CTX and Iron

[Dan(NM)]

Dug these 2 targets today at an old abandoned high school. Both read a solid 12/38 12/39 and locked on solid with no bounce or trace. I had an open screen with 2 tones ferrous and ferrous and the nail gave a solid dig me tone with no hint of a low tone or cursor bounce. My question is, does the CTX seem to hit on iron more solidly than the Etrac or is it my imagination? After I dug the nail, and rescanned the hole, no coin in the hole and scanned the nail, it read a solid 12/43 12/44 with a high tone in the air. Is this a common occurrence? It seems to me the Etrac was able to identify iron a bit better than the CTX. I sold my first CTX for that reason and went back to the Etrac, am I missing something here as far as settings goes?

 

[indy durtdigger]

Where did the target trace show up on the screen?

 

[Dan(NM)]

Right where a coin would and it stuck hard with no tracing into iron.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Some nails just seem to register like coins. I dug a rusty screws today that hit like solid quarters. I have pulled a lot of "iffy" nails that I thought were going to be nails, and I have dug nails that hit like solid coins. I always expect to find a coins with them in the hole, but sometimes its just the nail. I don't know if it has to do with the type of metal (forged iron, different grades of steel, coated / uncoated) , the position, of some combination of it all.

 

[trojdor]

Dan,
Ferrous coin is particularly guilty of that.

High-Trash is much better at spotting iron, but some believe it's not as deep as FC.
By 'spotting iron', I mean HT will tend to pull an iron target down off the 12 line, where FC 'nails' the signal to the 12 line.

If you watch, FC also 'nails' a pretty big blue iron blob toward the lower RH corner as well. The size of that blob is also an iron clue.

One easy solution to that would be to hunt in a program with FC, and have a HT one loaded with the user defined 'fast switching to previous prog'...so that you can quickly check back and forth.

HH,
mike

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yes, the FC mode wants to push everything to the 12 line. It is better at IDing coins at depth, but the trade off is more trash gets pushed to the 12 line.

 

[Dan(NM)]

Okay,well I'll try a different mode setting then Ferrous coin to see how that works in that same area.

 

[sube]

Dan it would be interesting to see what another detector would id this nail at do you have another detector you could try it on . I just made a video on falsing and nails how not to dig them down about 10 post or last post in hunting in the trash at the top of the forum .When watching the video watch the cursor movement when I am swinging before going to pinpoint sizing with trace especially on the north south hit . If your using ttf try combine it's like ttf on steroids all three of the e-trac modes in one .I use ferrous coin combine with target trace my user key hot key whatever is high trash with the nails just disc out the reason for this is high trash well ignore all targets that are disc out and show only the targets that are not . So now I can check targets by audio , trace , and another disc pattern quickly and get way more imfo on the target . sube