Surface Targets Only?

[jmt48]

I've had my etrac for about 2 months and only seem to be recovering coins down as far as 3 inches...No silver coins yet, 4 wheat pennies, and a few rings. The places I'm hunting in, parks that go back to the 1920's, seem like they should give up silver but with the exception of what I've listed above, clad coins are all I'm recovering. I'm looking to get more depth...I typically run the etrac in auto +3 sensitivity which pushes max sens. to about 17-19. The other day I ran manual sens to 25 and got much more depth, recovering a wheat penny at about 5-6 inches (first deep find to date). I'm getting a lot of what I believe is falsing but I'm really not sure...i.e., is it a good target or falsing!? What's the best way to determine falsing from a good target? What's the best way to eliminate falsing without giving up depth? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jerry

 

[detector-d-]

Try running two tone fe mode in manual.

 

[BHNugget]

Im new to the etrac, but I also have been running auto +3. After I noise cancel, my sensitivity usually starts out around 22-25 and then gradually climbs to 27-29 as Im detecting. In my ground, Ive found silver usually gives a pretty solid signal to a depth of 6-7 inches. On the deeper ones, look for the ferrous number to vary a bit more. If I get good, repeatable audio with the FE not past 17 (and hopefully with the occasional 9-15 thrown in) and the depth meter while pinpointing is 8+ inches, Im usually cutting a plug. I recieved my etrac the 24th and used it the last two weekends resulting in 9 silvers and 27 wheats from a fairly heavily hunted city park (the ring was found on a local lake beach last weekend). So far Ive only run the conductive audio with the gain up fairly high (I dont like quieter audio on deeper targets,Id rather glance at the depth meter on a promising signal). What pattern and settings are you running?

 

[FordGalaxy]

For quite a while I have only been finding relatively shallow targets. Then again I have not been digging anything with a Fe higher that 14.

Just the other day when checking a target in quick mask I noticed a good nickel sound that was hitting between 17 and 20 on the Fe scale, and dug up a nice deep nickel. Makes me wonder how many good targets I have passed over that sounded good but I figured they were junk because the Fe was to high.

Doing a master reset and rebuilding some of my patterns to see if I can pull up some of the better targets that I know should be there.