choppadude
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I received my Impact yesterday just before heading out the door for work so this morning I was up bright and early, read the manual quickly while I chugged down a cup of coffee and headed out the door.
I only had an hour to hunt but it was long enough for me to tell I am going to like this machine.
I took it to an area where everything is DEEP. The only machines that really hit on anything have been my Deus and the Sorex Pro.
I basically set it up randomly. I had heard through post that DI99 was a good mode to use and I then set my gain up to where it started to chatter and backed it off a couple numbers. I ended up around 83. I set the discrimination on 15 and did a ground balance. I am thinking my iron volume was at 1 or 2.
As you can see in the pic I hit 3 coins and 3 pieces of trash which is not bad because targets in this area are few and far between and did I mention DEEP?
The wheatie was at about 8" and hit semi solid one way but iffy on the other direction. I dug it out carefully and sure enough it was perched right on its edge in the bottom of my hole. The 1889 V nickel was 10" deep and gave a good signal in both directions with an ID of 75 and jumping into the 50's at times. After pulling the coin out I stuck my pinpointer back in the hole and got another target. I was excited hoping a piece of silver may be lying in there but it ended up was a medium size square nail. Never heard a grunt of iron just a good mid tone. I other V nickel came in right at 75 and stayed there. It was approx. 7" deep.
The pull tab fooled me but I was going to dig any repeatable tones anyways. The small iron bolt gave a good solid tone in one direction and nothing in the other. I had just dug the wheatie on edge and suspected I may have another but wasn't to be.
One thing I was very impressed with is just how quiet this machine is. When sitting it down to retrieve and target it is whisper quiet. My Deus gets noisy as all hell when I do that. Also very nice and quiet while sweeping the coil from side to side
I look forward to mastering this machine and making some awesome finds with it.
I only had an hour to hunt but it was long enough for me to tell I am going to like this machine.
I took it to an area where everything is DEEP. The only machines that really hit on anything have been my Deus and the Sorex Pro.
I basically set it up randomly. I had heard through post that DI99 was a good mode to use and I then set my gain up to where it started to chatter and backed it off a couple numbers. I ended up around 83. I set the discrimination on 15 and did a ground balance. I am thinking my iron volume was at 1 or 2.
As you can see in the pic I hit 3 coins and 3 pieces of trash which is not bad because targets in this area are few and far between and did I mention DEEP?
The wheatie was at about 8" and hit semi solid one way but iffy on the other direction. I dug it out carefully and sure enough it was perched right on its edge in the bottom of my hole. The 1889 V nickel was 10" deep and gave a good signal in both directions with an ID of 75 and jumping into the 50's at times. After pulling the coin out I stuck my pinpointer back in the hole and got another target. I was excited hoping a piece of silver may be lying in there but it ended up was a medium size square nail. Never heard a grunt of iron just a good mid tone. I other V nickel came in right at 75 and stayed there. It was approx. 7" deep.
The pull tab fooled me but I was going to dig any repeatable tones anyways. The small iron bolt gave a good solid tone in one direction and nothing in the other. I had just dug the wheatie on edge and suspected I may have another but wasn't to be.
One thing I was very impressed with is just how quiet this machine is. When sitting it down to retrieve and target it is whisper quiet. My Deus gets noisy as all hell when I do that. Also very nice and quiet while sweeping the coil from side to side
I look forward to mastering this machine and making some awesome finds with it.
