attention to the meter readings, but this takes great patience and slows you down to a crawl,therefore reducing your finds rate dramatically Coins/JewellryThis mode to me is more for general coin shooting in parks, picnic area’s etc., where pushing thetrigger forward in this mode will reject some types of pull tab, with trigger in centre you get theconventional discrimination, where the audio will be suppressed on any target that’s set to berejected on the dual control, I found this mode needed the gain to be set carefully to get the bestout of it, I have used this mode with success on farmland, but found I had to use reduced gain forbest performance on my sites. RelicThis is the one I find a real killer on UK farmland, very sharp and sensitive, with the trigger inthe centre position you get a low tone for ferrous and high tone for nonferrous, this gives a lot of feedback on what’s under the coil without having to check the meter, I found if I set thethreshold at about the 9oclock position I could use this mode with gain set at +3 most of the timewithout the machine getting erratic, this mode is what gave this machine the reputation of being“noisy”, its not that the machine chatters but the fact it gives a signal for every target, after awhile you get used to the constant low tone farts and the high tones really do bang through whenover most good targets, but like some other machines you sometimes get an iffy high tone signal,I found the best way to treat these signals was to see if I could get any kind of “two way” signalfrom them while moving around the target, if I could I’d dig the target, if I could only get a “oneway” signal I’d leave it, obviously at first I checked a lot of the one wayers to be sure, 99%turned out to be iron, not a bad percentage, scraping some soil off the surface with your boot toget the coil closer to the target can also help suss out iffy signals.If the constant low tones are annoying to anyone its just a case of pushing the trigger forward,which switches the machine to the standard discrimination mode where the audio is suppressedon all rejected targets, again I found I had to reduce gain in this mode, I didn’t notice any realloss in performance by doing this though, so its really a matter of personal choice as to whetheryou want to hear the iron or not.
Dual Control/Discrimination
This setting is the most important when hunting those small thin hammered, Saxon sceats etc.,until you get to know the machine a setting of around 2.5 should be about right, at that setting themachine won’t discrim out even a cut quarter hammered, but will take care of all but the largestiron, after getting to grips with the machine I found it best to set the discrim up using a three inchnail, I balance the machine and then lock the tracking, placing the machine on somethingnonmetallic I pass the nail over the coil about two inches away, turn up the discrim until the nailis just rejected when its passed over the coil in the horizontal and vertical position, on mymachine that’s about the 1.9 mark, this can vary quite a bit from machine to machine, using tomuch discrimination can cause target masking on iron laden sites, although the lightning fastrecovery speed on this machine helps separate the targets, also the more you increase the discrimthe more depth you will lose, as the old saying say’s “the more you use the more you lose”, andanybody who digs no iron at all, is definitely leaving finds in the ground.
Gain Control
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