Hunting in Iron infested Areas
How much iron and or mineralization is in the ground dictates how
your threshold will react. In
fairly clean areas you should be able to pump up the sensitivity to
where you either lose the threshold to a null, or
you get too much falsing from airborne interference, and still be able
to swing the coil at a reasonable pace. As a general rule when you get
a solid null, you should either put the sens in auto or just keep it about
the 1 o'clock position or even minimum. The Sov will still see good targets
through the null, but it wont get em real deep, for the most part 6 inches
or less. Also you should slow your swing speed to a crawl and listen for
little spikes of audio, once you hear something slow down even more and
attack the spot that gave you that spike from a few different angles. If
you get it more than one direction or it is pretty solid when wiggling(no
more than in inch or so to each side of the signal) the coil quickly over
the spot in one direction, then switch to all metal and see how much the
target moves from where your getting it in disc. If it stays within an
inch in all metal, is a quick response and doesn't blare at you like
large iron would dig it. One thing that's a dead give away of a false of
a rusty nail is when you get a quiet signal in disc but a blast in all
metal or a drawn out response in all metal, coins and most good targets
give a quick blip in all metal while iron and junk will almost seem like
the signal is pulling your coil towards it in a long drawn out response.
Be careful and go slow when checking in all metal and listen for a short
blip followed by that drawn out response, cause you have probably just
located a coin near iron. It takes a bit of practice but it can be a killer
in these spots as long as you go slow listen for any response and check
them out thoroughly. Some people will say that its too time consuming or
that its too much of a pain in the neck to have to go through all this,
or that other machines would find these good targets easier, but if that's
the case how come my Sov finds them in the spots that have been gone over
by a hundred machines? I think you'll be amazed at what a good signal
you'll get from a coin in these areas
once you've locked on to the signal. Remember the secret to getting
a response from iron areas is to keep
the line of detection above the good target and not over the junk,
don't swing the coil more than a couple
inches to each side of the spot you got a response. let the Sov analyze
it and it will lock on. If you swing
6 inches off it the sov will need to null the trash and you will have
to start all over. Its time consuming
but you wont dig much junk in areas that other machines falsely
ID'ed iron as a coin,
so with that you more than make up for any lost time and do less digging.