I went to a site this morning I've had some luck with in the past. Couldn't hunt long because of the heat. This place was an old house site with loads of iron. There is a depression about 100 ft from the homesite. The old locals said it was a cistern. It has since been filled in several times since 1992 by the current landowner. Anyway, I'd hunted the stretch between the home site and cistern many times using three other flagship detectors and never detected anything but iron. This morning I turned the CTX with 11" stock coil loose in this area using Combine mode, ferrous coin in auto sensitivity. I locked on to a total of 5 targets in a relatively small area all engulfed in iron. 2 wheats, key, clock gear,small thin copper washer.
On every single target hits were only 2 way signals and I dug multiple pieces of iron during each retrieval. On the 1917 wheat recovered at 8 inches, I actually dug a rusty nail first, then a 1"x2"x1/16"s piece of iron and thought I had gotten fooled, run my pinpointer on down in the hole and walla got tone and retrieved 1917 wheat. On retrieving the small thin copper washer at 9.5 inches I had to first remove 3 old rusty nails at different depths, thinking the whole time I had been fooled by iron. This here CTX is scary in iron patches. The copper washer, wheats, and clock gear came in at 12-40/41 and the key came in at 12-35. And these targets were loud and clear in combine mode with the iron tones coming in with small coil movement off to the side of the targets. I'm loving this here CTX and it seems the combine mode is killer!
On every single target hits were only 2 way signals and I dug multiple pieces of iron during each retrieval. On the 1917 wheat recovered at 8 inches, I actually dug a rusty nail first, then a 1"x2"x1/16"s piece of iron and thought I had gotten fooled, run my pinpointer on down in the hole and walla got tone and retrieved 1917 wheat. On retrieving the small thin copper washer at 9.5 inches I had to first remove 3 old rusty nails at different depths, thinking the whole time I had been fooled by iron. This here CTX is scary in iron patches. The copper washer, wheats, and clock gear came in at 12-40/41 and the key came in at 12-35. And these targets were loud and clear in combine mode with the iron tones coming in with small coil movement off to the side of the targets. I'm loving this here CTX and it seems the combine mode is killer!
While it is so hot.
I have pulled out 3 14k rings that were surrounded by iron that I Know I (and others)have been over. Heres the latest Grumpy