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  1. Old Longhair

    Muscle cars.

    '67 body was my favorite year Goat. I had a '69 that I stuck a 428HO motor in paired with a 400TH trans. Set it up to hit third gear @ 75mph and it would bark the tires. As much as I liked my Pontiac motors to work on, I was always a Chevy BB fan. My most fun ride was a '70 Chevelle SS that I...
  2. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    If I'd dug even a single good target there, I might have dug more than I did. This was my second trip there and I have yet to find anything more than recent drops. Besides that, we're in the middle of a heatwave/drought. With temps in the 90s and no rain for well over a week, and no rain in the...
  3. Old Longhair

    🏁 Quick.. Dumb.. X-Terra Pro Question 🏁

    When they come out with a V8X I'll be on it like stink!
  4. Old Longhair

    🏁 Quick.. Dumb.. X-Terra Pro Question 🏁

    I don't see the point on an already lightweight sub-$300 machine. I'd rather spend the $ on additional coils.
  5. Old Longhair

    🏁 Quick.. Dumb.. X-Terra Pro Question 🏁

    Nope. I got a regular Minelab rod that I found for $30.
  6. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    The ground here is glacial moraine and can change pretty dramatically in 15ft. I run with Tracking ON and All Tones all the time, mostly in 5kHz, and it's pretty easy to hear ferrous tones when they combine with high value responses. Over the weekend I hit one of my permissions and it was a...
  7. Old Longhair

    🏁 Quick.. Dumb.. X-Terra Pro Question 🏁

    The Vanquish lower rod is EXACTLY the same. I already bought one for my NOX15 coil, and it works perfectly.
  8. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Pinpoint is also effective tool. You can size the target with Pinpoint, and in the case where the edge of a larger object excited and fooled the machine, the size will give it away.
  9. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Sometimes if you just get the end or edge of a target inside the detection field it will excite that edge/end and sound like a good target, but one more pass over it will generally tell the tale. If you're overlapping your sweeps the way you should, your next pass will be over the target, and it...
  10. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Yep! If you have to work to make it sound good, then it isn't. Going over a target several times is only necessary if you're determining whether it's one target, or two, close to each other. I hunt in All Metal all the time, so I hear the ferrous tone right away. The best way that I can...
  11. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    I can't tell you if it's applicable or not. He mixes terminology too much to tell. I'm not at all familiar with the Manticore, so I don't know whether it has a Mask feature or it's just a Discrimination feature similar to the XT-Pro. The 70 & 705 had Prospector Mode w/Iron Mask that could...
  12. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Straight from the manual: A higher Recovery Speed at the same swing rate will help to reject ground noise, however it will also decrease detection depth. If you are experiencing high levels of ground noise at the beach, or when detecting underwater, try increasing the Recovery Speed to reduce...
  13. Old Longhair

    Little hunt tonight.

    (y) Nice little hunt! I'm hoping to get to one of my permissions tomorrow afternoon.
  14. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    I don't think that's how it works, but might be a good question for Minelab CS to ask the techs for us. I also don't know how Minelab set up their GB on the new XT-Pro because I haven't used it. On the older series, the higher the number the milder the ground, which is opposite of most other...
  15. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Here's a tip for both of you newbs; turn Tracking ON. I honestly don't know why Minelab even makes it an option anymore. It should be ON all the time. Personally, I wish that they would trade the manual ground balance for a Tracking Offset feature like we had with the 705.
  16. Old Longhair

    GREAT DAY WITH XTERRA PRO

    Great finds! I want to hear more about your setup. TID changes depending on frequency selection, so for your numbers to mean anything we need that context.
  17. Old Longhair

    Xterra pro = short coin hunt

    Nickles will hit somewhere down in the mid to upper twenties to low thirties depending on which frequency you're running, and they will have a familiar good clean coin sound to them. The average pull-tab will typically sound off a little higher, and the older ring-pull type will sound good...
  18. Old Longhair

    Exterra pro IDs stability

    I don't believe that the NOX15 is a weighted coil. It weighs enough all by itself. Personally, I'm not a big fan of elliptical coils. They are depth limited by their width, and separation impaired by their length, so what's the point? I know that they are the current trend, but I've never...
  19. Old Longhair

    Exterra pro IDs stability

    I only have the stock V12X & NOX15, so I can't comment on the others. The NOX15 does well if you sweep slow enough. I haven't had enough time with it to be able to testify to its depth capability, but I have pulled small buttons from 10"+ running it in 5kHz. Over this weekend I plan to hit at...
  20. Old Longhair

    Exterra pro IDs stability

    The way I look at the cost of additional coils is that I'm going to buy them anyway, regardless of whether I get an expensive machine or not. It's just part of the price of admission. I've already paid $150 for a used Coiltek NOX15 coil, and I'll end up spending a little less than that for a...
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