Unveiling Metal Detecting's Best-Kept Secret: Say Goodbye to Swinging Low & Slow

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• ME

  @MetalDetectingNYC · 3 years ago · pinned

  Minelab Manticore: <a href="https://shrsl.com/3p0cq">https://shrsl.com/3p0cq</a><br>XP Deus II: <a href="https://shrsl.com/3gbf0">https://shrsl.com/3gbf0</a>

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• BR

  @BruceGordon925 · 3 years ago

  OK, 40+ years detecting here. &nbsp; You can&apos;t teach signal investigation... &nbsp;It comes with time and experience. &nbsp;At any sweep speed you get a signal, Good or bad you then sweep to find the best signal (Make or break) the signal, &nbsp;dig or don&apos;t dig. You speed up, slow down, raise or lower the coil, you work the signal from different angles. You go into PP/All metal and SIZE the target. <br> &nbsp;Each area you detect will have a different investigation, Field/ Yard/ Playground/ Woods. &nbsp;Low and slow, Get the signal, Investigate.

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• DA

  @danno5805 · 3 years ago

  Side note, I have bad shoulders and should still swing slower but man the way he&apos;s swinging is crazy 😂

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• JI

  @jimbop101 · 3 years ago

  As usual good stuff. As an old guy that&apos;s still new to the hobby, you save me tons of time and research. Thanks again

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• PA

  @patrashdigger · 3 years ago

  If you&apos;re going to swing like a wild man good chance target&apos;s are being missed. Especially small targets and coins on edge

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• RO

  @ronaldblackburn2483 · 3 years ago

  I still have fun with my Explorer 2 . Faithful beast still produces .

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• TU

  @tunnelportterror · 2 years ago

  I disagree...I&apos;m not metal detecting to be in a hurry. I want to take my time, relax. &nbsp;You&apos;ll find the good stuff either way

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• DI

  @DigemDeep · 3 years ago

  The one thing you didn’t address in your low and slow dissertation is depth. &nbsp;Transmit depth decreases exponentially given a constant transmit power. &nbsp;Your target response separation might be great at relatively shallow depth, but if you are holding your coil high off the ground, you won’t hear those deep targets at marginal depths despite the great recovery speed. &nbsp;Low and slow ( relatively) is still a good detecting practice with today’s technologies. &nbsp;<br><br>If you are still using some of the older Minelab detectors, you will be shocked at the stuff you missed because you swung the machine too fast. &nbsp;The Sovereign for example will &nbsp;find targets with a crawl swing speed that you missed using what you call a low and slow swing. &nbsp;<br><br>The test of a good detectorist is going back to places you’ve been before with your older detectors and only finding a few good deep targets. &nbsp;You never get them all, but you sure as heck can get a lot of them with good detecting habits. &nbsp;I go back to old sites and still find goodies, but if I don’t find anything with a newer machine, that means I was thorough when I was there previously. &nbsp;Either way, I gain confidence in my detecting prowess. &nbsp;And as a bonus, I am forced to find new sites and that always excites me.

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• SP

  @spacefury65 · 3 years ago

  Working with machines that don&apos;t have or never had recovery speeds, I always found that scrubbing with a slow swing yielded deeper better targets. I worked with low hum thresholds and hearing that brief disruption in tone was the main goal for the &quot;unrecoverable&quot; targets.. BTW: If you want silver, 6KHz or LOWER is the winner...

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• MA

  @MarkALong64 · 3 years ago

  If you scrub the coil and there is a coil wire (which is the case for most detectors), it causes the wire to move and a moving wire in a magnetic field gives a signal.

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• WI

  @Windsurfingaddict · 3 years ago

  I think when one finds a target then without realising &nbsp;we all swing slow and fast over target to get to know the tone shape to find out target size using one’s ears, &nbsp;if you swing to fast as your walking your chances of missing targets goes up including your heart rate as it’s not a race, &nbsp;relaxed and rhythmical and enjoy the time spent swinging gets you the best finds, &nbsp;intreating topic and glad to see you are showing us some older machines in use vs the modern machine 😎😎😎

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• DE

  @DetectDigSmile · 3 years ago

  The processing is getting faster and faster, the true question is can our shoulders and elbows take that speed over time. &nbsp;Great video.

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