3rd times the charm

[Agseeker]

Well, my first two outings with the CTX were best described as less than stellar. However, I did get permission to hunt a house that was built in 1949 last Sunday and made it over there this evening. Found seven wheats, all in the 50s except one 1944, a 1920 Mercury dime (worn down to point of being a cull), two Rosies (1953 & 1964), and one 1945 Washington Quarter. I'm feeling much better about the CTX after today's hunt. For those of you who wonder if you should dig iffy signals - Yes! Definitely. All three of the silver dimes and about half of the wheats were iffy signals. Most were about 5-6" deep. I was using the stock coin program in Auto+3.

Another 50-60 hours on the CTX and maybe I won't still feel like such a newbie. Sorry, no photos, just got in and haven't had time; but then I think everyone here has seen worn out dimes and quarters.

 

[flysar]

Great day of hunting, congrats!

I'm still learning my CTX so when you say "iffy" does that mean they were broken tones, the TIDs were jumping all over the place, the TIDs were not consistant with coin numbers or all of the above?

 

[Agseeker]

To me an iffy target is any signal that causes you to stop and go back over the target area any number of times in an effort to determine if the signal is a real target or an anomaly. That may be an audio response that is not obviously a good target in two directions, or even one direction; the TID may jump around, etc. I wouldn't say it has anything to do with TIDs being inconsistent with coin numbers because you won't know this until you actually recover the item and then make the comparison. In this specific yard the audio on all the dimes and some of the wheats was broken with a quick high pitch blip then back to being broken. When getting the audio blip the TID would read 12-45, but only for an instant, then the TID would jump around. Hope this helps.

 

[flysar]

The reason I asked is because I have recovered 2 silvers, Rosie & 43 Walking Half, and neither jumped out as solid "dig me" targets. I had to change angles to get a solid tone, and then some of the time it was broken, to convince me it was a good target; thought those silvers were suppose to jump right out at you. The dime was with a wheat and 40's nickel at about 5-6" and the Half was only about 4" but there were iron grunts all around.

I guess its not always as easy as we read & the learning never ends!

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Congrats! Learning is half the battle! Enjoy it!