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1st hunt with the CTX and BIG silver! Two firsts today!

R

ronfin

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I'm starting to see why everyone loves this MD so much. Received mine yesterday, and spent a few hours reading up on it, and loading some patterns similar to the ones I used on the E-TRAC. I decided to hunt with the set-up that Gonehunting created. Let me tell ya this. I LOVE this set-up! To GH, I salute you sir. I don't think I'll ever hunt using discrimination again. The way this machine handles trash, and with this set-up, all the iron was low enough tone-wise that it wasn't overwhelming.

OK, so on to what happened today. I started off, and was anxious to start pulling silver after silver. Isn't that the expectation with the CTX? Kidding, some, but figured I'd take it to the park and run it in a highly trashy area, and a spot that I had pounded over the months with the E-TRAC. The first few hours were disappointing. Dug a lot of the usual trash from this section. Mostly twist caps, and some iron. Then I crossed the path and everything changed. First target was an IH, and my first there in a long time. Then my next target was another IH just a few feet away. Then I move a few more feet away again, and find my third IH of the day, and an old one too, and realized that I sliced the back of it pretty bad. ugh. So three IH's in a row for me in a spot I worked numerous times with the E-TRAC. I was very pleased at this point.

As I moved back towards the path I hit a solid 12-41 at 6 inches. I'll be honest. If I was hunting with the E-TRAC I wouldn't have dug that signal. It's usually crap. Since I was learning how the machine saw certain targets I had to dig it, and that's when the 1936 WLH popped out! It's in EF condition too! I'm still in shock. I have NEVER pulled a WLH from this park till today. Coincidence?! Doubt it. The CTX can see thru the junk and still lock on to the good targets. I witnessed it all day today. I'm a believer now. So two "Firsts" for me in one day on the CTX's maiden voyage. Wow.

Once again I'd like to thank GH for his help and for the set-up. Works great!!!!



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uSSl__UIs
 
Congrats on a great first hunt


CTX 3030
Etrac
whites m6
pro pointer
Ulster County NY
Youtube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/firefighter2542005
 
Great job pulling a half! Just dont understand why you wouldnt dig a 12-41 normally. Understandable that it is usually trash for you but is also very close to all the goodies. At parks....with the exception of low tones below the nickel range I usually dig everything. Depending on how trashy the park is, sometimes I dig only above a 12-30 unless its real deep and a good sounding repeatable. I bet you will be digging more 12-41's. Digging trash just comes along with digging the goods....jmho HH Joe
 
This park is VERY trashy, and after witnessing this kind of Fe-Co big silver, I will ALWAYS dig everything on the 12 Fe line now. I might get trash, but this is an example I don't wanna miss again. :)
 
That's a beautiful half. I find lots of aluminum cans around 12-40. I'm not sure I would have dug that either but I may need to start digging more of those 12-41's. It's probably worth using my Sampson shovel to break those holes open. A hand digger is a lot of work most places around here now.

Congrats on the find! That must have made your day!
 
WTG on the big Silver.:twodetecting::minelab::thumbup:
 
The sampson shovel will leave in most cases a nicer plug than even the lesche hand digger, with that said still most people will frown upon them in parks. Its unfortunate but understandable.
 
We had a lot of rain last night, which softened about a half inch of the dirt. Below that it was tough as concrete. I almost gave up today. I even tried the Raven, but that was harder to use than the handheld believe it or not. I had to push little cuts with the blade, and then work my way around it. With the Raven I couldn't get enough footing to "push" the blade in because it was that hard today.
 
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Thank you Bart fort everything. The CTX is awesome, and you suggested GH's videos, and I couldn't be happier! Thanks!
 
Congrats on the hunt. Nice WLH! Just want to make sure: were you in Ferrous-Coin separation? That would acount for the strange TID of the WLH.
 
I was very :surprised: suprised that you said you would not dig a 12-41 at 6" with the E-Trac, that is normally a decent number, I have dug a lot of wheats at that number and some worn silvers, i.e barbers etc. now in an area with a lot of screw tops you might pass it but at 6" you just gotta dig em!
 
Too much trash at that location I would dig all day for 12-41's lol, now, I'll just have to dig'em all.
 
Thats the spirit:thumbup: I am sure it will pay off for there are bound to be some great targets at 12-41
 
I think you would have found it with the Etrac, but as you said at 12-41 on the Etrac you would not have dug it. You did dig it just because you were curious as to what the CTX was saying. I found a Morgan silver dollar at 12-41 3 weeks ago. I only dug it because it was at a 160 year old house and I was digging everything.
 
sandnsea49 said:
I think you would have found it with the Etrac, but as you said at 12-41 on the Etrac you would not have dug it. You did dig it just because you were curious as to what the CTX was saying. I found a Morgan silver dollar at 12-41 3 weeks ago. I only dug it because it was at a 160 year old house and I was digging everything.
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I should've clarified it a little more. The signal was on top of iron, and it jumped from 12-41, to 12-38, to 12-45, and was all over the place, but on the screen I could see a solid coin-like heat signature and also the blue iron signatures around it. If I was hunting with the ETRAC and was only able to hear a possible good target, but saw choppy numbers like that at the park, I would've walked away thinking it was junk. I guess I could've found it with the ETRAC if I dug that bad target, but with the CTX I could see more of what was going on and that tipped the scales in favor of digging. I loved my ETRAC and wish I could've kept it, but I'm positive I walked past iron encapsulated targets that I couldn't hear because the machine was null due to running some discrimination. On the CTX I can run it wide-open and it's not as overwhelming. I'm headed back to that spot for a few hours to work those 12-41's again. Maybe there's more. I'll dedicate my video to digging those kind of targets and see what I get. Be back soon! :)
 
That coin is in great shape. Those 12-41s can even be half dimes and reales. I'm surprised it read that low. Maybe trash around it
 
jimzilla said:
That coin is in great shape. Those 12-41s can even be half dimes and reales. I'm surprised it read that low. Maybe trash around it
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Lots of junk around it. Went back today and pulled two more IH's. :)
 
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