New Firmware Hunt

[mn90403]

I just went out to one of my local parks and checked the sand only.  It is not a park I dig the grass unless there has been some rain on it.  That means I'll only find recent drops.  I've been on these same sands with the 800 several times and I think the Manticore so that would be two months ago.  I'm sure others hunt this same area also.  I've found one ring there in the past.  I was a little bit surprised by the finds with the Algo/12" Evo.

The new Mild setting worked well with reduced sensitivity to maybe 10 or so because this like some of the other parks I go to has equipment buried under it.  One area gives my 800 fits.  I have to listen through the noise.  I went early so the number of kids there would be low but there was a guy who had a 3.5 year old, a 2 year old and a 6 month old!  What a family.  Mine are 6 and 3.5 so he really has his hands full.

The things you see in the picture were found in about an hour. (I gave a couple of dimes to the older boys.)  The compass is obviously a recent pocket drop.  I was both glad and surprised to get the nails and wire out of the sand because most kids are barefoot when playing in this area.  There was also a volleyball court.  I think the nails were still there because they were mostly in the area with high EMI.

I didn't spend enough time on the IDs of the targets.  It was finding them to a depth of 8 inches or so but I don't want to dig much deeper than that anyway.

[phrunt]

A benefit to the mild setting is the extra depth it provides in mild soil, so when in a high EMI area even though you have to keep your sensitivity lower you still have a significant depth increase.

My videos purpose was to demonstrate that, at the end of the video I raise my sensitivity above 16 and the detector really gets slammed with the EMI, at 16 it was running pretty stable, the video demonstrates the depth difference between the mineralized mode and the mild mode with the same sensitivity level though.  

The Algoforce handles high EMI far better than any PI machine I've ever used, dropping down in coil sizes helps too, in this video I was using the 10x6" coil, and easy getting better depth in mild mode than I can get with my Equinox and 11" coil.