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Sensitivity Auto and Thin Gold Rings

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desmond

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Two more questions and thanks so much so far. I see suggestions are for sensitivity at auto? This is more advisable then around 6? Also, I set up a test area with rings, junk and coins. I used one of my wife's real old thin gold rings, and it sounded almost exactly like the bottle cap. I've seen guys at Coney Island completely avoid bottle caps when I would have 80 to 100 of them with my Beach Hunter ID. Are they missing some gold? Do I still did the signals I'm pretty sure are bottle caps? Des in Buffalo
 
bottle tops are weid on the sov. depends which way up they are facing. one way sounds warbly, the other they sound smooth almost.. once they start rusting though they sound spitty.

as for sens.. I only use auto when I get close to minimum sens.. then Il just flick to auto.. on the beach I can sometimes get up to 12 oclock, trashy beaches im normally stuck around 1-3 oclock.. crank up the sens then back off a bit at a time until the machine is no longer in a constant null/falsing.. thats optimum sens.. you may need to adjust at times though....
 
The strange thing about Auto is I've dug some nice silver coins in Auto with my GT in spots I had gridded the tar out of with my Explorers and other machines. Even about 7.5" deep, which was the max depth *in my soil* of just about any other machine I've ever owned, so that's pretty impressive. I believe Auto helps reveal coins in harsh ground for some reason. Maybe it acts like ground tracking in a way in that it's constantly tweaking for too hot or too cold of mineralization where as a static sensitivity setting might overload on a spot.
 
Ive always wondered how auto actually worked. Air tests show its not as deep as 12 o'clock but air testing means nothing.. I hate auto though. Its almost like you feel you are only detecting 6 inches.. but there are times where nothing other than auto will give a stable threshold.. which brings me onto another thing... if I run with an almost permanent null, my sov will still chirp on a good target through the null )enough to make you investigate) but It doesnt seem right to detect this way...
 
fire pits do that for me ,
 
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