Maybe a little trick.

[h2oBeeps]

I was just looking through the Garrett catalog and found something interesting and hopefully useful for all my Sea Hunter brothers and sisters. It says and I quote " To help determine if a target is ferrous (iron), some users employ a reverse discrimination technique to check the item. With either Garrett pulse detector (meaning the ATX and Sea Hunter) simply increase Discrimination to maxium. If the target still produces a substantial signal, there is a good chance it is iron". Hope this helps speed up the learning curve.

 

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[sandmartin]

I was just looking through the Garrett catalog and found something interesting and hopefully useful for all my Sea Hunter brothers and sisters. It says and I quote " To help determine if a target is ferrous (iron), some users employ a reverse discrimination technique to check the item. With either Garrett pulse detector (meaning the ATX and Sea Hunter) simply increase Discrimination to maxium. If the target still produces a substantial signal, there is a good chance it is iron". Hope this helps speed up the learning curve.

I will try that, thanks.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

I will try that, thanks.

Have you tried doing this yet? I’m curious to know. Sounds like it would work though seeing how the Sea Hunter does not discriminate out iron.

 

[BeachBunnyTRHunter]

I had a Sea Hunter II and I will be trying it this weekend. Very cool idea and in principle it should work.

 

[BeachBunnyTRHunter]

Sea Hunter II - detecting iron

I tried the discrimination technique this weekend and it works sometimes – more on shallower targets than on deeper targets. For example, a shallow bottle cap will give a broken tone that tells you something isn't quite right still can't be sure unless you want to rely on that or dig to be sure. You still need to always dig deeper targets to know for sure. Let's face it, this machine is better off in the water, and I always knew that when I bought it.

BeachBunnyTRHunter

I was just looking through the Garrett catalog and found something interesting and hopefully useful for all my Sea Hunter brothers and sisters. It says and I quote " To help determine if a target is ferrous (iron), some users employ a reverse discrimination technique to check the item. With either Garrett pulse detector (meaning the ATX and Sea Hunter) simply increase Discrimination to maxium. If the target still produces a substantial signal, there is a good chance it is iron". Hope this helps speed up the learning curve.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

I tried the discrimination technique this weekend and it works sometimes – more on shallower targets than on deeper targets. For example, a shallow bottle cap will give a broken tone that tells you something isn't quite right still can't be sure unless you want to rely on that or dig to be sure. You still need to always dig deeper targets to know for sure. Let's face it, this machine is better off in the water, and I always knew that when I bought it.

BeachBunnyTRHunter

Good to know thanks! How have you been doing with your Sea Hunter so far this yr? Wish i lived in Florida where I could hunt yr round.

 

[BeachBunnyTRHunter]

What to use a Garett Sea Hunter II for on the South Florida coast

Apologies for the severe delay. I have relegated the Sea Hunter to in-the-water detecting only because the beaches are human-pigged-up with this and that-type trash making the SH II pulse unit induce insanity while using on the beach.

Instead, I switched to a Minelab Equinox 800 and have just gotten started with that. I plan to post to my new YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdt5OUUj64qPeJopksqv2zQ?view_as=subscriber


So far good results, and recommend Andy Sabisch's book on the Equinox - everything he writes is worth reading.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

The Equinox will definitely serve you better than the SH in trash infested areas.

 

[kac]

Sorry new here and stumbled on this topic. Will give that a shot on my SH. I did notice long wire iron like chunks of lobster traps will give a double beep in one direction but unfortunately not all lay flat. Hard to beat the SH with the 10x14 for depth but exhausting after any big storms with all the crap that is exposed.