No Doubts Now

[SAGITTARIUS]

Nearby is a little city block park with a club house built in 1924. I have found many silver coins and wheat pennies there over the years starting in the late sixties. Most were found with an Explorer II and a SE Pro. In the last six months I had found no silver coins. I an effort to find more silver I sold the SE and bought a Whites TDI, then Whites VX3, then a Garrett AT Pro and another Explorer II(defective pinpoint & returned). The only silver found was a Rosie with the AT Pro. Sold all but the AT Pro and bought the CTX 3030 doubting it could do better than the Explorer SE Pro had. I have had no experience with the E-trac but know the explorers well.

First hour hunt using a modification of Charles Upstate NY 's explorer settings on the CTX 3030, I dug three targets. First coin found was a 1944 wheat penny, second a square rusty nail and third my first Barber quarter. It was 9 inches deep, the length of the Garrett pinpointer, with iron nearby. You can see the butt of the pinpointer in the hole at surface level. The Barber was worn very thin with no date visible. I have no doubts now as to what this detector can do as I have covered this area with the Explorer many times.

 

[ToddWisconsin]

Ouch.....I got a few of them too...lol...including my first barber half...

 

[Larry (IL)]

Welcome to club CTX Don.

 

[MHirschmann]

Congrats on the Barber. The more you use the CTX, the more you will find those deep coins that others have missed. I pulled an 1867 Shield Nickel out of a pounded park 2 days ago. At least I assume it was pounded because signals were very few and far between and the park is very old. I am glad you are liking the CTX and I look forward to seeing your coming finds as you learn more and more about your new machine. HH and thanks for sharing -Marc

 

[earthmansurfer]

Great hunt and I like hearing these types of stories. I'm curious what your ground is like, mineralization wise. I did a hunt at a park I hit with both a lower and higher frequency machine, so I had covered all conductors. I still pulled two more coins from the dead center of the hardest hit two areas. One was 7" and with iron nearby, mostly gave a two way signal, until I coaxed 4 ways. Good depth with iron nearby I though, as well as the mineralization.

Congrats,
Albert

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Great report! Thanks for the pics!

 

[Gonehunting]

Awesome.. The CTX is a brute!

 

[HaroldILL.]

I was wondering what headphones are you using as you have them plugged into the machine? Do they shut off the speaker? Are they killer bees. Thanks.

 

[Gonehunting]

I was wondering what headphones are you using as you have them plugged into the machine? Do they shut off the speaker? Are they killer bees. Thanks.

I use the SunRay Gold Pros.. Unfortunately no they do not shut off the speaker when plugged in directly to the machine, not at this time, but I have been using the wireless module too. On the last couple of hunts it has been so hot and the humidity was so bad that any kind of head phones were covered with sweat and I didn't want to ruin them.. So I turned my volume done on the wm10(wireless module) and placed it on my pack where I could hear it..

 

[SAGITTARIUS]

Albert & Harold, The soil in west Texas is a sandy loam which is low in mineralization and the headphones are Killer B's. They are the ones made specially for the Nautilus detector and do turn off the speaker. Thanks for all the comments, Don.

 

[Digger]

Congrats on the finds. Nice to hear that your doubts have been cast aside! I'd almost bet you that the more you use it, the more you'll like it. And the more you like using it, the more you'll learn about it. And the more you learn about using it, the more you'll find. And naturally, the more you find..... well, you know the rest! Thanks for the post. HH Randy

 

[jimpugh]

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