MXT vs. X-Terra

[BADBAJA]

Scoper I am not trying to slam the detector, really I think it's a good setup. Just wondering why in all your posts you have NOT given us any reason to buy the MXT over the Xterra. BTW I have ran my Xterra on salt water and wet sand and it runs wonderful. How's that MXT do on the wet salty sand again? Please stick to the topic which is the 2 vs each other. Please list the ways you feel the MXT outperforms the Xterra.


If you handed me one right now I would not turn it down but I am willing to bet I would use the xterra the most. Now I think I made the best decision on the amount I spent.

 

[BarnacleBill]

Okkkkayyyy,

A new customer and walks into a dealer and explains that he wants to detect gold jewelry on a nearby heavy black sand saltwater beach. A dealer tells the customer "we have several brands of PI and Multi-Freq units, what other types of detecting might you be doing, like coins or relics"? And oh by the way at this beach will you be wading or perhaps scuba diving? So without any testing of any kind the dealer can begin to steer the customer by process of elimination towards the best product for them. Obviously most VLF's are not going to be considered for the purpose at hand. And if the dealer has experience with local conditions he will have certain units in mind that he knows do well at the aforementioned beach. This is where a good dealer can save a new user a lot of time, frustration, and money.

Testing, even extensive testing is a funny thing, because it's very soil dependent. Many users on this forum will report their Ground Balance settings vis-a-vis magnetic versus conductive conditions on their X705's. In my area the lower single digits are not unusual for phase angle and the mineral concentration is quite high. Therefore your extensive testing may allow a certain target to be recovered at 8 inches depth with an MXT where in my area the same MXT setup will only get 3 inches. So who is correct as to "how deep" an MXT will go?

Good testing is not easy and it involves a lot of planning, fastidiousness, and attention to detail. Some of my test results are posted in the the FAQ, and yours are posted where?

BB

 

[raider rich]

I allways get a laugh when someone says they walk right behind someone and get all the silver and gold they miss.

 

[7centsworth]

Good laugh. I can tell you i walked behind a guy with a high end detector once and dug a 1877 seated quarter he had just walked over. He could not believe it. But that being said i was using a smaller coil than he was.

 

[hotrod53]

I'm right with you on the multi tone being maddening. When I hunt with Mapper65, he hunts in 99 tone mode with his 705 and no headphones. That's not actual 99 tones, just what they call it, I think it's actually 48 tones, one for every segment. He says that once you get used to it, it's the way to go, but I haven't made the switch yet. I can see merit in it once you get used to it, I think its a mental training thing to be able to pick out the different tones, I actually already do that with 4 tones.

 

[goldseeker4000]

PATIENCE!!!!!!!!! Slow down and don't get into a rush while detecting with this detector. Force yourself to use the 28 tones. The X-terra 705 is capable of finding coins and other goodies under many senarios that most other detectors will fail at. with time you will find coins laying next to trash. If you get a posative signal and it bounces to a neg tid and back to posative, dig it! I have found many deep wheat pennies, Old nickels and dimes at depth. I am convinced that the x-terra will bounce back and forth from good tid and bad tid when the target is at a depth where the detector reaches an unclear lock onto a targets tid. If you dig these iffy signals you will be surprised at how many coins you retreive that you may otherwise have walked over. As Digger said in his book the 28 tones will give you a wealth of information that single or two tones can never do, regarding what the target is in the ground. If you have very mineralized ground keep in mind you have many ways to hunt that ground and elimenate chatter, false signals or constant signals due to lots of junk in the ground. for example: If you hunt an area that is highly mineralized and also has alot of trash, experiment with the prospecting mode and set your iron reject to around 3-6 and hunt in that mode. It will blank out junk iron. I have tried this and it works. It will enable you to dig non ferrus targets and leave the ferrus targets in the ground. I trust this feature 100%. Areas around old mines and miners cabins are covered with junk iron, tin, you name it, and it use this mode to in a sense cherry pick thru the area. Then I will go back thru in coin mode to double check. When you learn everything the X-terra can do you will feel like a kid in a candy store, every time you go out detecting. You will feel confident that you will get the goodies under all hunting senarios. I take my x-terra with me every where I go.

 

[BADBAJA]

Thanks goldseeker for more tips and advice. I also use prospecting mode while in the middle of no where areas. It finds just about any metal really deep. I still have a chunk of metal buried up at my moms place that I stopped digging at 2 ft. My bro says its a Buick buried at 10ft.