I took my CTX out this evening after work to a few parks that I and others have hunted hard with the E-Trac. I wanted to especially try a new "combined" mode that I created in the Exchange 2 software on my PC. I ran a wide open screen. This mode is like TTF on steroids. Having multiple tones for conductive signals makes it soooo much faster and easier to home in on the good targets (I had the high tone set from CO30-48 then low iron grunt for 49 and 50 to deal with high falses). It was a breeze - I just listened for the deep high tones and it was a coin 95% of the time - always in close proximity to iron. This explains why the E-Tracs have missed them - the ground didn't get hunted that much in TTF because of the mid to high range trash (pull tabs, screw caps and foil). This mode just smokes right through it. Hunting in this way also made me realize how much iron is in this park - LOTS - I never really noticed it that much in multi-conductive on the 'Trac - and so i missed all this stuff. Very cool.
I love the balance of the machine - it feels so much lighter to swing than the E-Trac. Stability is great, the wireless headphone setup is brilliant - made digging a lot nicer.
All in all - my initial impressions are highly positive - if you're a TTF hunter with the E-Trac - this thing will blow you away with the combined feature. If you've only ever hunted in multi-tone conductive mode on the E-Trac this machine will feel very natural to you - and if you take a chance at using the combined feature - you will find stuff that you have missed - I proved that to myself tonight.
20 Wheats (all over 7" deep)
1939 Nickel
1954 Rosie
1943 Merc
I love the balance of the machine - it feels so much lighter to swing than the E-Trac. Stability is great, the wireless headphone setup is brilliant - made digging a lot nicer.
All in all - my initial impressions are highly positive - if you're a TTF hunter with the E-Trac - this thing will blow you away with the combined feature. If you've only ever hunted in multi-tone conductive mode on the E-Trac this machine will feel very natural to you - and if you take a chance at using the combined feature - you will find stuff that you have missed - I proved that to myself tonight.
20 Wheats (all over 7" deep)
1939 Nickel
1954 Rosie
1943 Merc