Posted by JB(MS) on 12/21/2008, 4:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Water logged and still raining....."
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The notch on the Prohunter module is basically the same as the notch setup on the A&S, Cobra II and Viper. I've used the notch on the A&S a lot the last few months, it works really well and very little depth is lost. Another thing I like about it is it can be used like a regular discrimination knob. By setting the tone all the way counter clockwise and using the notch knob to discriminate, all rejected targets won't give an audio response and accepted targets give a high tone. I've found a lot of coins mixed in with the tabs and bottlecaps around the concession stands at the older ball fields here using the A&S/5.5 coil and the notch feature. About the only trash I've dug at those places were bent or broken newer type tabs and flattened aluminum bottlecaps.
I don't know if they work as well in other places as they do in my mild ground, but I'm continually amazed at how deep the Barons go with the small coil. Having that much depth with a small coil that allows shooting between trash, plus a notch feature that works extremely well, has let me find coins, including quite a few silver coins, that bigger coils couldn't see because of masking and other detectors with small coils didn't have the depth to reach. I posted the photo below earlier this year, but it's a good example of using the A&S with the small coil in trash. The silver dime and gold ring were maybe three feet apart, but both were surrounded by junk. The dime was almost 8 inches down and was just a high tone "tink" mixed in with iron signals. The ring was only a couple of inches deep and gave a mixed high/low tone but just as with the dime, I could move the coil a couple of inches or so in any direction and get an iron signal. The A&S, and the Goldtrax, can't see coins under nails and small iron as well as the 1650 but both work extremely well with the small coil in trash.
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