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Hi. Anything else?

Glad you were able to get out and have a good hunt.

Welcome from East Texas.

Interesting

Very nice finds. That is a good site. Must have been a prosperous homeplace. I just subscribed to you Channel & will view the videos as soon as I can.

I made a field demonstration video of the Rutus Versa on a difficult red dirt relic site. I wanted to show some of the characteristics of not only this detector, but common site conditions. There is plenty of minerals, iron & EMI. This is not about the finds or how easy a detector runs. I hope this maybe helpful to those working in similar conditions. Not pretty work, but perhaps useful information.

@midalake I sure hope you will let us know your impressions &thoughts on how the Legend performs in you tough conditions.

The legend's wireless transmitter is Bluetooth. You would need the dongle adaptor to use wired HPs. I am almost positive XP wireless is proprietary.

It's all relative. $680 would have been close to a good job's annual wage.

That is it exactly, missing the back plate.(and the rest of the car) Maybe I should go back and dig some of those big iron signals.🙂

It’s a small world sometimes when you start scratching around. I have had many friends & customers at the dealership who worked at the Ballon Base. We were in business for 83 years, sold in 1997. I spent 25 + years there working. As a kid it was always a big deal to see the balloons going up.

I had the chance to get out a few times over the past week, hunting here & there. The weather has been nice and the bugs aren't bad yet. The first site is an old swim park/picnic ground that had an early Tourist Court in it's latter days. It has been a very good site, almost virgin from the finds. I had not detected the tourist cabin area nearly as hard because there is considerably more trash & the good finds are from the 1920's thru mid 1940's. The site is now being developed for resale as commercial property so the window is closing fast. The better finds for that hunt were a 1920D Mercury dime, 1943S & 1945D War nickels. I also dug 7 Wheat Cents that were in fair condition for the normally wet ground. The second hunt was on one of my favorite relic sites, but in an area away from any of the old building spots. It is actually where two old roads made a "T". The intersection was curved and moved over in the late 1950's. I have found more modern items here as opposed to 1850’s items. Many of these items indicate people used to gather at this intersection. Forks, spoons, a complete wine bottle and a salt shaker are past finds. The best item from this day is due to the proximity of the road, and probably an auto accident. It is a Chevrolet bowtie emblem that would have been on the radiator cowl of a car. my references show 1918-1928. The special thing about this find is that my Great Grandfather was the first Chevrolet dealer here, beginning in 1922. There is a very good probability that the emblem is from a car that he sold, or at least was in his shop at one time or another. This is actually the 3rd such find I have made detecting. The first was a hub cap, also for a mid 1920's Chevrolet. The second was also a hub cap, but from a pre 1920 Ford. The same Great Grandfather started in the automobile business as the first Ford dealer here in 1914. He dropped Ford because he did not want to handle Fordson tractors, and moved to Chevrolet. So, three items found that have a special connection for me. Providence or Serendipity? What a great hobby.

The Stability setting in Beach Mode is a type of Salt(very low conductor)sensitivity filter.

Your experience matches my first impressions of the Legend. It will hunt. I haven’t been disappointed.

I actually used my belt hook for the big DeWalt drill driver the other day to hang my Nomad. I was making a video and did not have a free hand. It worked well until I tried to back up.😊

You may just have to get on the ground after carefully considering where the period roads were combined with level ground. A typical horse/surrey track would be Quarter mile or Half mile, so 1/8 or 1/4 mile end to end. The turns would have been banked on a better track. These may show up on LiDAR. So between historical accounts, Historic Aerials, Topographical, LiDAR you should be able to narrow the search. Concentrations of nails & horse tack items will be in the stable & outbuildings area which would normally be on the Starting Lane at one end. There will also be some evidence of a housing area for the on site workers. The spectator area would be on one of the long sides toward the Start/Finish line end. The view toward the track would not be looking into the Sun. This is what I have found out researching and hunting a late 19th century Surrey track. Not much in the center of the track oval.

The Nomad is what I use 90% of the time in woods & open fields. It is excellent all around. Sturdy but light, easy to carry and digs nice clean plugs. Roots are not a problem. I have all 3 of Radius’s Root Slayer line, plus both of their hand trowel models.

Nice hunting and some good finding too.

You might want to contact MInelab service to ask what they recommend.

Signal processing, including utilizing AI is still advancing. That is going to be the key aspect going forward.

If you want to find some arrowheads & pottery shards, walk the freshly plowed fields after a good rain. Especially fields that have running water close by. Any area close to running water has high potential. High ground is the best for camp/village sites.

Welcome from East Texas.

My understanding of Recovery speed/Reactivity is that it is actually a Ground Filter. It functions by adjusting the detectors response to how quickly it reacts to changes in the receiver's field. Mild ground's signal response changes slowly, so you can use less filtering. Highly mineralized ground changes more rapidly & requires more filtering for stable operation. How this same Recovery/Reaction control also effects actual target separation may or may not be be incidental or intended. Someone like @Geotechwould have to explain it for me. What I do know is that in my experimenting with the Legend and my other detectors that have this control, it makes a noticeable difference in having it set to match the Ground. More so than trying to separate closely spaced targets. The deeper the target and/or the worse the ground, the more important. The difference on the Legend is not as pronounced as on say the Rutus Versa. Each detector seems to have it's own sweet spot on sweep speed vs Recovery setting. At some point you can out swing a low Recovery setting. On the flip side, you can shorten audio response or limit detection depth with a fast Recovery setting to the point of over running good targets & never hearing them. You really just have to spend time experimenting with all this if you want to understand the detector at these kind of levels. For the Legend, in that days test bed conditions, Recovery 6 seemed to give the best response. 4 was not quite as good, nor was 8. 5&7 were pretty close to the same as 6. On my similar field sites I usually just go with Recovery 6 for non busy areas and listen closely for targets & changes in the ground signal by using NO Disc at all. Higher than Recovery 7 really cuts the audio response for me and kills depth sharply. As far as Ground balancing, my understanding is that a SMF detector typically uses a low frequency out of the simultaneous group to balance to & monitor the Ground response. Since a good effective GB is made on a target free spot, any subsequent change, whether from changing ground minerals or an actual target will give an audio indication. I think that what I was trying to demonstrate in the above video is an example of this. The small targets are being masked by the larger Ground signal to the point of being identified by the Legend as a ground response of TID1. In order to notice this, a good accurate GB needs to be maintained. My suggestion to @Nokta Detectors of adding a Hot Rock control would mitigate this effect by adjusting the detectors internal phase scaling. Sounds like your making good progress on you mining camp site. I have a few Hot Rocks but nothing like you are dealing with.

Thanks Jeff. Iron Filter/Stability was at 1/3. V1.11 performs the same. The LG35 coil will perform better.

You may very well be correct on a bad batch of coils, but Nokta will make it right, that, I am sure of.