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Xterra 705 rip off

But you know what, shit happens and people move on when shit gets up their nose. "That Person" still talks highly of the X-70 and yes does sell "Whites Detectors" but that is another story. Like any detector if you master it you can get over the small humps. Same ol same ol...................
 
I must agree with some of the other posters here.
If you want to hunt for gold then buy a gold machine.
Dont expect a machine set up in coin mode to find small gold flakes.

The X-Tera was never intended to be a gold prospecting tool.
How can you rationally expect it to be?
Minelab sells detectors costing over $4000 for just that type of use.
Do you really think they would sell a detector for less than 1/4 that price if it worked as well?
Then they would be ripping off the people that bought the $4000 gold detectors.

Perhaps I should complain to Wal-Mart that the $35 Bounty Hunter detector they sold me wont detect a flake of gold 12" under black sand.
Boy ... was I ripped off!

Willee
 
I read an article about 12 months or so ago, written by an Aussie who went to Alaska to detect for gold...it was an organised trip...his expensive gold machine went on the blink, and what did he use? His X Terra 70...and did quite well too. (It wasn't the Aussie mentioned above). Got lumps, not flakes.
 
Thanks for letting me give my opinion without hassling me about it, and thanks for all the good suggestions on how to use the detector for gold hunting, since it IS advertised and sold as a gold hunting machine.
 
Bubbler did you find any nuggets with the 16000?

FuriousT

The story is titled "Alaskan Gold" in the march 2008 issue of Australian Gold Gem & Treasure.

Your post is errant, no need to make stuff up when your memory lapses. The PI was not on the blink, It's just that at Moore creek the mineralization is super low and the area if loaded with iron trash so a VLF

can best a PI in this rare situation.

The size of the gold Wiluna found suggests any coin machine could have worked.
 
then I would have seen that Wiluna went to Ganes Creek, not Moore Creek as your post suggests. He also states that most of the other detectorists were using MXTs, and by the end of the week they were sold on the X Terra.
 
My original question was how to prospect with the XT70, when it goes nuts on hot rocks. That's all I ask, not about coin hunting, just nugget hunting. There are many posts about people easily finding gold, but no one mentions how they get by the hot rocks.,Where I go in WA and No. CA. I can't do anything for the continual beeping on hot rocks., Thanks for everyone trying to help, I appreciate all the posts.
 
you thought that the X-Terra 705 is a rip off. And your original post did not ask how to prospect with the X-70. You initially told us you had a 705 and it wouldn't do anything for "hot rocks". I responded to your initial post with a link to a video by Kevin Hoagland of Minelab which explains how to use Prospecting mode with Tracking GB offset to neutralize those hot rocks on the 705. Then you told us you had the X-70 and not the 705. At that point I offered a link to several posts made by a gentelman who had good success with his X-70 in the Victorian Golden Triangle. A place he refers to as the worst ground in the world. Regardless, now that we know which machine you actually have and what your question is, maybe someone who uses the X-Terra 70 will come forward and provide some assistance. If you don't, I guess you said it best when you stated "it goes with the territory". HH Randy
 
Well, Digger, you're right, I started off all wrong, gave the wrong post etc to begin with, and didn't ask my real question 'til later, So I opologize to everyone. , Have no excuse, (except maybe my age lol)
 
Hi Bubber.
I've only been out once with my X-Terra 70 on a gold hunt, so my knowledge is very limited. It was a club one so I was able to get a couple of pointers along the way. The ground I hunted on was quite noisy (hot rocks). I took a very small lead sinker with me to train my ears what to listen for when in this environment. The bottom line is, that a gold nugget will give you a more solid hit than a hot rock. Hot rocks tend to sound a bit unclear and if you are asking yourself if that was a real target or not, you've got a hot rock under your coil. I didn't find any gold on the day, but I did recover a couple of very small air gun pellets, which tells me that I was barking up the right tree when I listened for targets. Iron targets sounded different. I can't remember all the details of their sounds, but they did seem to hit a lot harder than a gold like target.
There are some very good tips in the FAQFAQ that will make life a bit easier to learn in the gold fields.
If you are finding the ground too noisy, the only real options for you, are to locate an area that isn't quite so mineralised, or buy a PI machine. They cope a lot better than a VLF machine like the X-Terra.
Mick Evans.
 
Hey Bubber. Read Davids two posts on the first page. I notch out -8 and +48 also. Those two numbers are your nemesis while prospecting. I manually ground balance but sometimes I'll use tracking. Only problem there is pinpointing with your coil. I had never thought about just notching anything above +30 out but I think his post might lead me in new directions. Also, your not going to be digging to china with a VLF. There operating depth for gold around here (New Mexico) is measured in inch's..... like maybe two if your lucky. I'm still looking for that VW sized nugget and I'm sure that will show up to a foot and a half.
 
That would be in coin mode. You hunt in prospecting mode and if you get a really stong signal, before dismissing it as iron, you can switch back to coin mode and see what it is. While small nuggets can give a slightly negative number, if it's strong and a negative number or above say 36, then it's not going to be gold. If it's 36 or above, you may wish to check it out anyway and see if it's a pre-decimal coin.
Mick Evans.
 
There are not any notch segments when using the Prospecting mode. So it would not be possible to notch out 8 and 48 in the Prospecting mode. Prospecting mode has Iron Mask levels instead. Iron Mask runs from a low of 0 to a high of 20. The higher the number, the more iron signals you will reject.

By the way, the first 20 of those 28 little black blocks that represent notch segments in the C/T mode are also used to represent the amount of Iron Mask in Prospecting mode. For example, if you set your Iron Mask to 5, you will have 5 blocks darkened below the Iron Mask Discrimination Scale number.
 
Randy ~ You've been more than fair on this issue and with this particular fella. You could have chosen to go a different route but you didn't and for that I really respect you. In my book, you're a professional all the way.

:minelab:SeniorSeeker/X-Terra 70 User & Love It!
 
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