Critterhunter
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It's hot hear near Cleveland like it is for the rest of you guys probably. 90's all week they are saying. Anyway, not much to tell. I was working a strip of grass about 10 feet wide next to an old gravel road at an old picnic site I've pulled a bunch of silver from over the years. Not really worth posting about the hunt but just wanted to say I was running at 3PM with sensitivity, which I almost never have to go that low with the 12x10, because of the gravel from the old road that has found it's way into the grass over the years. Often some of the gravel like that will be hot rocks and cause nulling or at least bad coin signals on any machine, so I had to keep the sensitivity down to 3PM to keep it from nulling out too much. I was almost tempted to just throw it in Auto because often if I ever drop below around 3PM I just use Auto as you'll get just about as deep yet have a much more stable machine in situations like that.
Anyway, just wanted to bring it up because it's been a while since I hunted with it that low and yet I was impressed with the depths I was getting. Dug a copper memorial at about close to 6" that banged hard, and also dug the can tab that a square tab pops out on a can at about the same depth that also banged good. I was digging any signal above iron that didn't bounce by more than 2 to 3 digits in VDI in the hopes of a gold ring or some odd old coin that read low for some reason. No great finds at all. Just wanted to bring up the sensitivity thing.
Some may say that Auto doesn't get all that good of depth but I've used it in the past and popped silver at about 7.5" or so deep that banged hard, and at a site that I had gridded with other machines several times before I got the GT. I think Auto will get deeper in some situations due to less EMI or less harsh ground, causing it to not need to auto adjust down as much. I still prefer using it in some spots that contain a ton of hot rocks, or say on an old trail that has a lot of stones in it that can cause falsing and such. As said, if I need to dip sensitivity much more lower than 3 to maybe 4PM then I figure might as well run in Auto and have a much more stable machine for a hard site like that. I also some times use it at a site that has a ton of iron in it causing constant nulling. I'm not sure yet but I think Auto might actually see coins a static manual setting might miss due to running too hot or too cold as the ground changes.
Enough hot land hunting for me as it's upper 90's all week they are saying. Think I'll throw my control box in my Minelab chest mount bag on my water rig. My water rig is the stock shaft and arm cup with stock 10" Tornado...Only thing different on that shaft is I used a bike end bar and rubber grip cover for better hand comfort. Always hated the stock grip as it never felt right and it holds water anyway having a foam cover. I throw the control box in a zip lock bag first. Hole poked through bottom for coil cable and then I tie a rubber band around it to seal that. Once I set the controls I zip close the bag. Only place water can enter is where I poke the headphone plug through the bag to plug it in. I figure if I fall into the water if I'm quick to get up there is a good chance the GT won't have any water exposure. Even if it gets a tad in at the headphone jack a little drying out should make things fine again since it's fresh water. With the GT sealed in the zip lock bag it then goes into the Minelab bag and away I go.
Anyway, just wanted to bring it up because it's been a while since I hunted with it that low and yet I was impressed with the depths I was getting. Dug a copper memorial at about close to 6" that banged hard, and also dug the can tab that a square tab pops out on a can at about the same depth that also banged good. I was digging any signal above iron that didn't bounce by more than 2 to 3 digits in VDI in the hopes of a gold ring or some odd old coin that read low for some reason. No great finds at all. Just wanted to bring up the sensitivity thing.
Some may say that Auto doesn't get all that good of depth but I've used it in the past and popped silver at about 7.5" or so deep that banged hard, and at a site that I had gridded with other machines several times before I got the GT. I think Auto will get deeper in some situations due to less EMI or less harsh ground, causing it to not need to auto adjust down as much. I still prefer using it in some spots that contain a ton of hot rocks, or say on an old trail that has a lot of stones in it that can cause falsing and such. As said, if I need to dip sensitivity much more lower than 3 to maybe 4PM then I figure might as well run in Auto and have a much more stable machine for a hard site like that. I also some times use it at a site that has a ton of iron in it causing constant nulling. I'm not sure yet but I think Auto might actually see coins a static manual setting might miss due to running too hot or too cold as the ground changes.
Enough hot land hunting for me as it's upper 90's all week they are saying. Think I'll throw my control box in my Minelab chest mount bag on my water rig. My water rig is the stock shaft and arm cup with stock 10" Tornado...Only thing different on that shaft is I used a bike end bar and rubber grip cover for better hand comfort. Always hated the stock grip as it never felt right and it holds water anyway having a foam cover. I throw the control box in a zip lock bag first. Hole poked through bottom for coil cable and then I tie a rubber band around it to seal that. Once I set the controls I zip close the bag. Only place water can enter is where I poke the headphone plug through the bag to plug it in. I figure if I fall into the water if I'm quick to get up there is a good chance the GT won't have any water exposure. Even if it gets a tad in at the headphone jack a little drying out should make things fine again since it's fresh water. With the GT sealed in the zip lock bag it then goes into the Minelab bag and away I go.
