Please help, have important question.

[newtohunting]

Loving every bit of my GT. Finding great stuff but I do use discrimination only as the manual specifies. I only set descimination to NOTCH 3 as for the beginners as described in manual. My question is simply this. I did air test the GT with 10kt and other gold objects. It did very well, but at notch 3, am I giving up small gold or even gold for that matter? Can I rely on the air test with gold on notch 3 descrimination.

Thanks hunting friends for all info and responses.


Gary

 

[Art (NWOH)]

You could miss some really small stuff with your discrimination set low. Probably not much.
When you set discrimination that low, there is not really much stuff that gets discriminated out. You might as well just turn it all the way down since there won't be all that much junk in that range.

If you are beach hunting, you would want to dig it. Not worth the trouble for dirt hunting.

You can pretty much trust air tests for discrimination settings with the GT if the object is flat, however.......
you need to try the object at a multitude of angles rather than just flat. You tend to get lower readings if an object is on edge. You can disc out good things this way .

HH

 

[adam in cal]

yea , just to be on the safe side I use no notch no disc .......this way you cna hear it and determine if you think it may be small gold or foil ....even with a small amount of disc or notch you can conceiveably miss a target next to the ''notched out'' item and as you discovered you may in fact miss smaller gold items ....this way the only thing that will make the threshold disapear is iron or a really really dep coin .......good luck

 

[Art (NWOH)]

You don't sound like your usual self tonight Adam.
You OK??

HH

 

[adam in cal]

there is that better

 

[Art (NWOH)]

n/t

 

[newtohunting]

Thanks for the info. Much appreciated.



Gary

 

[newtohunting]

Thanks for the info. However, do you hunt in all metal then? I dig everything on the beach and still use discrim at the second dot but I dig anything that has a high tone or low tone like foil.