Target depth and faint singnals?

[Nock]

Nock here, hope all is doing well. I have been told that my xterra 70 is capable of finding a target at 9 inches. So far I have dug to maybe 6 to find a coin. I know that there are deferent conditions in the soil and the positon of coin itself that effects the singnal, but has anybody dug a coin at 9 inches or more? Conserning faint signals. On a deep signal that might be faint will it be a repeatable tone as it would sound in a shallow target. thanks to any that might your thoughts. good hunting to all going tomorrow morning myself.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I am presently going over a grass farm field I have detected many times, the only things left are the deep targets and they are 6-10+" deep. The targets are flakey, iffy signals that will not lock onto a steady VDI or tone. I'm using the stock 9" concentric coil @ 7.5kHz, I'll go back over it eventually with the 10" DD @ 7.5 kHz. The relics I have found are surprising digging the iffy signals, found a coin weight from the 1600s a few days ago. I would not detect a park like this because there is so much junk around, unless you are cleaning it out but, a nice relic site like an old homestead would be ideal digging the faint signals. I also run wide open, all metal and sens up around 26. Hope that helps a little and welcome to the forum! HH, Mike

 

[Nock]

Thanks Mike for the reply, I have been hunting the parks mostly and have not got to a place where i can dig freely, I think it will be real cool to find a coin say around 10 inches deep.my best coin i found so has been a1936 walking liberty half dollar at about 4 inches in a park. Took my breath away when i first saw it. best hunting to you,Nock

 

[John(Tx)]

I have found quarters at a measured 8" with my XT50 w/stock coil that hit with a nice smooth repeatable high tone. The tone was not loud but was such that I know it would of found that same quarter at 9". Since the XT70 can be run in true all metal mode with a slight threshold hum I am more than confident it would have no problem finding deeper coin size targets. Hope this helps. HH John

 

[SteveP(NH)]

My Xterra 705 has detected coin sized targets that deep. I just about exclusively relic hunt and so spend very little time in parks hunting for coins but last time out with it in a farm field I found a flat button a little bit bigger than a nickel somewhere around 9 or 10 inches deep (didn't measure it exactly but all arrows lit up on the target depth indicator) and it eye balled about that deep. I originally had the stock coil on the machine and got a faint but repeatable target on it. The target ID was very inconsistent (even when I switched in the target stabilization circuit) but the audio sounded good. I had been thinking about switching to the 10x6 HF coil anyway as I had it with me in my daypack, so I switched to it and it locked on with the TID bouncing between 30 and 32 and a clearer and louder tone.

 

[Nock]

hey john and steve : thanks for your input on my topic. it is good to read other x70 users experiences my only real deep target at maybe 9inches was at a playground that wood chips around the playground equipment was used and the chips were like at least a foot deep or more, i found a quarter. good hunting to both of you, Nock