Those Testers that have both the X-Terra 30 and the 50

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[Dan-Pa.]

Why Rick wasn't designated a tester...Certainly one of our better Minelab people and certainly an excellent detectorist..Nothing against you other fellows, just stating my opinion...

 

[Rick(ND)]

Sometimes it would be nice to be ask, may not know everything about a detector but like to look at it in the customer point of view if possible. If I see something I don't really like I like to point it out, or something I notice and see if others notice it too. This is why I mention the different numbers on the quarter on the X- Terra 50 and the 30 so those that get a 30 and wonder why they don't get quarters a 42 like the read the 50 getting.
I try to be fair on my opinions and like to see the field tester get a detector or product without talking to any of the other testers and write a report, then send them to someone who will post all at the same time. This way we have a honest opinion of that field tester finding, not one he read about from one of the other field testers.Maybe we could see a few reports that differ and possibly someone will see something the others don't. Several of us did one like this on a Compass Coin Scanner about 3 years ago and sent in our reports, but it was never posted like it should have been. Talk to the tester latter and it sounded like we seen basically the same things.


Rick

 

[Daniel Tn]

Mike,

I more the less stayed in a small area at that site but within my small area I checked the GB a few times and had to adjust it twice to keep it on a slightly positive setting. But within the area I was in, the soil is visibly different there. They done some grading work on the side of the hill one time and the ground is more of a reddish clay there than what the rest of the site is. That ground is really rocky. Other than a CoinStrike, and EX II, the X-Terra is the only other ID machine to really do any good there. The guy with the EX II had to run it in all metal though.

To me...the X-Terra 50 is A LOT like the CoinStrike. I call it "a CoinStrike on a diet". It gets about the same depth but there is a lot of differences between the two too. Good difference...as in enough that I am trying to sell my C$ to get a X-Terra 50. It's lighter, the menu screen changes are easier to make, and it has more discrimination adjustments. And the ID doesn't jump around as much. I like all of that.

 

[Mike Bearden]

It would be interesting to see how well the X-Terra 30 would handle that site with the factory pre-set GB. I ran it all day yesterday in some tough ground around here and was very pleased with it's performance. Maybe we can do it again sometime in the near future, I'd like to hit the downside of the place and possibly work closer to the RR tracks like we discussed before.
Take care & Good Hunting
Mike