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I'm takin a liking to the MXT, Yesterday I took it to...

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Jigflipper

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The place that Scott and I have hammered for the last 10 or 11 months. I didn't know really how to set it up but it was very easy to learn. The adjustments while detecting were quick and easy to do. I hit areas that I had hunted hard before and my first few targets were iffy on diggin and ended up being a lump of coal, some 12th georgia buttons ( AKA 12 gauge shotgun shell Brass) and some deep iron signals that gave a high pitch beep. Scott then showed up and we hunted some other areas that we've hit hard before. There I got a pistol ball, saddle rivit and a chewed up Gardner. I then moved up on top of an area that we call Bullet Hill. The last 4 times up on Bullet Hill have produced no bullets for me at all. I went straight to the top where we have hammered hard and sniffed out one more gardner at abut 8 to 10" deep. It was a hard impact shot bullet but I did hear it with the MXT. I'm so far tickled with my new detector and still have a few questions if any of y'all can help with. 1. what is the deal with trigger forward while relic hunting, how can it be useful. 2. To ground balance do you just pump the coil or push or pull the trigger and pump the coil. I think you just pump the coil but I'm not sure. I'd appreciate any help y'all can give....Flipper out.
 
Trigger forward while in Relic mode will give you the high tone on non-ferrous targets, low tone on ferrous (iron / steel) targets. Targets below your discrim setting won't give you any tone at all.

To ground balance, just pump the coil up and down to the ground 4 or 5 inches. The MXT is auto ground balancing but in hot Culpeper type ground, it's good to re-balance by pumping the coil when you think you need to do so.
 
I have had the best results with mine hunting in relic mode, I love the two tones it makes, trigger in the center, I have seen no advantage with it forward and it loses the two tones there, ground trac in auto to start with, disc on two, gain turned all the way to the right unless the mineralization makes you turn it down, threshold just enough to hear. Just turn the machine on with these settings and start swinging, it will ground track itself without pumping. If you hunt hot ground the 6X9 DD coil is a must. They say the new super 12 is good in hot ground too, I have not gotten one yet, I use the stock coil 95% of the time. When I first got mine I hunted all my old spots and dug an amazing amount of relics just a couple inches deeper than my old Blue and Gray would go. And we are still hunting some of those spots and getting bullets 12-14 inches when the grass is short and the ground is moist, Vernon did good there last week. Get you some quality headphones, I use Killer Bees and like them. This machine will shine in a iron infested house site, best I
 
I have the Super12 coil as my machine is a MXT 300. I'm trying to decide on either the 6 X 10 DD or the new excelerator butterfly coil that has came out recently, I believe I'll wait to just before the DIV to pull the trigger on that decision. I will let you know about the hot ground this spring after The DIV hunt as I plan to use it there. I have the gray ghost headphones that I use with my F75 and used on my DFX before I traded it so there's no problem there. I do appreciate the info though and will definitely take it to heart because I know you do know that machine. I'm not a plum raw rookie at relic hunting, been relic hunting for a little over 3 years now and coin hunted 2 years before that, but have only hunted the MXT one time in a hammered site and felt pretty good about finding 2 Gardners and a pistol ball that I missed before. I'd like to get together with you and maybe Vern sometime and give it a shot, We're not loaded down here like y'all are up there with relics but have a few still left, they sometimes seem real hard to come by. You could come down this way or I don't care a bit to come up that way, either would be fine. I live in upper East Tennessee near Bristol, I just live about 15 miles from interstate 81 at the VA TN border so I don't think we're too far apart. I appreciate your input and will run it wide open where I can, I did run it in relic mode and switched it to prospecting on iffy signals to check the iron probability, I kind of like that feature. I really like being able to adjust on the fly with the knob controls, with the DFX I was constantly scrolling through the menus, The MXT has the DFX killed there. Hope to hunt with you sometime in the future and really do appreciate the input....Jim
 
... at about $25 to $30. I've read a copy he sent me and it's VERY GOOD.

I decided to not stock his MXT book, as I do stock his Digging Deeper With The DFX book, because the MXT is such a simple / pleasurable / non complex / deep seeking machine to use. Heck if I can use an MXT effectively, anyone can!

Contact Jeff at info@digdeepdfx.com
 
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