sllingshot47
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The only time I crank up my Compadre is in a heavy tab area- and I only set it to break up at tabs so I can find the clad notch detectors miss under and around the tabs.
The only time I crank up my Compadre is in a heavy tab area- and I only set it to break up at tabs so I can find the clad notch detectors miss under and around the tabs.
Loosing depth due to added discrimination is a myth today. Yes, masking can be a problem but they eliminated the loss in depth from discrimination some 20 years ago. The masking varies from detector to detector from extreme to pretty much a non issue.
A good detector that is properly adjusted will miss very little other than trash. With that being said, good stuff can read in the trash zone as well.
Know your detector, your hunting environment and what you're looking for, and you can use discrimination without the fear of missing much at all.
You need to 3-D
I agree, not all metal detector lose depth with discrimination. I like to disc out everything somtimes,and other times I use all metal.depending on location
Here is a chart showing different items conductive range.
This will help you understand the order that items will discriminate out.
Equate this to your discriminator dial and its markings.
The steel bottle cap usually lines up with the end of the word iron on your dial.
I e tested a few gold men's class rings with my Tesoros and
if you have your disc set to ignore zinc pennies you won't find the gold.
It's the cruel joke of detecting. The Gold hides amongst the garbage.
Hope it helps.. Noah