Any of you turf hunters figured out the pulltab thing yet??

[Jackpine Savage]

I have tried everything and can't come up with a reliable method to ID deep pulltabs, they all read up in the dime - quarter range. Any help would be appreciated. I have tried the LF coil, stability on and off which did not help in my ground because the results I got when using it were not consistent from target to target. I know its for high mineral areas but at least I tried. Was using tracking on with high sensitivity and got some deep coins, but the area I was in is loaded with deep pulltabs and the ratio was about 80/20 tabs to coins. :sad:

Tom

 

[Jackpine Savage]

The beach I was on today must be very low mineral or something. With the low freq coil only one tone could be heard when trying to manually GB over the whole number range. Never could get a second tone or balance between 2 tones. Auto GB was inconsistent with the number it came up with when balancing over the same spot, so I just let tracking do its thing.

What I am wonder is if there is a recommended method of dealing with this? On some detectors it is said that auto tracking will get "confused" in low mineral ground and continually hunt for a setting so in that case you should set it manually to one end of the GB scale. Andy can you help?

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

it may have also been outside of the "Standard" GB range. i.e. the other day I wanted to see if the "Standard" GB would handle a saltwater beach I frequent since it appeared the black sand level had shifted. It would not, and stayed put at the last setting.

So if it happens again, and you didn't try this, then try going to Beach GB mode since it has a much wider range towards the conductive side, and see if it will GB in that mode. If this does work then I think we would all be interested in where the GB centered.

The other thing is to bobb the coil in AM mode with max sens and see if it will spit up any -8's, sometimes with a weak low tone. If it doesn't, then maybe you do have low mineralisation, poor you.

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I am familiar with that a lot in my area in and around the lakes here. For example the Tiger Shark, CZ's and another I can't think of at the moment all have a problem with limited GB range in some of the lakes here. Onthose its pretty easy to figure out that use just turn the knob all the way CW and go for it. They even usually approach a neutral balance that way. Just not sure due to the limited info on the X-terras which way to go. The manual does say that if the proper GB seems to fall between 2 numbers then go for the lower number which tell me that lower numbers are a more positive setting so maybe I should have just went to zero"? This ain't your normal tracking GB either so that throws up another big question smark in my brain. Oh well!

And they say this is an easy to use machine maybe as a turn on a go it is, but it seems to have a lot of potential beyond turn on and go and to get every last ounce out of it ain't comin easy for me!

Tom

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Its in the manual. FP preset GB is 27 and what I saw with tracking on and punching the GB button on occasion is that it seemed to favor the 27-30 range over that sand.

Tom