I hunted every day since Feb with my 600. I'm in quiet fields, Nail infested cellars, trashy parks, etc, and I've settled on zero iron bias. I can't really speak to the whys and what-fors but I can say I hardly ever dig twist tops or cans. I get almost no falsings. I don't crank the sens though...about 19 in trash, up to 21 in the open fields. I never had a minelab before February, coming from the T2. So maybe, people with minelabs for years can crank the sens...I can't...and I'm still digging dimes at 8in and two coppers each at a foot. My record was 11in with my T2.
I have mine set to zero. In my air tests I was passing up gold rings next to iron if it was set higher. The higher setting increases the chances that a target will be labeled as iron. In an area where you don't want to miss non ferrous targets, set it lower.
Same here - it is a filter that supposedly helps with iron falsing. I don't much care about that since I can interrogate the target in all metal mode and listen for the accompanying iron tone. IB will keep you from picking up masked non-ferrous amongst thick iron if you invoke it. Other than moderate levels of discrimination, I avoid any other notches and filters and let my brain figure it out. IB = 0 for me.
Run mine at 1 but might lower it to 0. I wouldn't run it higher than 1 for fear of missing masked targets. Cuttin the sens down to 18 to 20 helps in the iron most from what ive found.
Run mine at 1 but might lower it to 0. I wouldn't run it higher than 1 for fear of missing masked targets. Cuttin the sens down to 18 to 20 helps in the iron most from what ive found.
Many good and valid points here. On our trashy beaches, I run 0 iron bias in all metal and let the tones indicate what might be under my coil. When hunting relics, same....relics made of ferrous material are important to the museum I support.