First 60 minutes with my Tesoro Super Traq

Zappato said:

Between rain showers and errands on Saturday I took my new (to me) Tesoro Lobo Super Traq out for a quick sweep of my back yard.

This is what I found: Bicycle brake handle, scissors, brass faucet handle, little strip of metal, pulley, flattened red car, “nail spill’, aluminium bottle cap, and a green Hot Wheels car.

Some of these items, like the scissors and the pulley, were 6”-8” down. I must be doing something wrong, because I had the Discrimination way up on hoping to find mostly non ferrous objects. I’m hoping with time I can better understand the settings and use them more effectively.

I did have fun and plan to get some more time in today.

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NCtoad said:

I doubt if there's anything wrong with your detector. Large ferrous items like that usually don't discriminate out...I believe this is called iron wrap.

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NCtoad said:

I doubt if there's anything wrong with your detector. Large ferrous items like that usually don't discriminate out...I believe this is called iron wrap.

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Steve77 said:

Also, round stiff like the loops on those scissors are hard to discriminate too. Metal detectors are designed to find rings and coins for the most part, so they usually love anything round.

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Zappato said:

I did have fun and plan to get some more time in today.

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