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Surfinsafari said:There is no magic pattern. I run in all metal or relic all the time no matter where I am. If you scrim out anything, you are going to miss targets. In trashy areas the buzzing and chatter will drive you nuts but if you SLOOOWWW down, the noise is less and lets you pick out goodies in between the garbage. I have yet to not get good finds at hunted out spots because I learned the value of patience. I have had othe rguys stop when they see me detecting and tell me they just went through the spot with their Super Whamadyne Ultra Gitter and tell me I am wasting my time. I LOVE whipping out a good Merc and showing them what they left behind. The Etrac is not a magic wand and the best you can do is LESS discrimination so the processor, which is slow, can reset faster. That is true for pretty much any machine. I hear the Tesoros are fast though. The hardest thing to learn about the E is patience. Learn that and she will astound you. Screw all the magic patterns!
I have to admit that I was sort of stumped when it came to learning the nuances of the E but reading this forum and Goesforevers advice and website did wonders. The number one lesson I learned was PATIENCE! All metal in high trash can be like Chinese water torture but coming from the beep and dig world I was used to fully investigating any good hit so using the Etrac and its TTF and iron mask sure made my scores go up. The E is loaded with features but I found out that KISS is the best. I leave the advanced features to the techie. I wanna hunt targets, not play with buttons and settings.Goes4ever said:I agree fully the more disc you use the more you null and the more you will MISS the more you open your screen and go slow the better you will do and your finds will increase.
That place would be a dream come true for me. I used to do the same thing when I first got my E. If it seemed to trashy I left. So did most other guys so the goodies are probably there but you will have to work for them. Get a small coil, and methodically work the place, bet you find alot of goodies!Sonora70 said:Okay.......this pattern made me think of a old drive in theater we have locally. It opened in the 50's and closed in 2000. I went once. I got out of my truck and saw what looked like 10,000 pull tabs lying on top the ground. Needless to say I got back in my truck. Being new to the etrac I wasn't/am not confident enough to experiment with my own patterns. I wonder if silver will ring through with all the blanking this pattern would create at this site, especially with all the tabs on top the ground.