DaviDs
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Great post!!!! Lots of references and good explanations. Stand-up-job and much appreciated!There are many different pattern and tonal mode combinations. Really depends on the desire targets...
Great post!!!! Lots of references and good explanations. Stand-up-job and much appreciated!There are many different pattern and tonal mode combinations. Really depends on the desire targets...
You can see the difference with sensitivity between Auto and Man from the diagram below (all things being equal).
Jackalope, This chart may be the biggest "AHA" moment I have had since owning my ETRAC and CTX. Thank you!
I agree with Jason as well. You gotta find what works for you: your type of hunting in your area.
However, I'm guessing the OP wanted us to post our preferred programs for the sake of discussion or for anyone who just wants to try them out?
Attached below is my go-to program for hunting in heavy iron.
Its actually a combination of two of my favorite programs. Trashy Park and Tadpole. I call it Dirty Frog. The idea behind it is to get pretty much all US coins and most medium to large jewelry. Fairly open pattern to help prevent masking. I usually run this with ferrous-coin, but if running high trash separation, I would lower the bottom tone break down a few notches.
It will knock out most of the annoying small iron in the bottom righthand corner so that the target ID isn't so jumpy. It also knocks out everything on the back side of nickels. You will miss some tiny rings or other small jewelry, but the trade off is that it gets rid of most small foil and other junk items. Even though the right hand side of the nickel notch is open, you'll still be able to ID nickels by the tone due to the way the bins are set up. Different tones for nickels, indians through wheats, and then the highest tone for silvers or clad dimes and quarters.
Using Ferrous-Coin separation, the machine tries to push good targets toward the 12 line, but I leave the upper right side open so that I will still get large silvers if I decide to switch to High Trash.
Settings are:
Mode: Combined
Separation: Ferrous-Coin
Response: Normal
Fast: ON
Deep: OFF
Seawater: OFF