Under what circumstances would you want to engage the "lock" feature when hunting? I would think that leaving it in "auto Trac" would always give you the best GB for the hunting area being searched. However, I've read quite a few posts where folks say they prefer to GB and then engage the "lock" feature - why?
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M-6 Auto Trac Lock Feature
- Thread starter berryman
- Start date
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
Many users experience a more stable/quieter detector when it is not always adjusting the GB. If your ground is pretty consistent in mineralization, the auto GB probably is not needed.
In very trashy sites it's good to lock the trac. This way it's not trying to cancel out some of the fainter targets. Other than that the trac can be left in the on position. On the other hand as mentioned if you have a very faint signal where you can just barely hear - the trac "may" disregard the target as ground noise. This is only in a very few cases because I have hovered over faint targets without it tracking it out.
All of the above are really good reasons to lock it. I started out using auto trac and even though I was still getting used to my MXT, same feature, I noticed that I would come across a deep signal and when I stopped to check it out it was never as good as the first swing across it and usually dissapeared. I moved on assuming they were flukes or just blaming the machine for being noisy, ect. Eventually, I messed with the auto trac and the lock feature and the next few faint signals that dissapeared I stepped back and locked, then GB'd the machine and went back over the faint signal and it was there with every swing and didn't fade away.
The other motive for locking it has also been stated, trashy areas will not give the machine an accurate area on the ground to 'maintain' a good ground so it will drift all around and have no idea if it is balanced or not. In trashy areas you want to find a clear spot to 'ground grab' while in 'lock' and then procede to detect the trashy area without the machine changing its ground balance.
The other motive for locking it has also been stated, trashy areas will not give the machine an accurate area on the ground to 'maintain' a good ground so it will drift all around and have no idea if it is balanced or not. In trashy areas you want to find a clear spot to 'ground grab' while in 'lock' and then procede to detect the trashy area without the machine changing its ground balance.