AirborneDave
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I've never had this happen before, maybe someone can explain it:
Last week, I got permission to hunt a closed down gas station/ general store. It's been closed for about 20 years or so. Today on my way home from work, I decided to spend a quick hour there.
The parking lot is huge, and is made of gravel, most of which is a dark grey that I'm not familiar with. I take a few swings and my AT Pro goes bonkers. I try to auto ground balance it, and it tries to balance between 82 and 86 with high tones mixed in. I figured that to be a bit much, so I step away about 10 feet and try again. Still tries to balance in the same range with the same sporadic high tones, so I go with it ( I'm still learning the machine).
The MD still goes nuts.
I discriminate to 20, then 30, and get the same results, then all the way to 40 (too much for comfort for me) and still have a whacked out machine on my hands. I turn the sensitivity ALL the way down, and finally it calms down, but not by much.
I get a high tone and a VDI of 86 and decide to dig. Pull out the ProPointer and it goes berserk. As far as I can sweep with my arm over the gravel, it goes nuts. Turn it off, and back on. Try again. Same results. Move 20-30 feet away, and same scenario.
Is it possible that this grey gravel is something extremely mineralized and impossible to hunt in? Or is there something else? My only other thought is that this grey gravel is mined from meteorites and that I'm going to retire in the Caymans next week!!!
http://static.photobucket.com/playe...et.com/albums/ii65/photodave101/VIDEO0015.mp4
Last week, I got permission to hunt a closed down gas station/ general store. It's been closed for about 20 years or so. Today on my way home from work, I decided to spend a quick hour there.
The parking lot is huge, and is made of gravel, most of which is a dark grey that I'm not familiar with. I take a few swings and my AT Pro goes bonkers. I try to auto ground balance it, and it tries to balance between 82 and 86 with high tones mixed in. I figured that to be a bit much, so I step away about 10 feet and try again. Still tries to balance in the same range with the same sporadic high tones, so I go with it ( I'm still learning the machine).
The MD still goes nuts.
I discriminate to 20, then 30, and get the same results, then all the way to 40 (too much for comfort for me) and still have a whacked out machine on my hands. I turn the sensitivity ALL the way down, and finally it calms down, but not by much.
I get a high tone and a VDI of 86 and decide to dig. Pull out the ProPointer and it goes berserk. As far as I can sweep with my arm over the gravel, it goes nuts. Turn it off, and back on. Try again. Same results. Move 20-30 feet away, and same scenario.
Is it possible that this grey gravel is something extremely mineralized and impossible to hunt in? Or is there something else? My only other thought is that this grey gravel is mined from meteorites and that I'm going to retire in the Caymans next week!!!
http://static.photobucket.com/playe...et.com/albums/ii65/photodave101/VIDEO0015.mp4
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