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Perhaps this post belongs more in a Treasure Hunting forum that this technical one...
Anyway, I just returned from a trip to Quartzsite AZ and had brought along a Tesoro Tejon with 5 3/4" Concentric coil, a Tesoro Compadre that has been problematic, and a Goldmaster II. I verified again that the Compadre was still flakey - seemed to have a bad coil connection. I mostly used the Goldmaster II. It worked - picked up flakes of bullets with strong hits that I couldn't even see until I got em home. The pain in the A was the rusty metal junk. Couldn't discriminate it out. The Tejon too couldn't discriminate it. I had brought along a small gold nugget to test/calibrate with. Maybe a softer sound on the hit.
I also brought a Harbor Freight stud finder to try and localize the finds. No way. Not nearly as sensitive as the detectors are. So I had to constantly divide a shovel full of dirt into quarters again and again to try and find the finds...
I'm thinking it would have been great to have a small probe to find and describe the target. The Falcon MD20 says nothing about discrimination. Are there such probes that discriminate or at least give you a clue as to the target material? Got ideas on making one?
Anyway, I just returned from a trip to Quartzsite AZ and had brought along a Tesoro Tejon with 5 3/4" Concentric coil, a Tesoro Compadre that has been problematic, and a Goldmaster II. I verified again that the Compadre was still flakey - seemed to have a bad coil connection. I mostly used the Goldmaster II. It worked - picked up flakes of bullets with strong hits that I couldn't even see until I got em home. The pain in the A was the rusty metal junk. Couldn't discriminate it out. The Tejon too couldn't discriminate it. I had brought along a small gold nugget to test/calibrate with. Maybe a softer sound on the hit.
I also brought a Harbor Freight stud finder to try and localize the finds. No way. Not nearly as sensitive as the detectors are. So I had to constantly divide a shovel full of dirt into quarters again and again to try and find the finds...
I'm thinking it would have been great to have a small probe to find and describe the target. The Falcon MD20 says nothing about discrimination. Are there such probes that discriminate or at least give you a clue as to the target material? Got ideas on making one?
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