If I rolled onto a 1800s home site and spent a couple hours and nothing older coin wise turned up, it’s time for me to turn the detector up. Likely the site has been hunted before.
Fact- shallower coins can be gotten with faster sweeps using Etrac and CTX. And gotten with loads of other models detectors too, even by folks with not so great skill detecting wise.
The deeper stuff requires more careful sweeps with higher manual sensitivty.
Yeah I could roll into a site (Virgin or more virgin) and run auto plus 3 sens And if there dig mercs galore.
Yeah the first 8” are more or less like shooting fish out of a barrel with Etrac and CTX, even in auto plus 3 sensitivty.
The deeper stuff and the more mask stuff needs far greater precision.
Hence slower hunting. Hence finds pouch won’t be monster sized when one leaves.
I have been over coins buried undisturbed and auto plus 3 was either a whimper or nothing I would think about digging- compared to higher manual sensitivty.
So when you are in those older sites.
Give this a try.
One seated coin equals how many mercs??
Depends on the individual.
Different strokes for different folks.
If I would have based my coming back to a site on what I found in such site on my first outing(few finds or unworthy finds) , I would have cheated myself out of some NICE finds- found later.
So don’t be lured into thinking an old site has no good finds cause you find little on your first outing.
Cheers and happy detecting.
I detected today in a old site.
Found a few. Nothing earth shattering.
Will I go back ?
You bet.
I practice what I preach !!
Btw, why did Minelab give user ability to run manual sensitivity, if auto sensitivty can match manual sensivity depth?
Fact- shallower coins can be gotten with faster sweeps using Etrac and CTX. And gotten with loads of other models detectors too, even by folks with not so great skill detecting wise.
The deeper stuff requires more careful sweeps with higher manual sensitivty.
Yeah I could roll into a site (Virgin or more virgin) and run auto plus 3 sens And if there dig mercs galore.
Yeah the first 8” are more or less like shooting fish out of a barrel with Etrac and CTX, even in auto plus 3 sensitivty.
The deeper stuff and the more mask stuff needs far greater precision.
Hence slower hunting. Hence finds pouch won’t be monster sized when one leaves.
I have been over coins buried undisturbed and auto plus 3 was either a whimper or nothing I would think about digging- compared to higher manual sensitivty.
So when you are in those older sites.
Give this a try.
One seated coin equals how many mercs??
Depends on the individual.
Different strokes for different folks.
If I would have based my coming back to a site on what I found in such site on my first outing(few finds or unworthy finds) , I would have cheated myself out of some NICE finds- found later.
So don’t be lured into thinking an old site has no good finds cause you find little on your first outing.
Cheers and happy detecting.
I detected today in a old site.
Found a few. Nothing earth shattering.
Will I go back ?
You bet.
I practice what I preach !!
Btw, why did Minelab give user ability to run manual sensitivity, if auto sensitivty can match manual sensivity depth?
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