CTX 3030 My first Hunt

[daddyflea]

I am off tomorrow to hunt an old middle school. I have hunted parts of it and it has memorials everywhere but so far nothing old. Not sure how trashy it is. I am torn between using the standard coil or the 6" and or activating the "Trashy" Program. Any suggestions? Coins only.

Well I hunted my spot today and found the unexpected. This place was full of Crushed Aluminum Cans. I managed to avoid most of them and found a bunch of Pennies but nothing old. Most were Memorials. It became obvious real quick that I did need the 6" coil as well as I need to change the Tones for my Nickles to something different than the Zincs. Should I use the Trashy Program with the 6" and how deep do you think the 6" will detect?

 

[mark v]

I use the 6" coil on my CTX often and I really like it. Depending on the soil I normally get 5" of depth with it. I think you're going to like this coil in the area you're describing. I can't comment on the Trash program. I don't use it. But be aware there is, or was, a glitch in the Trash program. Large high conductive coins will register around 1 or 2 for a ferrous value, not 12 as expected. Test for this before you use it.

 

[daddyflea]

I use the 6" coil on my CTX often and I really like it. Depending on the soil I normally get 5" of depth with it. I think you're going to like this coil in the area you're describing. I can't comment on the Trash program. I don't use it. But be aware there is, or was, a glitch in the Trash program. Large high conductive coins will register around 1 or 2 for a ferrous value, not 12 as expected. Test for this before you use it.

Thanks for the warning!!

 

[daddyflea]

Thanks for the warning!!

Well was going to hunt today but instead i spent the whole afternoon in the hospital. Good news its not serious but i will have to watch what i eat the rest of my life.

 

[sprchng]

Back when I was running the CTX I found the 5x10 more useful than the 6 and got a bit more coverage. If you moved forward slowly I could see little difference in separation and you got a little more depth. This was a few years back and things may have changed but there were some reliability issues with the 5x10 at that time. I never used the trashy program just full tones with mild disc. with the tones doing most of the work. If I remember right , running the threshold pitch around 22 gave nickels a distinctive tone that was unmistakable amongst the low conducting trash.

 

[ironman200081]

I had the 6" for a few years, but I didn't like it. My disdain was not in its performance, but in the hunting style of going super slow and covering such a small swath of ground. In very trashy spots where I have to go low and slow, I prefer the 5x10 Coiltek with my CTX. I use recovery fast and high trash separation and sweep fairly slow. The CTX has the ability to register multiple targets at once, so watch your screen if you are in a very trashy area with good targets. Think building tear-downs and construction sites or parks littered with 1970's-1980's pull tabs.

I prefer cleaner sites with deep targets (don't we all!) where the performance and accuracy of the CTX really shines. I have not had a new detector since buying the CTX in 2012, so I have no experience with the faster processors on shallower targets in trash. The CTX will certainly sniff out some good shallow stuff in junk, but a newer machine may be better suited for those environments to make sure you don't miss a good 'un.