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Took my old friend out today for a hour and a half

R

Rick(ND)

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My old friend the Minelab GT with the Sun Ray meter and the Sun Ray S1 probe I just put together. I sold mine last fall and was able to pick up a uses Sun Ray DTI 2 meter from Richard at Backwoods detectors that looks like it is new, got a S1 probe and got a new GT and put it all together. Been using the X-Terra 70, the Teknetics T-2 and the Explorer so far this year and doing OK as these are also some great detectors, but sure missed my GT.
Anyway was able to get out to one of the farmsteads I tried the XT 70 and the Explorer at with the GT today and for the little while I was there before it rained I heard that good sweet tones the GT gives on a good target that is deep. I got a few pieces of copper and brass found at old farm sites and some older shotgun shells that were from 6-11 inches deep and got one signal that sounded good, but yet I would get some negative numbers on the meter. I did my 90 degrees pinpoint in all metal pinpoint so I had the target centered and held the coil still while i switched back to disc and wiggled the coil slightly and the threshold never null or changed, so this is a sign of a good target, but it cannot change the tones, a iron target will null, but a deep one that is good will either give a positive signal or no threshold change when doing the 90 degrees pinpoint in all metal and then when centered, switch to disc to ID. Dug a plug the length of my Lesche digger and took out some dirt, now went in with the S1 probe in all metal and heard a slight signal deeper and a little more to one side. Dug out more and got a better signal and loud enough for me to switch back to disc to see if it was a good signal with the probe. It sounded real good now and knew it was a good target. Dug more dirt out and pull enough that the target was in the dirt pile now and with the S1 probe it was easy to find and it was a penny size target and looked at it and seen the Indian, so I knew it a IH penny, date was 1884, but hard to see the 4 as it is wore. I wish I would have had my camera with as I could have showed how deep the hole was as this penny was close to 12 inches deep. I put the probe back in the hole and could hear a slight signal deeper and dug more dirt out and got a better signal, but it nulled when I went to disc to ID it with the S1 probe.
Sure felt good to hear the tones of my friend the Sovereign again, was music to my ears.
I will say for a person that wants the deep coins and gets those weak signals the S1 probe is worth it weight in gold and don't know how a person could find some of the deep ones if it wasn't for the probe unless you dug a big hole deep and wide.

Rick
 
Amen to that. Ralph makes the best probes out there. I was pinpointing with the WOT on a slope 2 days ago and once you've cut the plug there is no signal from the coil. Just keep digging down and get the S1 in there and you'll find it!

Hey Rick, because you've been using a bunch of machines that I'm interested in can you tell us a little bit about your experiences in moving from the Sov to those other machines? Once you're accustomed to the tones of the Sovereign, how is the T2 or the 70? What is it that the Sov has over those machines that you're happy to get back to? What do they do better? Or if not better, what do they do that you like?
 
The S-1 probe is a MUST for the Soverign-GT. I have a real hard time using my Tejon because I don't yet have a probe. Retrieval without a probe is lame...

J
 
Hi Rick

That's awesome. I'm glad your able to get out with one again. I sure love my GT setup. Kinda sounds like yours, lol. Get some more.
Mark
 
n/t
 
These are all great detector and all have some great depth too. I find the T-2 and the XT 70 are faster responding, so a coin next to iron you have a better chance of the detector seeing it. I still don't have alot of time in the T-2 or the XT70 but enough to see how they will work for my detecting I do.
One of the things I like about the Sovereign is the 180 meter as it tells me what I need to know along with the tones and find it very accurate comparing it to the other 2, at least for me. The tones of the Sovereign I like better and with it keeping the tone of the last target give me a chance to know I went over a target. Both the T-2 and the XT70 seem to chatter a bit more and seems both will ID rusty washers as a good target, in fact both will ID many of the rusty bottle caps as a good target too. Some of this I know with some more experience I know I should be able to tell the difference in rusty bottle caps too. The Sovereign is rare to see it get a rusty bottle caps, but when real dry some will sound like a deep nickle.
Both the T-2 and the XT70 are easy to ground balance and both are very sensitive to smaller targets as I do dig a lot of small items the sound good,but hard to find in the dirt and whey I wish Sun Ray made a Probe for them. Until then I use my Unirprobe which works great.
Now where I like to use the T-2 more in in the farm fields where I can swing the coil very fast and still hear some deep target it also will see some coins next to nails good too. The XT70 also will work good in farm Fields and in some parks too as many trash items can be notched out while the T-2 you cant. Both the T-2 and the XT70 you have the option on tones too from a one tone to a 4 and multi on the XT70. This works good for different type of hunting as my farm fields I like to use 2 tones and run all metal so iron is one tone and non ferrous a higher tone.
Now the Sovereigns work better for my park and serious hunting in school yards ballfields and private yards as I said before I can tell my targets better and dig less and the Sovereign hates iron, so I get fooled a lot less with it.
All 3 are good detectors and I feel depending on your hunting which one to get, or like me have a Sovereign and one other detector for most hunting and I still will keep my Explorer too for some areas i want to go after I used my Sovereign over it to see anything the Sovereign missed. Some area I used the Explorer first, then came back with the Sovereign and picked up targets the Explorer has missed too.
To me the Sovereign is like a comfortable pair of shoes while the XT70 and the T-2 is like a new pair of shoes and the longer you can wear then the better they get, so i feel I will get better with the T-2 and the XT 70 when I use them some more.

Rick
 
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