meter on the GT

[bubber]

How important is it , or how much better is it to add a meter to the Sov GT?

 

[cdsmith46]

Bubber, it is not critical. If you are willing to listen to and learn the tones, you will actually come out ahead. The meter does make it easier initially, but after a while you will have learned the tones for the most part and won't need it. But, having it does make life a little easier if you are new to the sport. Many hunters do quite well without it. After all, that's why is has the 17 tones. When I bought my first one back in 1994, I was thrilled to have something that simply told me something was iron.

 

[Art (NWOH)]

n/t

 

[midalake]

Hunting land a must, hunting the beach....no

Dave

 

[Critterhunter]

My hearing is not so good that I can tell say the difference between two targets that are less than say 4 digits apart from each other, so I need the meter to split hairs on things. I feel it's a *MUST* if you land hunt because it will give you so much more information on targets. Not just what not to dig when you feel being picky, but also what TO DIG when the audio is telling you not to. For example, it may sure sound like just another tab "tone" target but the VDI might be off by 1 to say 3 digits and so a very rare number for that particular site you are hunting. Now, I don't know about you but I love digging "odd" numbers that aren't popping up on a regular bases at sites, even if the audio sounds bad. Usualy though, a good target is uniform in shape so the audio is going to be good despite what the item is.

 

[muggsc]

Why isn't a meter good on the beach?

 

[plugger]

n/t

 

[Critterhunter]

Plugger, when I scanned in the close to 200 gold rings a friend had found with his Excalibur water hunting digging everything above iron (so the test pool wasn't biased by say only digging nickle signals), I found that just about all these rings gave solid audio and VDIs that didn't get jumpy or sound sick. There where a few that did but these were wierd rings with things like gold "webbing" with holes through them, sort'a like a spider web with many open areas between these lines. Those sounded sick because there was just too much open air in the bands, almost like a ring sounds when it's broken or has a crack in it. That was probably about 2 to 4 rings out of about 200 if I remember right. Not saying digging it all on the beach is a good idea. Just mainly throwing that out there for land hunters in trashy spots they aren't going to dig all the signals out of. Even on edge most of the rings still gave the same VDI # and sound quality, but that was at about 4" away from the coil in the air. Deeper or in bad ground something on edge might degrade more.

 

[muggsc]

I got one for the new GT I just got and found it to be useless for dirt fishing. I'm glad I didn't sell my Explorer maybe I'm just spoiled. I had a completely different experience at the beach last weekend, in fact I was very impressed.

 

[goodmore]

I spent the money on Joe Patrick's meter mod. Actually I had it done to my Elite and GT. I love the crap out of it. After you get it done you no longer have to worry about whether you should take the meter or not. It goes along automatically. Just ignore it on the beach. No extra wires and hip mounting is easier. If you are thinking of a meter do yourself a favor and check out Joe's.