Minelab 705 Advice Needed

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All in all, that's not a well-suited machine for the wet salt. But it will suffice in a pinch. It's my understanding that you don't want to use the HF "gold" coil for wet salt. While they may be keen on tteeennnsssy low conductors, yet it's not going to be good in wet salt minerals, or good at depth in that.

What frequency is your stock coil? 7.5 ?
 

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There is a gentleman, Gravediggermax, that used his quite a bit on the east coast, And didn't have issues, just lowered the sensitivity to 16, if I recall. But west coast may be different in terms of mineralization.
 

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There is a gentleman, Gravediggermax, that used his quite a bit on the east coast, And didn't have issues, just lowered the sensitivity to 16, if I recall. But west coast may be different in terms of mineralization.

Is he on Treasurenet? I found one from Va Beach
 

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All in all, that's not a well-suited machine for the wet salt. But it will suffice in a pinch. It's my understanding that you don't want to use the HF "gold" coil for wet salt. While they may be keen on tteeennnsssy low conductors, yet it's not going to be good in wet salt minerals, or good at depth in that.

What frequency is your stock coil? 7.5 ?

Yes 7.5
 

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Is he on Treasurenet? I found one from Va Beach

thats him. If you look at his videos on Utube, he refers to his 705 as "Junior". Check his 2014 videos, I think that is when he was using it.
 

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The high freq elliptical is a DD coil and will pick up less mineralization. It would be the one to use vs the stock MF concentric. It is also more sensitive to gold. I used the 705 with 10.5" MF DD coil in lightly mineralized Florida wet sand and it ran surprisingly well in beach tracking mode.
 

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What I didn't care for was that neither the HF Elipptical and MF 10.5 DD are waterproof.
 

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The high freq elliptical is a DD coil and will pick up less mineralization. It would be the one to use vs the stock MF concentric. It is also more sensitive to gold. I used the 705 with 10.5" MF DD coil in lightly mineralized Florida wet sand and it ran surprisingly well in beach tracking mode.

Thanks Fletch88
 

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thats him. If you look at his videos on Utube, he refers to his 705 as "Junior". Check his 2014 videos, I think that is when he was using it.

will do Thanks Susan
 

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There is a gentleman, Gravediggermax, that used his quite a bit on the east coast, And didn't have issues, just lowered the sensitivity to 16, if I recall. But west coast may be different in terms of mineralization.

Try to contact gravediggerMax,sorry "Sir Gravediggermax" you will be in good hand :thumbsup:

..yes from VA Beach
 

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thats him. If you look at his videos on Utube, he refers to his 705 as "Junior". Check his 2014 videos, I think that is when he was using it.
If I'm not mistaken "junior" is Max's waterproofed SE Pro. I could be wrong however.
 

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If I'm not mistaken "junior" is Max's waterproofed SE Pro. I could be wrong however.

No, it's the Xterra. I was wrong on the year though. Take a look at his May 2013 video, don't recall the whole title but it has Jr. in it, and you with see the Xterra in action.
 

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