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A first solo flight (hunt) with Rutus detector.
Concentric coil (8.125") used only.
External speaker used,,no headphones,,wind conditions light and variable.
Went to what I call my detector proving grounds.
Only took the Rutus along,,kinda wish I had taken Impact and Deus along.
So no head to head done.
Overall I was very impressed with this short hunt.
I would have bet against anyone $500 they could hunt here and even pull at least 4 nonferrous finds-- guess I would have lost!!!
Folks those own Rutus and like to relic hunt,,DO NOT offload your detector!!!
Now currently I can't rate Rutus for coins but hopefully in the future.
Sounds like I am in the tank here with Rutus don't it??
Nope
But this detector is special in my book,,,if you believe White's V3i, Deus,,CTX, Etrac, Racers, Nokta Relic, Fisher F75s are good to great detectors.
I ran Rutus at max frequency 18.4 khz, sensitivity 81,,,,mask setting 4,, reactivity 3,, 0 discrimation,,set the 0-30 ID region to lowest tone and let the Rutus work and it did.
A few things I noticed.
And btw I did dig some targets,,that were dodgy in one way or the other for verification.
Flat iron,,,seems most of the time,,,will not wrap to the high side,,,rather report in the 30s range,,tone nuance/structure will reveal,,hodograph will too.
I did see some targets that wrapped to the 110s region,,pinpoint would show big target.
These 4 nonferrous targets dug,,,all produce very intelligent audio depicting nonferrous,,and some thing else,,a weak and small pinpoint.
Notice all the nonferrous have something in common-- very thin.
I can't say what the actual orientation was on all the targets,,but the bigger (I broke btw) was on edge at 6" deep.
Something else,,,only one of these finds,,did I exhume ferrous with,,the bigger find,,a small nail.
A gold coin like the $1 version should be sweating if a Rutus shows up and a person knows how to operate to find.
I was surprised at the depth of some of these finds,,,this ground here not mild,,4bars on F75 detector,,but this concentric coil for its size seems to have some punch even in smaller thin finds.
The square elongated find was at a measured 7" deep.
Now,,with my settings on Rutus it may be fair to say I didn't have it set up to to be deepest here.
Where I hunted today is right were I started metal detecting back in Dec 2010,, when a gent let me swing his White's XLT for around 15 minutes.
I have virtually lived in this site since trying to learn to detect,, using I think some good detectors.
Across the road is another area not too big,,,where I've spent a lot of time,,it is covered in tall hay right now.
In a couple weeks I will be busting with Rutus and hard.
I sure didn't hunt this entire site I was at today,,,I got hot,,plus I saw what I needed to see,,,,this site is too controlled and I know how hard I've hit.
Do I need more data to climb out on a limb here,,maybe,,,but I am about 3/4s the way out right now,,,one more hunt with similar results in a similar site Inwill climb out all the way on the limb.
Pic coming shortly.
A first solo flight (hunt) with Rutus detector.
Concentric coil (8.125") used only.
External speaker used,,no headphones,,wind conditions light and variable.
Went to what I call my detector proving grounds.
Only took the Rutus along,,kinda wish I had taken Impact and Deus along.
So no head to head done.
Overall I was very impressed with this short hunt.
I would have bet against anyone $500 they could hunt here and even pull at least 4 nonferrous finds-- guess I would have lost!!!
Folks those own Rutus and like to relic hunt,,DO NOT offload your detector!!!
Now currently I can't rate Rutus for coins but hopefully in the future.
Sounds like I am in the tank here with Rutus don't it??
Nope
But this detector is special in my book,,,if you believe White's V3i, Deus,,CTX, Etrac, Racers, Nokta Relic, Fisher F75s are good to great detectors.
I ran Rutus at max frequency 18.4 khz, sensitivity 81,,,,mask setting 4,, reactivity 3,, 0 discrimation,,set the 0-30 ID region to lowest tone and let the Rutus work and it did.
A few things I noticed.
And btw I did dig some targets,,that were dodgy in one way or the other for verification.
Flat iron,,,seems most of the time,,,will not wrap to the high side,,,rather report in the 30s range,,tone nuance/structure will reveal,,hodograph will too.
I did see some targets that wrapped to the 110s region,,pinpoint would show big target.
These 4 nonferrous targets dug,,,all produce very intelligent audio depicting nonferrous,,and some thing else,,a weak and small pinpoint.
Notice all the nonferrous have something in common-- very thin.
I can't say what the actual orientation was on all the targets,,but the bigger (I broke btw) was on edge at 6" deep.
Something else,,,only one of these finds,,did I exhume ferrous with,,the bigger find,,a small nail.
A gold coin like the $1 version should be sweating if a Rutus shows up and a person knows how to operate to find.
I was surprised at the depth of some of these finds,,,this ground here not mild,,4bars on F75 detector,,but this concentric coil for its size seems to have some punch even in smaller thin finds.
The square elongated find was at a measured 7" deep.
Now,,with my settings on Rutus it may be fair to say I didn't have it set up to to be deepest here.
Where I hunted today is right were I started metal detecting back in Dec 2010,, when a gent let me swing his White's XLT for around 15 minutes.
I have virtually lived in this site since trying to learn to detect,, using I think some good detectors.
Across the road is another area not too big,,,where I've spent a lot of time,,it is covered in tall hay right now.
In a couple weeks I will be busting with Rutus and hard.
I sure didn't hunt this entire site I was at today,,,I got hot,,plus I saw what I needed to see,,,,this site is too controlled and I know how hard I've hit.
Do I need more data to climb out on a limb here,,maybe,,,but I am about 3/4s the way out right now,,,one more hunt with similar results in a similar site Inwill climb out all the way on the limb.
Pic coming shortly.
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