Cody, RE: semi-auto and gain 10

[Anonymous]

I spent 4 hours hunting a site today, and I have hunted that same site at least 10 other times. I was getting skunked. I did the unthinkable, switched the dang machine into semi-auto and gain 10. Bagged my first silver for the year, a nice token and 3 other wheats. The silver and the wheat signals were coming in all broken and iffy but the digital ID was in the ballpark of what I am used to.
I never find anything digging iffies with my old set-up, manual, ferrous and gain 7. Just faint targets, which I like since it lets me know deepies. But if I continue to find stuff this way, hey, I'm takin it.
Thanks! Saved the settings.

 

[Anonymous]

I think Cody is on the right track so to speak..Audio gain of 10 is invaluable lest we not hear the deepies, but many with good hearing may use five to give a modulated audio affect( shallow loud-deep softer...Manual or semi-auto sensitivity depending on your ground. For instance if you ground is changing constantly sem-auto my do the job and if you have stable ground manual may do better.Guess thats why Minelab gives us the options. Have hunted a football field with a unit that measured ground mineralization and it changed several times from one end to the other, while I have hunted areas where it was extremely stable. So I guess no perfect setting only one that works for you.