CTX hangs another silver in relic field, this time big one

[squirrel1]

Good questions and I'm not sure I can give you good solid answers, but I will tell you what I know and what I've read and my opinions concerning the CTX. If you are a beginner with the CTX it will most likely be in your best interest to stick with ferrous coin in lieu of ground coin target separation. Ferrous coin seems to give more solid numbers and even slightly better audio. I realize it seems the ground coin was indeed it seems, according to minelabs manual, put in the CTX for more mineralized soils. You will notice more bouncy ferrous numbers on your screen in ground coin. For me the biggest disadvantage to ferrous coin with CTX is it seems iron falses seem sharper than when using ground coin. As far as determining how mineralized your soil is. If the only detector you have is the CTX you will have to look at your soil, pay attention to your auto tracking numbers and suggested sensivity. The only thing wrong with this statement is EMI. EMI can also make your machine track lower and show a recommended lower sensitvity level. Another way to tell is how deep are you detecting and digging coins. If you are only digging them at say 4-6 inches and you high suspicion that there are deeper coins you could have high soil mineralization. I don't know where you live but if you know of some other detectorists you should talk to them about the soil in your area. If you see the recommened sensitivity level say read 10 or lower in most of your same general area sites you probably do have some tough soil to detect in. Another thing to watch is how high you can set manual sensivity before the machine starts getting noisy when you sweep it over your soil. If you can only say get it to stay stable at say 18-20 and you suspect minimal EMI that's another indication of maybe some tough soil. The CTX and all minelabs do very well in difficult soils until the soil gets to the point that particles of it start sticking to a magnet. Although I personally have never been in soil like that. The jury is still out on a lot of just what works the best with the CTX. I can tell you my CTX runs at 27-28 generally in auto sensivity with suggested sensitivity running between 15 and 20 at the lower elevations. At higher elevation(above 800 ft_) where red clay is more prominent my ETRAC ran down around 12-14 in auto sensivity with 11" coil. I haven't had my CTX in the high country yet so I can't comment on it. My f75se fisher has an iron meter and it shows .01 -.03 percent iron at the lower elevations. You can already see some have already made some nice finds in areas already hunted. It will take more field time and experimenting with different settings to find what works the best for given situations. I'm sure others will comment and maybe help.

 

[Confused]

Thanks for your time Squirrel. I live in So Cal and I know that the soil around here is clay, and I did dig up a magnet one time and it was full of particles, haha. I am going to take everything that you said and run with it. Thanks again, Rod

 

[BrakingGnus]

That is a sweet find! WTG!