Using Sov GT for shallow finds over rock and gravel

[ToniSteve]

Hello,
Where I am at a lot of the beaches (fresh water) have either a little sand over rock/gravel which armors that strata from being penetrated by the good stuff (and bad stuff!). Of course the good, the bad, and the ugly are found at that level. How would you experts set the Sov GT for this kind of hunting? Depths of sand over this armored surface range from 0" to 10". Mostly 0" to 6". Most of this is in from 0" to 24" of water. So both dry sand, wet sand and water hunting. At 24" of water depth I change to my Excal 1000. I guess my goal is to (1) Not blast my ears and brain with constant hits, (2) to discriminate out the nails/bolts etc. so I don't spend all my time chasing them. They are actually harder to recover in this scenario then just sand or sand/gravel that does not form this type of armored surface.

Thanks in advance for any responses to this post that you may make.

I forgot to add that some of these areas have an accumulation of hits that go quite far back in time for this area. Thanks again.

Best Regards,
Steve

 

[kered]

no need to disc out nails and bolts, iron is cut out automatically same as the excalibur, your disc control starts from iron upover, only trouble is that in freshwater there is usually tons of iron as it doesn't disintigrate as fast as in salt water and maybe hard going if there is a lot, i would just use the excalibur as if you drop the GT in even a couple of inches its probably dead, GT and excalibur are almost one and the same so disc 0 notch 0 and the rest the same as the excalibur

 

[Critterhunter]

I'd run in Auto. I find that when there are lots of rocks or bolders around they can cause any machine to false but if you flip over to Auto it'll run smooth as silk in situations like that. On old packed dirt/clay trails that contain rocks or gravel Auto is the only way to fly IMHO. Otherwise you'll get falsing from that junk and I don't care what machine you own, it's the worst of the worst for any machine even these BBS and FBS units.

 

[synthnut]

Anytime I get into an area where there is a lot of noise , whether it be highly minteralized soil, or jsut a lot of trash , I will stay in AUTO .....It just works better than trying to deal with manual with such unstable conditions ..... I generally start in AUTO anyway to check out how the soil / sand is ....If things sound pretty calm, I will then switch to manual to see how much higher I can bring the Sensitivity .....If there is too much noise in manual , I will switch back to Auto and stay there ......Minelab really does make a good AUTO cirucuit and works best in tough conditions ...Jim

 

[ToniSteve]

Thanks for all of these posts!

Kind Regards,
Steve