First Impressions with the New X-70

[Delano1981]

Hello everyone,

I purchased a new Xterra 70 recently during the Labor Day Kellyco sale. I have been so busy lately I have only been out a couple of times with it. The first time was at a local park. I found a couple zinc pennies, and a button about the size of a fifty cent piece, but mostly it was just getting used the detector and all the functions and tones it makes. Up to this point I had only used a single tone Tesoro Silver uMax, so it took a little while to get used to the several tones of the X-70.

This evening I decided to try a fresh water beach near my home. The reservoir water level is very low right now, so there was alot of exposed beach. Well, every signal turned out to be either a new or old style pull tab, or a crushed beer can. Literally I did not find any other item except pull tabs. But at least I learned alot about what pull tabs sound like and look like on the TID. I tried using the 99 tones option, and it did make that flute like sound mentioned in the instruction video, it kind sounds like going up and down a scale. The numbers usually varied as I was scanning from about 16 to 24 or so. But the depth was very good. These tabs were on average 6" to 8" deep, with several about 10" deep, and the X-70 picked them up clearly. I really like this detector, and I am getting used to how it operates and what it is telling me.

By the way, my settings tonight were: Pattern 1, Noise cancel= -2, Ground balance=22, Sensitivity=28, Threshold=9, Sound=25. It ran perfectly stable with no falsing even with the sensitivity so high.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Getting those deeper tabs. There will be gold in there somewhere, keep at that beach.

Just one remark if I may. With the high threshold setting you are using I gotta ask are you using headphones? Using a good set of phones a threshold setting in the 0-3 range should give better results.

HH Tom

 

[Mtnmn]

Can tell your going to do fine with your new machine and your depth is excellent. I"m not getting the depth on pull tabs that you are, of course there are no beaches around my area either (30+ miles), but my settings are very similar except for using a somewhat lower threshold setting. Are you using the stock coil?

 

[Delano1981]

Getting those deeper tabs. There will be gold in there somewhere, keep at that beach.

Just one remark if I may. With the high threshold setting you are using I gotta ask are you using headphones? Using a good set of phones a threshold setting in the 0-3 range should give better results.

HH Tom

Thanks for the tip. No, I wasn't using headphones this time. The pair that came with the detector are very poor quality, and I do have a pair that came with my Tesoro that is a little higher quality, but I didn't use any this time.

 

[Delano1981]

Can tell your going to do fine with your new machine and your depth is excellent. I"m not getting the depth on pull tabs that you are, of course there are no beaches around my area either (30+ miles), but my settings are very similar except for using a somewhat lower threshold setting. Are you using the stock coil?

Yes, I was using the stock MF coil. I hope to get an 18.75 khz HF eliptical coil for it soon. I live about 3 hours drive away from some of the Arizona gold fields and I want to give nugget hunting a try.

 

[7centsworth]

I use my threshold at 8 , but i am hard of hearing.

 

[khouse]

I personally think that the Xterra's work super in the 2 tone mode all metal. Did you give that a try? When you get a low high beep then dig. Lot's of times it's something good right next to iron.

 

[Delano1981]

I personally think that the Xterra's work super in the 2 tone mode all metal. Did you give that a try? When you get a low high beep then dig. Lot's of times it's something good right next to iron.

No, I didn't try that, but it sounds good. I will try that next time I go. You know, now that I think back, I think I had some signals like that that I didn't dig. I also remember some that sounded like a pull tab, but then there was also a high 44 consistently coming through too. I better go back and see what some of those signals were. Thanks

 

[khouse]

Those are the beeps I'm talking about. Sometimes it's a bong - ding one way then only a bong the other. I always feel that the machine is trying to tell me something just might be there.

 

[TURNMASTER]

Those are the beeps I'm talking about. Sometimes it's a bong - ding one way then only a bong the other. I always feel that the machine is trying to tell me something just might be there.

Boy those drive me nuts. I believe I don't know the machine well enough yet to skip those yet. I fear I may miss something good. A few of those have been wheats nest to nails.

Jeff

 

[khouse]

It's not the way to hunt if your limited on time. But can prove successful when used.