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First X-70 Field Test

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Capphd

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My buddy and I were close to a site we had hunted to death. In fact, we hadn't returned in 2 years. I suggested we stop and see how the lady who owns the property was doing. After stopping, we decided to hunt this very well hunted area. The X-70 was in all metal with four tones. I used the MF coil. The sensitivity was at max and I was using the tracking in ground balance. This is some really good ground and the 70 ran very smoothly set up like that. I thought that I might find a silver coin or two. We hunted less than four hours. I found 100 coins, 26 of which were quarters, 10 of which were silver. I also dug three rings, one 14k, one silver, and one junk.

How was the X-70 able to pull such a haul from a hard hit site? First, it's deep. Some coins were dug in the 10-12" range. But that site had been hunted with some very deep machines. Two things really made this machine excel at this site. This machine is the best I have ever seen at hitting hard on coins on edge. I was able to measure two edge coins that were not knocked loose by my digging. One was a quarter at 10 inches. The other was a penny at 9 inches. That's just phenomenal. There were several shallower coins dug on edge. The third thing is recovery speed. Since I was hunting in all metal, I was able to hear all the signals. It would hit on a coin signal sandwiched between two iron signals. All three signals would be loud and clear.

I didn't expect to like this machine this much. Minelab really has a winner here.
 
Nice finds! I agree with your comment about recovery speed. The X-Terra series is very fast at resetting between targets. Both trash and goodies! Suppose we can attribute that to the single frequency. Curious, when you hit those deep coins on edge, how did the audio and visual indication differ from a similar coin laying flat? HH Randy
 
rewarded for your efforts, and impressed with the performance of Minelab's latest models for the typical detectorist.

10 Silver coins from a 4-Hour hunt is ALWAYS decent recovery! Congratulations!! :)

Monte
 
The tone and visual ID were still quite good depending on the depth. That is what surprised me. With other machines, edge coins would be broken and jumpy like trash. On the edge coins, you would get two signals about 8 inches apart since the coil was reading the flat side of the coin. Whenever my pinpoint was off significantly, it was almost always due to an edge coin.
 
I wish we had some neutral ground around here :)
But, believe it or not, I enjoy using the 70 in the iron ore dirt here more than any other detector in my stable. I've pulled several 9-10" coins here and can't gripe about those results.
Glad you're enjoying it, keep them finds coming
H.H.
Mike
 
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