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CZ20 / DFX / SE New
- Thread starter DFXer
- Start date
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Greg, my answer is no, the DFX is not just a 6-7" clad hunter. In most mild to moderate to moderate high ground conditions it will hunt with the Explorer. The only place I've found the Explorer to be better is when the mineralization gets up into highly and extreme levels. My recommendation is to monitor your DC phase in the places you are hunting and if the majority of your DC phase readings are greater than -87(getting closer to -95) then I would recommend you consider getting a Explorer or F75. If the majority of the readings are less than a -87(getting closer to -1) then I'd recommend you stick with your DFX and learn how to set up for and hunt the deep targets. (Note that DC phase doesn't tell you the strength of the ground mineralization but it does tell you the ground type and once you get into DC's higher than about -87 the DFX design starts to fail for deep targets, the closer to -95 you get the worse it gets)
Your problem with the 5" dime could have been something as simple as 'too hot' a sensitivity setting or nearby trash.
If you want to see an immediate increase in depth just turn audio disc off and monitor your AC level, watch the signagraph and go 'sssssllllllloooooooowwwwww' .
Good luck
Mike
Your problem with the 5" dime could have been something as simple as 'too hot' a sensitivity setting or nearby trash.
If you want to see an immediate increase in depth just turn audio disc off and monitor your AC level, watch the signagraph and go 'sssssllllllloooooooowwwwww' .
Good luck
Mike
Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then!" -(my new favorite idiom)
Anb "Even a broken watch is right twice a day." I like that one too! I tell my wife that one when she tries to rub my face in something.
Anb "Even a broken watch is right twice a day." I like that one too! I tell my wife that one when she tries to rub my face in something.
...we were hitting a plowed gourd field in Northern Mass. Using my EXII, it started interrupting me with that cascading cacophony signaling low batteries. I had to split soon anyway, so I just started sweeping the coil randomly on the un-plowed periphery to see what i could find before the machine shut down. I ended up shutting off the machine after finding nothing and was chatting with one of my pals when our other buddy, first day out with his Explorer II (bought it used), got a solid silver hit right where I'd walked. I went over and watched him dig...and dig and dig. At 10" down, he pulled a beautiful 1830 Capped Bust half dime. No drop down, it was in the last solid clump he pulled. I watched the whole affair, including the reading on the TID in the top right of the screen. Could another machine do that? Maybe, I don't know. All I do know is that someone who barely knew how to hit the red "on" button pulled that beauty (VF) out of it's 10" grave. So, I'm convinced by that show that much of it is indeed the machine. Stick with it, because its performance will just blow you away.
HH Mike
HH Mike