Joe D. Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 Badger, Much depends on what you are looking for! Sometimes the trash and ferrous targets will tell you much about what you are look for, and in which direction to continue! There are many examples, but a few that come to mind are relic hunting, and fleet treasure hunting! If you can picture a ship breaking up on a reef, or a battalion of soldiers fighting or retreating in a battle, and the potential trail of objects that is left behind! Then you begin to understand how the "junk" targets fit into the picture!?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, Joe D. said: Badger, Much depends on what you are looking for! Sometimes the trash and ferrous targets will tell you much about what you are look for, and in which direction to continue! There are many examples, but a few that come to mind are relic hunting, and fleet treasure hunting! If you can picture a ship breaking up on a reef, or a battalion of soldiers fighting or retreating in a battle, and the potential trail of objects that is left behind! Then you begin to understand how the "junk" targets fit into the picture!?? Sorry but that makes no sense at all to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 24 minutes ago, phrunt said: The 19KHz Fishers are actually quite good on the beach. In their own marketing they've always said they ground balance right to salt. I've run my Bug reasonably successfully on a black sand beach where my Nox also struggled. I was surprised how well it ran as my T2 was unusable and also on the coral sand benign beaches it's got some good depth. Sure you need to ground grab often as you move down the beach towards the water but they do handle it and for me it worked quite well on the wet sand and in the shallow water too. To get the true depth on them you really need to run in all metal, disc mode hinders depth a bit. That's why a lot of people find a flaw with the target IDs being on the speedometer at the top rather than where the big ground phase readout is when in all metal mode. It's not as detailed/accurate on the speedometer as getting actual numbers and harder to see, especially in the sun. Hunting in all metal would be much easier with the big Target ID's. A wasted opportunity for an easy good improvement. They seem to identify iron well from what I've seen and have a good iron audio. I had a Gold Bug Pro with the Fisher 11" coil that did pretty good on the dry sand as long as the rain had washed most of the salt out of it. The depth performance diminished though as wet salt was introduced. Yes, it behaved well enough on the wet sand but the depth was terrible. If that's your only detector then that's fine I guess. I see people at the beach all the time with low performance machines. That's why I inquired about the depth that Joe was getting. Maybe the G2+ performs better than my GBP did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe D. Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 No need to be sorry! Depending how much, and what you have detected for previously! It will fall into place after awhile! I still have a tremendous amount to learn about detecting and detectors! And I wish i had stuck with it from when i was younger! Once you hit about middle age, you realize that your time is not as unlimited as you once thought!!?? I will run some depth test's soon in my mild beach sand, and post here! But I'm sure many other's here have preceded me in doing this! And may have posted their results under a different 19Khz detector! ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I'm 63 and have been detecting since '96. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe D. Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 Good to know Badger!! You've got me beat; (56)!! And your still surfing; Awsome! You text like a man half your age!? I gave it up (surfing) a long time ago! I sucked at it; mostly because i was too distracted looking out for bulls and blacktips all the time!!? I was having a hard time relaxing, and enjoying the Zen!!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 3 minutes ago, Joe D. said: Good to know! You've got me beat!! And your still surfing; Awsome! You text like a man half your age!? I gave it up a long time ago! ? Yup, I surfed today for three hours. It was chest high and clean. I hope I'm still surfing ten years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe D. Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 That's great! It definitely keeps you in shape! I hope you can do it into your 80's and 90's!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 The reason why I don't care about the way signals sound is because I dig a ton of crappy signals from targets that are often at the very edge of detection. I usually run my detectors very hot to get as much depth as possible which on many machines makes the target ID unreliable. Just the other day relic hunting, I dug an 1835 Capped Bust Half Dime that sounded like junk. All I knew was that it was very likely non-ferrous. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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