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[abbynormal]

I would love to know more about this as well - thank you

 

[HighVDI]

I wouldn't overthink it. When you want to hear everything in the ground press the button.....and when you don't keep it off. I run it in all metal probably 80% of the time. Actually, the trashier the site the more I use it! Lets you hear the targets mixed with iron better.

 

[Truth]

I wouldn't overthink it. When you want to hear everything in the ground press the button.....and when you don't keep it off. I run it in all metal probably 80% of the time. Actually, the trashier the site the more I use it! Lets you hear the targets mixed with iron better.

I’ve been running mine in all metal myself I’m getting used to it I’m starting to like it more. I noticed a difference in my button finds.

P.S. Also depending on location if you’re on old 1800 properties dig your 9-10 signals for buttons.

 

[ColonelDan]

I always use All Metal for two main reasons:

1) I hunt primarily on Florida's east coast (Treasure Coast) and digging up an iron artifact from the 1715 Wrecks or another of the hundreds of wrecks along our shores is just as exciting as finding a modern gold ring for me.

2) Our tourist beaches can be pretty trashy at times so I let the tones tell me what MIGHT be under my coil. I've found "good stuff" under or right along side of trash that had I been running in disc, that "good stuff" would have been masked. I pretty much dig it all on our beaches.

 

[Tpmetal]

I wouldn't overthink it. When you want to hear everything in the ground press the button.....and when you don't keep it off. I run it in all metal probably 80% of the time. Actually, the trashier the site the more I use it! Lets you hear the targets mixed with iron better.

this is how I have used both of my detectors very successfully around cellar holes. all metal gives you the info you need.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

I sometimes use it to determine if a high tone is iron or not, as larger hunks of iron will do that. It will give the grunt, similar to what my AT PRO does.

 

[HighVDI]

I sometimes use it to determine if a high tone is iron or not, as larger hunks of iron will do that. It will give the grunt, similar to what my AT PRO does.

Only problem with this is that some edge of detection targets can do the same. Deep coins seem to have their own little sounds mixed with those iron grunts.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

Agreed, I normally will dig any high tones anyway. It's just nice to know whether your dealing with some iron in there or not.

 

[A2coins]

Good info to know

 

[saanich2018]

Agreed, I normally will dig any high tones anyway. It's just nice to know whether your dealing with some iron in there or not.

Okay, I am still not straight on this...

With the all metal button on, it means the detector will scan for all metal With it off, the bottom left end of the scale on the VD will not show below zero and you will not see negative numbers?

The other day when I was out, the all metal button was off. So the VD scale started at zero. However, I did not see any negative numbers. Also, a nail and a piece of an iron pipe came in with fairly high numbers?

I thought with the all metal off, I was not suppose to pick up iron?

Please explain this to me. Still confused

Thank you

 

[ripvanb]

I'm no expert but I believe when you have "All Metal" ON it turns off whatever discrimination you have set. So if you are running the machine with all of the iron discriminated out once you press the all metal button it will turn off the discrimination and you will hear all of the iron. Like any metal detector iron discrimination is not 100% effective. Large iron and round iron rings and such will come through the discrimination a lot.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

ripvanb is correct. Depending on what mode you are in, most of the iron signals "may" be discriminated out. Like he said, iron rings and horseshoes, etc can still ring in high. A quick press of the button will tell you if iron is in there. You'll get a low "growl" or "grunt". The best thing for you to do is get out there and get more hours on the machine. Dig everything, and take note of what the stuff you are digging is. For me, it's really more about learning the sounds, and not so much the VDI's. I'm new to the Equinox too, but have decades of experience on other detectors. AS HighVDI says, don't overthink it. If it beeps, dig it! That's what I'm gonna do. You can try to cherry pick all you want, but you'll still be missing some good targets.