I just read somewhere within the last hour that to be in SL that your threshold must be (-)negative. This may or may not be true and you and digger may or may not already have read it...it could be in the manual, I haven't looked yet.
Yea, I saw you reply on MarkCZ's thread where he came to that conclusion after doing air tests and making up this chart.
I can see from his observations why he came to this conclusion but I am not so sure this is true in the real world.
I recall in real life hunting in the wild I have come across a few deeper targets WITH the thresh into the positive in both all metal and disc and I have switched in and out of SL to see what happens.
I know a couple of times I got more solid and stable signals with SL that I didn't with DE...in all metal for sure and even in disc.
I also remember at least once or twice with both all metal and disc where on DE I got nothing over a deep target but after switching to SL the signal came back.
I don't keep track of every setting I have tried but for the last couple of years I have been pushing that thresh into the positive more often then not so there is a very good chance I have proved that this SL only works in lower thresh thing isn't exactly true in the wild exactly as that chart seems to indicate.
Whatever, it seems to me that flipping to SL even on higher thresh can't actually hurt you much and depending on sites and conditions still might be helpful so I still use SL and high thresh...a lot.
Pretty much the only way I set up program 2 on my F70 is the same as it had been for a long time...AT, sense 99, thresh +9, SL speed.
It always works for me to get me decently solid signals, unmask targets and clue me in when I get false high signals in disc over iron, (using these settings most high falsing signals revert back to iron), so I see no reason to change.
Just one more thing I will experiment with sometime and try to prove or disprove.
I am a big fan of Mark and all the great charts he spends a lot of time and effort putting together and I do like seeing results of air tests because they can give you some decent info and baseline behavior of detectors but do I take all air test results as gospel...nope, never have, never will.
I have seen many different results after using that same tool in the real world.
Sometimes the same, sometimes better, sometimes worse but many times different than indoor air tests so I take all air test results with a grain of salt.
