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Bouncing crosshair

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When I air test with my XS, tones are consistent and very distinct. In the field however, the x-hair bouces around a bit and I frequently get a variable tone. I try to limit my digging due to time and so forth so I tend to focus on tones that are mostly repeatable and the x-hair mostly in one place. Am I doing this right or am I missing the boat. My favorite site at this moment has given me 2 large cents,1 barber dime, 2 Indians (my first!), Roosie, Washington silver, war nickel and numerous wheats. Site tends to be a bit trashy as it's the yard of a 225 year old farm home and former country school site.
Thanks.
Steve
 
Hi Steve. Everything sounds great in the house. Iron Is Iron. No jumping cursor, constant low tone for iron. This is normal, I can only put it down to the minerals in the ground. Watch also when you check your depth with say a coin laying on top of the ground and not in it. I have a CZ7A as well as the XS and compared both on a small silver coin. In air the Fisher did very well, picking the coin up at 6/7 inches, but wait for it. After dropping the coin into a small hole only 3 inches deep, the XS got it easy, but the CZ7A could not even get a sound. Even though this is a top of the range machine, a machine like the XS that deals with bad ground as it does is 1st class. I am able to search sites that the Fisher and even the Sovereign could not cope with.
So its the mineralisation.
Cheers.
 
I used a CZ6a before my XS. I had real good success with that machine and a 5" coil which I could get around the junk. I'm very happy with my XS and it still amazes me with capability and depth. In time I'll get a hot hand with it and start picking up the deep stuff.
HH
 
There are many situations where the crosshairs are erratic (deep coin, coin near iron, coin near other trash, coin on edge, etc).
Trust what you are hearing. If you have a repeatable 2-way target, dig it. The Smartfind screen is useful, but the audio is to be trusted.
Tim
 
Try pinpointing the target and note the spot on the grass. Go back to AC and move the center of the coil back and forth no more than an inch or two over the spot. If you you get any good indication, sound that repeats even in one direction, or high position of crosshairs, dig. I use the 2 in 1 digger from Kellico and have been digging here in Ohio even in partially frozen ground. I have 10 silver coins, 1 silver ring, 1 silver spoon and 1 silver religous cross so far this year. Get good and fast at digging a plug and checking what is there as some of the best and worst finds are uncovered that way.
Bud Kaczor, Ohio
 
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