Winter Blues/ Advice

Hmm well the amount of discimination i use depends on how old the site is. If its an old site from around the 1800s i will just discriminate out iron and dig everything else. Not sure if im answering your question or not.

p.s in parks or schools i will do the same thing but decide if the signal is worth it before digging.

J - Over the last 30 years my disc has lowered with each year it seems. When I started detecting the old guys said "dig it all". Now that I'm an old guy I say the same In general hunting I keep the disc down to about 80%, digging lots of foil, tabs, nails, etc. But the gold/silver is there also. Except is recent sites where every sweep is multiple tabs - then I disc higher. But that's rare and I only use that setting instead of leaving the site.
And you can see the great advantage in detecting tot lots & such for it makes you a better detectorist for when you hit the older spots. If you dont then it's kinda like never shooting a rifle and then going out deer season and wondering why you can't hit anything.
In Civil War sites I pretty much dig it all and have been rewarded for doing so.
Good luck, Steve in so az

I use very little disc, I dig it all.

In some trashy areas I am concerned that too much disc will mask out a good target. So I only disc out nails and crown caps.
Often a coin can be on edge or close to trash and will only sound off in one direction