CTX Finds Big Silver!!!

[Gonehunting]

Thanks everyone!

 

[wheresthegoodstuff]

Awesome finds. That ground was sure nice to those coins.

 

[unearth]

Gone Hunting, in the video it looked like you had an open pattern going when you found the Morgan. I didn't notice any disc. Is that correct? Would you mind giving the run down on the set up you were using when you found the Morgan?
Thanks, and congratulations again.

 

[C&RHunter]

Congrats on the BIG silver and the other finds as well. It's really exciting to find one silver dollar, but two the same day is really fantastic. I pay a lot of attention to your videos, as I like to check out others methods, settings, etc. I saw you were using an open screen at the time of the Morgan finds. You were getting low tones as well as the high pitch sound the dollars were making. The numbers for the dollars read 12/43-45. Was there anything else in the hole with those targets, or do you think the low sounding targets nearby affected the ID for the silver? I have checked my CTX this morning, scanned three morgans at different angles,about 5-6 inches away from the coil, and get 1/31-37 numbers, depending on the angle of the coin. I realize mmine were air scans, but wouldn't have thought the ground conditions would change the numbers that much. I always recover 12/43-45 targets, but never expected a silver dollar to read that low on the FE scale. Any thoughts on this?..........Again COngrats on a Super day.......

 

[Gonehunting]

Gone Hunting, in the video it looked like you had an open pattern going when you found the Morgan. I didn't notice any disc. Is that correct? Would you mind giving the run down on the set up you were using when you found the Morgan?
Thanks, and congratulations again.

The pattern I was using was My Combine Settings yes no discrim.. But I have been using some up to the 24 line, just not in this instance..

Congrats on the BIG silver and the other finds as well. It's really exciting to find one silver dollar, but two the same day is really fantastic. I pay a lot of attention to your videos, as I like to check out others methods, settings, etc. I saw you were using an open screen at the time of the Morgan finds. You were getting low tones as well as the high pitch sound the dollars were making. The numbers for the dollars read 12/43-45. Was there anything else in the hole with those targets, or do you think the low sounding targets nearby affected the ID for the silver? I have checked my CTX this morning, scanned three morgans at different angles,about 5-6 inches away from the coil, and get 1/31-37 numbers, depending on the angle of the coin. I realize mmine were air scans, but wouldn't have thought the ground conditions would change the numbers that much. I always recover 12/43-45 targets, but never expected a silver dollar to read that low on the FE scale. Any thoughts on this?..........Again COngrats on a Super day.......

Very glad you mentioned that.. I scanned the Morgan again in the program I use, which is a combined ( My Combine Settings ) and It hits a solid 12-41, from what you said and what I remember on the E-Trac, I switched over to 50 tone conductive. and bam 01-34 and 01-35. that is interesting... I can't explain that other than possibly the size and density of the silver.... not sure.

 

[C&RHunter]

It seems like, a while back, I read on one of the MANY posts on this forum, that the big silver now read on the 12 line. I just tried each of the different Profile types, and I get the same ID numbers on all. My ID is still in 1/31-37 range. I must be missing something here........I guess that gives me more to mess with this afternoon, and see if I can figure out anything. Keep up the good work with those videos.........

 

[Gonehunting]

It seems like, a while back, I read on one of the MANY posts on this forum, that the big silver now read on the 12 line. I just tried each of the different Profile types, and I get the same ID numbers on all. My ID is still in 1/31-37 range. I must be missing something here........I guess that gives me more to mess with this afternoon, and see if I can figure out anything. Keep up the good work with those videos.........

In the combined with Ferrous coin it hits at 12-41,, on my combined program with high trash and some discrimination it reads 01-36.. it is a big difference..

 

[earthmansurfer]

It seems like, a while back, I read on one of the MANY posts on this forum, that the big silver now read on the 12 line. I just tried each of the different Profile types, and I get the same ID numbers on all. My ID is still in 1/31-37 range. I must be missing something here........I guess that gives me more to mess with this afternoon, and see if I can figure out anything. Keep up the good work with those videos.........

