Hunting by depth

[Southwind]

Last nights hunt is a good example of why I wish the E-Trac had a tone for depth. Our city park has been hunted to death, but my and a hunting buddy, to the point where anything less than 7" is going to be clad/junk. All the easy stuff is gone but the place is full of iffys. Last night a went out for a quick hunt and got a signal that sounded more like iron than anything good, and was all over the VDI meter, but the depth was right. I recovered it based on the depth alone and found 3 wheats and a buffalo.

 

[Rolladex]

It does turn your volume gain to about 15 and use pitch hold. This will give you a small whisper on a coin deeper than 7 or 8 inches deep. Nice finds!!

 

[goldensilver]

Hey Terry nice deep finds I Agree are park here in DCKs still has good old coins just got to go deep for them and are Etraces are the Detectors to do it Congrats and keep digging those deep signals

 

[Dale(Ia)]

It does turn your volume gain to about 15 and use pitch hold. This will give you a small whisper on a coin deeper than 7 or 8 inches deep. Nice finds!!

I alway's use pitch hold & dig just the 6+" signals in "hunted-out" parks............Works great!!!
Iowa Dale

 

[Jason in ID]

That buffalo sure cleaned up nice. I always use pitch hold too. Can't stand the monotone threshold hum. I've found that sometimes the threshold tone will change without sounding off on a target. When you go back over the area where the tone changed, sometimes there's a deep target worth digging.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

You can usually tell if a target is good and if it's deep without looking at your depth gauge - deep hits just have a different sound to them.
These days I mainly look for good - clean breaking - no bounce - deeper hits - the quality of my finds has gone way up.
I know that not all old coins are deep - but it sure seems like most of them are.
I really like hearing that deep groan the pin pointer makes on a deeper targets - it sounds much better then the high pitched - blow your headphones off sound you get on the shallower targets.
And from what I've seen a few hundred times - hunting by depth is the key to finding old Nickel's !

 

[jyblood]

I wish Minelab would add a switch (digital) so that you could reverse the variable volume on deeper targets.In the park that you are hunting would it not be better to here the deep targets loud and the shallow junk softly?