First I've got to say that I've known for a while that Monte likes to deal with clean detectors. He hooked me up with this one and it looks new! Thanks again Monte for my first White's.
The missus took our 16 year old on an over night trip and took all three digital cameras, so no pictures today.
I got out for two hours and I took the XL Pro to a very familiar school court yard area that I haven't fully covered with my Tejon. Hunted with a Blue Max 600 coil in this area. I have covered it well with a couple of other detectors but there are still a lot of deeper targets. With the Tejon and the 5.75 coil I can count on popping lots of nickles at 6 plus inches here. All newer nickles, the older maintenance folks say they had top soil brought in about ten years ago to build the court yard so that put newer stuff deeper. The school only dates to 1976; was farm land before that. I've found a half dozen plow points in the practice fields.
Figured the court yard would be a good familiarization outing.
Only got 4 nickles, 3 at around 6 to 7 inches and one recent drop nickle that, once the detector hit it, I saw it on the surface and picked it up. I did get 13 dimes that ranged from 2 inches to about 7 inches. From part of the area I hunted, I am pretty sure I must have missed some of those dimes with the Tejon.
I dug an average for me amount of foil, got a cheap earring, some pennies; two quarters, one at half an inch one at 8 inches. I didn't dig any iron. If I could change swing speed and the meter read iron / foil / dollar ... not necessarily in that order, I guessed iron. In this court yard, I've normally dug a few bent nails or plated nails.
All in all, I'm happy with the new to me tool! I need to learn the XL Pro a lot better. The beep tone doesn't seem very descriptive yet. The dime count and dime depths in this particular site are very encouraging as is the lack of dug iron.
Initial thought is Tejon seems hotter on nickels, XL Pro seems hotter on small higher conductors and is better at telling what is iron ... there's always trade offs ... and since the XL Pro is still so new to me it may be me just not understanding it's set up and it's talk yet.
XL Pro does look like a definite keeper!
Cheers,
tvr
The missus took our 16 year old on an over night trip and took all three digital cameras, so no pictures today.
I got out for two hours and I took the XL Pro to a very familiar school court yard area that I haven't fully covered with my Tejon. Hunted with a Blue Max 600 coil in this area. I have covered it well with a couple of other detectors but there are still a lot of deeper targets. With the Tejon and the 5.75 coil I can count on popping lots of nickles at 6 plus inches here. All newer nickles, the older maintenance folks say they had top soil brought in about ten years ago to build the court yard so that put newer stuff deeper. The school only dates to 1976; was farm land before that. I've found a half dozen plow points in the practice fields.
Figured the court yard would be a good familiarization outing.
Only got 4 nickles, 3 at around 6 to 7 inches and one recent drop nickle that, once the detector hit it, I saw it on the surface and picked it up. I did get 13 dimes that ranged from 2 inches to about 7 inches. From part of the area I hunted, I am pretty sure I must have missed some of those dimes with the Tejon.
I dug an average for me amount of foil, got a cheap earring, some pennies; two quarters, one at half an inch one at 8 inches. I didn't dig any iron. If I could change swing speed and the meter read iron / foil / dollar ... not necessarily in that order, I guessed iron. In this court yard, I've normally dug a few bent nails or plated nails.
All in all, I'm happy with the new to me tool! I need to learn the XL Pro a lot better. The beep tone doesn't seem very descriptive yet. The dime count and dime depths in this particular site are very encouraging as is the lack of dug iron.
Initial thought is Tejon seems hotter on nickels, XL Pro seems hotter on small higher conductors and is better at telling what is iron ... there's always trade offs ... and since the XL Pro is still so new to me it may be me just not understanding it's set up and it's talk yet.
XL Pro does look like a definite keeper!
Cheers,
tvr