Detecting Metal In My Left Foot. Advice?

[bradwill]

Hi All,
Over the past few years I've had the pleasure of foot surgery.
I have 3 stainless staples, 4 titanium screws and a plate in my left foot.
Besides all the jokes about "putting my best foot forward" and
my foot being worth more than its weight in gold.
Anything I can do so I don't set detectors off?
thanks.

 

[Deepseeker]

Hi Brad, welcome to P.A.

Sorry to hear about that mate, that's one curly problem that I'd imagine would take all the fun out of detecting. Just a thought, but have you ever thought about giving a drag coil a go? maybe there's some way that you can pull it along a bit further behind you? The other possibility is an after market extra long shaft combined with a bungy and maybe setting your control box back as far as possible to help counter balance it?

If you can get down to the smallest possible coil that you would be happy to use, and combine that with the extended shaft maybe you can get far enough away from your feet to not have a problem with false signals? Good luck anyway mate, I hope you find a solution.

-D.S.

 

[7.62marksman]

as deepseeker said go for bungy and longer shaft

 

[Nightjar]

Apart from suggestions already put forward, when walking be sure to have your left foot back when you swing to the left.

 

[Redfin]

Apart from suggestions already put forward, when walking be sure to have your left foot back when you swing to the left.

This is what I do without any problems and I have a lot more metal in mine.
Have used coils up to 18" on the GPX and the 19" on the GPZ

 

[AngerManagement]

If a coin and relic machine; test it and see if even picks it up. Depending upon the TID ext, discriminate it out LOL.

But seriously, be sure to have your left foot back when you swing to the left. It also can have a positive impact as i you then do a shuffle rather than a step; you stand a better change of better ground coverage. So many run across the fields, and miss lots. Low and SLOW is just not the swing... Also the forward movements.

 

[Moneybox]

I reckon a small coil is the answer. You just have to choose the areas you target. It's no good taking on big open spaces with a tiny coil but there are a lot of places you can get a little coil into where the guys swinging a big one can't get to. You'll be restricted in depth as well but the small coil will detect the small gold better and there's more small stuff left out there than big nuggets. Heavily vegetated and tight rocky patches can be worked easier with a small coil. The SDC2300 is also great on the little stuff and it doesn't have much lateral detection so you night get good mileage out of one of those as well.