How often do you use TTF?

[robertj298]

Most of my hunting is done in old farm yards. I think probably 80% of my searching is done in TTF. I usually start out in multi tone and start farther away from the house and hunt that way working my way towards the house until I start getting quite a bit of nulling then I switch to TTF. I find very few yards clean enough to hunt totally in multi tone. I'm wondering if this is the norm with others on here? I also almost always use the stock coil and don't switch to the 6X8 sef unless I get some good finds then I might switch to the sef and go back over the yard again.

 

[Surfinsafari]

I hunt in multi all the time. I was out this morning with my 15x12 sef and I have discovered that if you go painfully slow, the Etrac will pick out targets when it is nulling sometimes. If I am at an old site I will switch to quickmask when a get a null. I treat a null the same as a hit when I am hunting old and deep. Null means there is something under the coil. Any good investigator will follow every clue.

 

[robertj298]

I hunt in multi all the time. I was out this morning with my 15x12 sef and I have discovered that if you go painfully slow, the Etrac will pick out targets when it is nulling sometimes. If I am at an old site I will switch to quickmask when a get a null. I treat a null the same as a hit when I am hunting old and deep. Null means there is something under the coil. Any good investigator will follow every clue.

If I checked out every place my detector nulled it would take me forever to hunt the yards I hunt lol

 

[NebTrac]

Depends on the age of the house and how long ago it was occupied and how much time I have to hunt it....for me. A lot of abandoned (100 year old) houses around here, still had people living in them in the '70's, so I generally use Cond. Multi there. Anything that was gone or abandoned prior to about 1945 I generally use TTF and dig it all.

Still chasing that elusive gold coin.

Another thing is around here...again for me, I can re-visit the houses time and time and time again. Which is quite nice.

Take care and good question.

NebTrac

 

[oneguy]

I have discovered that if you go painfully slow, the Etrac will pick out targets when it is nulling sometimes.

Yes.....I noticed that today while hunting a private place today. I was going very slow with my 6" on and had quite a few signals while nulling......

Just wanted to comment on the nulling....I'm new to the E and it'll be quite awhile before I even think about TTF.

 

[Surfinsafari]

I have discovered that if you go painfully slow, the Etrac will pick out targets when it is nulling sometimes.

Yes.....I noticed that today while hunting a private place today. I was going very slow with my 6" on and had quite a few signals while nulling......

Just wanted to comment on the nulling....I'm new to the E and it'll be quite awhile before I even think about TTF.

I guess I should have added that I am hunting some beat out lots that I have been hunting for 20+ years. I know coins on edge are tough to pickup sometimes so I investigate every signal at a "dead" site. I have been scoring some old silver where I thought I never would. Now if I could only get my hands on a 8x6 sef [that is perpetually on backorder] I know I would be doing even better. I am on a mission to pay for my Safari and Etrac before the end of the year.

 

[DigDugNY]

I use TTF almost exclusively now. I can rarely find a yard that isn't full of nulling so having multiple tones got quite annoying. I will try to use multi at parks that aren't trashy, but with homesites and such it is TTF for me. My finds have gone up quite a lot the more I use it. Goes4Evers explanation of it has provided me with a lot of info. TTF just allows me to hear all the targets close together and if I hear the high tone inbetween, I'll usually dig if I get it and different angles

 

[Surfinsafari]

I should also add that I hunt in relic mode alot which means I scrim out Iron. I only switch to factory coin mode if there is so much trash that the squeeking and cirping and screaming and grunting is driving me nuts.

 

[looknforgold]

I use TTF 50% of the time.... where I live, the yards or places are filled with trash as the places to hunt are slim compared to much of the country. I hold my own, and I credit TTF for it. I dont run it as wide open as others. I use Bill's trashy park setup, it works the way I like it.

 

[oneguy]

I use TTF 50% of the time.... where I live, the yards or places are filled with trash as the places to hunt are slim compared to much of the country. I hold my own, and I credit TTF for it. I dont run it as wide open as others. I use Bill's trashy park setup, it works the way I like it.

I'm new to the E and really struggling with it so excuse my ignorance.... I also use Bills trashy pattern in conductive quite a lot and also switch to Andys' coin pattern which is a lot more open. When I use Andys' pattern I dig nails constantly but I'm trying to listen for deeper "iffy" silver, when I use Bills' pattern I dig less nails and of course have more nulling, etc. Do you use TTF while using Bills' pattern and it's working for you...???

Trying to sort out all the conductive sounds is hard on the head for a beginner with the E as I'm used to a Tesoro beep & dig so maybe TTF might be more like what I was used to...????

