I hit a couple of spots that I had not been to this year. One of these spots is a solid clay field that is impossible to hunt in dry weather. The ground is like concrete. I have found Barber coins and many wheats here. Today I dug three 9 inch deep wheats and a handful of clad. It is not my favorite spot because it is not pretty, just a wide open field. After a couple of hours I went to a park that has not given up hardly any coins except clad for the last year or two. I hunted for an hour with just 5 clad coins to show. I was hunting my way back to the truck and I was going to pass a spot that I have found probably a hundred wheats and ten silvers in the past. I was skirting the edge of this former hot spot when I got deep squeak that read 38. From 8 inches I dug a wheat penny. I had an hour to kill so I moved over and gridded a 40 foot by 40 foot area. The detector ground balanced at 11 in this spot and again, the 7.5 dd big coil worked like a charm. Nothing great, but 6 wheats and one silver dime. All were 8 inches deep. There is a fair amount of trash in this spot and I could work through it just fine. I am getting to have complete confidence in this detector. Even with the bigger dd coil, it is light and responsive. I just got a Vibra Probe 570 and it does not like the x70 at all. I have had the older 560 with several detectors and I could move the coil away when I was digging. I can't get the x70's coil far enough away. I also can't swing the detector until it shuts off. It is a great probe with double the range of the old 560, but it might be history. I don't feel like waiting to start detecting until it shuts down. One more thought on the X70. This detector is on par with the Explorer for deep coins and accuracy of the numbers and tones. I have purposely dug many deep 24 to 28 high tones hoping for an indian head or wheat. Every single time, these numbers were the old style pull tab where the tab and ring come off as one. If it is a wheat or indian, it will stay at 30 every time. I am digging signals that are barely a squeak of a high tone, but if the numbers stay in the 34 to 38 range, they are wheats. Likewise for silver, even a 8 plus inch deep silver dime or quarter, the numbers will stay accurate. If you can't tell, I really like this detector. I wish I was better at explaining the deep coin signals. They are not loud, bangers of signals. I have also been doing an old Sovereign trick with the dd coil. I get the signal centered under the coil and I give it a quick wiggle and slowly move it back or forward. A coin will almost always stay or rise slightly in a high tone. Deep rusty bottle caps will grunt when I do this. Sorry to ramble so much. R.L.
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X70 Continues To Amaze Me!
- Thread starter RLOH
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BarnacleBill
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Good report R.L. And it sounds like you are having the time of your life! Way to go. 
I still have my trusty 560 Vibraprobe and it doesn't seem to have a problem interfering with the X-Terra. Naturally, if you lay it down in close proximity to the coil, you can hear the pulses. But if I lay the coil away from the hole I am digging, no problem for me. I've heard a couple guys report similar circumstances with their 570. And with different brands of detectors. Must be a bit more powerful than the 560? I think I'll hang on to my 560!
As to the IH cents that you are finding..... it seems to me that the lowest readings (24, 26, 28 ) are from those minted in the 1860's and 1870's. I won't swear to it, but it seems that the older they are, the lower they read. Nothing to do with depth. I suspect it is the metallic content. As well, most of those minted after 1880 are as you said, 30+. At least that is what I have come to believe. JMHO HH Randy
I still have my trusty 560 Vibraprobe and it doesn't seem to have a problem interfering with the X-Terra. Naturally, if you lay it down in close proximity to the coil, you can hear the pulses. But if I lay the coil away from the hole I am digging, no problem for me. I've heard a couple guys report similar circumstances with their 570. And with different brands of detectors. Must be a bit more powerful than the 560? I think I'll hang on to my 560!
As to the IH cents that you are finding..... it seems to me that the lowest readings (24, 26, 28 ) are from those minted in the 1860's and 1870's. I won't swear to it, but it seems that the older they are, the lower they read. Nothing to do with depth. I suspect it is the metallic content. As well, most of those minted after 1880 are as you said, 30+. At least that is what I have come to believe. JMHO HH Randy
Keith Southern
Active member
it is very accurate at I'd ing small deep iron in the quarter size or less .In 2 tone it will high tone on it but also throw a low tone in with it.and every time it was iron when i investigated the target.
I also notice the audio has a very distinct sound to it on iron that I picked up on right away.on the larger iron alot of detectors call good the 70 seems to give a good hit but it has a crackly type sound on the edges that it wont do on non ferrous targets.Its barely noticeable but its there all the less.
Im not talking about the raspy beeps it gives on all targets but the fluttery sound the larger iron gives is a dead give away. hard to describe but I'm sure some of you experinced users know what im talking about.
any how god to hear you did good in that spot.
Ive got a 10.5 DD MF coil on the way to try out on some deep targets.But that little 6 DD HF will spoil you quick.
Keith Southern
I also notice the audio has a very distinct sound to it on iron that I picked up on right away.on the larger iron alot of detectors call good the 70 seems to give a good hit but it has a crackly type sound on the edges that it wont do on non ferrous targets.Its barely noticeable but its there all the less.
Im not talking about the raspy beeps it gives on all targets but the fluttery sound the larger iron gives is a dead give away. hard to describe but I'm sure some of you experinced users know what im talking about.
any how god to hear you did good in that spot.
Ive got a 10.5 DD MF coil on the way to try out on some deep targets.But that little 6 DD HF will spoil you quick.
Keith Southern
silverstick
New member
had that problem with the 570 for a couple of days. thought it was bad batteries, bad 570. then by accident, while detecting, machine in left hand, probe & 570 in right hand, coil sweeping on the ground, i had passed my right hand in front of the coil at waist level. both dectector and 570 gave me signals. now I keep my right hand behind my back and continue to detect. when either i need to pinpoint nother target or the 570 auto shuts off, then i bring the right hand back out in front or use it to pinpoint with the coil away from the target.