If I had not spent so much time with a V3i I might have never really tried this. V3i is a great Detector but it is by far the most complicated frustrating detector I have ever used. This is why I bought the Etrac. I have really been having depth problems. It is very dry and I am hunting Trashy old Houses. I have two that are right at 100 years old that I am hunting now and got so frustrated yesterday I vowed to quit hunting until after a rain.
Sounded good but they mowed one of the yards and I had nothing to do. I run my Etrac like 99% of most people I run Auto +3 Fast On Deep ON. Some say run Manual Sensitivity and run it high. If you run a V3i like this you find nothing and it sounds like a Pin Ball machine. I was running the Joey Coil on my Etrac and it was sounding like a Pin Ball machine.I was getting a lot of False signals and iron nails was killing me. I had already hunted this place twice removing many coins.
I noticed my Threshold was gone everytime I moved my Coil. This is always a bad sign. I decided that I needed to try something different since I was only getting a few inches of depth. Everybody is going to tell you to increase Sensitivity to get Depth. This is great advice in clean areas with good dirt. Not good around old houses where the dirt changes every swing.
I took a different route I used Auto but I backed off to +2. I got a better Threshold and I could swing faster. I backed off to Auto +1 and hit the Sweet Spot. My depth doubled. Now most are saying "Bull" right now but here is my explanation. My depth was the same but my ID was much better, so I got better ID at depth allowing my Discrimination to work much better. I always run fairly tight Discrimination.
I was able to get a good steady Threshold while swinging at a normal pace and my signals were stronger and louder with no where near the iron falsing.
I killed it today. Too tired to even count my coins but I know I dug at least 12-16 Wheat Pennies in a yard I had hunted twice before using a small Joey Coil. I had found no Nickles at all at this place before I found 4 today.
Can't wait to try this with the WOT (Wonderful Orange Thing) Coiltek 15", but it will have to rain first. Too hard to dig those holes.
Sounded good but they mowed one of the yards and I had nothing to do. I run my Etrac like 99% of most people I run Auto +3 Fast On Deep ON. Some say run Manual Sensitivity and run it high. If you run a V3i like this you find nothing and it sounds like a Pin Ball machine. I was running the Joey Coil on my Etrac and it was sounding like a Pin Ball machine.I was getting a lot of False signals and iron nails was killing me. I had already hunted this place twice removing many coins.
I noticed my Threshold was gone everytime I moved my Coil. This is always a bad sign. I decided that I needed to try something different since I was only getting a few inches of depth. Everybody is going to tell you to increase Sensitivity to get Depth. This is great advice in clean areas with good dirt. Not good around old houses where the dirt changes every swing.
I took a different route I used Auto but I backed off to +2. I got a better Threshold and I could swing faster. I backed off to Auto +1 and hit the Sweet Spot. My depth doubled. Now most are saying "Bull" right now but here is my explanation. My depth was the same but my ID was much better, so I got better ID at depth allowing my Discrimination to work much better. I always run fairly tight Discrimination.
I was able to get a good steady Threshold while swinging at a normal pace and my signals were stronger and louder with no where near the iron falsing.
I killed it today. Too tired to even count my coins but I know I dug at least 12-16 Wheat Pennies in a yard I had hunted twice before using a small Joey Coil. I had found no Nickles at all at this place before I found 4 today.
Can't wait to try this with the WOT (Wonderful Orange Thing) Coiltek 15", but it will have to rain first. Too hard to dig those holes.