flinthunter
Well-known member
you find out there is still a lot to learn. I had thought that after two years of using the E-Trac I had learned it well and my education of it was about over. I was wrong. I hunt a lot of parks and use TTF in some of the iron infested areas and its found a few goodies that I would have missed running with discrimination but I wasn't real comfortable with it. I would just dig the solid signals and pass up the jumpy iron falsing type signals that were probably junk but they left me feeling that maybe I was missing some good targets. I know some of you say "dig everything" but I like to hunt the trashy areas that others avoid and it just isn't realistic to dig all the junky signals. The past several weeks I've been hunting a chisel plowed and now planted field that has three old house sites on it. The sites are a carpet of iron and the threshold is a constant null because of it so I've been using G4E's TTF program for all my hunting here (thank you G4E). The fact that the targets are easy to dig and there is no sod to worry about lets me quickly dig a lot of targets and experiment with different sounding signals. I've put well over forty hours into hunting this field using TTF and am starting to feel very comfortable using it now. I've pulled out several good coins digging some of the iffy/jumpy signals and now feel fairly confident about which signals to dig and which signals to pass up. I guess what I'm saying here is that field hunting is a good way to learn the TTF option. It sure helped me. I still have a couple days left to hunt this field before the corn is too tall to swing the coil over but when I'm done I will post pictures of my finds here. And yes, even though its just a farmers field I still fill my holes back in because (1) its looks better, and (2) it shows the farmer/landowner that you respect their property.
