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  1. On 12/2/2023 at 5:56 PM, glacialgold said:

    With the sun setting so early on DST, I haven't had a chance to go out after work lately for a relaxing bout of coinshooting. As a result, I've been fiddling around with some programs at home, waiting for the right weather and free time to test them out on the ground.

    This morning I ducked out before breakfast and tested out a coinshooting program in Gold mode at a nearby schoolyard. I'd noticed in air tests that gold mode had solid depth on coins, and wanted to try make the mode work for coinshooting. So, here's what I tried out:

    Gold M
    Sensitivity (adjusted in the field, settled at 25)
    Recovery speed 6
    IF 3 / St 3 / BC 0
    AG 2
    GB auto
    Noise cancel auto
    Custom notch, keeping 23-27 and 38-57

    The test site was a small section of a schoolyard I've hit many, many times with the Legend, the Nox, and the MXT Pro. Lots of modern clad, a few rings (silver at best), and plenty of aluminum (shredded cans, puil tabs, and small foil) and pencil erasers.

    I'm not accustomed to running in Gold mode or pitch tones, so the audio part took a little time to get used to. After an hour of detecting, I pulled a quarter, a dime, 4 nickels, part of zincoln, as well as some aluminum scrap and pencil erasers. Nothing exciting, but still what I call good results for a brief period on hunted ground using new settings. I should add the coil was the LG24.

    Normally I run Park M 1/2 in 60 tones all metal, but otherwise similar settings to the ones listed above. In Park and in my soil, nickels center around 25, but can hit at 23 if deep, and sometimes a 26/27 if shallower. In the Gold program, nickels hit at 23/24, and showed 1-3 ferrous bars for some reason. I found pencil erasers sounded great but stayed right at 27. The quarter was a weird one, 2" down and jumping from a 47-55. (I'd typically see quarters at a rock solid 50/51 in Park.) Today's quarter, however, was like 6" from a metal piece of playground equipment, which may account for the odd signal.

    Overall, it was a fun experiment, and a chance to learn how the machine behaves differently in Gold mode. I don't think I'd use this program on a new location, but this test indicates it has some merit on previously-worked ground catching targets missed with more traditional settings.

    I also tested the Gold Mode on a field for a few minutes. It seems to be really sensitive and might be an interesting option. On my next hunting I'll give a longer try. From my point of view the high sensitivity could be related to the hight default threshold setting of the Gold Mode...

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  2. Hi,

    a short feedback:

    I've gotten the permission from my archaeologist and owner for hunting on some fields. Due to the presence of wind turbines it comes to EMI which leads to chattering sound. The best setting for me was M3. With M3 the dector is almost still and it was possible to put the sense up to 27.

    By the way, yesterday I found my first coins. ?

     

    Best regards 

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  3. Hello, 

    it would be nice to hear from you, which of the multi freq. settings (M1,M2,M3) do you use for field hunting and why you choose it. I hopefully get my permission soon to go hunting on a field and wonder, which setting is the "best".  From my point of view M1 should be good, especially for silver coin. What is your opinion?

  4. Hello everybody,

    regarding your advices and experiences with the Legend, I ordered a Legend too and I did an air-test with the Legend an the TX-850:

    Testobjects are:

    1. white-gold-ring
    2. one euro-coin
    3. necklace
    4. shell casing
    5. iron part

    Settings TX-850:

    All metal mode

    Gain 95

    Threshold 0

     

    Settings Legend:

    Field Mode 1&2 (factory settings)

    All metal mode

    Sensitivity 28

     

    TX-850_vs_Legend.thumb.jpg.58ccc689ac36a3d2f9bf5ad14512c63b.jpg

    Now for me it shows that the Legend performs much better than the TX-850 (keep in mind I paid only 120€ for the TX-850).

    So the benfit of the search depth depends on the target and seem to be something around 10cm and up to 20cm, what is a big difference!

    I think I probably made a mistake with the iron part on the Legend. I set the sound volume very low and together with the low tone of iron detection, I maybe recognized too late, that the Legend already detect the iron.

    For the white-gold-ring the M2 settings are going much deeper than the M1, for the other metal parts I didn´t see a big difference.

    From my point of view I can say now, that spending the money on the Legend is ok. I´m able to detect deeper parts, which I wasn´t able to find by now and I think the advantage on field/beach is probably even bigger than the air test shows.

    I hope it´s interesting for you too, maybe you even can confirm the results.

    Best regards from germany!

     

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  5. Thank you all for your feedback. I already noticed that the TX-850 don't work so well in the wet beach area.

    For me it's important that I really get a noticable performance upgrade if switch to the Legend. The new Legend cost here in germany 599€ and for my TX-850 I paid 130€.

    I don't want to spend so much money, if only get a small performance upgrade.

     

    Best regards 

  6. 2 hours ago, bigtim1973 said:

    I had one of the fisher gold bug clones before. It is similar to the clone you have of the g2. 

    Yes, the legend is a better metal detector.

    It is better made, the screen is nice and you have many more settings to adjust. 

    It handles emi better and it is a very smooth and quiet running unit. 

    It will do better at the beach too for you being a multi frequency unit. 

    So what all do you have to do to get a permit for metal detecting inland and how much will it cost you?

    Why do you have to wait so long before you get the permit?

     

    I have to do two lessons,  one practical and one theoretical lesson, which are supervised by an archaeologist. When it's done I can talk to my archaeologist from my town to permit the permission.

     

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  7. Hello,

    first of all I've to say that english is not my native language, so please be kind, if my words don't hit the right expression...

    To the topic:

    I'm from germany and at the end of the year I'm going to receive my license to go detecting on a field. By now I own the Tianxun TX-850  (Teknetics G2 plus Clone) witch  should be good for the price. Till now I could only use the detector on the beach, where no license is necessary. 

    I wonder if it's worth investing money in the Legend? I will mainly go hunting on fields ( Fibeln, Coins,...). 

    I know the the Legend has multifrequence feature, but I don't really know if it's really a game change or just a hype.

    Maybe one of you own both detectors an give some advice regarding detection depth, sensitivity for small parts and so on...

     

    Best regards from germany 

     

     

     

     

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