Twinkletoes
Bronze Member
- Jan 3, 2013
- 1,133
- 509
- Detector(s) used
- White’s TDI Beach Hunter PI / Minelab Excalibur 1000 / White's MX Sport / White’s XLT
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Howdy All Y'all White's Treasure/Junk ee's.
Winter is tough on all of us that like this hobby, but I did manage to get out for 3-4 hours this past week. I've had the MX Sport now for two months and I'm still spending as much time learning the machine as I am hunting, but that's all part of the fun! The end of last week I collected $3.07 in change and a Match Box car.
I've been finding more toy cars with the MXS than I used to with my White's XLT. I think the XLT discrimination settings that I use plus the graph averaging feature were screening out the cars to the point I didn't dig. The MX Sport VDI's Match Box cars between 67-73, jumpy but they give nice clear tones.
I also found a 1942 Mercury dime this afternoon. I was experimenting with the MXS using a different coil and was just looking for silver. I had the 7 inch Detech coil and headed for a part of the park loaded with can slaw. Most people won't even attempt to metal detect that area but I wanted to give it a try. It was strange standing in a 5 acre treeless park with a small 7 inch coil. It felt like I was looking for that proverbial needle in a hay stack. Anyway, I decided to find the areas with the most can slaw and really search for the silver signals there.
It was difficult even with the 7 inch coil to pick good signals from all the shredded cans, however after and hour or two I got the VDI 77, solid signal, small target so I dug it. I had a little difficulty pinpointing but did manage to get the dime out of the hole without scratching it. This is silver #4 for the MXS!
All said and done, I think I'll go back to using the 950 concentric coil when searching trashy parks because it can cover a lot more ground, the concentric coil discriminates bottle caps best, and it will pull deep silver really well.
Thanks for looking, H Digs
Winter is tough on all of us that like this hobby, but I did manage to get out for 3-4 hours this past week. I've had the MX Sport now for two months and I'm still spending as much time learning the machine as I am hunting, but that's all part of the fun! The end of last week I collected $3.07 in change and a Match Box car.
I've been finding more toy cars with the MXS than I used to with my White's XLT. I think the XLT discrimination settings that I use plus the graph averaging feature were screening out the cars to the point I didn't dig. The MX Sport VDI's Match Box cars between 67-73, jumpy but they give nice clear tones.
I also found a 1942 Mercury dime this afternoon. I was experimenting with the MXS using a different coil and was just looking for silver. I had the 7 inch Detech coil and headed for a part of the park loaded with can slaw. Most people won't even attempt to metal detect that area but I wanted to give it a try. It was strange standing in a 5 acre treeless park with a small 7 inch coil. It felt like I was looking for that proverbial needle in a hay stack. Anyway, I decided to find the areas with the most can slaw and really search for the silver signals there.
It was difficult even with the 7 inch coil to pick good signals from all the shredded cans, however after and hour or two I got the VDI 77, solid signal, small target so I dug it. I had a little difficulty pinpointing but did manage to get the dime out of the hole without scratching it. This is silver #4 for the MXS!
All said and done, I think I'll go back to using the 950 concentric coil when searching trashy parks because it can cover a lot more ground, the concentric coil discriminates bottle caps best, and it will pull deep silver really well.
Thanks for looking, H Digs
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