A quick hunt in an old place

[Southwind]

This is why I'm firm believer that the CTX just pulls stuff the others miss.

It finally got warm enough I felt the ground was thawed so I crabbed the E-Trac, with the new 12x15 SEF coil, and headed to the park. I went to a location we had hunted very very hard man many times with our E-Tracs. We had found lots of goods but it had pretty much stopped for the E-Trac and stock coil. My hopes is the 12x15 SEF would add a few more inches and a few more goodies. I hunted for about an hour and found 1 keeper a 1926 wheat. My arm was feeling the added weight of the new coil so I went home and grabbed the CTX with the stock 11" coil on. I was at the same spot for about an hour and left with 5 keepers all wheat pennies.What I found interesting was two of the wheats came from stomp marks where I had thought maybe there was a potential good target but not good enough for me to recover. On the CTX they sounded solid and had a good solid VDI.

Not bad considering the E-Trac had the 12x15 and the CTX had the stock coil.

 

[wvrick]

Good test of both detectors, how deep were they?

Nice finds!!

 

[Southwind]

They were extremely deep. Most were 10" easy. I was sure several were going to be iron because I had to go so deep.

 

[hershey1]

Nice finds. I still use my E-Trac at times mostly because of the X-1 probe but if I feel like deeper targets are there you just can't beat the CTX. Supposed to be in the 60s this week so I will force myself to pursue the elusive treasure. HH

 

[Bell-Two]

Generally when I go out I take the E-Trac along with a small coil on it just in case I think I need the small coil to get in between some iron, but honestly have hardly ever used it the CTX does so well. I will at some point get the small CTX coil.

 

[maansman]

Nice! Love it when you think some places are done and you find some great things.....

- Mark

 

[Digger]

Congrats on the recoveries. So much for those who say the CTX is nothing more than a waterproof ETRAC. Nicely done. HH Randy

 

[Southwind]

Got back out Sunday for a little bit and found another 4 wheats. I let me buddy use my E-Trac with the 12x15 SEF he was able to find a couple of keepers. We check signals and I still think the CTX with the Stock coil was a tad better yet than the E-Trac with a 12x15. The CTX called every good target good and a couple bad ones bad that my buddy thought were good according to the E-Trac. Our other hunting buddy used the other E-Trac with stock coil and found only clad.

I was fooled by one big rusted pin about 12" but everything else I recovered was a keeper.

My Sundays keepers

 

[INSAYN]

Nice!

You must have some really sweet soil (no mineralization) in your neck of the woods for that kind of depth.

 

[harryhh]

Good finds. And I'm glad to see another confirmation of the abilities of the ctx.