Ronstar
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jkline asked me a question about BC setting on his Legend. He was on the OR coast a couple weeks ago and no matter what setting he used bottle caps sounded off. He asked me what my experience was with it and well, actually somewhat forgot I was using it.
I’ve been running in an older city park and it was not uncommon to hit caps around the different benches, volleyball pit, horseshoe pit etc. When I upgraded to 1.11 I set BC to 3 just to experiment. Since (about 3 times out now) I have yet to dig a bottle cap, just didnt realize/remember that BC was on.
Yesterday I went back to the park but turned off BC hoping to get a cap and then specifically experiment in natural conditions. Hit what I was pretty sure was a cap, turned on BC and signal basically disappeared and or was significantly weakened. Changed my angle and was getting a second target signal, increased Recovery and believed I may have a copper penny in with a bottle cap. Dug up the target and had both a cap and a clad dime!
So two part question. What may jkline being doing that BC not apparently working. I’m assuming he was in Beach mode so…. Secondly, with BC off and cap as the target the dime apparently was somewhat masked. While in BC I noted VID numbers were 1-2 points lower. When I scanned above ground the numbers were where I expected them so ground may effect the readings slightly.
So far while digging with BC on I have not dug any caps in the plug so assuming this works as intended.
Thoughts?
I’ve been running in an older city park and it was not uncommon to hit caps around the different benches, volleyball pit, horseshoe pit etc. When I upgraded to 1.11 I set BC to 3 just to experiment. Since (about 3 times out now) I have yet to dig a bottle cap, just didnt realize/remember that BC was on.
Yesterday I went back to the park but turned off BC hoping to get a cap and then specifically experiment in natural conditions. Hit what I was pretty sure was a cap, turned on BC and signal basically disappeared and or was significantly weakened. Changed my angle and was getting a second target signal, increased Recovery and believed I may have a copper penny in with a bottle cap. Dug up the target and had both a cap and a clad dime!
So two part question. What may jkline being doing that BC not apparently working. I’m assuming he was in Beach mode so…. Secondly, with BC off and cap as the target the dime apparently was somewhat masked. While in BC I noted VID numbers were 1-2 points lower. When I scanned above ground the numbers were where I expected them so ground may effect the readings slightly.
So far while digging with BC on I have not dug any caps in the plug so assuming this works as intended.
Thoughts?