besides depth, if you dig everything what difference does the detector make?

[getndusty]

i love to digg everything,,i'm not going to pass up anything,,i think theres only been one time i found a target and didnt find out what it was,,i was in the desert and about 13" down in the rocks with my pick digging when i just decided to mark the spot on my gps,,and save it for a better day,,come back with a bigger shovel,,,
i dig every thing i just gotta know whats there,,i'm never disappointed with what ever i find,,,i just pocket it and look for the next target,,atleast i'm not at work,,,, lol

[coinhunter]

Hi,
I don't dig every signal but still did a lot of pull-tabs..guess it's a personal preference. I love my F4 and F2 because with the VDI (after you search an area and get a feel for it) it does save me some digging time. Also, I've just purchased a pinpointer because it takes me as long to find the target in the dirt as it does to pinpoint it with the detector. Hope this helps.

[roadkingclassic56]

I'm with getndusty. I like to dig everything just to see what it is and what kind of shape it's in. There have been a couple of areas where certain things happened that made the digging a little ridiculous. I got in to a place where the people must have had 20,000 sparklers for their kids. There were hits all over the place and most turned out to be a 2 inch piece of very thin, rusty wire. But it boosted my confidence in my machine and my pin pointing, knowing that I could locate and dig up and find that small of a target. At this particular site I stopped digging the targets that showed up as nails on my dashboard because of the trash but I was glad I took the time initially. It was good experience. I am confident I will not miss that fine gold chain I may come across some day.

[Detector]

I guess if you hunt in the desert then digging everything is feasible. I dig almost everything in tot lots and the sandy swimming hole where small gold is more likely, But I can't even imagine digging everything in most private yards and parks. Heck it would take months to search a small area, and it would look like a war zone after you were done.

[Glenn]

Back when I was an active hunter I used to dig everything, but then I was a relic hunter and not a coin shooter. Civil War relics were my main focus, not nickels and dimes. My old BFO Metrotech had a 14 inch coil and while it would find coins like any detector, pinpointing was darn near impossible and almost every coin recovery left a small crater.

But I digress. My circle of metal detecting friends all used Metrotechs and we soon learned every frequency change our machines could make. When you bumped the coil you got on variance of frequency change, coins made another, lead minie ball made still another, etc. But it was simpler then. We had one knob, off/on that also controlled the volume. It was not hard to be on top of our detector's capabilities.

But alas nothing lasts forever. I switched to a Fisher 1260X. That was a mistake and a half. Oh the machine was good, in fact it knew more about metal detecting than I did and I never could learn the depths of it's capabilities. Two discriminators and I kept them both turned off as many of the things I wanted to find would be eliminated by even the slightest discrimination. That part worked fine for me. I never was 100% sold on ground balance though. But what I really hated was it was a motion detector, which is a handicap for a relic hunter. Many times I found items in places there was no room to swing the detector with my old Metrotech. I could not do that with the Fisher.

But my point of this post is to state I would much rather hunt with a cheaper model detector, a detector that I was completely on top of, one that I knew every nuance than a more expensive, more feature laden model that was light years ahead of my operator capabilities.

[Classic II SL]

Originally Posted by getndusty

i love to digg everything,,i'm not going to pass up anything,,i think theres only been one time i found a target and didnt find out what it was,,i was in the desert and about 13" down in the rocks with my pick digging when i just decided to mark the spot on my gps,,and save it for a better day,,come back with a bigger shovel,,,
i dig every thing i just gotta know whats there,,i'm never disappointed with what ever i find,,,i just pocket it and look for the next target,,atleast i'm not at work,,,, lol

Did u ever go back, and dig it out ??? what was it ??? the suspense is killin me !!! Rich.

[Jazdo]

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