First Hunt Observations

[GB_Amateur]

1 hour ago, CoinShooter said:

I detect mainly for silver coins and ALWAYS manually grand balance. It works for me. I remember reading a long time ago that if you auto grand balance and sweep your coil over and over a target it will stop ringing up nicely. This has proven true to me in the past and that is why I always manually ground balance.

It appears you are confusing terms.  Here are the correct/accepted term meanings:

Ground Tracking:  detector adjusts on the fly to ground conditions while the coil is being swung.  Other than setting the detector early on (e.g. at turn-on) in Ground Tracking, the detectorist does nothing.  This is where it's sometimes possible that the circuitry silences a weak but desirable target.

Auto Ground Balance (also called "Ground Grab" by First Texas):  The detectorist pumps the coil up and down in a spot where there are no targets, only ground minerals, and the detector decides what channel to set the ground balance point.

Manual Ground Balance:  similar to Auto except now the detectorist listens to the detector's audio while pumping the coil up and down, and the detectorist adjusts the ground balance channel until a minimum of ground noise is heard.

[CoinShooter]

Yes, I have to agree. I was not describing what I was trying to say with clarity. Let me try this again. LOL

I find that Manual Ground Balance is best for me and my conditions whether in be in Florida or Ohio, whereas Ground Tracking seems to learn a good target and will silence it out after continued sweeps of the target.

Thanks,

John

[TripleT]

Anyone else notice that on silver and gold rings that are in highly mineralized ground the Manticore will show two targets?  Only with careful coil placement can you actually discern the low conductor. 

This would explain lack of separation with other detectors.

Thoughts?