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« on: February 16, 2011, 04:29:25 pm »
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Still new to the game, but had some luck yesterday with my Tracker IV.  Went to a local park and was able to find $2.07 in coins (1 Sacagawea dollar, two clad quarters, five clad dimes and seven pennies) - and a Cub Scout neckerchief clasp.  Lots of pull tabs and bottle tops initially, but then went to "Disc" with full Sensitivity and full Discrimination.  Was pulling most of the coins then and reaching to 8 - 10" depth; not too bad for a $60 dollar detector.  Looking forward to going out again -

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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2011, 04:43:53 pm »
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Congratulations.....every trip out there makes you that much better (especially if you keep experimenting with the settings--and making notes of what works and what doesn't)

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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2011, 04:43:54 pm »
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Cool Stuff. At least you can get out.

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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2011, 11:49:41 pm »
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The Bounty Hunter is a sensitive machine, I hear people saying they get 5 or 6 inches on other machines, and I wonder if I'm just seeing deeper?

The pull tabs pull signal if that is possible, I picked up a 4 inch coil and that helps most places. Try this, just barely turn on the machine and no discrimination. Keep the coil three inches above the ground.

If you have the no motion model, it works similar. I haven't dug a pull tab doing this. But again you miss a lot. But I would rather have twenty coins instead of five deep holes. I get good hits on silver.

New battery's give it a little better reach too.

Let me know if you have a favorite setting, I'm learning too.


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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 08:40:43 am »
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Thanks for the responses and suggestions.  I still need to work on refining my settings, as I know I must have missed things - but was hitting coins pretty good, so stuck with what was working.

Here's a question though - when checking the edges of sidewalks I'd sometimes get a tone, but also got a tone when running the coil over the main section of concrete - so I figured it was rebar.  Is there a good setting that will eliminate the rebar and still hit on coins?

I'll have to lay a coin down and play with the settings next time that happens, but would be interested in what other folks do in those instances.

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« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2011, 09:45:17 am »
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 I see you did not dig any nickles, this tells me that you have the discriminator turned to high. When you miss nickles you also miss small gold rings and other gold items. The best thing to do is discriminate out only iron and dig everything else learn the tones and work from there. Most if not all of the old timers here will tell you the same thing DIG IT ALL

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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2011, 12:49:18 pm »
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Try this, just barely turn on the machine and no discrimination. Keep the coil three inches above the ground.

This is why I carry samples of nickles, pull tabs, dimes, nails, jewelry in little snack bags in my back pack,  so I can throw them on the ground and use them to "tune"  my tracker IV at the site where I'm swinging.

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Or you can just dig it all right there at the site in "all Metal" mode and use those!  Ha!

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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2011, 02:55:35 pm »
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Excellent points - (that's why I like this site!) - it didn't occur to me that I didn't pull any nickels.  I know I was finding a lot of bottle caps at first, so cranked up the discrimination.  I keep a "calibration bag" in the trunk also, but didn't think to get a good set-up first.  Did I mention that I'm still kind of new to this...??

Thanks again for the feedback; now I want to get back out there and recheck a couple of the spots I hit the other day!   (...practice, practice, practice...)

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You could do what I do on a small site.  Discriminate in layers.  Discriminate out everything but coins and pick the crop.  Lower your settings and go back and get the stuff you filtered out before.  Finally go all metal mode and get everything thats left.  It doesn't take any more time. Idea

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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2011, 10:12:55 am »
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Thanks - great idea!

I tried it yesterday on a small site and it worked quite well - even found a nickel among the pennies and dimes I uncovered.  Thanks to all for the great advice and tips -

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