Learning the Land Ranger Pro

[Phantasman]

Today was my first day hunting this year. The ground is still wet, packed clay. I couldn't use the Lesche so grabbed the Viking. Even it had a little trouble with the initial U cut, but once the top was lifted, it did a great job beyond the 2" mark. I left the default mode 4. Hearing everything with four tones. Ground Grab gave me a 56 soil. Sensitivity started with a quiet 10, but as I started walking closer to the "baseball field" it started to chatter. Dropped it to 8 and everything was quiet. I had the 11" DD on it.



Since the ground was so unforgiving, I didn't dig every hard hitting signal, especially if it was in the Iron, foil and alum segments. In the hour and a half I was out there, the ratio of treasure to trash was quite satisfying. 13 coins to 4 pieces of trash is good in my book. And the 2 bottle caps were flat and almost the size of a quarter.

A couple of things I discovered.

The LRP on screen depth gauge isn't really that close. At 5 bars (10") my coins would be 7" at best.

The pinpoint is extremely accurate. If you haven't watched detectingMO video on Youtube on how to PP easily with a 11" DD coil, I'd suggest it. He does it in the LRP school hunt video as well.

If the LRP gives a strong target sound (like a quarter), make sure you move 90 degrees and hit it from the different angle. If you get a hard quarter hit one way (side to side) and move to swing it top to bottom and you still get a good quarter sound, 95% chance it's a quarter. Another quick trick is to hold down the mode button and swing the target. This puts the LRP into temporary AM, and the segments and VID still operate. Because you get better depth in AM, iffy targets get IDed better. I watched a couple of targets move from silver all the way down to foil in AM when they are deep and jumpy.

My palm is now sore in one spot from pushing down on the hilt to dig.

 

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[SouthFLdigger]

Nice hunt and analysis, how is the target separation and ID on the LRP. The land Ranger Pro is a real success story for bounty hunter nothing like they've ever produced im sure it kicks my Time Rangers ass, a great machine period. I would not sweat the depth gauge most are seldom accurate, my Fors seems to think anything below 7 inches is buried 14" lol. Most important to me is depth, target separation (speed) and discrimination. Wish you all the best in the new season.

 

[Phantasman]

On the high end (silver) the LRP is rock solid. It's so light I could swing it all day with no fatigue if I had to. Of course the big test is the gold area where a lot of junk resides. The area from 20-60 on the arc. How well does it distinguish tabs from nickels. Tabs from gold. This is what I plan on the next time out. Dig everything between 20-60 and see where a PT comes in as well as other common things.

DetectingMO in his video said the nickel signal starts off solid then becomes jumpy. I found that when swinging, the signal calms down when you do the slow wiggle over the target. I'm hoping that that is just part of it's language to understand.

I hope the FC is a blast for you also, while you're on those sunny beaches (you lucky stiff)

 

[SouthFLdigger]

Thanks Phantasman, look forward to your reports. I would love to see the day a detector has sophisticated enough algorithms and hardware that can effectively differentiate pull tabs, nickels, and gold in light mineral soil! Spring break is just starting to roll through here and my girlfriend and i have already found a few silver items, no gold though. I sometimes take my Delta 4000 in my trunk and as you know it performs much like the LRP, that detector is a coin and ring magnet in the dry sand. The CoRe works well in dry and wet just getting used to it, talks quite a bit compared to my other machines.