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Hi Terry
I got one for xmas and am enjoying it ..... pinpoint will give away large iron, and you can try placing a nasty piece of iron on clean ground with a coin and compare the audio, don't look at the ID .... the coin will ramp up smoothly but the iron will try to grunt on the edges until wrap takes over and makes it high tone.... you can also use the toe/heel of the c
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I spend most of my time here searching for this kind of invaluable information, especially since we still have snow on the ground here in northern AZ and cold....
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HH to all (sorry I didn't hotlink those) Wayne
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I was hoping Santa would bring me a CTX, but evidently I was not that good this year. .... he did bring a Racer!!! Can't wait to try it out if the weather wil cooperate... Wayne
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Great post Keith, got me to thinking...... my old Bandido has an affinity for copper n brass now that I think of it, although it has hit silver plenty too. My X5 seems to like everything non-ferrous, with some leaning towards low conductors. ( wish I had the DD coil for it....) found the deepest coin I've ever dug with the stock coil, an 1889 Centavo at least 13"........ should have mea
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I think Tom 'nailed' it when he said, " if the signal from the nail is stronger, the nail wins; vice versa the coin wins". If the nail in the NBT were much larger/closer to the coil, it's signal amplitude is larger and it wins..... I think we have fooled ourselves into thinking we are 'unmasking' due to tight DD coils and faster processors, when really we are
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Sounds like fun! Lucky Dog you are I think a Vaquero, Tejon, or Outlaw would all do the job, or any older Tesoro with manual GB such as the Bandido or Pantera if you can lay your hands on one. Hopefully the ground is not too hot there. Looking forward to hearing how it goes!
Good luck. Wayne
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I live in small town 70 miles from anywhere and a while back our one fiber optic line was severed by construction. ... no internet save for a couple places with satellite. You weren't buying anything without cash for a couple days.... electronic money not so good when the electrons quit flowing. I always keep some cash on hand so no big deal for us but there was some butthurt among the folks
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I confess, I've been living in a cave for 20 years. I did get a CZ6a recently so that must count for something....... enjoy both of you gents videos BTW.
Best regards, Wayne
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Very cool, I may have to break down and try FBS some day ..... I believe the hitch looking thing is one of those things they stuck in bags to get a sample of product.... could be wrong though.
Wayne
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Keith, you got me thinking; wouldn't it be cool if Troy would retrofit an X5 with tones, maybe mod the target check switch to set the break on three tones.....
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Probably the biggest single thing was realizing how big a problem masking really is... not just iron but discriminating too much out also .... turn the disc way down, slow down the sweeps and investigate targets from multiple angles, listening for those weird reports from co-located targets, and just learning what the audio is trying to tell you. With patience and persistence it can yield some in
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I'll have to go with the two I have used most, Tesoro Bandido (original) and Troy X5. Still using the Bandido I bought in 92 and the X5 I bought in 03. Yes I've been living in a cave awhile.... the X5 is certainly deeper and hotter on small/low conductors but the Bandido is no slouch either and a bit better in iron/bad ground. BTW, both will pass Keith's dime on edge in the dec
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