Now that the CZ 21 is back from repair the auto-tune mode seems to be deeper than discrimination mode. It was just the opposite before repair. I picked up a rusty finishing nail that was maybe a half an inch long down around 10 in at the beach today. I wasn't bothering to flip over to discriminate to see if I was over a good Target as there were few targets anyway so I just dug everything. I could not hit the nail in zero discriminate mode. It might have squawked once or twice trying to find it but just barely. Auto-tune however picked it up no problem. not that I want to make a habit of digging nails, but I am interested in seeing how deep the machine is now that it's repaired.
On to another topic. I had been hunting for maybe 20 minutes today when I saw another detectorists coming up the beach fast. He stops by and asks if I have found anything good, I hadn't so I said no, and away he went. Well I had been working a grid around a lifeguard tower down by the water line and when this guy left he stepped right into the end of my grid and began hunting in my line. Fine, whatever, lots of beach here I'll just move 50 yards away. so I move about 50 yards down the beach and begin a new grid. the next thing I know this guy is coming up on my backside again, passes me, steps back into my line and start detecting again!!! Fine! Be that way. So I turn around and walk all the way back to my original grid and pick up where I left off. Okay, this is a joke right? I'm looking around for cameras because I know I'm being punked. This guy is on my butt again jumping my line!!! I had had enough at this point and I approached him. he had been leaving craters all over the beach without filling them in, and in the pile of sand next to one of his many Grand canyons I pulled a nickel, a dime and two pennies. So I went up to him and asked him what exactly he was hunting for. He looked at me strangely like, why is this guy asking me that? I showed him the money, then showed him his crater and the pile of sand I pulled the money out of I told him how I had come by this find. That was the ticket, he just turned around and headed down the beach out of sight, except for all the craters he left behind him as he went. I'm pretty sure he was just jumping in my line in hopes of finding a ring right in front of me with his fancy new detector so he could scream woohoo. I don't know what else to think, cutting someone's line once might be an accident, twice is anything but an accident and three times? yeah no. At least it was me that got to show off the money he was leaving behind. I did end up following in his tracks and filling all his holes down the beach till I was done hunting.
On to another topic. I had been hunting for maybe 20 minutes today when I saw another detectorists coming up the beach fast. He stops by and asks if I have found anything good, I hadn't so I said no, and away he went. Well I had been working a grid around a lifeguard tower down by the water line and when this guy left he stepped right into the end of my grid and began hunting in my line. Fine, whatever, lots of beach here I'll just move 50 yards away. so I move about 50 yards down the beach and begin a new grid. the next thing I know this guy is coming up on my backside again, passes me, steps back into my line and start detecting again!!! Fine! Be that way. So I turn around and walk all the way back to my original grid and pick up where I left off. Okay, this is a joke right? I'm looking around for cameras because I know I'm being punked. This guy is on my butt again jumping my line!!! I had had enough at this point and I approached him. he had been leaving craters all over the beach without filling them in, and in the pile of sand next to one of his many Grand canyons I pulled a nickel, a dime and two pennies. So I went up to him and asked him what exactly he was hunting for. He looked at me strangely like, why is this guy asking me that? I showed him the money, then showed him his crater and the pile of sand I pulled the money out of I told him how I had come by this find. That was the ticket, he just turned around and headed down the beach out of sight, except for all the craters he left behind him as he went. I'm pretty sure he was just jumping in my line in hopes of finding a ring right in front of me with his fancy new detector so he could scream woohoo. I don't know what else to think, cutting someone's line once might be an accident, twice is anything but an accident and three times? yeah no. At least it was me that got to show off the money he was leaving behind. I did end up following in his tracks and filling all his holes down the beach till I was done hunting.