What to dig or not dig

[Howard Snell]

Just took the plunge with the 3030. I used to swing a Garret AT Pro. Based upon the testing that was done the magic gold range for the Pro was 40-60 whereas I guess silver was 80 and above. What ranges on the 3030 should I be looking for?

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

There are several charts floating around but the best thing to do to learn it is dig all repeatable signals till you get a firm grasp on it. That is the best teaching tool around.

Silver usually comes around 12-44,45,46,47. All depends on how its sitting... size... moisture... adjacent targets.... etc ... etc....etc. Again, I would dig it all for awhile. Anything on 12 or 11 line that repeats I would dig for SURE!

 

[GateKeeper]

Congrats and welcome to the CTX 3030 home Howard. Look on the CTX main page, scroll down
from the top, and look at the last blue banner on the left. That is the CTX 3030 Resource Center. In
there you will find threads from members that have posted FE/CO numbers for what you are looking for.

Good Luck with your new toy

 

[xQuestx]

For Gold Low 12's , silver going to be on the upper 12's like 12-40's through 12-48 or so.

12-29 wedding ring = 4 gm. 22 carat
12-19 wedding ring (thin) = 2.52 gm. 22 carat
12-01 thin wedding ring (broken hoop) = 2.6gm. 22 carat
12-01 hollow hoop earring = 1.75gm. 9 carat
12-19 keeper ring (broken hoop) = 6.80 grams. 9 carat
12-07 identity bracelet plate (chain missing) = 1.65 gram. 9 carat
12-07 engagement ring = 1.6 gm. 9 carat
12-01 gate bracelet = 7.47 gm. 9 carat
12-13 st Christopher = 2.42 gm. 9 carat
13-01 hoop earring = 1.3 gm. 9 carat
12-07 engagement ring = 1.82 gm. 9 carat
12.25 wedding ring (thick) = 5.41gm. 18 carat
12-19 quarter noble = 23 carat

 

[Howard Snell]

Thank you everyone this seems allot clearer to me now. I never had a machine with a ferros line and I did not know how this was relevant. I knew it was relevant for some reason just not why.

 

[denny]

Just took the plunge with the 3030. I used to swing a Garret AT Pro. Based upon the testing that was done the magic gold range for the Pro was 40-60 whereas I guess silver was 80 and above. What ranges on the 3030 should I be looking for?

Learn to use the cursor on the screen. Dig anything that falls in the area of silver dig it. I use it and then verify the target with the fe/co numbers to determin what it is before I dig.
I suggest you start using the cursor for silver first then move to gold.

 

[C&RHunter]

Howard, don't do like a guy in my club did. The first few weeks he had his CTX, only dug targets that registered on the 12FE line. He asked me at a meeting if that's where ALL the good targets read. The answer of course is no. I always allow a tolerance (plus or minus) on my numbers, more-so on the FE number reading than the CO. A lot of things can cause the target not to read exactly on the 12 line. After you dig a few targets, the "picture" will become much more clear as to what is more than likely a good target........If you watch any of the videos of the CTX, providing they show the numbers before the dig, try to guess what the target is based on their numbers before they recover the target. You can, also, scan coins to get a good idea of their FE/CO numbers, but these numbers can vary somewhat when a target is in the ground, due to co-located targets, mineralization, coin at angle in the ground, etc...........Good Luck...HH

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

In my experience from strictly the beach hunting arena. Shallow targets will be consistent with known FE/CO numbers.Once the targets get below 8 inches or is resting on any great angle the numbers just change. I haven't figured it all out yet but quarters with my settings will always be an
11-46 or 12-46 unless there deep like 10 or 12 inches and then I'll get a 10-38. While I am at it being in the beach environment scooping is easy so digging iffy non repeating targets to see is relatively easy,so I do. Many many times these are coins jumping about the whole range of number and deep!
So from my stand point repeatable signals is really a misnomer. What has remained true is that gold has always come in the same way with each sweep and doesn't change FE or CO numbers. What ever number it was to begin with, of coarse these numbers very from piece to piece.Lots of earring type smaller gold are on the 08/09 Fe numbers! Go figure! Where does this put you....... dig everything! I do on the beach. I do allow for discrimination by ear/eye in the dirt! First and foremost is your ear then cursor placement then if you want you can look at the numbers but its not needed in the beach hunters bag of tricks!
BCNJ

 

[Howard Snell]

Mr. Buried Crap

I think a good strategy is only did bad looking targets at 8 or deeper and ignore nails or other crud at maybe like 5 inches.

 

[hipshote28]

I will say yes on the silver 12-45 '46'47 but if your digging a old old swimming hole with lots of shotgun shells an 22 shorts an other stuff check the lower number .Shot gun shells will throw you a loop have to really slow down an listen for deep targets .My ctx 3030 has been a learning fpr me coming from a at pro an using my excal so dig iy if you think about it