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X-Terra 50 ..... High tone + 42 = BQ.......

Digger

Digger

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Took the X-50 out to an old fair grounds today. This particular site was only used from 1905 to 1912. Temps are still unseasonably warm, (43 degrees) but windy. Every day we get like this is a bonus day and one more day closer to spring. I only got fooled once today. And that was on a copper jacketed 410 shotgun shell casing. This detector is rapidly becoming my "go to" detector for these old "wide open" sites. HH Randy
 
It was only about 6 inches deep. I found it in a farm field that use to be a fair grounds. It gets tilled annually, so coins get turned over with the soil. As to having an MXT and needing another machine... I believe that the X-Terra 50 is a very good detector and has made some great finds for me in the short period of time I have used it. 2-cent piece, IH cents, seated and Barbers. I think that if you bought an X-Terra, you would find the MXT to be a very good second machine. (you didn't think I would say the X-Terra would be the second machine on the X-Terra forum, did you?) Seriously, if you have any specific questions, just ask. HH Randy
 
Digger,

You're right.......42 = silver!
Dug three of these very nice shillings from woodland, all separate finds but same general area.

Des
Minelab
 
Hi,

I have an MXT and think it is great. But the areas it is weakest in the X-Terra 50 is strongest in - tones, and independent target notching, and where the MXT would be considered "noisy" the X-Terra is exceptionally quiet.

So I do indeed think the MXT and X-Terra make a gear pair of machines. Get the X-Terra... but keep that MXT!

Steve Herschbach
 
That's the kind of stuff we just don't find out here (or at least I don't!). Really great find, Randy. Like you said, the X-Terra's are proving to be "go-to" machines.

Since the beaches are all sanded in here I may be out at a part or two tomorrow myself. We'll see what I come up with!

Keep the good finds coming.

Bill
 
couple days will be hunting for my gloves! It is currently snowing now, and the weather guessers are calling for 3 - 5 inches today. But, the good news is that they are also calling for temps in the 40's and low 50's again next week. So, this white stuff won't last long. And, as you may have been able to tell from the picture, we can sure use the moisture. Dry and crumbly in most of the places I hunt.
This part of the Country wasn't settled until the mid-1850's. So, it is rare that we find coins older than that. I was actually more tickled with the seated dime I found Saturday than the barber quarter. But it was the first silver quarter I found with the X-50 and getting one prior to 1900 (barely) was a plus. HH Randy
 
I can only dream of coins that old. This part of the US wasn't settled until the mid 1850's, making coins older than 1855 pretty rare around here. Over the years, I have managed to pull out a few silver coins from 1853, but they are the oldest, so far! Like I mentioned, when I got the high tone and the reading of 42, I knew it would be a quarter. Since the site I was hunting wasn't used beyond the years of the Barber series, I figured it would either be a Barber or a Seated Liberty quarter. Most of my silver dimes have been coming in with the medium high tone and a reading of 36 or 39, depending on the specific coin. IH cents are 27 - 33. I have found that when I am hunting a site that was "abandoned" in the early 1900's, any consistent reading above a 27 is a good thing! HH Randy
 
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This past week was very good to me with this quarter, a Barber dime and a very nice Seated Liberty dime. I guess when you think about it, the X-50 was "cookin"! HH Randy
 
Well that's comforting... I guess we made the right choice! I'm really looking forward to using the MXT and X-Terra 50 simultaneously. Spring can't come soon enough.
 
I have used the X-50 in the local park. Which, by the way, I have nicknamed Pulltab park. It is an old Chautauqua park that has been at the same site for about 130 years. During the past 35 years, it has been "modified" with a new sports complex, pool, tennis courts, parking lot etc. However, we still manage to get some good coins out of there occassionally. When we find one, it isn't as deep as some might think. My brother pulled an old Barber dime out at 5-inches just a few weeks ago. As I have said before, I believe that most of the old coins left lurking in the ground are still there due to being masked by adjacent trash, not because of extreme depth. At least in this neck of the woods. The trick with any good detector is to learn the subtle sounds of the keepers vs the trash and separate those targets. The X-50 is no exception.
I will admit that the X-50 and 9-inch coil is not my favorite combination at extremely trashy areas. But that is not due to the detector as much as it is the 9-inch coils currently available. I just think that the 9 inch coil has too much to analyze when working in a trashy environment, such as Pulltab park. Personally, I prefer to work this site with either my XLPro or my Explorer. I use either the 350 or 5.3 coil on my XLPro, or the 8-inch or 5-inch coil on my Explorer. If I am willing to work as slow as I need to with the Explorer, I don't have a problem separating tones and targets. However, patience is a virtue that I wasn't blessed with. Therefore, if after a couple hours, I haven't found anything in a concentrated area with the Explorer, I find myself grabbing the much faster sweeping XLPro and working larger areas. It may not find anymore than the Explorer, but by covering more ground in a given period of time, I've increased my odds! Like I said, depth is not the issue.
A post made a couple days ago confirms that Minelab is evaluating a smaller coil for the X-50. With the X-Terra's quick reset speed, fast sweep speed,audio and visual target ID and notch discrimination, a small coil should make it a great trash killer/coin finder. HH Randy
 
Thanks for the opinions. I got rid of an MXT once, and that was a mistake. Have another one and its for keeps. The Xterras have my interest more than any other makes that are available. I've used the 30 for a day and it was a pleasure due to the quietness and lightness.
 
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