Eagle Eye Treasure Hound

[Polydefkis]

Hello everyone. First of all let me introduce myself. I am from Greece and I am new in this THing hobby. Please excuse my poor English. I will try to make myself as clear as possible.

I have just bought a Garrett 2500 detector (haven't received it yet). My interest is in finding not only spare coins, but also larger items in deeper locations. I have heard that this "Eagle Eye Treasure Hound" or "Bloodhound" can offer significant increase in the search depth. What is your opinion? What is the best depth that can be searched with the help of this depth multiplier? Would you suggest me to buy one.

Thank you.

 

[Monty]

An old saying, "You have to learn to crawl before you walk." The GTI 2500 is a fine machine but you need to learn to operate it properly before you even think about using a depth multiplier. The depth multiplier is often referred to as a two box unit and is used for finding large objects or caches. You generally have to do a lot of research and know the approximate location of a cache before it is very useful. You can't just blindly operate the unit hoping you might find something. Most people start out finding coins or small artifacts and just spend a lot of time learning to communicate with your detector. By that I mean to learn what the detector is telling you and how to operate the various modes. You can learn a great deal of general information just by reading this forum, a good place to start your new found hobby. Good luck to you and don't be afraid to ask questions as you learn. Monty

 

[Polydefkis]

Thank you Monty

 

[Eu_citzen]

I have the treasure hound, it's not been put much to use, yet.
I have to agree with Monty.
I have read that the best is approx 6,5 meters. (not sure..)
It depends on what your searching for, if your searching for 'deep caches' it would do fine, but on smaller stuff it won't help you much.

NOTE it operates in "All Metal Mode" automatically.

Hope it helps.

 

[Polydefkis]

I have read that the best is approx 6,5 meters. (not sure..)

6.5 meters!!!! WOW!!! I have some stories-myths about deep caches that I want to search for. But the expecting depth is no more than 2 meters. If it can search for deep caches at 6.5m, then it would be more than I can imagine and hope for!!!

Thanks anyway Eu_citzen

 

[74BRONC]

I have the depth multiplier for my GTI 2500 and so far I am not really that impressed it’s very noisy and it only sometimes picks up a large coffee can at about 3 feet I was expecting more than this.
But I just got it a couple of weeks ago and I haven’t had too much time to spend on it yet so it might just require some adjustments to the settings.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Yes 6.5 meters but that is when you have optimal ground conditions..

74BRONC:
it's noisy because of the 'All Metal Mode', which means that you in theory also could find motherlode(s). (of i.e gold ore)
As I said it has to do with much i.e the experience of the user, ground conditions, if threre is anything to find at all..
Yeah try to set the 'sensetivity down to appox 7.5 helps to me.. if automatical ground balance won't help try manual gound balance, eventohugh you will lose depth you wont be digging hot rocks.

 

[musstag]

I have the Garrett master hunter CX and the T-hound attachment. I echo whats been stated. Knowing something is or may be somewhere at the location your working. I Have a test gallon metal can buried at 48 inch to its TOP. If I did not know or think it might be there, its a 50/50 chance that I would not detect it just walking around. Some days its easier to detect than others. yes, a tone of 7.5 seems to be the best. I have tested on cement culverts (voids) about 7 feet under the ground under a highway, and it detects the void. It finds a sofball size of metal at 24 inches pretty well, Held CLOSE TO THE GROUND and adjusted to a low tone (7.5) before checking. Its stated that it works on Fruit Jar size items, I guess a quart. My softball test is much smaller than that.

 

[Eu_citzen]

yes, close to the ground= more depth.
If I remember correctly the fron coil can (Or will) detect smaller items.