Posted by JB(MS) on 10/21/2009, 11:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Barons reading upscale on deep targets......."
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I used to keep iron reject turned off all the time but the last couple of years I've been using it on a regular basis. I seldom reject iron at old sites the first couple of times I hunt them, especially if there are a lot of nails in the ground. At those type places I set the audio to give a low tone on iron, mixed tone on foil and nickels and dig any signal that gives even a hint of a high tone. As far as the Barons rejecting a deep good target with iron reject on the answer is no. They move deep targets up in the disc range, that's what I was talking about when I said they read upscale. On the Cointrax deep dimes often show quarter and I've dug a couple that ID'd as high as half dollar. I've also dug nickels that were jumping between tab and zinc penny on the Cointrax meter.
The same holds true for the Barons without meters, with the audio set to give low tones on nickels, mixed tone on tabs and high tones on higer coins, targets that would normally give a low tone can move up to a mixed or high tone depending on how deep they are. That's opposite from many detectors. The CZ's, Tesoro's and some Garretts I've used would drop a deep dime or quarter down into the zinc or tab range, and sometimes lower. I dug one dime while using a CZ that gave a foil signal, and had a couple of guys tell me they dug old coins and .58 caliber bulleets at Civil War sites that ID'ed as iron while using CZ's. I've dug a bunch of deep beaver tail type tabs that gave a high tone coin signal, but I'd much rather dig a tab that ID's in the coin range than leave a coin that ID's in the tab or foil range. That's why I said having the Barons read upscale is a great feature.
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