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Old 03-31-2008, 01:39 PM
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Default How To Tell If Your Soil Mineralized?

Greetings....how Do You Confirm If Your Hunting In Very To Moderate Mineralized Soil? Kinda Know By Somewhat Erratic Detector Behavior But, Have Allways Wondered If There Is A Sure Way Method To Tell The Degree Of Mineralization? Anybody Know? Thanks
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That's about it really, the detector starts chattering a lot and you need to turn your sensitivity back until it is stable again. Good Luck
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You can get sort of an idea if you have a manual ground balance. With the coil in the air set the balance and then lower it to the ground. If there is a big change in the threshold there is a lot of mineralization.
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