adamBomb
Hero Member
- May 30, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- Nox 700;
Past: Nox 600; CTX; CZ21; Excal II; White's DF;
920i Stealth Scoop
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I have about 20 hrs on my machine thus far and just ordered several of clives books which should be coming this week. I have been playing around with the settings a lot and here is what I have found. Maybe some of you more experienced excal users can shed some light on what I am finding and add any advice for me that you might have...Oh, and I found my first silver ring with it today. Only 2 grams but silver nonetheless!
I have found that sensitivity does affect depth, especially in disc mode but not as much/at all in PP. In PP, I can hear the same target in sens 10 that I can in sens 6, even if faint. In fact it might sound better in sens 6 because there is no interference...BUT that same faint target, in disc and sens 6, may not register at all. If I turn my sens up to sens 10, it comes in loud and clear. So if I were hunting in disc sens 6 I would be missing targets that I could hear in PP sens 6. Does that sound right?
In sens 10, I have yet to find a target in PP that I could not hear in Disc and vice versa. But as soon as I turn the sens down I notice that disc is not as deep as PP. I also notice that, at least on my beach, I can hunt in disc sens 10 with zero falsing, but in PP I need to be around 7-5. I can hunt in higher sensitivity on the beach in disc than PP. So what that means is that if I am hunting in disc at my beach, I should be at sens 10, so that I get max depth and if I am in PP I should go down to get the machine stable. Thus disc is much more sensitive to sens than PP for depth at least.
Obviously these settings will change by beach/area/water but the principle would be the same.
I have found that sensitivity does affect depth, especially in disc mode but not as much/at all in PP. In PP, I can hear the same target in sens 10 that I can in sens 6, even if faint. In fact it might sound better in sens 6 because there is no interference...BUT that same faint target, in disc and sens 6, may not register at all. If I turn my sens up to sens 10, it comes in loud and clear. So if I were hunting in disc sens 6 I would be missing targets that I could hear in PP sens 6. Does that sound right?
In sens 10, I have yet to find a target in PP that I could not hear in Disc and vice versa. But as soon as I turn the sens down I notice that disc is not as deep as PP. I also notice that, at least on my beach, I can hunt in disc sens 10 with zero falsing, but in PP I need to be around 7-5. I can hunt in higher sensitivity on the beach in disc than PP. So what that means is that if I am hunting in disc at my beach, I should be at sens 10, so that I get max depth and if I am in PP I should go down to get the machine stable. Thus disc is much more sensitive to sens than PP for depth at least.
Obviously these settings will change by beach/area/water but the principle would be the same.
