Rain!!!!!!

[Bowie]

and more on the way,lol. Thats the way it goes. Ordered my E-Trac couple weeks back cause I had two weeks of vacation coming up, would have a bit of time to begin my education. Rain!!! I was able to get a few hours with it. I really like how you can make different modes and patterns, and you can change it pretty much on the fly if you want out in the field. I think Im gonna like leaving the quick mask open for investigating an iffy. And I think Im gonna like how quick you can change from Auto Sensitivity to Manual or vice versa. Just need some more time and lots of investigating (digging) to become familiar with what the tones are telling me.
So I do apologize for my ramblings when I post. Im just stuck in the house getting cabin fever.
Ive read thru this forum, many times in the last several days.
I have some ideas about patterns I wanna try in the field.
I am concerned about the cut off when using TTF, just curious if I should use maybe four tones in TTF.
Curious about using Multi Conductive, in the old sites I hunt, ones littered with iron mainly. What time I have spent in these sites, very few hours, I used TTF.
I did manage a couple Buffalo Niks, they were not to deep, but were in close to a lot of iron signals. One memorial penny, it was out by itself around 6 inches deep. But I found these at a intown old house site, where I used Multi Conductive.
I think for now, I want to stick with one mode type. I do want to experiment with reponse long.
Im curious, while using Ferous, and based on the Ferous line of 12, and I know some targets can come in higher, but I just want to know; If you made a pattern with the top three or four lines blacked out, would that help with falses?? Leaving , of course upper right open a bit for big silver.
Sorry, lol. I have a lot of thoughts, it happens when you are stuck and start thinking about ways you can set your machine up to maybe make things work a bit easier for you in the field.
Hope everyone is having a great Christmas,
God Bless,
John

 

[moonshine]

heres some of my thoughts.....ive only one season of experience with the etrac. i always use multi-conductive sounds. i use "normal" response. towards the second half of the season i pretty much run strictly in manual with the sens. at 24. my disc. pattern has been modified over the season. now its simple, everything with an FE of 28 is blacked out, everything 27 or lower is open. dont get too technical. there is a HUGE amount of "feel" that you have to develop using the etrac. by listening to the etrac, you will feel when youve hit a good target or not. you will feel whether or nor you are getting iron falsing. coins have a repeatability to them, falsing does not. say you have a deep coin and youre getting a decent tone on each swing, over the same exact spot. regardless of what the "numbers say"....youre getting a "dig me" tone over that spot. with iron falsing, you dont get a repeatable "dig me" sund over the same exact spot with each sweep. also, the target pinpointing will seem awkward, because you are trying to pinpoint a "false" signal. the pinpointed target will not be where you think it is.....thats why people call it a "false". could be an old nail or something, right on the tip of it the etrac might be fooled into thinking its a good target, but really it isnt. back to FE numbers, i have had coins come up into the 22 to 24 area, bouncing from there back to 14, 16 or so....but with a repeatable tone, thats what im really looking for, is repeatability....typically this would be for an old wheat penny....and i wouldnt want the higher FE numbers nulled out (discriminated against)....so i leave my disc. pattern fairly open, although i do want some disc. because the etrac supposedly lets you know if theres a good target amongst disc'ed targets, supposedly if you have no disc. then it tells you what the strongest signal is.....that is from the instruction manual. im fairly confident now, after using the etrac all season, having good luck with it, really starting to understand it, that i can find good things with it, if they are there.

good luck!

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Moonshine's got it nailed right. People get hung up on that 12 ferous line no need to re read what Moonshine wrote about targets especially deep or corroded ones or next to iron or masked ones that ferrous number will be way off down on the screen but the sound is the giveaway. Coins sound better not choppy, screetchy like iron does. I run in coins mode with auto+3 on an area then switch directions and hunt it in a different direction. Then I go and open way up the discrimination screen and run in Manual 24-26 and do the same thing. Then if I feel like there may be some more there I try two tone ferrous out on the area. This is what keeps it fresh fun and exciting to me so I don't hunt out an area too quickly. I'm not in any hurry. I've had my Etrac 2 years now and have hit only 3 parks here in town with it. I keep pounding this one small park just down the street from me and now I'm trying out small coils on it and I'm still finding good coins there so go figure.

Bowie yes you can go one or 2 lines across the top of the screen to eliminate iron wrap around falsing. I tried TTF out last year and I only ran a completely open quick mask screen. This year I set up a pattern that is one line across Fe 1 to Fe 30 blacked out and left 31-50 Fe open and it definately quieted down the falsing warparound in TTF. Runs quiet now till you get a target.