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After sitting here all winter with a foot and a half of frost in the ground and a foot of snow/ice on top of it I certainly have had time to think about how to use the XS better and I think maybe I have just realized something that is probably obvious to you experienced folks.
First of all, you may remember that last fall I received permission to hunt an old 1860's schoolhouse and I had lots of trouble distinguishing between all the different tones due to the large amount of trash that is buried on the site. Mitch and Jim both suggested that I try a less trashy site to start out with, which I did, and had some pretty good success. But everytime I drive by that site on my way ice fishing I just know that there are coins there that I have not been able to find due to inexperience.
Some of you may remember Mitch telling people to just open up the right hand corner of the screen and dig 28's and 30's in digital just to get the hang of what a good tone sounds like. I did this and it worked great for me on other sites. I also remember Jim saying he loves working trashy sites (which I couldn't understand why)and has found a bunch of coins that other people have missed with other machines and Jim uses, I believe, iron mask as low as he can tolerate it.
Remember I only had the upper right hand corner opened up and it was almost constantly nulling out.
Now if I open up a larger part of the screen, say in iron mask -10 to -14 and dig targets that are near the upper right corner or just plain sound good, I should obviously get less nulling and maybe find some diggable targets that I would have otherwise missed because the machine was recovering due to the fact that I had so much of the screen blacked out.
Does that make sense? And now that I know what a decent sound sounds like, I can listen to more sounds (good and bad) and just dig when the crosshairs are in the upper right and forget about the digital unless I want to check for the bad 31 targets.
Am I on the right page here and is there anything else I should be thinking about or adding to this when hunting a trashy site? (maybe I'm just going batty this winter or I have a frost bitten brain!)
Thanks, Rainman
First of all, you may remember that last fall I received permission to hunt an old 1860's schoolhouse and I had lots of trouble distinguishing between all the different tones due to the large amount of trash that is buried on the site. Mitch and Jim both suggested that I try a less trashy site to start out with, which I did, and had some pretty good success. But everytime I drive by that site on my way ice fishing I just know that there are coins there that I have not been able to find due to inexperience.
Some of you may remember Mitch telling people to just open up the right hand corner of the screen and dig 28's and 30's in digital just to get the hang of what a good tone sounds like. I did this and it worked great for me on other sites. I also remember Jim saying he loves working trashy sites (which I couldn't understand why)and has found a bunch of coins that other people have missed with other machines and Jim uses, I believe, iron mask as low as he can tolerate it.
Remember I only had the upper right hand corner opened up and it was almost constantly nulling out.
Now if I open up a larger part of the screen, say in iron mask -10 to -14 and dig targets that are near the upper right corner or just plain sound good, I should obviously get less nulling and maybe find some diggable targets that I would have otherwise missed because the machine was recovering due to the fact that I had so much of the screen blacked out.
Does that make sense? And now that I know what a decent sound sounds like, I can listen to more sounds (good and bad) and just dig when the crosshairs are in the upper right and forget about the digital unless I want to check for the bad 31 targets.
Am I on the right page here and is there anything else I should be thinking about or adding to this when hunting a trashy site? (maybe I'm just going batty this winter or I have a frost bitten brain!)
Thanks, Rainman
thru (-10). All the farm fields and cellar holes I've hunted in so far have called for a low iron mask setting and they all have fair amounts of iron/junk, next time I go I plan to try a clear screen only rejecting nails.