Paul's Insanely 'Not Hot' Smooth Settings...

[vanursepaul]

Well they say,

"Even a blind squirrel will pick up an acorn every now and then..."

Finally got my first 7000 fatty today!

Seems like once I disregarded Chris Porter's pointy finger and got lost, I finally got one.

This is the same one who lets me borrow his extra battery, ferrite ring, and feeds me spaghetti for supper...

Here you go...this is a weird one and maybe that's why no one got it yet....

By the way, I was having a hard time with noise over the damp salt and desert pavement, but I remembered I had printed out Lunk's settings so I thought I would give them a try... Within 5 minutes I got this nugget.....coincidence???...

This was on a hammered club claim so what do you think my settings were for the rest of the day..

PS I have Steve's settings printed out too, but there was no way I could use them here, it was just too noisy already....

Thx everyone..

Paul

4" deep, damp ground, in a clod, .75dwt

Cleaned it up a little with some salt and vinegar

[Steve Herschbach]

Excellent, congrats Paul, could not happen to a nicer guy!

[Norvic]

You beauty, the spaghetti didn`t work obviously, didn`t slow you down at all.

[nvchris]

I don't feed him till he finds something!

[mn90403]

WTG Paul.

[vanursepaul]

I don't feed him till he finds something!

Yeah, that's why I'm topping out at 300

[Lunk]

Sweet nugget, Paul. I'm glad those settings worked for you in the damp salt environment. Was it a fairly obvious target response when you first hit it?

[vanursepaul]

Yeah thanks for the settings...

To be honest it must have been sharp enough to catch my attention...I had been detecting for awhile and I was kinda zoned out...When I went oooops, What was that...

But it wasn't as sharp as some I have heard, it was more of a broad signal, until I scratched it a bit...then it started acting more like a nugget... I changed the settings and tried it with normal ground and it was just crazy ...acting like everything was a target..

I jacked up the sensitivity too...bad idea I list it in the noise..

So it was a good learning day for me....

I will tell you I had a hard time putting audio smoothing on high..... Lolol

You can tell by the picture it is a weirdo nugget...I m afraid it will fall to pieces when I put it in the acid ....

[1515Art]

nice find paul, congrats

[Lunk]

But it wasn't as sharp as some I have heard, it was more of a broad signal, until I scratched it a bit...then it started acting more like a nugget... I changed the settings and tried it with normal ground and it was just crazy ...acting like everything was a target..

I jacked up the sensitivity too...bad idea I list it in the noise..

So it was a good learning day for me....

I will tell you I had a hard time putting audio smoothing on high..... Lolol

A good lesson indeed, and the best way to learn...by trying different settings on an undisturbed target...as you did. Even a mellow signal is far more distinct and easy to hear when the ground response is compensated for, than a sharp signal that is lost in the cacophony of ground noise produced by running hotter settings.