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Unleashed the Terra today.

M

Mick in Dubbo

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I was due to lose the Terra for a couple of months to a mate yesterday, but if you read Marco's post, my mate lives near that part of the world, so couldn't fly due to the weather. So this allowed me to get out with the 30 for a few hours today. Applying the new pinpointing techniques really allowed me to get some excellent results out of the machine, with the easiest recoveries yet. I also tried to muck around with the VCO on our 10 cent pieces and pull tabs (as they come up in the same notch on the display. Alas, I could only recover coins today as the only pull tabs I came across were visible.:shrug: I did a bit more testing on the pinpoint fade and was only once, completely fooled by a target, the eyelet. I dug up 2 other junk items that if I listened to the detector (more experience) I would have guessed correctly. The pinpoints sounded different to a coin. There was one other piece of can slaw that I dug up (bouncing ID) just to see what it was. It was only an inch away from a $1 coin that I had just recovered. I was just curious as to what it was, as it affected the coin pinpoint a bit, mainly when I was sliding the coil in it's direction while pinpointing.
The total for today was $22.04. I also included all junk (as described above) that was recovered today.
Mick Evans.
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Man that is a great day! Here in the US we have a 1.00 coin but it is seldom used. For the sake of my knees I wish it was.

Good hunting, Beale.
 
Every unit has its own language and audio variances which are learned overtime. Surely not 100 percent correct but can cut down the odds.. You fellows out of the U.S. have to learn where your coins fall on the meter but having one and two dollar coins sure adds to you total at the end of the day..We all get fooled now and then or perhaps pick up a nice gold ring because we have taken the time to learn the language. Nice bunch of coins I would say and 5 to 10 dollars is probably tops for clad on any given hunt in the U.S in most cases...
 
Yesterday I found $4.40 in clad my best clad day yet. I also found a nice 925 marked necklace, and a art deco circa 1920-1930 Princess Pat Rrouge compact.

My quarter count was 11 most ever, Beale.
 
Looks like you got yourself some nice finds Beale. I sure would like to dig up some old coins. Give it some time and I think that $1 coins will eventually catch on there.
Mick Evans.
 
I must confess that I'd really expected to still be digging more trash than I have. I suspect that that will happen on further hunts. It sure was nice to improve the ratio though.
I wouldn't mind having our coins in the same areas that you do in the States, as it would make life easier, but pulling up $1 and $2 coins is more than compensation. a $1 coin will show up as a 32 and a $2 coin will be a 28, a 32 or bounce between the 2 on the X-30. The VCO helps in sorting through them though, and as I haven't hunted the smaller value coins much before with the X-Terra, I've started playing around with the VCO on them and pull tabs. here is a definite difference between them. I just could find buried pull tabs to test the theory further. It's all learning, which keeps one from just hunting by habit. 5 to 10 dollars would be a typical hunt over here, but not a high coin count. My best ever day was with the X-Terra, with a total of $72 in a single day in Sydney. I actually repeated the amount the very next day.I couldn't believe my luck! Sometimes I wish I still lived there as there is a lot More opportunities to hunt clad.
Mick Evans.
 
Hello Mick, Congrats on the finds. I don't know how you can lend your detector, It's like lending your wife, I couldn't live without her. HH Bob
 
Looks like you know how the Xterra works really well.
Thanks for the Pm on the pinpoint method....I give it a try.
 
I've got a couple of spares. Actually, he has taken me for a few spins in his plane, just for my benefit and wouldn't take any fuel money.So how could I refuse?
Mick Evans.
 
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