so an update for anyone who cares to read on....
got my Etrac end of Feb 2017.....from all the youtube vids and such on can gleen from the internet, it seemed like the right way to go. traditionally a White's guy, this was a very bold move away from that world but i wanted to get more aggressive
set what i thought was a reasonable and yet somewhat lofty goal of 50 silver coins for 2017
given the time//etc it would take to learn this new type of machine...its language and nuances...its quirks and idiosyncrasies....
and man, was the first 3 months frustration !!
wanted to break the damn thing every other day...admit defeat and basically hang it up
watching everyone else kick butt with their Etracs on this forum and youtube....and i was struggling to get it and figure the darn thing out; it was pretty defeating for someone not wired to do well with that sort of thing
well, there has not been the classic lightbulb//epiphany moment or anything that dramamtic....but i seem to be getting it now
i write all this for those that are newbies and are pissed/angry/frustrated/bummed/depressed/etc
hoping it can help you soldier on...press forward....hang in there
it has been 5.5 months....and the goal of 50 coins is dust in the wind.....smoke in the rearview
we are at 57 silvers and counting!!!...i basically have learned to toggle back and forth between a preset Etrac coins modification program in AUTO+3....and an open screen L pattern i put together....also in AUTO+3
the nice thing about the AUTO+3 is that it moves//morphs with ground conditions and your location on the site!!....i used to hunt im MAN and tried to get the darn number as high as possible....it was running way way way too hot!!!....never had a decent threshold signal and the machine would never settle down//super erratic
....i run both of my programs in two tone ferrous voicing...my ears are very well trained to that now....the multi option is history!!
wayyyyyyyyyy to noisy and upsetting/frustrating for this simpleton...
my pinpointing and target ID skills are doing well now...and i am slowly digging better deeper things
all the rain we have had this summer is surely helping make the ground accessible to digging and receptive to detector depth penetration so the stars have aligned in that way to give me alot of hunting time and opportunity just when i needed it most
had a few recent pix to post but they keep rejecting in the manner//format i am trying to upload them in
i remember MKUS showed me how to do it months back but i am not on here all that much so i forgot frankly!! lol
hope this helps some guys that maybe in the same boat i was.....
#####ALSO a question to ask the more experienced//learned Etrac users on this site
WHAT to do when the Etrac just will not settle at all because of EMI??
there are places i go and it is generally in the more urban jungle areas....when no matter how many times i re-NC the machine after the initial effort at start-up.....the Etrac is just totally unstable and super hard to control.....EVEN after i dial the AUTO+3 back to AUTO+0...or -3!!! nothing seems to get her to relax so i can hunt and i know the areas i am trying to attack are ripe with deep old targets but i cannot get any sort of stable threshold and thus.....virtually no penetration or stability in the Etrac
....maybe there is a trick to share on this guys????
THX in advance!!!!
got my Etrac end of Feb 2017.....from all the youtube vids and such on can gleen from the internet, it seemed like the right way to go. traditionally a White's guy, this was a very bold move away from that world but i wanted to get more aggressive
set what i thought was a reasonable and yet somewhat lofty goal of 50 silver coins for 2017
given the time//etc it would take to learn this new type of machine...its language and nuances...its quirks and idiosyncrasies....
and man, was the first 3 months frustration !!
wanted to break the damn thing every other day...admit defeat and basically hang it up
watching everyone else kick butt with their Etracs on this forum and youtube....and i was struggling to get it and figure the darn thing out; it was pretty defeating for someone not wired to do well with that sort of thing
well, there has not been the classic lightbulb//epiphany moment or anything that dramamtic....but i seem to be getting it now
i write all this for those that are newbies and are pissed/angry/frustrated/bummed/depressed/etc
hoping it can help you soldier on...press forward....hang in there
it has been 5.5 months....and the goal of 50 coins is dust in the wind.....smoke in the rearview
we are at 57 silvers and counting!!!...i basically have learned to toggle back and forth between a preset Etrac coins modification program in AUTO+3....and an open screen L pattern i put together....also in AUTO+3
the nice thing about the AUTO+3 is that it moves//morphs with ground conditions and your location on the site!!....i used to hunt im MAN and tried to get the darn number as high as possible....it was running way way way too hot!!!....never had a decent threshold signal and the machine would never settle down//super erratic
....i run both of my programs in two tone ferrous voicing...my ears are very well trained to that now....the multi option is history!!
wayyyyyyyyyy to noisy and upsetting/frustrating for this simpleton...
my pinpointing and target ID skills are doing well now...and i am slowly digging better deeper things
all the rain we have had this summer is surely helping make the ground accessible to digging and receptive to detector depth penetration so the stars have aligned in that way to give me alot of hunting time and opportunity just when i needed it most
had a few recent pix to post but they keep rejecting in the manner//format i am trying to upload them in
i remember MKUS showed me how to do it months back but i am not on here all that much so i forgot frankly!! lol
hope this helps some guys that maybe in the same boat i was.....
#####ALSO a question to ask the more experienced//learned Etrac users on this site
WHAT to do when the Etrac just will not settle at all because of EMI??
there are places i go and it is generally in the more urban jungle areas....when no matter how many times i re-NC the machine after the initial effort at start-up.....the Etrac is just totally unstable and super hard to control.....EVEN after i dial the AUTO+3 back to AUTO+0...or -3!!! nothing seems to get her to relax so i can hunt and i know the areas i am trying to attack are ripe with deep old targets but i cannot get any sort of stable threshold and thus.....virtually no penetration or stability in the Etrac
....maybe there is a trick to share on this guys????
THX in advance!!!!
