Park Hunting - CTX Style

[doc1964]

Got out to a local park Friday afternoon for an hour and found 2 wheats, a '51 Rosie and a '37 Merc (had to call it quits early because my wife called and said she wanted to go out to dinner).

Saturday I made a road trip to an old park and got 6 wheats (1909, 1910 x2 , 1918 the oldest), 2 indians (1905 and 189, a smooooth Barber or Seated dime, a 1911 Barber dime and an 1880 Canadian fish scale. Also found a few other old odds and ends.

All of the targets were identified using combined mode - listening for the deep, soft hits.

The CTX is doing a great job so far

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukYWNaYz27g[/video]

 

[Larry (IL)]

You are off to a great start Doug, those are some very nice finds.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Nice silvers Doc!

 

[Tony in FL]

Sweet finds and great video!

 

[spdnj]

Thanks for the video Doc, congrats
GL&HH

 

[Smack]

Nice finds and great video, well done.

 

[drkp88]

Hi Doc. Nice hunt. Call me crazy, but regarding that smooth dime - in the video I think I can see the bottom edge of the seated figure plus a hint of the figure itself. Bruce

 

[unearth]

Nice finds. One question. You keep referring to numbers in the video. I think those are the CO numbers? What were the FE numbers? Were they on the 12 line, or were they bouncing around?
Gary

 

[etracjoe]

Great hunt/video and sweet finds!!

 

[underwatermetalman]

Doc, great job on the finds. I have been to some old parks and have not had the success you have. Can you share the combined mode you are referring to and is it possible to record the sounds you look for prior to your digs? I appreciate your vids and am going to a 100 plus yr old park this weekend and would like to learn the combined mode.

thank you

Joe

 

[Digger]

Nice group of recoveries! Indians and silver ladies........two of my favorites. Congrats! HH Randy

 

[sube]

Them sure are pretty looking/

 

[doc1964]

Nice finds. One question. You keep referring to numbers in the video. I think those are the CO numbers? What were the FE numbers? Were they on the 12 line, or were they bouncing around?
Gary

Gary - Yep, those are the CO numbers - I find that when you lock onto a good target with the CTX the FE numbers were usually pretty good "around" the 12 line. To be honest though, I don't pay too much attention (like with the E-Trac) to the FE numbers because they can jump around (especially on deeper targets) - unless they go high (over 25) - then I'm pretty sure it's an iron false. I mostly look for a repeatable target - one that stays pretty consistent when I circle around it. Some of these targets were "choppy" but they hung in there when I circled.

Doc

 

[doc1964]

Doc, great job on the finds. I have been to some old parks and have not had the success you have. Can you share the combined mode you are referring to and is it possible to record the sounds you look for prior to your digs? I appreciate your vids and am going to a 100 plus yr old park this weekend and would like to learn the combined mode.

thank you

Joe

Joe - I run an open screen (no discrimination pattern) in combined in auto +3. I run my audio gain at 15 so that I can distinctly hear the differences between shallow and deep targets. There are a lot of screw caps at 4-5 inches in this park, so the coins are beneath them at 7-8". I turn the threshold down to a barely audible hum. I run ferrous-coin target separation, fast on, deep off, response normal.

My audio bins are (from what I can remember - I'm at work) - Iron line at 17, first bin from 0 to 15, second from 16 to 31, third (high tone - good stuff) from 32 to 48, fourth (same tone as iron) at 49 and 50 for falsing. I do adjust line between the second and third bin depending on where I'm at. If there are injuns in the park, I'll move it down to 30 or 31 - if not then I'll move it up to 36 or 37 to take screw caps out of the high tone "money bin". My brother uses a nickel bin set to high tone and has been doing well with it.

Doc