Critterhunter
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Took my water rig out again yesterday with the control box mounted at head height on a back shaft extension, which is working flawlessly so far, although I still haven't waded real deep yet with it so see how deep I feel comfortable going with it.
I was hunting the same mineralized beach that I mentioned the other day was giving me bad signals on good targets while hunting the dry sand. Hunting in the water yesterday I was still having issues with that. Using the stock 10" coil on my water rig I had to put sensitivity down to about 4 or 5PM to keep the threshold from dropping out all the time.
About the first target was a one way scratchy signal like iron breaking through or a small piece of aluminum junk. The other direction I got a complete null. I only scooped about 4" of sand and out pops a nickel. Told me for sure not to pass up those sick/nulling signals that I might otherwise think were iron or other junk.
Just about I'd say half of the targets I scooped did the above response, and not all were real deep to where they should have been giving me such issues. Something about the minerals at this beach and the heavy microscopic iron I guess.
Did scoop a good sounding warm/round signal that turned out to be a shotgun shell and there was a rusty nail in the scoop with it. Not sure how close the nail was to the shotgun shell or if the shotgun shell was shallower so the GT would have no problem seeing it.
No good finds yesterday other than a handfull of coins. Planning another hunt today and may go deep as I can to see how the back extension thing does for that. No problems thus far with balance or fatigue with this setup, but I am sticking my big toe on the coil while taking my hand off the grip to pluck targets out of the scoop. Probably don't need to do that unless there are waves, but just the same it's becomming a habit for me now.
I was hunting the same mineralized beach that I mentioned the other day was giving me bad signals on good targets while hunting the dry sand. Hunting in the water yesterday I was still having issues with that. Using the stock 10" coil on my water rig I had to put sensitivity down to about 4 or 5PM to keep the threshold from dropping out all the time.
About the first target was a one way scratchy signal like iron breaking through or a small piece of aluminum junk. The other direction I got a complete null. I only scooped about 4" of sand and out pops a nickel. Told me for sure not to pass up those sick/nulling signals that I might otherwise think were iron or other junk.
Just about I'd say half of the targets I scooped did the above response, and not all were real deep to where they should have been giving me such issues. Something about the minerals at this beach and the heavy microscopic iron I guess.
Did scoop a good sounding warm/round signal that turned out to be a shotgun shell and there was a rusty nail in the scoop with it. Not sure how close the nail was to the shotgun shell or if the shotgun shell was shallower so the GT would have no problem seeing it.
No good finds yesterday other than a handfull of coins. Planning another hunt today and may go deep as I can to see how the back extension thing does for that. No problems thus far with balance or fatigue with this setup, but I am sticking my big toe on the coil while taking my hand off the grip to pluck targets out of the scoop. Probably don't need to do that unless there are waves, but just the same it's becomming a habit for me now.
