Thank you Richard!

Thank you SA Magnet Fisher

I hear you! Back home in Northern Michigan with temps in the single digits. Ugh! Happy New Year!

Sub for sub! Happy Hunting!!

Me too

Thank you! - Hope to make it to Scotland someday. My wife's grandparents came across on the boat. It's on my bucket list! Happy hunting that good old dirt!! - Jason

Good Morning ExplorTheEarth! Peanut Butter with Chopsticks?! Now that's a challenge! Lets see - all my settings are close to the same. I set them and forget them...so it's been a while since I've dug through some of them. I did hunt in manual mode more this last trip and was able to achieve a nice 28-29 setting with out too much false-ing. Doing mainly coin-shooting here in Traverse City, Michigan - I also while on the saltwater Florida beaches do switch between Beach mode and Coin mode. I just am more used to the tones I have set for coins. I also sometimes prefer the sharper response from my coin mode setup. I forgot my headphones this last trip but did have my WM-10 so I just attached that to my chest pocket while hunting keeping the speaker closer to my ears. Worked ok and really made the audio on the videos nicer so I may record that way from now on although I do not hear the threshold very well and that's a minus for the hunt. Had a AT-PRO before the CTX and just got tired of digging junk. Too many bottle caps and nails. I kept the AT-PRO as a back up and to allow friends and family to go hunting with me on occasion. The AT-PRO is a good machine for it's price point no doubt. My first and best year was 2015 -BUT I wasn't recording my hunts - I was concentrating on metal detecting. I scooped several gold rings and charms out of the Crescent Beach, Florida area and many many silver dimes out of the local parks - recorded none of it! Oh well - it is hunting after all - good years and not so good years. It' keeps it real I guess. HH! - Jason

EXPLORTHEARTH hey man how is it there now I am from there but have not been back for 30 yrs I live in Florida now

arode2981 I work for the airline and I travel with my detector but never would I pack my machine in a checked bag, I put it in carryon bag and bring it with me through security. They may look to verify what it is but even traveling international I have never had a problem. If you put it in your checked bag you risk having it damaged in transit.

I pack all in my luggage. Never had an issue. 👍🏻

I here you nug nug. In the limited areas of parks it makes sense to cover ALL of it. Parks are also usually smaller confided areas. They are usually somewhat trashy and require a slow swing and overlapping. On the ocean shoreline - with endless miles of beach, my strategy is more about reading the beach and not spending time in sanded in locations where drops are less likely to be located. I move along reading the beach and also the signals (or lack of) and the items I'm finding. Once I hit a decently heavy item (Lead Weight, etc.) and/or the beach is showing me that it's capable of holding up heavier items on it's surface (Shells, Coral, etc) , I'll then slow and overlap or even do a grid or spiral pattern. I've read and experienced that items at the beach after dropped, "sift" out into areas of the beach depending on sand, tide, and wind/wave conditions. My first order is to read the beach and find the areas where the heaviest items will be held or deposited. The technique of ocean shoreline hunting is very interesting as the sand is always moving, depositing items here and there with each tide and more so during heavy storm surge. It's like the ocean "shuffles the deck" on you with each tide. In parks, items are dropped and they usually get pressed into the soil or are naturally overcome by seasonal debris. These items, for that reason, usually stay put. The ocean, on the other hand, is always moving things around, especially on the lower beach. It's a search and destroy situation of finding the "hard" sand and doing the grid and spiral. For this reason, I move along on the beach until I perceive I've located an area probable of holding heavy metals. HH - Jason

@@ctxprospector8883 what tone you use

@@ctxprospector8883 Great description.

I want to ask this same question.

Mainly Beach Mode while switching to open discrimination mode to double check targets.