JCR

That is a neat vehicle. Congratulations on getting it back in good working condition. I have a 1947 Willys CJ2A that has been in the family since the early 1950s. I wouldn't take for it.

Welcome from East Texas.

You may have to get out to some small towns. Welcome from East Texas.

That certainly is a special find. There is bound to be some more interesting find to be made at that site.

@Mark Gillespie has brought up a very good "detector health check". NASA Tom has also recommended this. I should try to do it but forget in my impatience to get busy hunting. I wonder to what degree solar activity changes manmade EMI?

Welcome from East Texas.

Welcome back from East Texas.

There have been numerous threads posted on this subject by experienced detectorists. I always read such posts with great interest as many of my best sites are in some pretty hot red iron ore dirt. About 15 months ago, in an effort to learn and be more successful, I built a test bed using the same mineralized red dirt I hunt in. This test bed has been very educational and helpful. In addition to learning how each of my detectors perform, and how setting adjustments effect that performance, I have noted something unexpected that stood out that can prove to be useful. That is the Ground response signal. It is well known that at a certain depth, coin size targets start to blend into the ground. The coin goes from a good signal & TID, to an iffy signal & poor TID, to gone. The higher the mineralization the more rapid this happens. The ground has swallowed up the coin. What I noticed in my testing is that the coin is still detected, it just reports as a ground signal. Using the Legend, with Disc A you can hear this response. On the swallowed coin it is a good, repeatable report with a solid center & good strength. The TID is a solid 1 and the depth meter will fill. The response from actual ground noise is much weaker and has no center, may or may not give a TID and doesn't show on the depth meter. Having a good Ground Balance is best but this still shows itself running GB at 0. TID 1 must be accepted not notched out. I suppose this behavior is similar to the old way of hunting in All Metal and listening for the Threshold to null over a deep target, just a mirror image. Perhaps like using reverse discrimination on an early TR detector or running a reverse pattern on something like the Etrac. Irregardless, it seems to work consistently and well. The Tarsacci MDT 8000, Vista X and Anfibio Multi using the EUD function also will report these types of masked targets but they do it differently than the SMF Legend and not as distinctly. The next thing I did was to take advantage of the Legend's adjustability and make a special 6 Tone pattern in Field mode M1. I set the first Tone Break at 1 & gave it a nice noticeable high tone with decent volume. The second tone bin runs 2-7 with my normal low ferrous tone & volume. The other bins are set for higher targets. This set up may be possible using other detectors also. Using this pattern, the coin that is swallowed up by the ground gives a good alert & the TID is a solid 1. You can still monitor the actual ground noise, nails still report as iron and other targets give their respective tones. It works well even on trashy sites. In my test bed, the Legend will give a good response on targets at 6,8 & even 10 inches using the 6X9.5 LG24 coil which is surprising. I have only used this special pattern in the field for a few hours. It seems to hold good promise. I did learn that a deep nail will still give the tell tale double hit down the barrel. Also that less that coin size targets give a noticeable weaker response, so the proportional modulated audio works well. There is still more to learn here and time in the field will tell. I think this has good potential to find deeper coins that are masked by the ground and thought others might be interested and want to try it in their mineralized soils also.

That's pretty neat.

Something is not right. The Tones should be nice & clean. Hopefully it will get right with a FD reset or updates. I need you to wring that machine out in your hot dirt!🙂

Excellent

Glad you are able to get in on a good opportunity window.

Welcome from East Texas.

As you use the bigger LG35 you will get better on your pinpoints. If you shorten the shaft an inch or two the coil will not seem any heavier than the stock LG28. This will also help on more accurate pinpointing. The LG35 is an excellent coil all around.

Very true but not as well known as it should be. The woodland Indians of East Texas had a very valuable commodity, Salt. This was traded for things they did not have locally like knapping stone. I have a beautiful arrow point made of Black Obsidian that I found on our farm when I was a teenager. Far West Texas is the closest place where this volcanic glass occurs, about 800 miles from here with a lot of not much for half of the distance even today.

There have been a few posts on various forums mentioning scratchy sounding audio after updating to V1.11. Seems something may go sideways. The fix has been to Factory Default reset the detector then re Install the V1.11 update & do another FD reset. Have you also done the Threshold update?

Welcome from East Texas.

That's a lot of coins dug & some vintage paraphernalia too.

Yep, railroad track tie plate. It may have some stamping on it.

Welcome to the Forum @John Oliver Keep us up to speed on your experiences.

What CPT GhostLight said.

Welcome from East Texas.

Yes .45 ACP, Frankfort Arsenal 1943. Ladies makeup compact, possibly "Ashes" brand. I also see you got an old Schrieder valve stem nut. Good assortment hunt.

V1.11 for Russian not yet, only V1.09.

Now back to Daniel.🙂