travis1460
Member
Hi everyone,
Its funny how much stuff has went on ebay from minelab users since the new ctx3030 is available. I'm still super impressed with my old explorer xs that I have got down to a science. I have found many silver dimes and coins at depths some people dont see possible. I have also pulled coins out of holes with rusty nails right next to the coins with programs I had gathered in the past off the internet. I just recently went to a park last week with my buddy using his sov gt and made him mad lol! I just recently got back into detecting after a couple years and got my good ole explorer xs back after having to sell my last one to pay medical bills. I was pretty familiar with everything but still had a few things that had to be refreshed. I was detecting and kept getting signals that I thought for sure must be fooling me because the depth meter was buried and the signal was faint. I had my buddy who had his sov gt come over to confirm what he thought. He went over the target and couldnt get anything, so he cranked his sensitivity up all the way and put it in all metal and couldnt get anything either. He told me its probably just trash or something that he was not getting any signal. I kept getting the target pretty good so I started digging. Well after about ten inches I tried to get the signal and was barely getting it. I told him to come over with his sunray probe to see if he could get it, he had it in discriminate and checked the hole and looked surprised when he got a faint signal with the probe. He told me where to scoop dirt so I took another scoop and saw a sweet sight, a silver lying at an angle about two inches under where he told me to dig deeper. He looked at me with a mad face and told me I sucked lol! Turned out to be a worn 1918 merc. The deepest and most surprising find I had was at a park we had found tons of silvers, wheats, and indians. I had just barely got my first explorer xs right after they came out and learned it pretty well. I got a signal pretty faint and sounded like silver so I dug it. After digging to my elbow I thought for sure it must be a pop can or something because it kept coming in fairly good. I had the x1 probe on that one and probed the hole and after another 1/4" I pulled out a 1908-O barber that looked like it came straight from the mint. I could not beleive how deep this sucker was it had to be at least 14 or 15" deep and I have never used any coil other than the stock 10.5" coil. This is not in sand either, so even thought all these new machines have come out I will still take my explorer out. Knowledge and know how always beats technology in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing haha.
Its funny how much stuff has went on ebay from minelab users since the new ctx3030 is available. I'm still super impressed with my old explorer xs that I have got down to a science. I have found many silver dimes and coins at depths some people dont see possible. I have also pulled coins out of holes with rusty nails right next to the coins with programs I had gathered in the past off the internet. I just recently went to a park last week with my buddy using his sov gt and made him mad lol! I just recently got back into detecting after a couple years and got my good ole explorer xs back after having to sell my last one to pay medical bills. I was pretty familiar with everything but still had a few things that had to be refreshed. I was detecting and kept getting signals that I thought for sure must be fooling me because the depth meter was buried and the signal was faint. I had my buddy who had his sov gt come over to confirm what he thought. He went over the target and couldnt get anything, so he cranked his sensitivity up all the way and put it in all metal and couldnt get anything either. He told me its probably just trash or something that he was not getting any signal. I kept getting the target pretty good so I started digging. Well after about ten inches I tried to get the signal and was barely getting it. I told him to come over with his sunray probe to see if he could get it, he had it in discriminate and checked the hole and looked surprised when he got a faint signal with the probe. He told me where to scoop dirt so I took another scoop and saw a sweet sight, a silver lying at an angle about two inches under where he told me to dig deeper. He looked at me with a mad face and told me I sucked lol! Turned out to be a worn 1918 merc. The deepest and most surprising find I had was at a park we had found tons of silvers, wheats, and indians. I had just barely got my first explorer xs right after they came out and learned it pretty well. I got a signal pretty faint and sounded like silver so I dug it. After digging to my elbow I thought for sure it must be a pop can or something because it kept coming in fairly good. I had the x1 probe on that one and probed the hole and after another 1/4" I pulled out a 1908-O barber that looked like it came straight from the mint. I could not beleive how deep this sucker was it had to be at least 14 or 15" deep and I have never used any coil other than the stock 10.5" coil. This is not in sand either, so even thought all these new machines have come out I will still take my explorer out. Knowledge and know how always beats technology in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing haha.
. Most of our field coins are shallow anyways...so I don't feel I am missing much..