Do you hunt with the Gone Hunting Program ?

[efreestyle]

Quick question on the Gone Hunting Program. Do any members here hunt with the Gone Hunting Program ? If so, why? It seems to have an open pattern, with virtually very little discrimination.

Why do you hunt with this program? Why not ?

 

[martygene]

I like hearing every tone. I also don't want to have tone go to null as I think that it might mask a small tone that just barley is audible. I like having "bins" that I can make to fit any target I want and set whatever tone I want for each bin.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

One of my biggest criticisms of the CTX-3030 is that it lacks true All Metal mode, found on other detectors. The only way to offset this loss is to hunt with a wide open discrimination pattern. The reason I like the wide open pattern is that sometimes a non-desirable iron target will mask a good target. By nulling out the iron, the detector may not recover fast enough to hear the good target. By hearing these low iron tones you increase the odds of hearing the adjacent coin or jewelry.

It's not always practical to use the wide open discrimination (such as a trashy park), in which case Gone Hunting's Pattern 2 will null out the iron.

 

[Nes (south Coast-CA)]

Gary Drayton says in his book that the nearest you can get to All Metal on the CTX is the Relics mode. I haven't tried it on the beach, but he has...Nes

 

["Dr.Tones"]

One of the great features (in my opinion) of the CTX is that you don't have to worry about the detector not being fast enough to recover from a null. In other words, the CTX will not miss good targets next to discriminated targets. You're not going to miss a non discriminated target because of a slow null recovery. In fact (in my opinion) you are MORE likely to miss a good target in an open screen because the detector is trying to split tones. Make it easier for your detector to decide what tone to provide by telling it what target you want to hear. The CTX was designed to boost the signals of wanted targets next to unwanted targets. Or... You can listen to all that racket... Old habits I guess.

 

[sparkster]

I'm no expert on the CTX, far from it. I have used Gone Hunting's program for 6 months. I hunt mostly parks, sports fields, private residences, median strips and abandon military installations. I use the discrimination program for hunting and if I get a strange signal I switch to the open screen, check it out there and if it is pretty lose to discrimination program I dig it. This detector is notoriously accurate with GH's programs when hunting coins and jewelry. If it gives you most any target on the 11 or 12 line such as 11-46, or 12- 44 you can bet your next retirement check its probably a clad quarter or dime.

I rang up a 13-09, 12-08, 12-09 a month ago and sure enough it was a gold men's wedding band. 6.5 grams of 14K. If its gold or silver this machine with GH'S,s program will light up and more often than not be very stable. If its 10K it may wobble a little, I have checked that out very closely with some of my sample finds ranging from 10K small rings to 22K bracelets.

I love the CTX, but I have a horrible right rotator cuff tear. I can only swing it for an hour or so! Then I have to go to the AT Pro or my shoulder kills me. I ordered a harness to see if that may help relieve some of the pain. If not, it's surgery time again. Never do rotator cuff surgery unless you absolutely have to.

Gone Hunting is a genius with this machine.

Thanks for looking. GL---------HH

 

[sparkster]

I was detecting a soccer field this morning about 5:30am before it got to hot. These soccer fields cover at least a 150 acres. There are like six full size soccer fields and a foot ball field. Now think about somebody dropping a coin or a piece of jewelry anywhere within that 150 acres.it takes a bundle of patients, and one good detector to have any chance for success . Every time I go out there I find something that is neat whether it be coins or jewelry or hot wheels toys. This morning I hunted for about 45 minutes. Found 3.85 in clad, couple stirrup clamps, a tube of lip stick, a hot wheels car. Yesterday I found a 925 ring and. My hunting buddy found a 25 gram 925 chain. Always remember this hobby requires a lot of patients, luck and practice. Go to fast and your finds go wy down. Not to mention there are others hunting every park you have ever been in. You just have to be better.

 

[Digger]

There is nothing wrong with GoneHunting's program. Evan did a great job in addressing what works best for him. But to answer your question as to whether I use it, the answer is no. The programs I use were designed specifically for my sites, my style of hunting and the types of targets I am searching for. I might add, the Gone Hunting programs were designed exactly the same way. But instead of basing them on what works best for me, he based them on what works best for him. He built his program by implementing the functionality best suited for the sites he hunts, his style of hunting and the types of targets he is searching for. Since it is highly unlikely that any two individuals hunt the exact same sites, have the exact same styles or hunt for the exact same targets, it is difficult to believe that folks who duplicate one person's settings (in hopes of matching someone else's performance) are necessarily getting the most out of their CTX 3030. There is very little doubt in my mind that there aren't at least one or two things things that could be "improved upon" with slight adjustments. And when you think about it in that manner, whether we take someone else's program or build one from one of the defaults, once we make a change or two, it has become our own custom program. One that maximizes the performance of our own CTX 3030. And once we have it where we want it, we can save it in XChange2 and install it into our CTX 3030 with whatever name we want. JMHO HH Randy

 

[CT Todd]

No I run my own programs. Mostly I am old school and run wide open. I listen to it all. I'm used to it and it doesn't bother me to listen.

 

[efreestyle]

Thank you all for taking the time and replying. Extremely interesting to read everyone's opinions.

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

I run wide open ferrous coin combined, the bins are nice to have your tones, 50's too many for me!! Evans program is good but you need to select your to es you need to make the decision if your gonna run ferrous or ground coin, set your tones play with fast on and off play with deep on and off play with auto sensitivity and manual and see what you like better!!

 

[Andrew Kalinowski]

I started with GH program than quickly modified it to my liking. Ended up with the sound bins close to what he started with but with the discrimination opened in spots to accept Canadian, modern, trashy clad. That works for me but, exactly as it was, it was (for me) no better than the stock programs.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I'm no expert on the CTX, far from it. I have used Gone Hunting's program for 6 months. I hunt mostly parks, sports fields, private residences, median strips and abandon military installations. I use the discrimination program for hunting and if I get a strange signal I switch to the open screen, check it out there and if it is pretty lose to discrimination program I dig it. This detector is notoriously accurate with GH's programs when hunting coins and jewelry. If it gives you most any target on the 11 or 12 line such as 11-46, or 12- 44 you can bet your next retirement check its probably a clad quarter or dime.

I rang up a 13-09, 12-08, 12-09 a month ago and sure enough it was a gold men's wedding band. 6.5 grams of 14K. If its gold or silver this machine with GH'S,s program will light up and more often than not be very stable. If its 10K it may wobble a little, I have checked that out very closely with some of my sample finds ranging from 10K small rings to 22K bracelets.

I love the CTX, but I have a horrible right rotator cuff tear. I can only swing it for an hour or so! Then I have to go to the AT Pro or my shoulder kills me. I ordered a harness to see if that may help relieve some of the pain. If not, it's surgery time again. Never do rotator cuff surgery unless you absolutely have to.

Gone Hunting is a genius with this machine.

Thanks for looking. GL---------HH

Great post!

Every situation is different and tweaking it can help but it is a VERY VERY good way to learn the CTX 3030. Once you learn it you can tweak it to your liking. Everyone is different.