I have been reading your forum messages for along time and just had to put this one in today about my XLT.
I have had this machine since they came out and just about used it on the included programs and a few others had given on sites like this one.
At an old school here I have been to many times, I decided to go back to today even though it's 100 degrees outside and this morning's digging was like digging in rock (hard, hot, cracked ground). Even still, the old XLT was hitting if I would take the time to dig.
Here's the thing: I came from the woods to the school grounds just to get out a little today and hug the shade hoping to have a little fun. I put it on the old White's plain coin program, but, I put the audio on so you could hear different signals. Don't know why, but that little joker was on fire today!
It just the short while I was there (about an hour), I pulled out 16 pennies, 4 quarters (2 silver), 2 nickles, and 2 dimes one of which was a 1916 barber dime in perfect shape! All this simply because I turned on the sound to hear different tones instead of the same ole beep-beep.
What was so great, with hearing the signal, watching the icons and the graph and the vco numbers I rarely ever in the hour or so there, dug any junk at all! That alone was a miracle at this school full of pencil tops, gum wrappers, and what nots!.
I feel like I bought a brand new machine. In the short time of turning on that little tone adjustment, my ear got so used to telling the pennies from the quarters and dimes that I could tell you could really just about listen, pinpoint, and dig without doing much else.
I had someone else's program for coins I tried today, but the factory one worked so good, I went back to it and glad I did. I thought the other program worked better and went deeper because it made noise all the time. The factory just made noise when it hit. This gave me the inner thought that I was loosing depth. Boy was that not true. I pulled one quarter, which said without a doubt it was a quarter, out of a hole from my fingers to my elbow however deep that was! That took a little while and alot of sweat for today's digging.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this and let you all know that contribute to this thing how much your little comments have meant to me over the last few weeks and would like to thank you for giving me the idea of changing that one little control that made me have a very excellent day of coin shooting!
Eaglehead
I have had this machine since they came out and just about used it on the included programs and a few others had given on sites like this one.
At an old school here I have been to many times, I decided to go back to today even though it's 100 degrees outside and this morning's digging was like digging in rock (hard, hot, cracked ground). Even still, the old XLT was hitting if I would take the time to dig.
Here's the thing: I came from the woods to the school grounds just to get out a little today and hug the shade hoping to have a little fun. I put it on the old White's plain coin program, but, I put the audio on so you could hear different signals. Don't know why, but that little joker was on fire today!
It just the short while I was there (about an hour), I pulled out 16 pennies, 4 quarters (2 silver), 2 nickles, and 2 dimes one of which was a 1916 barber dime in perfect shape! All this simply because I turned on the sound to hear different tones instead of the same ole beep-beep.
What was so great, with hearing the signal, watching the icons and the graph and the vco numbers I rarely ever in the hour or so there, dug any junk at all! That alone was a miracle at this school full of pencil tops, gum wrappers, and what nots!.
I feel like I bought a brand new machine. In the short time of turning on that little tone adjustment, my ear got so used to telling the pennies from the quarters and dimes that I could tell you could really just about listen, pinpoint, and dig without doing much else.
I had someone else's program for coins I tried today, but the factory one worked so good, I went back to it and glad I did. I thought the other program worked better and went deeper because it made noise all the time. The factory just made noise when it hit. This gave me the inner thought that I was loosing depth. Boy was that not true. I pulled one quarter, which said without a doubt it was a quarter, out of a hole from my fingers to my elbow however deep that was! That took a little while and alot of sweat for today's digging.
Anyway, I just wanted to share this and let you all know that contribute to this thing how much your little comments have meant to me over the last few weeks and would like to thank you for giving me the idea of changing that one little control that made me have a very excellent day of coin shooting!
Eaglehead