diggindaboot
Elite Member
Yea, uh No. Computers can't determine halo effect. Computers can't determine mineralization. Computers don't know the idiosyncrisies of any detector. One could program a computer until their blue in the face and the computer still won't know all the factors involved.
Every hunt is random. Every swing exacerbates that randomness. Something a computer can't compute is each hunters swing speed. Here's a scientific fact. If there is a piece of metal in the ground within reach. A detector will detect it. Playing detecting video games to try and increase your finds is futile. Learning your detector and using different settings and coils has much more scientific value than a Mario cartoon. Monte's test gives you actual visuals and tones that are applicable to get you on your way. A computer could simulate 50,000 scenarios and you won't know which one it was because you can't actually view the targets in the ground.
let these manufacturers battle over superior performance in ferrous trash, we as the consumers will benefit in the end. Some of these tests are completely farfetched compared to real life scenarios, but there is some value in them, in the event you are hunting in carpets of nails. I cannot fathom the amount of good finds being masked by heavy iron presence, and the more tools to help sort through it all the better. 
Some design airplanes. Some fly the airplanes. The guy who designs it can't necessarily fly it. Most guys who detect couldn't design their detector nor do they care about designing it as long as it works. 
I did run across someone using one on the beach a couple days ago. If i wasn't testing a new detector i'd still break out one of my DFX's from time to time. Of course i have old Lee Iacocca ebikes that were before an ebikes time. Back then they didn't sell good and people consider them obsolete today. Try finding an ebike today with cruise control and a horn. These were made back in 1999
