I usually hunt using the FA mode with DST turned on. But then this week I discovered something that just floored me. Maybe it is just my machine or maybe not.
Here it is in a nut shell. In the FA mode I was barely able to hit a quarter at 6 inches but in any other mode like FE or JE, I easily hit a quarter at almost 13 inches. Now I didn't realize that there was this discrepancy until I started doing some testing in a test garden and with air tests. Now the reason I was into using the FA mode is because it is faster and does target separation better but had I known that (at least on my machine) that I was losing 5 or 6 inches in depth I would not have used it al all. It just didn't occur to me that using the FA mode would have made that much difference so I didn't bother to do any testing until I became suspicious that something was not right like never getting coins beyond 6 inches and sometimes going for hours with hitting a single coin target. My hunting buddy uses an Xterra 70, this guy is good, typically getting over a hundred silvers a year, so yesterday we did comparisons. His hit quarters at almost 12 inches and mine in FA mode only 6 inches.
Just putting all this out there so people are aware and if they have the same situations, we would like to hear about it. Or maybe it is just my machine. Don't know yet.
By the way, turning DST on or off has no effect on depth in any mode. That is a good thing at least.
Thanks for any replies.
Here it is in a nut shell. In the FA mode I was barely able to hit a quarter at 6 inches but in any other mode like FE or JE, I easily hit a quarter at almost 13 inches. Now I didn't realize that there was this discrepancy until I started doing some testing in a test garden and with air tests. Now the reason I was into using the FA mode is because it is faster and does target separation better but had I known that (at least on my machine) that I was losing 5 or 6 inches in depth I would not have used it al all. It just didn't occur to me that using the FA mode would have made that much difference so I didn't bother to do any testing until I became suspicious that something was not right like never getting coins beyond 6 inches and sometimes going for hours with hitting a single coin target. My hunting buddy uses an Xterra 70, this guy is good, typically getting over a hundred silvers a year, so yesterday we did comparisons. His hit quarters at almost 12 inches and mine in FA mode only 6 inches.
Just putting all this out there so people are aware and if they have the same situations, we would like to hear about it. Or maybe it is just my machine. Don't know yet.
By the way, turning DST on or off has no effect on depth in any mode. That is a good thing at least.
Thanks for any replies.