Anybody Still Use An Infinium For Relics?

[abcoin]

I recently picked up a used Infinium and plan to try it out in some hard, red clay to find some Civil War relics this spring. 

It's not the newest machine, and not as advanced as the GPX units, but I've never used a PI before and want to see how it works. I figure that an old PI will do better than my newer VLF machines in a highly mineralized environment. 

Has anyone used an Infinium in hard clay and/or on relic hunts lately? Any tips for a newbie? 

[Steve Herschbach]

I still have one for hunting dense magnetite beaches. Hi-lo tone means small or low conductive target, lo-hi means large or high conductive target. Good luck!

[abenson]

I've used the Infinium for relic hunting, but it's been 7 or 8 years ago. High Low tone will be your low conductors and small iron, small buttons will usually be in this range. Low High tone will be your bullets, coins and large iron. You'll have to play with the disc but I usually ran mine up a bit to get rid of the tiny crap. In the red clay it should get better depth than your VLF will. However, the reality is if you dig all signals (iron included) with the VLF, the Infinium isn't that much much deeper. GPX is the king of bad ground for relic hunting, but they are more expensive.

[Fredneck]

Swing that coil very slow, and then ...slow down.

[6mmslayer]

Well if it is raining you will not have to stop metal detecting. It doesn't take many inches of the red dirt to stop a vlf detector. Hopefully Nokta's new pulse will be out soon.

[Wild Bill]

A buddy of mine uses the Infinium with a small mono coil for both coins and relics in Nevada’s highly mineralized soil.  He’s had it for many years and likes it.  He knows it isn’t the latest and greatest but it works well.  He has a Nokta Triple Score but used the Infinium mostly on a hunt about a week ago we went on.   He’s been detecting for forty years and has owned lots of different detectors.  He’s found a lot of coins and relics with it.