AT Pro and Trashy Sites

[madforclad]

i agree it's weird sometimes but in plowed fields it makes sense. What I don't get is how aluminum pop can get so deep sometimes. I've found a silver dime at 6 inches and a few steps I get another hit and dig to 12" and it a aluminum can. This is in a mowed yard and not a field.

Yep..especially when that aluminum can displays as a 99 and your thinking silver dollar, or aluminum can/junk and should I even bother. Ahh the dilemmas we face.

 

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[Kodiak43351]

I almost passed on one and dug it and it ended up being a a shallow silver dollar. It was a great signal but an overload. I now dig a lot of aluminum cans along with all the pull tabs. This hobby will give you a workout.

 

[Jeremy S]

I almost passed on one and dug it and it ended up being a a shallow silver dollar. It was a great signal but an overload. I now dig a lot of aluminum cans along with all the pull tabs. This hobby will give you a workout.

My first silver dollar was shallow and sounded just like an aluminum can. You never know unless you dig!

 

[knightsquad]

Does that mean you check it one way and walk around the target 2 1/2 times and check it the other way? Lol

hahah I saw that... 900 degrees... 2 1/2 times, lol

 

[gleaner1]

atp and trash go together like peas and carrots. I run max sense, big factory dd, pro mode, zero notch, zero iron.

 

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

For iron infested sites I definately want one of these!

 

[Kodiak43351]

Interesting video. Thanks

 

[TheCaribbeanDigger]

Yeah! I gotta have one! There's a couple of places that would really make a difference where I hunt!

 

[ohiochris]

If a site is REALLY trashy , turn down the sensitivity and this focuses the signal from the detector more to whats UNDER the coil and not whats around the outside edges. Think of it as a lot like focusing the beam of a flashlight , so that the light is going more in the direction you are pointing it instead of being scattered in a wider field. That analogy isnt entirely accurate but its the same principal. The problem with using high sensitivity is the higher it is the more interference you get from objects out just past the sides of the coil ( or just outside the coils normal field ), this can throw the detector off causing added possibility of target masking or more than one target averaged into one. Some places I hunt , a few parks and the local fairgrounds , I turn the sensitivity down to where there is only 2 or 3 bars showing , that helps a LOT and I can actually locate specific good targets in middle of bad that I miss completely with the sensitivity up high. This seems backwards when you are wanting to get as much depth as possible , but sensitivity and depth are not the same , low sensitivity dont necessarily mean less depth. Even if it did , you are only going to get as much depth as the shallowest metal target in the coils field anyway.....so using this trick to " focus " the detection field really isnt going to cost you anything. And it works !