Looking for advice on interpreting iffy signals

[Jason in Enid]

Don't take this the wrong way... but have any of you decided to stay or go back to the Etrac? That's a lot of guessing and digging only iron to find the occasional coin.

Hell no. The CTX is deeper, has better (more stable) VDI, and best of all, I don't need a harness to swing it all day!

Contrary to others findings, many of my old coins are in the clear of iron, they are just too deep for most other detectors. I don't dig a ton of iron, I'm probably 50/50 on my "iffy" targets, and I usually predict iron when it is iron. Its rare that I am totally surprised either way.

 

[rluna]

ctx is made to run an open screen and if its made that way take advantage of that as we all know disc masks targets
AJ

I dont remember ever reading that the CTX was made to run open screen. I could be wrong.
If it was, then I'm kinda wondering why they built all the discrimination abilities into it.

I haven't owned my CTX for that long but i'm finding that no matter how much disc I put
in, I will still hear the high tones of a good target next to iron and I will still see the good
numbers that are not discriminated. I'll hunt open screen and get a faint good signal,
many times only one way and when I switch over to my tight discriminated pattern the
good signal and numbers are still there. Every time! I'm very impressed at how well
the CTX handles discrimination.

Rand(nightdigger)

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[JamesBondaka]

My experience has been this......on a coin, they can be iffy on deeper ones. On gold, it always locks on or barely bounces which not the way with coins. I have dug thousands of holes and if its iffy and bounces, it always turns out to be trash(pull tab) or sometimes a coin. I am hoping for a deep iffy target to turn out to be a ring.....but it just has not happened yet.....to me.