I hunted the area yesterday where I found the 1/4 portion of 8 reale coin earlier this week. Didn't find nothing but a mule harness brad and one button. This morning I went to the extreme other end of the field and give it a go. Machine settings 28 manual, ferrous coin, deep off, fast off, combine mode, long tone. I dug 1 copper button, another bridle or harness brad. I was cruising along swinging pretty fast when I seemed to hit an iron patch. The CTX was falsing slightly so I slowed down without adjusting my settings. About 2 minutes of walking around in circles in this iron patch I get a high broken tone that is repetitive with 12-42/43 flashing in the screen, turned 90 degrees nothing. I actually thought it was falsing as I've dug some deep large iron in this area. I went to auto sensivity and received no high tone but did get the iron grunt. I pinpointed and the screen had a mess on it. Sometimes it would read 11 inches and sometimes it would say 6 with splash marks. Next I went back to manual and backed it off to 26 and could still hear the high boken tone but lower than it was at 28. I went back to 28 manual sensivity and turned on fast recovery. With a real slow sweep the tone was not as broken as before but the audio quality was not improved. So I started digging. At about the 6 inch mark I find 2 nails medium sized. Grabbed the CTX and stood up and scanned the hole. Now I was getting a screamer, a four way screamer with the screen saying 10 inches. So I continued to dig every couple inches sticking the pinpointer in the hole and nothing on it until I get to the length of my garrett pimpointer deep plus about 1 inch deep. It seemed to be bigger than coin, or at least bigger than I was used to pinpointing with the garrett. Now I started to dig real slow and eventually wiped the dirt back and seen what I thought was the bottom of an aluminum can, starting to get disgusted now, took the shovel and took out one more load of dirt and walla an 1889 silver dollar at a depth of approzimately 12.5 inches. Go figure, I seem to find my best finds coin wise when I'm relic hunting versus coin hunting. I'm really lovin my CTX.
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CTX hangs another silver in relic field, this time big one
- Thread starter squirrel1
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Porschephile
Member
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
Dont know if I would have dug a broken 2 way signal! LOL!!
CONGRATS!
Perhaps the presence of the nails masked it enough so no one else found it...
Dont know if I would have dug a broken 2 way signal! LOL!!
CONGRATS!
Perhaps the presence of the nails masked it enough so no one else found it...
To my knowledge, the have only been 2 people to hunt in these fields of approx 100 acres. One gent has hunted them extensively with white's XLT machine. I think this XLT gent had a bud that spent a part of one day in these fields with an explorer back in the late 90s I think. Not too many detectorists around here that I know of. Go about 65 miles south and 65 miles west they become numerous. Also a lot of old house lots around here are vacant and many won't venture on them for fear of trespass or being shot maybe. I sorta have the inside track on a lot of them, but many of them can only be hunted in the late winter when the weeds die down. Unfortunately, this winter time also conflicts with deer season so I try and wait until mid Jan-Feb after deer season and hit some of them.
Larry (IL)
Well-known member
I know a few hunters that not only take the audio and visual into account on what to dig but also intuition, that gut feeling, "The force" if you will. It looks like you have it on this one. Congratulations on a great find.......
mtwolf2270
Member
WTG congrats I love morgans I have to say I doubt I would have dug that one sad to say!
In addition to showing us his find, Squirrel1 provided two very important "tips" with this post. If you've not implemented these in the field, I highly suggest you do as he is absolutely correct in what he did to "maximize the potential" of his CTX 3030. Nicely done!
Congrats on recovering the Morgan, beautiful coin. And thanks for sharing these tips!!!
HH Randy
squirrel1 said:
squirrel1 said:
Congrats on recovering the Morgan, beautiful coin. And thanks for sharing these tips!!!
HH Randy
Just like others have stated, I was impressed with your perseverance, patience and willingness to try the different settings before digging. I guess at times we all get lazy, which may cause us to miss good targets. I will normally toggle back and forth between two modes, but rarely have I taken the time to change the manual settings. Your post really makes me realize how important it is to experiment with the machine and not just lock onto one favorite mode or setting, even it it has been working well for you.
Great finds. Congrats.
Great finds. Congrats.
TheGeorgiaCanuck
New member
Lovely find! Btw you didn't turn deep on? Guess I'm confused about how to use this setting? I'm running deep on and fast recovery all the time, but I tend to stick to auto sensitivity.
I could use some info and tips on what does what and when to use manual sensitivity?
I could use some info and tips on what does what and when to use manual sensitivity?
I probably should have tried deep on over the target. As far as running deep ON here's my take. It seems to make the CTX respond slower. I think to get the most out of it requires a slower sweep. It does seem to stabilize the screen numbers and audio a bit. I don't like running fast on and deep on together. Don't like it. I know most of the seasoned vets with explorers avoid running both ON. Does the CTX workings (FAST and DEEP) work as the explorer? Can't say concretely. And the deep ON setting may be better suited to some soils vs others. This is exactly the reason I try and play with settings when over a target; especially a questionable one.