I cranked up the sense wide open,,disc 6,..dropped the thresh to about 2 enough to quiet her down a bit,.went SL speed all afternoon. Working around the grass and stubble best I could. Just took my time and steady as she goes today. I liked it,...will be putting some more hours/days in the SL speed.
I always...ALWAYS use SL in all metal, most of the time with the gain and thresh maxed out.
Not always the quietest way to set up my F70 but not really all that much more chatty than using lower settings and of course when the coil rolls over something decent it will tell you.
For hunting in heavy iron all metal with these blasted out settings, (I call them Blast Through settings), is the most productive way to hunt...for me, but it took a few hours of practice to get to understand it all and get decent at picking out non ferrous targets in extreme iron.
In the site I learned to do this with extreme iron I did use several coils and I was pretty successful with all of them, a 10" elliptical concentric, the 11" DD and the 5" round DD...ultimately the sniper turned out to be the most successful overall.
I have tried using disc in sites like that too and have found good targets, tried both SL and DE with the disc at many levels but mostly at 1...to get all the information possible...6 to cut out small nails...9 to cut out the larger nails too...and sometimes 15-20 to cut out all the iron.
I have tried 0 disc too but many times the chatter moving down to 0 from 1 can be excessive.
DP works as does most of the other tone choices but I have had the most success using 1, monotone.
Others have used way different settings for hunting in iron, a hunter using an F75 called jim tn is
very successful using disc at 0 and multi tones so it all depends on what you like and what you get used to I guess.
As far as using SL instead of DE in disc I still don't know about that regarding depth.
DE is definitely faster which is VERY helpful when picking through iron and can still get surprisingly deep even compared to SL.
The deepest target I ever went after and dug was in Missouri dirt that was 14-15", gave pretty accurate screen info on every pass and I had the sense and thresh way up there maxed out, disc in the low 20's, 1F and DE speed.
I dug a few deep targets at 8"+ on this hunt using these settings and switched back to those all metal blast though settings to check and there was no deep target disc and DE could not find and hit on well.
Keep in mind these were in areas with normal low iron and this was extremely great low mineralized dirt.
Since then I have tried all of these different settings in that good dirt out west and in my current location in the deep south with way too much iron and mineralized devil dirt...not just the real bad red stuff but even the more normal looking black dirt that is usually still mineralized to a high degree.
I found that all metal blast through is still my best option here combined with smaller sniper coils and very slow coil movements but I have found a ton using different coils, disc and all kinds of settings, also.
Several times I have messed around switching between DE and SL on some deeper targets, (here deep is 7-9"), and there have been a couple of targets that were not there or were very spotty or iffy in DE in disc or all metal that became way more solid in SL but not a ton of them.
Most times in disc I am using DE lately, if I switch to SL and the noise level rises too much even though I am very good at dealing with noise I still have a feeling that I have a better shot at noticing good targets in a quieter environment so for the last few months I have been exploring settings that keep noise levels as low as possible.
Right now program 2 is always set up with maxed out blast through settings and SL and program 1 is always in disc with all kinds of different settings but 99.9% of the time in DE speed.
It's a numbers thing for me, noisier, hotter SL settings in disc might get a bit deeper, (maybe), but I believe I have a better shot at noticing way more targets at pretty deep levels in quieter environments so I am sticking with DE for now and not worrying about it much if at all.
That is in my dirt and site conditions...in yours or other areas of the country SL in disc might be much quieter than I can achieve and advantageous if it can be utilized.
You seem to be doing fine your way, finding any good non ferrous target in an ocean of iron is a success no matter how you do it.
I can tell you that once you get a sniper coil all of this will become easier...I mean a whole lot easier.
If iron infested or heavy trash sites are common for you the investment in a sniper is going to be eye-opening.
The small hockey puck Fisher sniper coil I used for a long time found me a ton of treasure in the last few years and I can't sing its praises loud enough, I never thought I would ever need or consider another aftermarket coil.
I was using the Fisher sniper, high disc with a few areas notched back in, DE speed and multi tones when I dug the deepest coin I have found here so far which was a thin as a dime worn V nickel at the 8-9" level in bad dirt in a site surrounded by electric wires and other heavy EMI problems.
The guy I was hunting with could hardly believe it, I held that coin in my hand and I barely believed it myself.
Then I bought the Nel Sharpshooter...another great option.
I was aiming for the smallest Nel coil, (mostly just as an experiment to see if it could work any better in my difficult soil), but my dealer did not stock them but did have a Sharpshooter so I went for that instead.
Serendipity, the thing worked better than I ever hoped it could and found it had stellar separation abilities, extreme sensitivity, surprising depth even in my dirt, covered a very decent amount of real estate compared to the smallest snipers and best of all it seemed to be quieter and more stable than my Fisher sniper just about...everywhere.
Quieter meant more and hotter settings were possible so I took advantage of that...still do.
I can't say the Nel or Cors coils or any others are way way better than the small Fisher sniper, I have never taken that one and the Sharpshooter out to any site and compared signals over the same targets, but I can tell you I have been shocked a few times using my Nel and since I got it I haven't even considered mounting that Fisher coil so it sits in a box unused...for now.
Plus the Nel Sharp, Snake and Sharpshooter coils are all slightly cheaper than the Fisher versions.
No matter which sniper you end up with just get it and go back to this same site and like I said no matter what settings you are using the results and performance might be very eye opening.
There is probably more there to find, you just have to figure out the easiest tools, best settings and repeatable target behavior to do it.
As always you are advancing nicely but there is so much more to discover.
A great find on that token...CongratZ!
