First time out with the ctx today
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I'd take an Indian cent over a silver Roosy any day!
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Another thing to remember is deep coins are not going to id the same as shallower coins will. After 7 to 8 inches my explorer will go between iron and a good signal half and half you just have to reconize this and dig iffy signals showing deep on depth gauge.At least it works around here.
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If you want better chances at silver start knocking on door of 1900 homes. That is where the silver is. Most parks are hunted to death. Silver is not something you get everytime. I average 10 wheaties to 1 silver.
Older yards, if you get lucky, are virgin territory, ESPECIALLY to a Minelab CTX 3030
Older yards, if you get lucky, are virgin territory, ESPECIALLY to a Minelab CTX 3030
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Yeah I think the parks here are picked clean of silver, although I did find that 1898 Indian at the beach/ park so there is still hope to find some good stuff there, I figured I would get to know the machine better before digging in yards. Thanks for the advice Bart! I got the pin pointer I ordered from you today and will be trying it out this weekend!
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Several things to remember.
1. If your pulling coins, that park is not hunted out. I hit a tiny park that everyone said was hunted out last weekend, got nothing but modern coins. Then 15ft from the curb near a older tree I got a Canadian 1910 Edward VII "fishscale" nickel.
2. Your have the advantage with the CTX, it can find coins the other detectors null out on or just cannot see if your running in combine mode. Back in February, I was hunting a very old, large park with friends. Started griding a grass area that some of the older guys with me have hunted with everything from E-tracs back to the first detectors close to 40 years ago. I pulled a 1909 Canadian 50 cent piece and 1931 Canadian silver dime in the same hole in the middle of that green space, with a huge piece of rusty wire about 4" near it.
3. Do NOT use ANY discrimination on the screen. Run wide open to hear everything.
4. Dig anything on the 11, 12, 13, 14 lines. No matter the numbers, or scratchy tones; you will find surprises, and at the same time clean out trash that can hide the coins you want to find.
5. Perseverance is the key word. Keep hitting the park areas in small grid patterns like 50ftx50ft. In different directions each time. I do this in ferrous-coin, combine, then switch to ground coin, combine and recently I've added a pass in 2 tone ferrous, low trash for the most depth power. Only then when I get no signals but DEEP iron(sometimes I dig that out too just in case) do I say I've "maybe" "cleaned" that area, at least until Minelab comes out with the next generation of detector to blow our minds and open up the targets again.
Don't give up, listen to the signals, learn the detector. It will win you over totally when you pull something awesome from a so called hunted out park.
1. If your pulling coins, that park is not hunted out. I hit a tiny park that everyone said was hunted out last weekend, got nothing but modern coins. Then 15ft from the curb near a older tree I got a Canadian 1910 Edward VII "fishscale" nickel.
2. Your have the advantage with the CTX, it can find coins the other detectors null out on or just cannot see if your running in combine mode. Back in February, I was hunting a very old, large park with friends. Started griding a grass area that some of the older guys with me have hunted with everything from E-tracs back to the first detectors close to 40 years ago. I pulled a 1909 Canadian 50 cent piece and 1931 Canadian silver dime in the same hole in the middle of that green space, with a huge piece of rusty wire about 4" near it.
3. Do NOT use ANY discrimination on the screen. Run wide open to hear everything.
4. Dig anything on the 11, 12, 13, 14 lines. No matter the numbers, or scratchy tones; you will find surprises, and at the same time clean out trash that can hide the coins you want to find.
5. Perseverance is the key word. Keep hitting the park areas in small grid patterns like 50ftx50ft. In different directions each time. I do this in ferrous-coin, combine, then switch to ground coin, combine and recently I've added a pass in 2 tone ferrous, low trash for the most depth power. Only then when I get no signals but DEEP iron(sometimes I dig that out too just in case) do I say I've "maybe" "cleaned" that area, at least until Minelab comes out with the next generation of detector to blow our minds and open up the targets again.
Don't give up, listen to the signals, learn the detector. It will win you over totally when you pull something awesome from a so called hunted out park.
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Congrats!
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Congrats! it only gets better!!
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I also found a world war 2 marine pin made of sterling silver and half of a pocket watch, the pocket watch was right next to someone else's plug so either the gave up digging or they got the other half lol the watch wasn't made of gold or silver but still cool to find!
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Awesome, congrats on your first silver, hopefully its the first of many! Good luck and HH!
