Oh yeah! The XLT, like the explorer, needs to be run on the verge of being unstable to get good deep silver. If you cant handle some falsing than you shouldnt try this. First, switch to tone id and run the machine over a variety of coins to get used to the noises. Now, go find yourself, say a 5 inch deep coin (a quarter would work best) in the wild (not in your garden) and bump the preamp gain up by one, bump the ac sens up five, and drop the recovery speed by 5. Now slow your swing down a bit (I know, the XLT is a fast swing machine) and check the target and make sure your xlt isnt going crazy. If the XLT can handle this keep raising the preamp until it goes go off the deep end, then back it up a notch. Is been my experience that you can only raise the preamp gain by one or two positions on the XLT before it becomes unstable. Once youve found a preamp setting start bumping the ac sense up a bit at a time until the your not comfortable with it, then back it down again. I think the trick is to run as much preamp gain and ac sense as possible without throwing the XLT into a frenzy. The recovery speed and your sweep speed are a matter of preference. The deep coins, not just silver, wont hit on every swing from every direction. If you get a deep signal, on that is lower in volume and has a small, solid "patern" investigate it, even it if reads as a pull tab. If you can get the ID to hit in the mid 50's to mid 80's about 1/3 to 1/2 of the time dig it. I did a lot of experimenting with the XLT and found that it will find alot of the deep coins that the Explorer would, it just wont ID them right most of the time.
