How Well Does Your Detector Handle Iron?

[Michigan Badger]

My Sovereign GT handles it maybe a little better than I'd like. Even set at the lowest point in discrimination mode the GT will reject most iron. Anything other than a larger piece of iron (shallow horseshoe, spoon, etc.) will simply null out.

Since I do like to dig the larger iron relics I find this strong iron rejection a bit agravating at times.

Minelabs are not ideal for iron relics. Fisher, Tesoro, and a few others, do much better.

Badger

 

[Tykit]

Back in the 1970's I taped a small piece of foil to

the top of my (Heathkit) coil. It had to be in just the right spot. It didn't detect nearly as deep, but it didn't respond to buried foil when used that way, yet still detected coins. This detector had no disciminator, only a "Power" knob. I tried taping various metal pieces to the top of my Compass and Tesoro's, so far made no change at all.