In the combined with Ferrous coin it hits at 12-41,, on my combined program with high trash and some discrimination it reads 01-36.. it is a big difference..

01-36!!! I thought that was a typo when you first said that. Very Strange. I believe I disc out that one line pretty close to that range, I will have to check. Great that you mentioned it as I know there are some very large silver coins here in Germany & better to be safe.

Thx,
Albert

 

[HaroldILL.]

Man awesome silver dollar! I can't believe when you said you hadn't found one in awhile,That it had been a year? Man I would kill for just one of those baby's Morgan or Peace. I was curiuos do you have to split anything with the land owner or does he let you keep all find's?

 

[Reeseb]

01-36!!! I thought that was a typo when you first said that. Very Strange. I believe I disc out that one line pretty close to that range, I will have to check. Great that you mentioned it as I know there are some very large silver coins here in Germany & better to be safe.

Thx,
Albert

That's right on par with the E-Trac big silver coin numbers. Interesting that the stock E-Trac coin pattern has big silver disc'd out. I'm not sure about the stock CTX coin pattern.

 

[HaroldILL.]

I think Because of so many complaints Minelab opened up the stock coin pattern to except silver dollars. I 'm not totally sure still waiting on mine to get here.

 

[Gonehunting]

It seems like, a while back, I read on one of the MANY posts on this forum, that the big silver now read on the 12 line. I just tried each of the different Profile types, and I get the same ID numbers on all. My ID is still in 1/31-37 range. I must be missing something here........I guess that gives me more to mess with this afternoon, and see if I can figure out anything. Keep up the good work with those videos.........

In the combined with Ferrous coin it hits at 12-41,, on my combined program with high trash and some discrimination it reads 01-36.. it is a big difference..

01-36!!! I thought that was a typo when you first said that. Very Strange. I believe I disc out that one line pretty close to that range, I will have to check. Great that you mentioned it as I know there are some very large silver coins here in Germany & better to be safe.

Thx,
Albert

No I took the coin out again and tested my combined ferrous coin mode then immediately switched to multitone conductive and 12-41 on the combined, 01-36 on the multitone.. weird I know, but definitely a totally different signal reading between the two programs..

Man awesome silver dollar! I can't believe when you said you hadn't found one in awhile,That it had been a year? Man I would kill for just one of those baby's Morgan or Peace. I was curiuos do you have to split anything with the land owner or does he let you keep all find's?

It just depends on the land owner. There are some that want all the finds, some want half, then some don't even care... Me and Bart with Bigboyshobbies hunted last week. The first landowner wanted everything.. it wasn't our original agreement she had changed her mind and after Bart coming down to hunt, we still wanted to hunt it.. didn't stay long, felt like wasting our time as hot as it was, only to have to give back everything..

 

[pspr]

Same thing happened to me with an older church in Florida. The pastor said I could hunt but anyting I found would belong to the church. I though about showing up with a backhoe and going to work finding stuff. What's that saying? - "Go Big Or Go Home"

 

[earthmansurfer]

Evan - very interesting. This goes along with my test results in a way. With the settings and disc Exactly the same (or with no disc in just combine) I found 50 Conductive to hit better with coins next to iron - but in tests mind you. My point being, something is different beyond just the sounds of these modes. But your early CTX experiences showed this not to be true or did you not cross check?

Very Interesting (said slowly and with an accent)

Albert

 

[C&RHunter]

Gonehunting.........I started a new post addressing this difference in silver dollar readings with results of some air scans. You might check it out and let me know if I have overlooked something in my quick test.....




It seems like, a while back, I read on one of the MANY posts on this forum, that the big silver now read on the 12 line. I just tried each of the different Profile types, and I get the same ID numbers on all. My ID is still in 1/31-37 range. I must be missing something here........I guess that gives me more to mess with this afternoon, and see if I can figure out anything. Keep up the good work with those videos.........[/quote]
In the combined with Ferrous coin it hits at 12-41,, on my combined program with high trash and some discrimination it reads 01-36.. it is a big difference..[/quote]

01-36!!! I thought that was a typo when you first said that. Very Strange. I believe I disc out that one line pretty close to that range, I will have to check. Great that you mentioned it as I know there are some very large silver coins here in Germany & better to be safe.

