Hi' All'
I just bought a SPP detector, I bought a small property on the VIC gold fields, no signs of diggings or mining activity on my place, however there is a few hundred meters away along a creek where runoff from my place eventually drains in to (on private land that the owner won't allow any one to detect on) in fact none of my neighbours will let any one on, some have had bad experiences
A mate found a few almost microscopic specks in a single pan full in my vegi garden, nothing to get excited about hear.
Any way I fired the SPP up in the house yard and it went crazy, so I started digging, this 12" coil it comes with is fantastic I dug a hole 300mm deep and about 600mm wide before I finally dug up the target, a piece of rusted gal about the size of a 5c piece, the wife was not impressed with me digging up the only green patch of grass.
I also bought a 12x7 mono and gave that a go, it nearly drove me crazy it located a target very quickly, so out with the pick again a rather large hole was dug
this time in the paddock, then the target vanished, I ran the detector over the pile of dirt from the hole nothing, spread it around and ran over it again got a faint signal moved the coil through the dirt from the hole and a strong signal came back ok got a hand full of dirt and ran that over the coil great, good strong signal I have got it in my hand, put it in a dish and had a look at it couldn't see any thing, got a magnet under the dish and there it was a piece of wire about 15mm long and about .5mm thick no joke, not much thicker than a pubic hair and it was at least 150mm deep.
I can see why some people give up detecting it's rather a lot of hard work the ground is like concrete around hear, and it wouldn't take too many of this type of experiences to turn some one off detecting.
I think the 12" coil might be a little too big as it makes pin pointing the target as you go deeper too hard, the 12x7 is a little better on the pointy ends.
Is there a smaller coil say around 6" to suit the SPP ?, or how good are the whites bullseye TRX for pin pointing and are they worth the expense.
if any one has any advice that makes pin pointing easier without cratering for targets would be most welcomed.
I am retired and have plenty of time to get to learn how to use this detector, I have to say the SPP is much better than I expected, only have to set it once, A mate has a Mine lab that cost over 5k and needs to constantly twiddle with the thing down hear I suppose its a machine that's a bit harder to master in different ground conditions, too many knobs and settings for a novice like me.
Regard's
428 :/
