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7centsworth

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I need some information on hunting relics as I normally hunt coins. I have a cw site I am getting ready to hunt and have never hunted one before. What set ups do you use senstivety , pattern , mode and anything else you can tell me . I only have a stock and 6 dd coil also. Thanks.
 
My set up for the Xterra 70.....All Metal, Sens as high as you can stand it, auto GB & Noise Cancel, 2 Tones And Auto-Trac. I use the 10.5DD Med Freq coil and it goes DEEP!!!
 
That is a deep hole . Do you dig everything above iron?
 
when field hunting I dig EVERY repeatable signal above iron. I have sensitivity as high as possible, multi tone, Pat. 1
 
That was a .69 cal 3 ringer about 10-12" deep. I dig everything above Iron when out in the fields. Check out my post in the FAQFAQ Section For common ID's of some relics.......MO
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,962451,962544#msg-962544







7centsworth said:
That is a deep hole . Do you dig everything above iron?
 
I hunt the fields almost the same way as Terry does. Dig every repeatable signal above iron. Senitivity maxed out if I can, 4 tones, patt 1 and work it slow. Don't expect the numbers and tones to be good, just dig all repeating signals above iron and I do the same thing when I am hunting in the woods.
 
Uh, guys I really hate to say this, but when you've confirmed that you're on CW site, you really need to start digging almost everything. I've found out that gun parts, artillery shell fragments, flat buttons, camp utensils, and almost anything deeper than 8" will come in as iron. When I have a confirmed CW camp or skirmish site I start digging everything and even switch over to a deeper seeking analog machine. The only thing I try not to dig is nails, when I'm fairly certain that's what it is. But, if you only dig stuff above iron, you're gonna miss a lot.
 
Ok, I'll clarify a little on the subject. I have learned the Xterra well enough to look at the Iron in the ground. I have learned what square nails ID & sound like and if I get a bouncy ID and low to high tone I always dig it. It might be a iron harness ring or a horseshoe, but I'll dig it because if a square nail is next to a button it will act like that. Really getting deeper is not an issue, it is target masking & seperation between the ferrous & non ferrous that really matters. The machines of old like the 1266 and even the Tejon with the STOCK coils are least to be desired in a "Worked Out" camp because of the seperation of targets. I don't have the privilage to hunt in a spot that has shell frags, so I have NO IDEA what it is like to find them. The best thing to do with the X-terra is just to dig every thing, the tones and the ID just make it fun to discover what you have found, I do know that if you have bad ground the DD coils are the only way to go.......MO



Canewrap said:
Uh, guys I really hate to say this, but when you've confirmed that you're on CW site, you really need to start digging almost everything. I've found out that gun parts, artillery shell fragments, flat buttons, camp utensils, and almost anything deeper than 8" will come in as iron. When I have a confirmed CW camp or skirmish site I start digging everything and even switch over to a deeper seeking analog machine. The only thing I try not to dig is nails, when I'm fairly certain that's what it is. But, if you only dig stuff above iron, you're gonna miss a lot.
 
Morelic55, I don't understand your sentence, "The machines of old like the 1266 and even the Tejon with the STOCK coils are least to be desired in a "Worked Out" camp because of the seperation of targets."

Are you saying they're good or bad machines in a worked out camp? And, if you mean bad, why?
 
Sorry about the confusion. I ment to say that the older machines with their concentric coils are not worth taking into a worked out spot. The Tejon with the stock concentric 8x9 is the same way, great depth but little seperation in heavy iron laden spots. The Tejon with the 5.75 concentric or DD coil works OK, but in my ground the Minelabs with the DD coils work better. In fact, I never use my stock 7.5 kHz stock coil for the X-terra, I leave it in the box. The 10.5 DD stays on it from day one and then in really trashy spots, I'll use the 18.75 6" DD coil. I think there would be a real "Revival" of the old Fisher 1265/1266 if someone would make a DD coil for them...........MO
 
Funny you should mention the DD coils. The Tejon has an 8.5" DD (widescan as they call it) and a 10" elliptical. When I saw those coils I knew I had to add a Tesoro back to my relic hunting repetoire'. I love the small 6" HF coil on the X-terra, its gets amazing depth and I'm using my XT-705 to search for for goodies in old homesites. But, I'm becoming a slave to TID and I need to hunt by sound only once in a while and dig more targets. I'm planning on taking my son to some hammered Civil War sites up in Tennessee this winter/spring and we'll need every advantage of depth we can get.
 
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