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For those of you that ? the CTX's ability

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squirrel1

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Did a short hunt at daylight this morning(about 1 hr) to beat the heat. Now I have had my CTX for 8 days now and I've posted a few posts stating I was digging off to the side a lot when recovering my coins. I've been hunting a lot of places I've pounded before with 2 quality detectors. The same thing happened this morning. I was hunting a small church yard that I have pounded with a V3i with both stock 10dd and 10x12 sef coil and my etrac with procoil/10x12 sef, and 6x8 sef. I mean pounded severely. I did make a few finds with the V3i and etrac but no IHs and no silver. I didn't hunt this site very well at all this morning with the CTX. I was running combined mode, ferrous coin, disc set to 25 ferrous, fast recovery and auto sensivity. The CTX ran mostly at 27 sens but did run at 25/26 in spots. The very first dig I dug was off to the side. I checked this target in both auto and man 22 sens. The target actually sounded better in auto versus man 22, but not much better. Turned out to be a wheat. So I made my mind up to dig all remaining targets slow and determine their orientation. I've always suspected the CTX was doing better with coins on edge versus both the V3i and etrac. To make a long story shorter. The 1946 quarter was as close to perfect on edge at 6 inches. It gave good tone in all possible directions and read 12-42 when sweeping from all direcction and it turned up approx 4 inches off of the x mark on the pinpoint. The same goes with the 2 dimes and the wheats. The ring was laying flat in thre ground at 7 inches and the pinpoint was dead on it. I got good tone in all directions with all targets but one wheat. The deepest target was 8 inches. The 1905 IH was found beside the sidewalk at around 5 inches around trash. I distinctively remember this spot. I remember the etrac sounding off but the audio was jumbled and I didn't investigate. The audio/tone was crystal clear on the CTX. Guess where I will be at 5AM in the morning?
 
Awesome Finds and good write up! Congrats on the Silver and Injun
 
I forgot to mention 1 very important thing and some may not believe this. Some of the coins on edge gave NO color inside the cursor. I first thought the CTX was falsing but the tone was so sweet and consistently sounded off on the same spot. So users beware. If it sounds good dig.
 
squirrel1 said:
I forgot to mention 1 very important thing and some may not believe this. Some of the coins on edge gave NO color inside the cursor. I first thought the CTX was falsing but the tone was so sweet and consistently sounded off on the same spot. So users beware. If it sounds good dig.
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Great overall report. I'm starting to pay more attention to what you are talking about - more so with splatter but also with the color density in the circle. Thanks for mentioning that...

Albert
 
Nice work looks like you have got things tuned in well. So hot here I just have not been out. May get some dirt hunting in one day soon.

Jason
 
Thanks for the report, I did find a clad quarter on edge right in the side of my hole. I going to have to pay more attention the the orientation of my finds. How do you like the fast recovery? I have not used that function yet for fear of losing accuracy.

HH
Mike
 
squirrel1 said:
I forgot to mention 1 very important thing and some may not believe this. Some of the coins on edge gave NO color inside the cursor. I first thought the CTX was falsing but the tone was so sweet and consistently sounded off on the same spot. So users beware. If it sounds good dig.
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I found a 1960 Rosie the other day that barely had any red signature on screen. It was a little tiny dot because the coin was laying right up against the side of the concrete path deep in the soil. Great repeatable tone, and number, so dug it.
 
I usually run in fast recovery most of the time. I plan on trying turning it off. I have tried deep on but didn't like that at all. I keep my gain at 30 all the time. I noticed when deep is on the CTX likes a lot slower swing speed or so it seems. The threshold seems to fade in and out with deep on and a faster sweep. I believe this is normal ops as my etrac performs similarly.
 
The more you hype the CTX on how good it is the more people are going to raid your honey holes with them! SSHHHHHH...... :rofl:
 
Yea...raiding them with their own CTX's. Waiting on my own. Getting it from Richard@backwoodsdetectors.com Hearing so much about it and reading everyones comments here...i am about to start drooling. :drool: I can hardly wait.:jump:
 
Congrats and I too am so impressed with the separation of the CTX it is amazing I usually run fast on then go back over the area fast off and deep on as to miss nothing hopefully. I have tried this recently but not at sites where I can find the good old stuff hopefully soon.
 
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