First CTX Silver!

[DukeOBass]

I took my first long weekend trip, of many to come, back to my sister's. I have detected there for the past 2 summers and wanted to visit some "hunted out places" my brother-in-law had hit hard with E-tracs. I left early Saturday morning and stopped at a park, 8 miles from my sister's house. I had told my brother-in-law to call when he was up and around so I wouldn't disturb them. Within minutes, I hit the 2 silver with iron in the hole! We had detected the area very closely many times before. The E-tracs had missed these. I found a bit of clad change and by that time, I received the call.

After picking him up, we went to a yard he had gained permission to hunt. I dug 3 of the Indian Head pennies and a good amount of the Wheat plus more clad. The Hopalong Cassidy ring also came from that yard.

We hunted another spot we did last year and I came up with the silver plated pocket knife. A visit back to the "silver park" produced one more Indian, wheats and more clad. $2 something in clad all together - Remember, most of these places we hit were hunted hard with E-tracs.

I am still getting used to the CTX, but I think it actually separates targets better in iron laden ground. This summer will tell!

I want to thank everyone for all of the help given to get me started with this new machine! You're the GREATEST!!

[size=large]SILVER![/size]
[attachment 267007 2013MemorialDayWeekendSilver.JPG]

[size=large]Pocket Knife![/size]
[attachment 267013 2013MemorialDayWeekendPocketKnife_1.jpg]

[size=large]Indian Head Pennies! 1870, Small Date 1873, 1882, 1890[/size]
[attachment 267008 2013MemorialDayIndianHeads_1.jpg]

[size=large]Wheat Pennies![/size]
[attachment 267015 2013MemorialDayWeekendWheats_1_1_1.jpg]

[size=large]1950s Hopalong Cassidy Ring![/size]
[attachment 267018 2013MemorialDayWeekendHopalongCassidyRing.jpg]

 

[C&RHunter]

Congrats on the first silver and other nice finds..........HH

 

[ironman200081]

All the studying you have done on the forums the past few weeks combined with your experience has really paid off. Congrats on the finds. I like the silver pocket knife the best. What were the ID numbers on the knife? Is it plated on brass?

 

[jartbaker]

Very nice!

 

[shep]

Great finds! I jumped from the original explorer (sold 6 years ago?) to the CTX. Never had the E-trac. Love this machine tho!
Shep

 

[DukeOBass]

It was a 12/13. We had dug a few V - Nickels in that spot last year and I thought it was one we missed.

 

[DukeOBass]

The E-trac is a GREAT machine. I agonized over the trade. I do miss the X-1 probe. I was better at pinpointing the E-trac than I am with this.

 

[CT Todd]

Nicely done and reported

 

[Charles (Sabre)(Tx)]

Man...that is some really neat finds! I surely remember Hop-a-Long Cassidy. You did well.

Charles

 

[tonym]

nice going duke - no stopping you now ... I got a fever, and the only cure is MORE SILVER

 

[hershey1]

Great finds Duke. I do not know how me and my E-Trac missed targets I have found with the CTX but I have had the same results as you. It will only get better. HH

 

["Dr.Tones"]

Wow! Looks like you have one heck of a site there!

 

[AngelicStorm]

Very nice finds. I gotta go find some stuff like this!

 

[silverchef]

The E-trac is a GREAT machine. I agonized over the trade. I do miss the X-1 probe. I was better at pinpointing the E-trac than I am with this.

I had some serious issues pin-pointing for awhile coming from Etrac, but now I am pretty spot on. I actually think CTX is better at pin-pointing now. Great finds!

 

[DukeOBass]

Thanks for the pinpointing comment. That makes me feel better. This is probably the 3rd weekend I've had the CTX and it was my most heavy use weekend to date.

 

[DukeOBass]

It was actually several sites. I wanted to hunt some of the old place we hit pretty hard with 2 E-tracs to see how this this performs. We only dug one new site this past weekend. I travelled to my sister's several times last summer and plan to do the same this summer. I took every Monday off from Memorial Day weekend right through the end of August and longer weekends at Memorial Day (4 days) and 4th of July (5 days). The brother-in-law and I will be hitting it hard. He's starting think that he needs to talk to Richard about trading in his Etrac for a CTX! The good thing is that a lot of people know him and my sister so we get permission pretty easily to hunt some old yards.