CTX 3030 trouble with wedding bands?

[MBbeachrat]

I went back and looked at all of Gary's gold finds with the CTX and was surprised of the small amount of wedding bands. His ratio of bands to gold targets is extremely low. All the hunters where I hunt find more bands then any other gold targets. My ratio is a about 4 to 1. I am wondering if this is because the CTX has trouble with bands or have the Excaliburs and CZs picked up the bands and the CTX is getting the old deeper gold that they missed? I am still trying to decide on the CTX purchase but I don't want to give up bands. I think it must be finding the older gold missed by the Excalibur and the CZs. Any CTX users test the seawater program on bands? What is the band ratio for other CTX beach hunters?

 

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[bigscoop]

This past week I've had a number of good targets mixed in with iron. With the Excal it's been no real problem, especially with the smaller coil and null feature, but with the CZ the signal will be intermittent and/or broken, which the book says to ignore......."DON'T!". When hunting in disc if either machine offers intermittent or broken tones, dig it!

 

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[OBN]

I've only hunted the Jersey Shores twice and when you hit a Iron field it's like Iron on top of iron. Far as I can remember I would just move to a less infested area, and that was with the excal 10 inch. That's why I was impressed for I really don't think I could pick thur all with the excal........

 

[bigscoop]

I've not had a chance to play with the 3030 so I can't comment on it one way or the other. If Santa is listening please send me one and I'll tell you what I think about it in about 6 months.

 

[Petrie502]

maybe this will shed a little light...

 

[MBbeachrat]

Nice video. May be getting same Numbers but sound is different on pull tabs and rings. Virmax did a good utube on the CTX showing same numbers on pennies and gold school rings. Was also making the same sound. Sure is difficult to make a machine that can tell a pull tab from a small gold ring. I don't believe anyone has made one yet!

 

[bigscoop]

"When in doubt, dig it out." Even with today's machine and tech advances it still comes down to just being able to narrow the field of possibilities into groups. pieces of plated metals, mixed alloys, pull tabs, nickels, etc., I wish I could pass them all up but this just isn't always possible. If it falls into range or leaves you uncertain, dig!