MX Sport unmasking

[MattBullSummerville]

I like the Detech 13 DD on the MX Sport, covers a lot on area and still pin points pretty good. It's sensitive to small targets also, just takes a little more effort to pin them than the smaller coils.

 

[Tajue17]

yeah I will have to spend some more time with that coil.

 

[coinspader]

Just uploaded an MX Sport video on my Youtube channel, "Coin spader "

 

[dfmike]

Just uploaded an MX Sport video on my Youtube channel, "Coin spader "

Thanks for the vid coinspader. Any reason why you run your reject volume at 50 ? I can understand wanting to hear the rejected targets but because it's a hot detector, it must make a racket between good targets and rejects in a trashy ball park. I run mine at 10 and can still hear everything.

Also, I was wondering if you get a lot of false signals. I've tamed some of it on my MX7 but even running at a relatively low sensitivity of 5, I still get a lot of single beeps that vanish when I swing the coil again. I wonder if mineralized ground could be part of the issue. I noticed you ground balanced at 48. That's way below what I get. I was hunting a school yard yesterday and was ground balanced in the low 70's.

 

[dfmike]

Just uploaded an MX Sport video on my Youtube channel, "Coin spader "

Great finds by the way ! So much trash mixed in with the good stuff in the same holes. Looks like the MX Sport unmasked the goodies very well.

 

[coinspader]

I think mineralization reeks havoc with a lot of single frequency detectors. My dirt here in western PA is pretty mild for the most part, but I really feel for the guys out west and in a lot of the southern states because it looks like it's a whole different ballgame in those areas.When I first start using a detector I just sort of creep up on the sensitivity until it gets to the point where I can't take the noise and then I bring it back to a comfortable level. I hunt in naily areas a lot and I have developed a level of tolerance. I believe that if you are in a really trashy area you won't get great depth anyway so if you keep the sens at a reasonable level you will get a lot less falsing. Also I like to hear whats in the ground along side the good targets so I run with minimal discrimination. As far as running reject at 50 I think that setting may be different for each detectorist, I think its just a matter of how you want to hear things. The MX Sport is a really hot running detector so you don't need to crank up the sensitivity in a park setting. At level 5 I was getting great depth, I think that's the case for a lot of the detectors today, people tend to run them too hot. I ran the sens lower on the NOX as well and it totally eliminated the falsing on nails and I was getting very good depth with it.

 

[coinspader]

Dfmike, I was thinking about your falsing problem and the only thing I could come up with is to maybe notch out 94 and 95, you might be getting wraparound on some small iron. I don't have much experience in highly mineralized soil but maybe that would help. Don't know for sure.

 

[DFXDon]

What 6" shooter coil are you talking about?? is it the 6X10 dd ??I just traded my DFX for the Sport and am looking for a small coil that will do well in junky areas
DFXDon

 

[Monte]

The new 6½" [size=small](measured)[/size] Concentric coil is called the 'Six Shooter' and is on White's website here: https://www.whiteselectronics.com/product/mx-six-shooter-6-concentric-coil/?lang=us

Monte

 

[dfmike]

Dfmike, I was thinking about your falsing problem and the only thing I could come up with is to maybe notch out 94 and 95, you might be getting wraparound on some small iron. I don't have much experience in highly mineralized soil but maybe that would help. Don't know for sure.

I wondered about that. I saw a video on youtube previously with a guy that had that area notched out. I'll have to try it. Out of curiosity, can there actually be a valuable target in that range ? Thanks for the insight.

 

[Monte]

n/t