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So in other words, would it be correct to say that the recovery speed on the 340 in its All Metal mode feels more similar to the Jewelry setting than to the slower recovery used in the Relic mode on the 540?

Here is a famous thread on the topic:

Has anybody used the Golden Mask brand metal detectors? I believe the company is from Bulgaria. https://www.goldenmaskdetectors.com/

A request for Vanquish 340 users (as I have no access to it now, but was asked this question): The recovery speed is baked into modes in all Vanquish models. In the 440 model, the recovery speed is fast in Coins Mode, slower in Jewelry Mode, and the slowest in the Relic mode. In the 340 model, the recovery speeds seem to be the same as in the 440 for Coins (fast) and Jewelry (medium) modes. What is the recovery speed in the 340's All Metal mode? Thanks!

Would varying the recovery speed affect this phenomenon?

Could you describe the 'double ring' of iron at depth (as opposed to nonferrous single ring as iron at depth)? Near-surface ferrous targets could double (or triple) ring for different reasons - does it sound different than the 'double ferrous ring' at depth? p.s. A question probably for @Geotech: does it make sense to explain the 'double ring' of iron target at depth as: 1) the Tx magnetic field magnetizing the ferromagnetic target by induction and the target returning the signal immediately, in phase, 2) the same alternating Tx field inducing eddy currents in the target which in turn produce Rx magnetic field, but this time the return is delayed. The delay between the two returns changes the way how a target sounds? I don't know how it sounds on the Equinox (and possibly on Vanquish by association), but I tried to imagine why deep iron should 'double beep' but deep nonferrous could show like iron but not 'double beep'...

This leads me to, what I think, is a fair question: while I understand that the ability to swing and interpret the detector's signals is not all there is to finding things, it seems like a skill that people hone for years and cherish. Has a target-detecting competition ever been attempted where the detectors are standardized (and, importantly, simplified, so the ability to optimise detectors matters little) so that only the skill matters? Say, everybody gets the Vanquish 340 and let the best one win 🙂 How differently would people do?

The friend's wife got the Vanquish 340, which was probably a good idea. The controls are superbly simple, understandable, and usable. I was afraid that the adjustments could be too crude, but that's the beauty of it. It's like with good cameras - the fewer the buttons the better (up to a point... :-). a The tone breaks and modes' notching are in reasonable places. There is All Metal Mode - reporting all targets and letting you investigate them. There is the same awesomely stable ID system as in more expensive detectors with the same technology. It behaves well enough in moderately bad grounds and on ocean beaches Modes have been assigned reasonable recovery speeds for their purposes - the Coins mode is pretty fast (not sure about the recovery in All Metals Mode - either the same as in Jewellery Mode (medium) or slower). And all that with nearly no need for fiddling with settings (and thinking about what else can you do to make it detect better) - just go detecting. 3 Modes + Sensitivity - one of them should work out... And, on top of it, it can identify and find things quite well.

I thought that the basemap images were the same on both versions. Maybe it's the US coverage only?

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0hnvrn4/england-s-largest-gold-nugget-discovered

Would anybody know if on Vanquish 340 in the 'All Metal' mode, the baked-in recovery speed is the same as either in Coins Mode (fast speed) or in Jewellery Mode (medium speed), or perhaps it uses a slower recovery speed (just like the Relic mode in the 440 and 540 models)?

You beat me to it...! I was thinking about something similar but with specific info/references to laws by members living or knowing about regulations/consequences or detecting/finding things in their countries.

That's a bit of absurdity - the guy was arrested for using a metal detector! (as opposed to actually digging out anything, let alone damaging an archaeological site). I didn't know it was even possible. Would it be useful to have a section somewhere (perhaps something like a Google Sheet or a Doc where members could keep adding info and links to confirmed and current legal requirements/changes for different places in different countries?

I wonder, what do laws in e.g. Poland actually say? Can one detect anywhere public? Are beaches off limits? Can one detect at all, as opposed to finding something of historical value that needs to be, idk, registered/returned? Is there a 'finders share' law in place? What happens if say, unlikely, a gold nugget is found on e.g. public land (or some other land)? Where to look for clarification on this?

Could somebody point me out to a source of soil type maps that could be useful in getting a feel for the soil mineralisation useful in metal detecting? I realise that the relevant conditions may be localised and there are plenty of geological maps available, but I'm not sure what to look for. p.s. Another question are soil conditions in forests. Is there anything special about them metal-detecting wise?