Digging In Va. Relic Hunt- X-70's Are One Most Poplar Relic Detrors Use

[Reconmarine1984]

There was the 9th Digging In Va. Relic Hunt held In Va. The Hunt is paid and invite only. All Relics Site That close " Digging In Va" Hunt are the "Best Sites" You could Ever Relic Hunt. and off Limits to Relic hunters over the Years. The Soil In Part Of Va. Is by Far The worse and Hottest soil you could hunt. {Groundsman Numbers on X-70 Where Super Low 10-16} I saw more Min labs at this past DIV hunt then years past. Large numbers of X-70, Explores and The 10.5 DD coil was used by all whom relic hunted. So best finds where made by all whom Used Min lab machines due to Real bad or Hot Soil. It seem lots folks are switching from there Whites MXT to Min lab . I fact X-70 I dug few target that other machines could not even hear. Here few photo OD What Hot Soil looks like in Va. Chuck

 

[BarnacleBill]

Chuck did you use Prospecting Mode? And/or compare it to Coin & Treasure mode over the same targets? I saw in several posts on different forums that bullets could only be heard to abouts 3>4 inches with the VLF type detectors, but that the PI's were getting 6>8 inches.

Thanks,
BarnacleBill

 

[CWRelichunter]

....However, I only used the 5x10 coil the one day that I was there. This combination worked very well for me and wish I could have hunted all three days, but became ill and had to leave early.

If I had hunted in the all-metal DISC mode instead of prospecting mode I doubt very seriously that I would have found anything at all. Not just because the prospecting mode went deeper, but I think people often forget (or don't realize) that when you hunt in DISC mode you don't get the same wide footprint (hot wide-scan effect) that the true threshold based all-metal mode can give you. Even with DD coils you can better ground coverage if you don't use DISC mode. Whether this is an audio trick that fools us, or whether this can be proved in testlab analysis does not matter. The fact is you will hear targets better in prospecting mode. (When I switched to DISC mode upon hitting a target, I usually saw jumping numbers that caused too much visual analysis that wasted time. If the next version of the X-70 has target ID in prospecting mode this will save MUCH time....I do NOT dig all targets and do not care if I leave a good target in the ground for the next person. It's just a hobby.)

As a side note: On that first day of the DIV IX hunt I spoke with 5 different MXT users who also were using a 5x10 coil. NONE of them had found anything, and had not heard ONE signal all day. I asked if they were hunting in prospecting mode, and they all said they were in RELIC mode.

I'm glad I did not bring my MXT, but I would have at least tried the prospecting mode that I suggested to all 5 of this people who looked at me like I was crazy and walked away when I suggested this. I wonder if they even tried what I suggested.

The X-70 is a keeper for sure, and I need to sell my MXT. It won't be used anymore.

J in VA

 

[Reconmarine1984]

I Hunted with 10.5 7.5 Freq. DD and work very well. I Hunted In Prospecting Mode Only, and would switch back to All/ metal, about 1/2 of may good Targets Did even come threw In All/ Metal , But where very easily heard in Prospection mode. I had Sen.set around #23 , and Iron Mask set on Pre-Set 5. I did get pretty good Depth around 6 inch on Bullets , buttons other relics. I did dig lots large nails and flat Iron and plow parts. I real Hot, ground Such as DIV Soil conditions the use I.D. numbers are useless to say. You Have hunt slow and listen to Tones In Prospecting Mode. The X-70's did well by those whom switch to Prospecting and hunted slow. My take on 3 days where 26 Bullets, 6 eagle buttons, most I dug around and in few old dig holes other hunter wrote off as Trash Targets. Chuck

 

[bfodnes]

I hope Des reads this post and remember my wishes for a Terra with ID in prospecting too.

Nice floating ID that doesnt lock, just reads what it gets from the ground all the time.

You made one of the absolute best VLF detectors in the 70 Des/minelab.

No need to stop there....

Bjorn

 

[Shenandoah Digger]

I've used many detectors and still do. But for the money, or double the money in fact, the Xterra 70 can't be beat. I'm amazed at how good a detector it is. Yesterday I went relic hunting with a DFX user and an MXT user. Minelab-6, White's-0.

 

[BarnacleBill]

I have wondered for awhile how the X70 would handle those red soils in the Brandy area. I know during development of the Prospecting mode the lads Down Under had access to the nasty soil in OZ. I have Black Sand and Basalt that pushes the magnetic readout on the X70 along in the 400,000 Range, so it's pretty toasty. I've wondered where that red stuff would measure on the X70?

Thanks for your reports, they add more to the knowledge base here, which helps everyone be better with their detectors.

Happy Hunting!
BarnacleBill

 

[robert roy]

This might seem like a stupid question but.....I notice there is a lone metal detector standing upright all by itself
and I don't see any kind of stand proping it up so.......whos your invisible friend?
RR

 

[BobNV]

Appears to be a wire fence behind them that its propped up against.

 

[robert roy]

Hummmm. I can't see the wire. I have bad eyes anyway but now I know they must be REALLY bad!
I like the idea of a civil war ghost holding the detector better!
RR