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Shallow Silver

GateKeeper

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The last two weeks have been amazing. Finally nailing silver, wheaties and indians over 7 inches on a consistant basis.
But what is really interesting is that we are finding silver below 4 inches. I now am really paying attention to those
targets that are hitting 12/43 and above no matter how shallow. The silver targets found 4 inches and below include
two merc's, three silver rings, and one silver ear ring in the last two days. Although we all want to find the deep treasure,
make sure you dont over look what is shallow. HH
 
Is the CTX picking out that shallow silver in trash that you (and others) have missed with other detectors do you think?---Or possibly silver on edge that was previously missed?----Interesting, thanks for posting this.--------Del
 
vanbibr said:
The last two weeks have been amazing. Finally nailing silver, wheaties and indians over 7 inches on a consistant basis.
But what is really interesting is that we are finding silver below 4 inches. I now am really paying attention to those
targets that are hitting 12/43 and above no matter how shallow. The silver targets found 4 inches and below include
two merc's, three silver rings, and one silver ear ring in the last two days. Although we all want to find the deep treasure,
make sure you dont over look what is shallow. HH

I know several people that only dig deep signals. I suppose their theory is, they may miss a few good targets that are shallow, but they have a greater chance at recovering nice old coins, if they are deep. I recovered my first Morgan dollar at about 2" near an old bandstand in a park. (with my E-Trac, before my CTX). How it was still there, who knows. I guess it was left, because it was shallow and large. I was very happy, however. By recovering shallow good signals, you may/may not recover an old "keeper", but you may remove something that was masking a deeper good target as well......It all depends on ones thinking, of whether shallow targets are "worth" digging. I recover any target that is giving me a good reading, both shallow and deep. If it is good and deep, I am always hoping for a nice coin, but that doesn't always hold true either........Nice job on your success.HH
 
This past Sat., I was working a very heavily hunted park with the CTX. I heard my loud high tone at 2", figured it was a clad quarter. I was very surprised to find a 1899 Barber quarter. How it was missed all these years just amazes me.
 
D&P-OR said:
Is the CTX picking out that shallow silver in trash that you (and others) have missed with other detectors do you think?---Or possibly silver on edge that was previously missed?----Interesting, thanks for posting this.--------Del

Actually Del, I think it's a bit of both. The park we were hunting was so trashy that the threshold was nulling most of the time.
But even though the threshold nulled, targets still screamed with with the CTX. Now here is the interesting part, you must set
your machine to your soil. My hunting buddy was having a problem not hitting targets as well as my CTX. All we had to do was raise his gain and adjust the threshold pitch. Once you get it dialed in, no target is safe.
 
I have notice that there are coins the ctx sould not be finding I have found 2 indians at 4 inches deep and one at 3 inches nothing by them at all. I looked in the same spot with my exp 2 and coins that shallow sould have been sitting ducks for the exp 2 whats going on with this ctx is anybody guess.
 
I've seen the same thing. It seems the ole CTX is tripping the threshold either faster or is tripping with a weaker original signal. The gents and gals at minelab you figure had to be looking very closely at their very own explorer/etrac performance not to mention the white's units, Deus, fisher and many more. It may be more sensivitive too on the coil periphary when compared to other detectors. I suspect coins on edge may be the culprit. You know I haven't seen any comparisons with explorer/etrac with coin on edge.
 
Thanks for all your help with the 3030. Without your help I would be inventing new words in trying to learn the 3030. Coming from a White's XLT to a Minelab CTX 3030 is like stepping into a whole different world. I am learning from your experience.

Thanks again

Carver
 
I no guys that will only dig deep targets well I got to say if you dont dig shallow target then leave them I will dig them in the last mouth I got a 1862 seated quarter and it was 3 inches and yesterday I dig a 1881 Indian at 2 inches and a 1936 Merc at 4 inches. So you never no how deep the old coin will be.:twodetecting::minelab::cheers:
 
TIM CLARK said:
........in the last mouth I got a 1862 seated quarter and it was 3 inches......:cheers:

Tim we all make our spelling errors but that one had me chuckling pretty hard picturing how you dig your finds. :rofl:
 
I read that a piece of iron as small as a staple above a coin, will cause NO NULL but will mask the coin,. Perhaps, the CTX's advanced ground settings are playing a role here?

Albert
 
I have tried it on the CTX, the coin comes through loud and clear. Since that initial test, I have dug several coins that had a nail lying across the coin. I was using Ferrous-Coin.
 
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