calabash digger
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bury a silver coin or a civil war button at 7 or 8 inchs and tell me what happens.
Depth and ground balancing in mild-moderate soil conditions?
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bowwinkles
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The more that you can compensate for soil conditions (ground balancing) your sensitivity will reach greater depth. So yes in those areas where ground balancing is needed the depth definitively is deeper.
calabash digger
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I live in a place where in the soil you can almost get air test depths in it. I found that a proper gb even makes it even better thats with my machine though so other machines might behave different. So what im trying to say is even in GOOD ground I found an advantage to it.
Hate to break the bad news,,,,but beer cans or halves of beer cans--- not the usual standard folks interested in a detector are crazy about.
More like depth distances on dimes, pennies,,gold rings.
Mud-puppy
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I like this write up Calabash...Understanding dirt and our tools SWOT limitations is key...all the various settings are not as important as understanding where you are and what the dirt is telling you..this is ascertained in the first few minutes on a strange place on how to set up..and of course these parameters change daily based upon multiple conditions of weather and soil and what may be there...Seems a lot of times, depth is not as important as unmasking accuracy...
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ghound
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Other advantages to be had with manual GB, you can offset it to run a little hot, you can adjust it to clean up a scratchy signal, i can adjust it on my detector to miss small targets and just detect large items or vise versa, you can balance out hot rocks, coke etc
Some detectors are more ground reactive than others, some you can run well off balance with little depth effect, some need it perfect to give accurate screen ID's, some need constant adjustment as you hunt.
Some detectors are more ground reactive than others, some you can run well off balance with little depth effect, some need it perfect to give accurate screen ID's, some need constant adjustment as you hunt.
SuchMuch
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Depth means correct ground balance + ground signal slightly lifted up (fom ground zone). Metal detector should be without rejection feature and be digital. All filters off and no discrimination feature should be used.
