Mike Bearden
Member
Well my finds were meager to some of the folks that were lucky enough to have the coil in the right spot at the right time but I can tell you without a doubt that the 70 made a good showing in some nasty ground. I tried every tone option and since I'm a glutton for punishmnet and like to hear it all I went for 99 tones.
I even took it down on the beach during low tide for some bottom feeding and hunted right in the middle of a pack of folks that were swinging Whites, Fisher, Troy X5, Tesoro's, Garrett's, and you name it, they were swinging it.
You all might find this to be interesting, I put the 70 in beach mode and worked right along the waters edge, this spot is directly below the Fort and is covered with hot rocks, red clay bricks, iron, black sand pockets, ugly stanky clay and just about anything you can imagine that will hinder a detectors ability to produce results.
Here's the good part, I tried both the 7.5 and the 18.75 coils and both produced bullets and coins right in between the other folks and in many cases, I found good targets walking behind others and literally in their left behind footsteps.
It got so obvious that at one time while digging targets I had some of these folks stop hunting and watch me pull targets that their detectors was not seeing as good hits
Some were inquisitive enough to ask me to let them hear the next target through my headphones BEFORE I dug it up, and yes some tried their detectors and said all they heard was trash or nothing at all.
The 70 really performed well in this nasty area and left a few folks scratching their heads and me feeling like a proud new papa
I was really impressed with the 70 inland as well, it hit on percussion caps 6-7" deep and bullets in the 10" range.
Small pieces of brass and copper were easy targets even in the overgrowth areas which were just about everywhere under the tree's considering this site dates back to pre Revolutionary War.
Now for the BAD part, the 50 and 70 both seem to share something in common with it's big brother the Explorer. It seems that almost every time I removed the top layer of overgrowth to see the ground, which was usually around 3" thick, naturally I would hear the target much better ... now if I just went ahead and dug the target at say 6" for example and the target was 8" down I would completely LOSE the target signal. And ... I can't tell you how many times I dug the target out of the hole and couldn't find it in the pile of dirt by using the pinpoint button. It was like the target completely disappeared. I would even take a handful of dirt from the pile and wave it over the coil until the pile was depleted and never hear the target but could find it with a hand-held pin pointer.
Sure hope Ralph makes an in line probe fro the X-Terra soon, otherwise we have a problem.
I listened to some very faint targets that the Tejon users were hearing and the Tejon does well at this site. They were only slight whispers and tics on the Tejon and I was pleased that the 70 could hear them equally well too.
Now, what does the 70 need to make this an almost perfect detector ?
Well the coils are already coming so that's not an issue but if and when a in line probe becomes available, a man would be in for a FIGHT to get the 70 out of my hands.
I even took it down on the beach during low tide for some bottom feeding and hunted right in the middle of a pack of folks that were swinging Whites, Fisher, Troy X5, Tesoro's, Garrett's, and you name it, they were swinging it.
You all might find this to be interesting, I put the 70 in beach mode and worked right along the waters edge, this spot is directly below the Fort and is covered with hot rocks, red clay bricks, iron, black sand pockets, ugly stanky clay and just about anything you can imagine that will hinder a detectors ability to produce results.
Here's the good part, I tried both the 7.5 and the 18.75 coils and both produced bullets and coins right in between the other folks and in many cases, I found good targets walking behind others and literally in their left behind footsteps.
It got so obvious that at one time while digging targets I had some of these folks stop hunting and watch me pull targets that their detectors was not seeing as good hits
Some were inquisitive enough to ask me to let them hear the next target through my headphones BEFORE I dug it up, and yes some tried their detectors and said all they heard was trash or nothing at all.
The 70 really performed well in this nasty area and left a few folks scratching their heads and me feeling like a proud new papa
I was really impressed with the 70 inland as well, it hit on percussion caps 6-7" deep and bullets in the 10" range.
Small pieces of brass and copper were easy targets even in the overgrowth areas which were just about everywhere under the tree's considering this site dates back to pre Revolutionary War.
Now for the BAD part, the 50 and 70 both seem to share something in common with it's big brother the Explorer. It seems that almost every time I removed the top layer of overgrowth to see the ground, which was usually around 3" thick, naturally I would hear the target much better ... now if I just went ahead and dug the target at say 6" for example and the target was 8" down I would completely LOSE the target signal. And ... I can't tell you how many times I dug the target out of the hole and couldn't find it in the pile of dirt by using the pinpoint button. It was like the target completely disappeared. I would even take a handful of dirt from the pile and wave it over the coil until the pile was depleted and never hear the target but could find it with a hand-held pin pointer.
Sure hope Ralph makes an in line probe fro the X-Terra soon, otherwise we have a problem.
I listened to some very faint targets that the Tejon users were hearing and the Tejon does well at this site. They were only slight whispers and tics on the Tejon and I was pleased that the 70 could hear them equally well too.
Now, what does the 70 need to make this an almost perfect detector ?
Well the coils are already coming so that's not an issue but if and when a in line probe becomes available, a man would be in for a FIGHT to get the 70 out of my hands.