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[terrywl]

I got out yesterday in two areas and had some luck, 3 buffs, a merc, and a wheat, plus the usual clad stuff. At the second site I was thinking about some of the posts here I have been following, This site is on the edge of the desert, hot and dry? you only hunt in the shade of the cottonwoods! The back of my neck is a bit tender this morning. This is also one trashy park. I was using my new 6X8 coil, and I would jump when the threshold managed to come through! Still I could hunt. I had given up on this area with my DFX, it was just overwhelmed, my ET was stretched pretty thin too, forget the numbers. I was using long tones, hearing a dime, reading aluminum trash, and yup digging a dime. I have noticed this before, when in a clean site like the beach the numbers run pretty close to air test values as given here, when in trash, they vary a lot more, and the machine will be showing you what the target before last was. It takes it a bit to catch up, if it does. Any one know a cure for this? Oh, my best coin for the day is a 19d Buff in fine+ condition, the 17s merc is pretty rough with sand adhered to the coin, the 25s Buff is maybe a G8 and the 25 Buff a G4, the 53s wheat looks like it was dropped in 53.

 

[Nick A]

Quote "I have noticed this before, when in a clean site like the beach the numbers run pretty close to air test values as given here, when in trash, they vary a lot more, and the machine will be showing you what the target before last was. It takes it a bit to catch up, if it does. Any one know a cure for this?"

No solution I know of. That's why it's best to hunt with tones rather than the meter if you can. Trust your ears not your eyes in this case. You even said, "hearing a dime, reading aluminum trash, and yup digging a dime." Hunting in trash is tough, but sounds like you did really well, you got the hang of it for sure. I think the E-trac really excels in these trashy sites picking out good signals from the trash.