Critterhunter
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At the beach today on some of the super deep targets I tested more of the super slow versus faster sweep speed thing using the long general hunting sweep and not the short wiggle/sweep faster we use to pull the best ID/tone out of deep targets.
At this beach yep, super slow still hit just as hard on the target as the more normal Sovereign slow sweep, but it didn't appear to hit any better if I crawled, but just as good. Super slow meaning much slower than a normal Sovereign slow sweep...meaning only a crawl at mere inches at a time hardly moving.
So far 2 beaches did this, and 1 did not. At the 1 I had to pick up the speed to normal Sovereign slow speed to hear the ultra deep stuff, but at all 3 beaches a very fast sweep still hit hard on the target. And I'm talking Whites fast.
Very interesting so far, and I'm starting to think it all depends on the soil or sand as to if ultra super slow will or will not hit the target. I was thinking it was the coil choice but same 12x10 coil at all 3 sites. And today at 3PM sensitivity still a super slow sweep banged as hard on it, and I'm talking a crawl inches at a time here and it hit it just as good. But by the same token normal speed to super fast at all 3 did just as well too.
Very interesting so far. I'm guessing that if it keeps panning out like this for me in my soil/sand then ultra super slow won't always get the deepest stuff, while normal slow and faster will. Something to think about for sure, but more in field testing is in order.
The sensitivity being very low today at 3PM also kind of goes against the theory some of us had that a real low sensitivity needed a somewhat faster sweep to hit on the ultra deep stuff. Still need to see if a real high sensitivity means it will bang on deep stuff with a crawl better than normal Sovereign speed as many of us have speculated about in the past.
Also did some PP mode hunting since I've got my remote PP switch in my grip. Since the targets weren't all over I've been playing with that when they are not all over the place at sites. Thus far PP is fun to hunt in. In some cases it seems to make me notice a target that I might not otherwise hear in discriminate until I get the coil right over it, because when I flip to discriminate on some of the fringe stuff I need to be right centered over it to get a signal out of it once in a great while. I'd hunt in PP mode and then I flip to discriminate to see if it can see it and it always can so far, unless of course it's iron and it nulls out. And those are always shallower hits so I know it's not a deeper non-ferrous target that discriminate is nulling out on me.
Even though I almost always PP in discriminate mode, I tried PPing in PP mode on some deep targets today and it couldn't hear them. This has happened to me before, and is making me think PP mode on the GT is not as deep as discriminate, in my soil anyway.
Fun to toy with this stuff during the hunt and see the sweep speed and PP versus discriminate stuff play out, as it breaks up the routine of the hunt and makes you think a little instead of just let your mind wander while you listen for your next target.
At this beach yep, super slow still hit just as hard on the target as the more normal Sovereign slow sweep, but it didn't appear to hit any better if I crawled, but just as good. Super slow meaning much slower than a normal Sovereign slow sweep...meaning only a crawl at mere inches at a time hardly moving.
So far 2 beaches did this, and 1 did not. At the 1 I had to pick up the speed to normal Sovereign slow speed to hear the ultra deep stuff, but at all 3 beaches a very fast sweep still hit hard on the target. And I'm talking Whites fast.
Very interesting so far, and I'm starting to think it all depends on the soil or sand as to if ultra super slow will or will not hit the target. I was thinking it was the coil choice but same 12x10 coil at all 3 sites. And today at 3PM sensitivity still a super slow sweep banged as hard on it, and I'm talking a crawl inches at a time here and it hit it just as good. But by the same token normal speed to super fast at all 3 did just as well too.
Very interesting so far. I'm guessing that if it keeps panning out like this for me in my soil/sand then ultra super slow won't always get the deepest stuff, while normal slow and faster will. Something to think about for sure, but more in field testing is in order.
The sensitivity being very low today at 3PM also kind of goes against the theory some of us had that a real low sensitivity needed a somewhat faster sweep to hit on the ultra deep stuff. Still need to see if a real high sensitivity means it will bang on deep stuff with a crawl better than normal Sovereign speed as many of us have speculated about in the past.
Also did some PP mode hunting since I've got my remote PP switch in my grip. Since the targets weren't all over I've been playing with that when they are not all over the place at sites. Thus far PP is fun to hunt in. In some cases it seems to make me notice a target that I might not otherwise hear in discriminate until I get the coil right over it, because when I flip to discriminate on some of the fringe stuff I need to be right centered over it to get a signal out of it once in a great while. I'd hunt in PP mode and then I flip to discriminate to see if it can see it and it always can so far, unless of course it's iron and it nulls out. And those are always shallower hits so I know it's not a deeper non-ferrous target that discriminate is nulling out on me.
Even though I almost always PP in discriminate mode, I tried PPing in PP mode on some deep targets today and it couldn't hear them. This has happened to me before, and is making me think PP mode on the GT is not as deep as discriminate, in my soil anyway.
Fun to toy with this stuff during the hunt and see the sweep speed and PP versus discriminate stuff play out, as it breaks up the routine of the hunt and makes you think a little instead of just let your mind wander while you listen for your next target.
