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getting that extra depth

sube

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GzxTjAWBik0
This well be my third year using the ctx This was done using the 6 inch coil maxed out at 30 for sense to show what this little coil can do . What you want is a repeatable signal chopped or good that does not move from where the sound is coming from when you pinpoint . It's hard to do on a table compared to being on the ground .This requires a straight shot across the target to be accurate . If you move up and or down from the hotspot ( center of coil) the target moves up and down on the 12 line. On the ground is not a problem because you can see where the hotspot is by the sound .The 12 line is your friend nonferrous metal likes to hit here as mine-lab intended. Ferrous metals hit all over the screen or to the far right . This will give you extra depth and some targets you might of passed on. Some areas chop signals at 6 inches some at 8 to 9 depends where your at .I'm sure there will be lot's of ?s I will try to answer them the best I can anyone else can chime in. The artic is here :rage::rage::rant: sube
 
It says the video is private.
 
Sube you can just paste the YouTube url into the message so you don't get that error message down in your initial post..
Good job putting together some videos!
 
interesting thank you
 
Here is the video posted directly in. Very interesting on how the cursor hovers around the 12 line. It would be nice if possible if we could see a little better the way the target is moving across the coil.


[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzxTjAWBik0&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
The coil is off the machine and laying on the table . I had to take the machine apart to get close enough to see the screen at the same time . I'm trying to keep the coin in the center of the coil ,other wise the cursor will not follow the 12 line as straight . Much easier with the coil on the ground because you can see where the sound is coming from and get a straighter shot across the coil . You only need 3 to 4 inches of travel (mine-lab wiggle) sube
 
Sube,

Thanks for the time and effort in making that video. I have seen that behavior before in the field but not made the correlation to a deeper good target. I will check some out to see what I might have been missing.
 
The nickel in the video is working better than the dime because it is bigger than the dime and is easier to keep centered in the coil . All the other signals will be closer to the 12 line or very close as long as they contain a non-ferrous metal . Here is what I think is happening as the coil moves across the coin it hits the center of the coil and you get a reading of say 12.44 as it moves to the center between the outside of the coil the #s change to 12.34 and when it finally hits the outside of the coil the #s are 12.10 or somewhere in there . The coin is on the fringe of detecting depth as it gets farther away the ctx sees it as a less conductive target and lowers the #s . But still sees it as a nonferrous target . I have found deep iron usually stays right and does not try to travel across the screen as a nonferrous object would . And parkgt the stock coil well go to 12 on a dime and be deeper as you said before but the 6 has plenty of depth and is easier to work in a trash filled environment . sube
 
If you have seen this activity before but did not dig, you have missed some nice targets, guaranteed. All TID detectors lose reliable target ID capability in the maximum depth range and any very deep targets that shows any possibility of not being iron gets dug when I'm hunting :drool: It might not always be a coin but it is usually something neat to find and sometimes it [size=x-large]IS[/size] an old nice coin. I have found two Seated Half dollars digging very iffie deep targets not to mention all of the dimes and other goodies.

If a targets sounds good and is deep, dig regardless what the number say.
 
Larry (IL) said:
If you have seen this activity before but did not dig, you have missed some nice targets, guaranteed. All TID detectors lose reliable target ID capability in the maximum depth range and any very deep targets that shows any possibility of not being iron gets dug when I'm hunting :drool: It might not always be a coin but it is usually something neat to find and sometimes it [size=x-large]IS[/size] an old nice coin. I have found two Seated Half dollars digging very iffie deep targets not to mention all of the dimes and other goodies.

If a targets sounds good and is deep, dig regardless what the number say.

It looked like a couple times the target bounced along the 12 line but did not sound good, if the cursor does that Larry do you dig those as well?
 
The sound is chopped off and the pitch is a little different also as I said before it has to be a straight shot back and forth of the coil which is hard to do on the table . The more accurate you can keep the coil centered the better the sound but it's still chopped and the pitch is a little different than what is in your bin . sube
 
Yes, almost all deep targets that I'm sure are not iron get dug where I hunt. A lot depends on where you are hunting and what your prospects are for good targets vs. junk. Common sense and gut feelings goes a long way when hunting deep. I primarily hunt old house sites looking for old coins, toys and relics of the period.

I was at a site where the chances of Civil War bullets were likely and they were deep. So deep, they did not show up in discrimination mode at all so I went to pinpoint (all metal) and dug all bullet sized hits. I think I dug nine .69's that morning and some were 16 inches deep. Deep hunting is what you make of it and how much you want to dig.
 
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