HistoryStudent
Senior Member
I've seen many discussions about achieving maximum depth from various machines, in my case the AT Pro and Teknetics T2, but for me and at the places I hunt depth isn't the problem. Accurate target ID's are the problem.
Both the AT Pro and T2 (and others I assume) can be tricked by things like big iron, bent nails, pull tabs and bent nails and more bent nails. Discrimination only partially works. I can set my AT Pro to ignore everything under 39 and I still get hightone chirps and chatter from bent rusty nails. Bigger nails will sometimes even give repeatable and clear high tones. With the AT Pro, I can know that it's iron. The machine is telling me it's iron yet it still gives a high tone -as if it's ignoring it's own Iron Audio sound. Weird.
I understand that with practice a person can learn to ignore those chirps and chatters and broken signals but is there a way to get better target id clarity at the expense of some depth? Or, is there a way to set an AT Pro or T2 to truly ignore ALL iron.
I've gotten to be pretty good at cherry picking items mixed into nail beds but it's mentally very tiring. I've tried adjusting sensitivity and discrimination and they work to a degree but I guess I'm wondering if there are any tricks that others use to make their machines stop IDing bad targets as good targets?
Both the AT Pro and T2 (and others I assume) can be tricked by things like big iron, bent nails, pull tabs and bent nails and more bent nails. Discrimination only partially works. I can set my AT Pro to ignore everything under 39 and I still get hightone chirps and chatter from bent rusty nails. Bigger nails will sometimes even give repeatable and clear high tones. With the AT Pro, I can know that it's iron. The machine is telling me it's iron yet it still gives a high tone -as if it's ignoring it's own Iron Audio sound. Weird.
I understand that with practice a person can learn to ignore those chirps and chatters and broken signals but is there a way to get better target id clarity at the expense of some depth? Or, is there a way to set an AT Pro or T2 to truly ignore ALL iron.
I've gotten to be pretty good at cherry picking items mixed into nail beds but it's mentally very tiring. I've tried adjusting sensitivity and discrimination and they work to a degree but I guess I'm wondering if there are any tricks that others use to make their machines stop IDing bad targets as good targets?