Hi guys, well im pretty new to the hobby, basically this year
I use the bounty hunter IV since dad upgraded to the x-terra 705 we run parks and stuff looking for modern coins etc (Australia here) and running beaches
Now today been my first day gold hunting I was handed the 705 as dad has the GPX5000 for this work, so for a few days ive been playing with it getting to know it, nice machine but for prospecting it still is a little noisy in our hot area. plus the iron discrimination isn't that good even flicking to treasure mode tiny iron still gives a very random reading bouncing all over the shop in numbers and sound more so in the negatives but me been curious still dig since im learning (plus with my luck I know the time I would leave it it will be junk next to something of value)
So my main question is ive been looking at the E-trac and CTX-3030, I know either will be absolutely great for our coin running and probably overkill but none of these have the prospecting mode but kinda hoping either machine compared to the 705 with the 18Khz DD coil running prospecting mode might be better anyway. I know I generally wont find tiny nuggets but I only want one machine and the gold will be its secondary function.
any feedback would be very much appreciated
I use the bounty hunter IV since dad upgraded to the x-terra 705 we run parks and stuff looking for modern coins etc (Australia here) and running beaches
Now today been my first day gold hunting I was handed the 705 as dad has the GPX5000 for this work, so for a few days ive been playing with it getting to know it, nice machine but for prospecting it still is a little noisy in our hot area. plus the iron discrimination isn't that good even flicking to treasure mode tiny iron still gives a very random reading bouncing all over the shop in numbers and sound more so in the negatives but me been curious still dig since im learning (plus with my luck I know the time I would leave it it will be junk next to something of value)
So my main question is ive been looking at the E-trac and CTX-3030, I know either will be absolutely great for our coin running and probably overkill but none of these have the prospecting mode but kinda hoping either machine compared to the 705 with the 18Khz DD coil running prospecting mode might be better anyway. I know I generally wont find tiny nuggets but I only want one machine and the gold will be its secondary function.
any feedback would be very much appreciated