1270 silence

[WV62]

I know my first round with the 1270 I never used the silencer.

Now I am wondering if I should use it or not and if so is there times to use it and times not to use it?

Thought some of you guys or gals out there may have mastered the 1270 so I was thinking there may be some good info out there.

Thanks
Ron in WV

 

[yukonbuck]

You know, Ron...I don't like to use it either. It feels like sometimes it blanks out weak signals. I just posted a new video under my last video topic and towards the end I flip on the silencer on the 1270. It seems to clean up the chatter a bit, but I just don't trust it and probably never will as it changes the characteristics of the response too much for my liking. I reckon a fella looking for shallow coins would have no problem with it, or maybe on a beach it might clean up the wet sand chatter.

 

[WV62]

yukonbuck,
I know what you are talking about trusting, hate to waste hunting time and then think I missed a bunch of good stuff. But I have been doing some testing on small gold and on each test I would switch on the silencer and off. There was no change in the response. Of course I didn't notice any gain in the response either, so that kind of tells me silencer off is more trusting.

I have been getting some pointers from forum member shooter, and he doesn't care much for the silencer either. He and were just talking today and he likes hunting using the iron disc as his primary and then switching to normal disc to check a target. I think I will try that next and see how that goes.

Enjoyed your video, thanks for post it.

Ron in WV

 

[yukonbuck]

I like the iron disc mode as well. You can really knock out most iron. I personally hunt in normal disc and when I'm on a target I'll flip the trigger and instantly be in iron disc...the reverse of what shooter is doing. I'll do some experimenting on video and post it later this week.

 

[shooter]

I don't like the silencer either, and again I don't trust it. Seems to me this filtering out pops and chatter is it also filtering out deep targets with a faint signal. As far as I'm discrimination is my primary when the majority of targets are nails such as old foundations'farm feels, Barnes, etc. If the area is newer such as a park a school, soccer field, etc. I would start in normal discrimination because the predominant junk would tend to be pulltabs bottle caps and CAN slaw and such, so I wouldn't be my main worry at five discrimination small nails pins and hairpins would already be taken out.