Hello,
I hit a 1930's home this morning and did ok, but was mainly finding shallow finds. I've had this experience in other old yards too, you know, feeling like my Ace 250 could make the bulk of the finds I'm getting with my E-trac (whether or not that's actually true).
Many times in these old yards, the soil is extremely dry and there is the usual rusted roofing nails and what not. The soil almost looks like rotted wood at 4 with old worm holes in the hard, dry dirt. Because of this (I believe) my autosensitivity likes to camp out at 17-19 (on auto +3), so I'll try to bump it up manually into the 20's, but it does plenty of talking and chirping (even after noise cancelling multiple times).
Does anyone have any tips for getting added depth in dry soil conditions? Learn to live with chattery manual sensitivity, while going very, very slow (I have a hard time pinpointing when it's talking a lot)? Wait for a good rain? Other tips?
Thanks! |)