CTX3030 water hunting gold.

Gary Drayton

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Dec 28, 2007
357
663
Fort Lauderdale Florida
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
These are just the gold finds from yesterdays South Florida CTX3030 water hunt on a popular tourist beach. The CTX3030 is one heck of an addition to any beach and water hunters detecting arsenal and for part time beach hunters like myself it is the perfect choice when you want to make the most of your beach hunting time. When I got to the beach yesterday morning at 6.30am there was already five other guys detecting in the water and two in the wet sand so I relied on the best features of the new machine to improve my chances.
I rejected the pennies and ignored the obvious quarter signals, in effect leaving "anchor" finds for the other water hunters in the area while I concentrated on listening for low tones and checking the detect screen for high probability gold finds. These gold finds came out of a very trashy stretch of water and even though I was in effect ignoring quarters I was still able to pull out two silver bracelets and two silver ear rings. All the gold jewelry is 14K except the 10K locket.
Happy hunting.
Gary
 

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cdv1

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Jun 29, 2011
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This is the report I was waiting for Gary.... now, will you still use a GT and Excal? Or are they now dedicated backups?
Nice finds!


Cliff
 

lorraine

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Dec 15, 2010
4,470
3,762
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Minelab GT; Sov Elite
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
That was a terrific hunt, Gary; beautiful jewelry finds!

I finished reading your very informative book, and I enjoyed every page of it.

Thanks for writing it....great book!

Lorraine
 

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Gary Drayton

Gary Drayton

Sr. Member
Dec 28, 2007
357
663
Fort Lauderdale Florida
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
This is the report I was waiting for Gary.... now, will you still use a GT and Excal? Or are they now dedicated backups?
Nice finds!


Cliff
Hi Cliff
Of course I will never stop using my Excalibur and Sovereign GT as they both have a place in my beach and water hunting plans. I can do things with the Excalibur that I cannot do with the Sovereign GT and I can now do things with the CTX3030 that I could not do with both the Excalibur & Sovereign GT. Metal detectors can pay for themselves with valuable finds in a relatively short time, in my opinion it is always a good idea to have at least two beach and water hunting machines.
Cheers Gary.
 

Slowwalker

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May 12, 2012
53
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Do you teach a class or need an apprentice:laughing7: Those are great finds especially being picky with what you dig. I have a few years to go before I'll be able to do anything in the ballpark of that I'm sure.
 

CASPER-2

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Jan 3, 2012
17,158
19,959
NEW ENGLAND
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1
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6
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WHITE'S XLT, PI PRO, GARRETT 2500, 3- FISHER CZ21s, JW FISHER 8X
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All Treasure Hunting
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Gary Drayton

Gary Drayton

Sr. Member
Dec 28, 2007
357
663
Fort Lauderdale Florida
🥇 Banner finds
2
Detector(s) used
Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
That was a terrific hunt, Gary; beautiful jewelry finds!

I finished reading your very informative book, and I enjoyed every page of it.

Thanks for writing it....great book!

Lorraine

Thank you for the good feedback Lorraine, I am happy you enjoyed the book.
Cheers Gary
 

mtwolf2270

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Sep 2, 2008
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WOW!!!!!!! I will be in Myrtle this weekend for my first hunt andd beach hunt with my CTX3030 I cannot wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

goldringseaker

Full Member
Mar 15, 2012
145
31
Minnesota
Detector(s) used
Sea Hunter Mark II, Garrett Pro Pointer
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I might have to save up my gold and upgrade to a CTX 3030
 

kiana7

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Apr 18, 2012
1,227
643
Riverside,California
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2
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MXT PRO,Whites PI dual Field,CZ21,Stealth 790
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
nice finds,nice story too,sounds like an awesome machine
 

hamiddetecting

Gold Member
Feb 22, 2012
6,398
2,510
North Pole
Detector(s) used
Sovereign GT and Excalibur II, Whites, Garrett, Fisher, Alert, MD,Cscope,Tesoro, Compas, XP, Long Rs
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
When the metal detector detect the gold earing on the wet sand, its very great machine.:laughing7:
For you Gary Congratulation:thumbsup:
 

Native Floridian

Bronze Member
Mar 12, 2012
1,211
486
Ft Myers, Florida
Detector(s) used
Excal, Sov GT
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Gary, Congrats on the great finds. I'm amazed by this new Minelab machine!!! I've been trying to decide which new weapon to add to the arsenal, Blisstool or CTX 3030? You convinced me!!!! I'm ordering a CTX 3030!!!!
 

VWandSTUDEBAKER

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Jul 11, 2010
308
31
Gainesville FLorida
Detector(s) used
Whites V3i, Whites BHID, Whites SurfPlus,Whites 5900 Pro Sl, various other detectors, TRX pin pointer
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Sure would be nice to see some videos finding stuff in action. Seeing is believing as they say.
 

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