Looking for suggestions or advice

[Jeff in Pa]

As some of you know I am new to the Etrac but been having good luck with it. Tonite I landed permission to hunt an old farmhouse. This one was built in the 1830's and has only been hunted recently by a boy with a GTI 2500. All he ever found was clad. I told him to swap out that 12" coil for the smaller one he has from the normal package deal you get when buying a new one. I stopped by with my 11" coil on the machine but I only had about a half hour till I had to leave. This ground is polluted with iron!. So I figure I will use my 6" Excellerator coil but does anyone have any suggestions for settings to use. The 11" Pro coil could hardly give a threshold tone while swinging the coil. When I did hear a coin it would be a Zinc. I don't know if his machine see's zincs differently but he surely didn't dig them because they were all over. Any suggestions on settings or patterns I should try?

Thanks,


Jeff

 

[Jeff in Pa]

I guess what I am asking is would be beneficial to use fast on, trash density high or is that just going to complicate things? Like I said the iron is easily the mos prevalent target in the ground. Also is the multi conduct sounds the way to go?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[pointer80]

Hi Jeff, I would say you definitely want fast on as it separates targets better and high trash is just what it says, its for high trash situations. I would read up on both these settings in the manual or Andy's book as it does a good job explaining these. I think what would probably work good in this situation is the two tone ferrous setting. There is allot of info on here about the advantages of TTF. Go to Goes4ever website as he does a awesome job explaining the set up and how to use it. Good luck and HH.

 

[Damar2003]

Jeff, if the iron is that bad I would be in Twoo Tone Ferrous for sure. I have gad the e-trac for 3 months and just started using TTF. I have used it 3 times. twice in a yard that I pulled alot of coins from, but had Iron in it and got an additional 22 coins mostly clad, but several old wheaties and 1902 IH penny that had iron all around them. The other time I used it was at a small yard that I had no threshold at all and after 2 hours only got a dime and a penny, went back using TTF and got 12 coins in and hour in the same exact spots. I am a believer in TTF. As Pointer80 said above,checkout goesforever's website and you will find all you need about it. I have read where some e-trac users tried TTF and were confused by it, but really it is pretty simple.