 

[Surfinsafari]

Oneguy. If this will help, slow your swing down in high trash areas and the noises the E makes will be less frequent and easier to sort out. I know it is tempting to want to cover alot of vround but the FBS technology requires a slow swing. After coming from a Whites beep and dig, I am starting to prefer a slow swing. I am starting to have a sense of pride to be able to get good finds in beat out areas. When i have a less trashy area to hunt, i break out the Safari and let her eat. I am definitley a believer in Minelabs FBS technology.

 

[robertj298]

I use TTF 50% of the time.... where I live, the yards or places are filled with trash as the places to hunt are slim compared to much of the country. I hold my own, and I credit TTF for it. I dont run it as wide open as others. I use Bill's trashy park setup, it works the way I like it.

I'm new to the E and really struggling with it so excuse my ignorance.... I also use Bills trashy pattern in conductive quite a lot and also switch to Andys' coin pattern which is a lot more open. When I use Andys' pattern I dig nails constantly but I'm trying to listen for deeper "iffy" silver, when I use Bills' pattern I dig less nails and of course have more nulling, etc. Do you use TTF while using Bills' pattern and it's working for you...???

Trying to sort out all the conductive sounds is hard on the head for a beginner with the E as I'm used to a Tesoro beep & dig so maybe TTF might be more like what I was used to...????

Actually using a trashy parks program kind of defeats the purpose of using TTF. You want to cut out the nulling as much as possible so the idea is to use very little discrimination at all that way you hear the grunts of iron objects and the high tone of non iron objects. This allows you to hear good targets really close to iron targets. If you use it with a trashy parks program you are still going to get a lot of nulling from iron and aluminum. TTF isn't very good in an area that has a lot on non ferrous trash such as aluminum.

 

[robertj298]

I have discovered that if you go painfully slow, the Etrac will pick out targets when it is nulling sometimes.

Yes.....I noticed that today while hunting a private place today. I was going very slow with my 6" on and had quite a few signals while nulling......

Just wanted to comment on the nulling....I'm new to the E and it'll be quite awhile before I even think about TTF.

You will get a lot of falsing around iron which sounds like a good target when your machine nulls but usually it will only give a good sound in one direction if its iron. If it gives a good signal in 2 directions it is usually a good target.

 

[oneguy]

Hey thanks Robert....that makes sense. I'll stick to conductive for now while I learn what the machine is telling me. I'm getting better with it and also slowing down trying to listen. I did eek out a couple wheaties today between some trash and the more I slowed down while wiggling back and forth the more convinced I was to dig. The results were 2 wheaties (1918,1944) within 3" of each other about 6" deep so the slowing down got me those.....

Thanks again to all for all the help....it DOES help!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Run in 2TF approx. 90% of the time.

 

[moonshine]

Never.

 

[Goes4ever]

I use TTF 50% of the time.... where I live, the yards or places are filled with trash as the places to hunt are slim compared to much of the country. I hold my own, and I credit TTF for it. I dont run it as wide open as others. I use Bill's trashy park setup, it works the way I like it.

I'm new to the E and really struggling with it so excuse my ignorance.... I also use Bills trashy pattern in conductive quite a lot and also switch to Andys' coin pattern which is a lot more open. When I use Andys' pattern I dig nails constantly but I'm trying to listen for deeper "iffy" silver, when I use Bills' pattern I dig less nails and of course have more nulling, etc. Do you use TTF while using Bills' pattern and it's working for you...???

Trying to sort out all the conductive sounds is hard on the head for a beginner with the E as I'm used to a Tesoro beep & dig so maybe TTF might be more like what I was used to...????

Actually using a trashy parks program kind of defeats the purpose of using TTF. You want to cut out the nulling as much as possible so the idea is to use very little discrimination at all that way you hear the grunts of iron objects and the high tone of non iron objects. This allows you to hear good targets really close to iron targets. If you use it with a trashy parks program you are still going to get a lot of nulling from iron and aluminum. TTF isn't very good in an area that has a lot on non ferrous trash such as aluminum.

I agree fully, TTF works BEST with an OPEN screen, I admit I used to disc out some, but the last year or more I use 100% open screen while in TTF, zero null which is much more productive and easier to pick out goodies mixed in with heavy iron

 

[oneguy]

I'll try it sometime next summer as I have a couple spots that might be tailer made for TTF (if I understand it correctly). I'll finish out what little time I have left learning more about the E and conductive. Got my hands full right now....lol

Thanks again guys!!!!!!

 

[1goldsniper]

The last 3 years I have hunted 100% in TTF . Hunting old ghost town, schools, home stead sites 5 1/2 " coil, Blocking maybe 1 or 2 lines on bottom and 1 on left.

 

[Smooth23]

About 80% of the time. I hunt a few parks that are loaded with canslaw though, so in them I use a normal conductive park pattern typically, I don't want to hear every tiny piece of shredded tin can.