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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. Old Longhair

    Little hunt tonight.

    (y) Nice little hunt! I'm hoping to get to one of my permissions tomorrow afternoon.
  6. 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...
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. Old Longhair

    Anyone tested the XT-Pro in rusty nails

    My personal opinion is that the biggest contributor to the instability is the doubling of the ID range. It effectively narrowed each target bin, making the response at least twice as likely to bleed over into adjacent bins. As far as the difference in coils go, there has always been a big...
  14. Old Longhair

    My wireless headphone setup

    Correct! There is nothing to stop you from doing the same thing.
  15. Old Longhair

    My wireless headphone setup

    I'm using my ten-year-old Auvio 33-283 wireless headphones and transmitter that I've used on all my Minelab detectors with no issues. So, no funny "chip" games are in play that would affect the use of third-party setups.
  16. Old Longhair

    Music lovers thread - Post current listening interests. favorites, share share share

  17. Old Longhair

    Anyone tested the XT-Pro in rusty nails

    It has two significant improvements over the old 705, which are the addition of the Pro Switch that allows frequency changes on the fly, and its ability to work in salt environments. The Park and Field mode choices are nothing but replacements for discrimination patterns we've always had, so...
  18. Old Longhair

    Anyone tested the XT-Pro in rusty nails

    Relative to stability.......... I've noticed that it depends on exactly where the target is within the coil's detection field. The TID seems to fluctuate more the further from the center of the detection field it is, which makes hunting in heavy trash a serious challenge. Being a diehard 705...
  19. Old Longhair

    Anyone tested the XT-Pro in rusty nails

    Those charts were made based on the discrimination scale and frequencies of the old Xterra 705, so it has essentially doubled with the new XT-Pro, and the frequencies are a little different, but the concept is the same.
  20. Old Longhair

    Some observations of equinox coils on Xterra Pro

    That is something that never gave a thought to, so I didn't pay any attention to it. I will now, and I'll mention it if I see the same. Thanks for that observation!
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