Squeaker
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- May 6, 2012
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I’m getting really frustrated with this machine. To the point that I’m thinking of burying it so that it can become an artifact itself.
I’m hunting old (country) homesites and farm fields. My main place right now is hunting near a CW battlefield. I’m running with 5 tones, field 2, swing speed 2.
It seems like everything besides a few iron nails come up in the same 10-20 range. I’m also having trouble locking down a good target after the first pass. I’ll catch a good tone on the swing back, but when I try to find it again it is either nonexistent or sounds like garbage. And then if I decide to dig the garbage tone, I can’t pinpoint to save my life. There are so many beeps and blips that I can’t make heads or tails. And I really don’t think there are that many iron signals everywhere I go.
I’m really at a loss. I’ve been trying to learn this machine while still using my MXT when I get frustrated. The MXT finally quit so now I’m stuck with this thing. The bad part is I found a piece of an artillery shell last week with the MXT and now I really want to get back out and look for more.
Everything I found today was probably less than 3in deep. Except a gas line...
ETA:
What was Minelab’s reasoning for abandoning the conventional vdi and tone pattern of most every other detector. Just to be unique?
I’m hunting old (country) homesites and farm fields. My main place right now is hunting near a CW battlefield. I’m running with 5 tones, field 2, swing speed 2.
It seems like everything besides a few iron nails come up in the same 10-20 range. I’m also having trouble locking down a good target after the first pass. I’ll catch a good tone on the swing back, but when I try to find it again it is either nonexistent or sounds like garbage. And then if I decide to dig the garbage tone, I can’t pinpoint to save my life. There are so many beeps and blips that I can’t make heads or tails. And I really don’t think there are that many iron signals everywhere I go.
I’m really at a loss. I’ve been trying to learn this machine while still using my MXT when I get frustrated. The MXT finally quit so now I’m stuck with this thing. The bad part is I found a piece of an artillery shell last week with the MXT and now I really want to get back out and look for more.
Everything I found today was probably less than 3in deep. Except a gas line...
ETA:
What was Minelab’s reasoning for abandoning the conventional vdi and tone pattern of most every other detector. Just to be unique?