Thx,
Albert[/quote]
No I took the coin out again and tested my combined ferrous coin mode then immediately switched to multitone conductive and 12-41 on the combined, 01-36 on the multitone.. weird I know, but definitely a totally different signal reading between the two programs..

 

[Reeseb]

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No I took the coin out again and tested my combined ferrous coin mode then immediately switched to multitone conductive and 12-41 on the combined, 01-36 on the multitone.. weird I know, but definitely a totally different signal reading between the two programs..[/quote]

Sorry, but I'm still confused - a little. Were you in FE-Coin in both the tests above? From what I've been seeing, you have to be in FE-Coin or Ground-Coin to get the silver dollar to read in the FE 12 range. If you are in any other Target Separation setting, the silver dollar will read more like around 01-36 which is closer to what we E-Trac users are used to. Is that what you are seeing?

 

[mtwolf2270]

What a hunt man I am glad when I hit older wheaties cause it means I have a chance at older stuff! I would pass out if I found a morgan I am a collector of morgan's I am not sure but check and see if any 1882 morgans have a vam with an obverse crack. I do not think you scrathed it. There are 2 widely accepted collector lists of vam's on morgans the top 100 and the hot 50. There is a website that has detailed vam's with morgan's do a G**gle search. You never know. Congrats!!!!!

 

[Gonehunting]

Sorry, but I'm still confused - a little. Were you in FE-Coin in both the tests above? From what I've been seeing, you have to be in FE-Coin or Ground-Coin to get the silver dollar to read in the FE 12 range. If you are in any other Target Separation setting, the silver dollar will read more like around 01-36 which is closer to what we E-Trac users are used to. Is that what you are seeing?

In my combined program, I use Ferrous-Coin. The morgan hits 12-41
In my Multitone program which the 50 tone(like the E-trac I use high trash, so no its not Fe coin.. and the Morgan hits 01-36.. I think the reason for the difference is the FE coin mode hits 12-41 because it maybe also reading the Ferrous content of the coin.. To be honest I don't know, but today I hunted for just a little bit and switch back and forth from 50 tone to combined checking the 01-30's numbers and none of them hit 12-41 in the Ferrous coin, and I dug no morgans.dang. lol not sure if this will be a reliable check to test if a high hitting tone (01-36+s) is an actual Morgan or dollar coin, but I will definitely be looking for those tone changes as an alert that it might actually be a possible big silver coin..
I will post a video if this doesn't make sense...

 

[Gonehunting]

Evan - very interesting. This goes along with my test results in a way. With the settings and disc Exactly the same (or with no disc in just combine) I found 50 Conductive to hit better with coins next to iron - but in tests mind you.
My point being, something is different beyond just the sounds of these modes. I definitely agree.. switching modes while scanning different targets is sometimes showing variables that I can't explain..yet
But your early CTX experiences showed this not to be true or did you not cross check? My early experiences I was just trying to make sense of the sounds and was trying to get a mode that I could tell the difference between a good solid target and a piece of trash. I try not to hunt newer homesites or parks.. I try to limit newer targets and research the older sites that will produce more older acceptable targets, but when doing that I will definitely be searching in iron infested sites, so the combined was my choice... I think that the combined mode I use is perfect for older sites that is loaded with iron and doesn't have a lot aluminum trash like pull tabs and slaw.. I am also seeing if it is a newer site where there is more trash that is more modern i.e. aluminum then I am doing better with my 50 tone conductive with the high trash setting..just my observations..

Very Interesting (said slowly and with an accent)

Albert

 

[Gonehunting]

What a hunt man I am glad when I hit older wheaties cause it means I have a chance at older stuff! I would pass out if I found a morgan I am a collector of morgan's I am not sure but check and see if any 1882 morgans have a vam with an obverse crack. I do not think you scrathed it. There are 2 widely accepted collector lists of vam's on morgans the top 100 and the hot 50. There is a website that has detailed vam's with morgan's do a G**gle search. You never know. Congrats!!!!!

Thanks for the Info bud, I will definitely look it up...Evan