Question for you beach hunters using the 705 ...

[Willee - Texas]

Just got the X-Terra 705 today and was air testing some targets.
Standard coil (M)
Program 1

My pull tab collection all comes in at a solid 14 on the VID.
No other piece of gold jewelry that I presently own hits 14 on the VID.
The closest ring was 16.
Does this hold up in the sand at the beach?
Can I really eliminate those pesky pull tabs and not miss any gold?

Here is what I get with the air testing ...

Pull Tab 14
Nickle 12
Zinc Penny 30
Dime 36
Quarter 42

I can not wait to get it out to the beach and see if this holds true in real beach conditions.
If it can actually ID those pull tabs accurately then it will greatly increase my gold to junk ratio.

Willee

 

[Digger]

Although these posts were made prior to my buying the 705, the X-70 TID readings are pretty consistent with it.


http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,569213,569213#msg-569213

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,647958,648175#msg-648175

HH Randy

 

[Dan-Pa.]

When on the beach dig all from low foil to high silver..Once read where there is at least a thousand or more type tabs made over the years and a 16 could just have a nice diamond ring...Reject any number and it could cost you a dandy gold ring and thats why you hunt a beach....some guys unless on an old beach notch out the predominate coins except nickel to increase their chances for gold jewelry..Unfortunately gold rings can be found anywhere from low foil thru tabs and even a large 10kt. gold college ring could come in as zinc..but they are far and few between...Just because you don't have a gold ring that reads 16 don't mean diddily considering size, kt rating and metal mixed with your various gold rings..

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Whoops should have read 14 instead of 16 and was a typo..Do remember lots of mens wedding bands including mine come in at 14 and whether you are aware or not the foil region just below nickel probably takes in approx. 1/3 of gold rings found(many thin womens rigns with ncice stones.) Heck can go to my local park and get at least several prevalent pull tab numbers..

 

[Kieth-Tx]

I need you to dig those pulltabs & get them out of my way! Although...North Beach has the least amount of pulltabs to any of the other beaches in our area!

 

[Willee - Texas]

At the beach this morning I learned that air test numbers dont hold true in the field.
A solid 14 on a clean square pull tab in the air test but the same type tab in the salt beach sand is anywhere from 12 to 16.
Depends on depth and amount of corrosion it has.

I guess I got used to the loud solid lock on report that the White's BeachHunter ID gives on targets.
The 705 is more subtle even than the Explorer's fairly solid tones.

Much like the Explorer, the coil of the X-Terra 705 dont really need to pass exactly centered over a target to detect it and make some sort of a noise.
Targets out near the edge of the coil would make enough noise to let you know something is in that general area.
This allows a fairly fast sweep speed and after you hear a tone you can slow down and zoom in on it.
I started out with 99 tones but cut that back to 4 as some targets (corroded penny's) would not give a solid single tone but would flute up and down with two or three tones.
This made it a bit hard to pinpoint without switching to that mode.
Quarters were always a solid single high tone unless there were other coins near them and were easy to pinpoint in the detect mode.

The beach I was at ground balanced at 14 and the sensitivity I set at 25.
There was a very slight falsing so I must have been right at the limit of stability.
I didnt do any measured tests but the detection depth was more than adequate to find anything that was there.
Some of the nickles I found were more than 8" down in the sand.

For those that know North Beach, I worked the area from the two vollyball net poles (the ones in front of the Lexington) east about for about 50 yards with overlaping paths from sidewalk to waterline. (the beach at the metered parking area).
Took two hours to cover that small area but I really wanted to see how the 705 responded to the various targets.
No jewelry on the 705 maiden voyage but I did recover a bunch of corroded zinc penny's and nickles from the beach along with a handful of other assorted coins and trash and one nice new pair of tweezers.

OK ... now it is time to read the manual and see how I could have set up the detector better ... lol.
(real men dont need no stink'n manual)

Willee
Corpus Christi, Texas

 

[Trackerman]

yup gota dig pesky tabs nickels and all solid hits to make sure yull gett some nice jewlry. The goods are out there its just hard to find them.

 

[dlively]

I agree trackerman, the beaches where I hunt are very soft sand so its no effort to scoop up almost any target to make sure what it is.
So I generally scoop everything and it looks like Willee has a good sand scoop in his picture so I suggest he do the same.