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Xterra 70 vs MXT
- Thread starter JaWi.
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Joe, I've had a couple MXT's over the past few years. And, they are good detectors. Although many of the features of the MXT and X-70 are similar, here are some of the reasons why I prefer the X-70. The MXT offers single tone audio in the C/J mode and dual tone audio in Relic. The X-70 offers your choice of one tone, two tone, three tone, four tone or 28 tone audio in all modes. The MXT offers variable discrimination control. The X-70 offers notch discrimination and provides 28 notch segments in two-segment increments. The X-70 has Auto Noise cancel for those areas with RFI. The MXT does not. The MXT has knobs, which I use to consider a "plus". But I've found the touch pads of the X-70 are far easier to access while hunting.
I think the turning point for me was an old farmstead that I hunted several times this past spring. All the buildings had been gone for the past 75 years. And the ground has been plowed, planted, disc and cultivated many - many times. The buildings that were once there were apparently burned and not torn down and removed. The ground is littered with iron scraps, old cut nails, pieces of farm implements and melted metal. Although both detectors get fooled once in awhile with deep pieces of iron, the MXT was much worse, by far. In one afternoon, I nearly filled a 5 gallon bucket with trash from that site, using the MXT. Regardless of how high I set the discrimination, it just wouldn't ignore that old deep iron. I tried my shooter coil, the 5.3 Eclipse, the 6X10 DD, the stock 950 and even the Super 12. Needless to say the smaller coils were better able to separate the targets. But even with them, I just couldn't eliminate the iron. When I hunted this site, I was field testing the small coils for the X-Terra. Both 6-inch coils, as well as the stock 9-inch at 3 kHz did a much better job of correctly identifying the iron. I typically hunt in the all metal mode, four tones and high sensitivity. I ignore the low tones if they are the only signal at any one particular spot. If I get a high tone and a low tone adjacent, I switch to Prospecting mode to separate the targets and determine the size of each. The only "problem" I had was getting quite a few high tones on deep iron. Especially round objects and rusty chunks of implements. But, by simply checking the TID, I would see that they usually bounced in at a +48 on the TID. And by sizing them, I could determine that most of them were bigger than a coin. Oh, I did dig some trash. Mostly old iron harness rings and a few pull tabs from where someone drank some cold ones! But not nearly as much as with the MXT.
As I said, both are good machines. But for the type of hunting I do, and the places I hunt, the X-70 has done a much better job. Lighter weight, better balanced and half the batteries! JMHO Randy
I think the turning point for me was an old farmstead that I hunted several times this past spring. All the buildings had been gone for the past 75 years. And the ground has been plowed, planted, disc and cultivated many - many times. The buildings that were once there were apparently burned and not torn down and removed. The ground is littered with iron scraps, old cut nails, pieces of farm implements and melted metal. Although both detectors get fooled once in awhile with deep pieces of iron, the MXT was much worse, by far. In one afternoon, I nearly filled a 5 gallon bucket with trash from that site, using the MXT. Regardless of how high I set the discrimination, it just wouldn't ignore that old deep iron. I tried my shooter coil, the 5.3 Eclipse, the 6X10 DD, the stock 950 and even the Super 12. Needless to say the smaller coils were better able to separate the targets. But even with them, I just couldn't eliminate the iron. When I hunted this site, I was field testing the small coils for the X-Terra. Both 6-inch coils, as well as the stock 9-inch at 3 kHz did a much better job of correctly identifying the iron. I typically hunt in the all metal mode, four tones and high sensitivity. I ignore the low tones if they are the only signal at any one particular spot. If I get a high tone and a low tone adjacent, I switch to Prospecting mode to separate the targets and determine the size of each. The only "problem" I had was getting quite a few high tones on deep iron. Especially round objects and rusty chunks of implements. But, by simply checking the TID, I would see that they usually bounced in at a +48 on the TID. And by sizing them, I could determine that most of them were bigger than a coin. Oh, I did dig some trash. Mostly old iron harness rings and a few pull tabs from where someone drank some cold ones! But not nearly as much as with the MXT.
As I said, both are good machines. But for the type of hunting I do, and the places I hunt, the X-70 has done a much better job. Lighter weight, better balanced and half the batteries! JMHO Randy
Hey Digger good review. Very thorough and well written.
I had narrowed my choice down to the MXT and X-Terra 70 also. Being new to the hobby it was a tough choice for me. I have a White's dealer in town. The X-Terra I had to drive 2 hours one way to see one.
Did demos on both machines, For me it came down to user interface, weight, and my gut feeling. I really think both are good machines and would do you well, for me it was the X-Terra 70, Beale.
I had narrowed my choice down to the MXT and X-Terra 70 also. Being new to the hobby it was a tough choice for me. I have a White's dealer in town. The X-Terra I had to drive 2 hours one way to see one.
Did demos on both machines, For me it came down to user interface, weight, and my gut feeling. I really think both are good machines and would do you well, for me it was the X-Terra 70, Beale.
Bavaria Mike
New member
I have an XLT and an XT70. Both great machines but I like the XT70 a bit better. XT70 seems to separate targets a bit better. I mostly relic hunt on farm fields in all metal mode. I have gone over the fields I hunted with the XLT with the XT70 and I can say I did not miss much silver but did miss a lot of nice relics. I think the XLT seems to lock onto the stronger closer signal when two targets are close masking the other target, I will get a double beep with the XT70 when two targets are close especially a good and a bad target together. Finding two targets in the same hole has happened more often with my XT70. XT70 does get confused with a deeper large iron target especially if it is moist and VDIs as an American Quarter at 42. Just my two cents. HH, Mike
Reconmarine63
New member
I personal Hunt with friend whom use an MXT. I Hunt with X-70 with 10.5dd and 3KHz.. In depth there pretty much even if you buy the new larger Spider coil for MXT, is use the Stock 9.5 that comes with MXT, the X-70 will go about 2 inches deeper with 10.5 or 3kHz coil. The MXT has label on meter for relics , bullets, button plates which I like,. which X-70 does not, but after a while you can tell be Numbers on X-70 what objects are. In real "Iron Camps", houses sites the X-70 more stable and easy to hunt super trash sites and faster recover time then MXT. I X-70 also lighter in weight, and you can hunt in area where there tons of interference such as Power lines, Micro0-wave Towers, while MXT does have noise advantaged. I would lean towards X-70 for hunt any type soils, or anywhere type Detector , so far My X-70 not let me down. Hope this helps
I must say I am looking forward to using my Xterra70. It bascially has the things I'm looking for in a coin machine. It will be nice to swing a light detector again. I also like the idea of tones,ground balance and a large enough screen so I donot have to wear my glasses if I choose. Nice to see Minelab has finally come thru with a smaller coil also. Hope I can depend on you folks for help if needed on this new detector. Digger is sure a master on the Xterra's and very helpful to all . Happy Hunting to all. Joe