Getting with the Xterra 5o and 70 at the wet salt sand beaches with the 5X10 18.75 DD coil. Anybody been shallow salt water wadding with the coil. Juat thought I would ask. 
How about the other coils like the 9" 7.5 and the 9" 18.75. I figuar the 5x10 Dd should be better at the wet salt sand then the concentric. It is getting boring around here. 
How about some posts. Later Ya'll Jerry aka Tinfoil
How about the other coils like the 9" 7.5 and the 9" 18.75. I figuar the 5x10 Dd should be better at the wet salt sand then the concentric. It is getting boring around here. How about some posts. Later Ya'll Jerry aka Tinfoil
many years I just read them. As I was always working and hunting every spare minute I had and never really posted. Now That I retired I now hunt and Post some. Never was very good at posting anyway. The reading and hunting I got down pat though and I try to learn something every time I go out about the detector I am using. I don't care what kind of detector I am using I always put a minimum of 200 hours on one before I set it down and play with another one. I am not a real Tech sort of guy, but what is important to me is how and what I have to do to get the best performance out of my machines. It is all the little tricks and peculiarities that you learn about the machine you need to know to make it perform to it's best abilities. A machine might hunt in one place great,in another crappy. The thing you have to learn is how to make it hunt in both places the best that it will hunt. Then practice,practice,practice,and when you think you got it practice some more. I have figured out how to G/B my X70 like my fishers and Shadow X5. Go to page 42 middle of the page and read the area that has the little pick in manual G/B. It says to aim for min volume variation. Now to get the ball park balance push the Auto button and let it auto G/B. That gets you close to minimun G/B of the machine. Now push the - till you get a rise in the audio on the way down, not much just a slight increase in audio. A example is my G/B is 36 in one spot then I lower the number down to 32 by pushing the - button and that makes the audio rise just enough to make it more sen. to gold and quieten the machine down a little when you are in the trash and iron. Terry Humphries taught me that little trick on my Fishers so many years ago that I don't like to think about it cause it makes me think of how long ago it was and how old I have gotten to be. 
it has made me trying to keep up with all the machines I have bought and tested. Now is that a positive G/B or a Negative G/B. Hell I don't know and don't care but I do know it helps my machine hunt better in the iron,trash and makes it just a little more sensitive to the gold as I am really a water and beach hunter. For now I suggest you just auto G/B your machine and put 200 hours on it and then start playing around some. Anyway this is a very long post and I am sorry if it got confusing. I never had the forum for so many years of metal detecting and never had people to answer any of my questions. I had to teach myself. You are very lucky to have so many guys on this and other forums that are way smarter them I am to teach you and answer your questions. Later J and get out there and hunt HH Jerry aka Tinfoil.
. I don't say much other then to the guys that I really know. I know what works in this area and at the beaches I hunt. I am with you on the smaller coil. The 5x10 is real good but I need a smaller one then that. Oh before I forget maybe you would like to give a input to the guy a few posts up that is hunting in the iron and trash. I always enjoy reading posts that help you improve your hunting. 
. I always enjoy your posts. 
Later bud Jerry aka Tinfoil.
All the work a few of us done to clean out the waters edge and out wadding is just shot. Your machine will sound like a machine gun it is so bad. I wish you luck cause you are going to need it. It is so depressing to see all that hard work shot to hell and we got to do it all over again. When you go over to Galveston you can hunt for a long way along the seawall. East beach was always trashy, Stewart Beach is good, Down by the Best western the beach above and below it is good. Alot of hunters over there. when you go don't wast time digging coins just hunt the gold signals and save yourself some time. I never dig coins when I am on the beach unless I am in a area that Spanish coins have come out of. Then of course you got to dig it all. When you come Thur I will probably be in Fl. seeing the kids. Let me know when you come Thur though. 
but will make you 
. Jerry aka Tinfoil