okay I'm new to this what is baiting
okay I'm new to this what is baiting
Thanks for the reply. This makes alot of sense. Not used to having to deal with this on the Etrac. I really like the way the AT Pro operates. I just have to learn its nuisances.My take on this is when I get wrong ID numbers it's because it needs ground balancing. I know people must be tired of hearing it, but you cannot assume you are on clean ground if you have any iron discrimination on. You will think you are on clean ground because you can't hear it but the iron is being discriminated and you end up with the wrong ground balance. And there are times on damp sand the auto balance just doesn't work right. In this case use manual and only lift the coil an inch or two when pumping. Sometimes even less. Another option in the difficult conditions is to bury a target and manually ground balance to the best response. When the gb is wrong, you will not get the best depth or accurate ID numbers and even interference will be worse. BTW, a clad quarter should be about 87 or 88 so that tells me your balance is wrong.
Ok Folks, Here we go. Took the AT Pro out this morning and went to an area where I know the ground is real clean. No junk and no mineralization. Ground balanced very carefully and then buried a clad dime at 7 inches. Here's what I got. In pro zero at full sensitivity with iron audio off I got a faint low iron grunt. Turning iron audio on I would get a constant deep sounding mid tone with vdi numbers jumping all over. I would occasionally see it jump into the mid 70's but still a mid tone. I then switched over to standard coin mode hand it would occasionally hit loud and high tone as long as the coil was scrubbing the ground. I am very confused here. I have read all over the net that the way to hunt is in pro zero mode with iron audio off. I am afraid that if I hunt this way I will miss deep coins. I am a very experienced hunter. Been doing this since 1978. New to this machine though. Please help. And no, this is not a bait.
l think I will do just that. Sorry to bother you.Stop worrying about what fresh buried coins do or don't do. Or how they bloody air test or what ever other arbitrary test you want to throw at it. Get out and dig some real targets and learn the thing if you're really interested.
Still smells like bait to me!