Silver streak continues....10 hunts straight!

Scrappy · Jan 23, 2015

Hunted all over and my game plan fell apart. I thought I had found the edge of a filled pond but all I hit were two wheats. Hunted two hours and got a 12-44 on my CTX. Pinpointed and it jumped up to 12-45. Dug out a frozen clump and there it was 5" down.

1927 Merc.

2015 is off to a great start with 10 silvers and also 10 straight trips in a row scoring silver totaling 13 overall.

Scrappy · Feb 8, 2015

Pointman said:
I just found my tenth silver for the year today. All but 2 had been at places that I've hunt before. The one today was in a 2 foot wide easement that I had hunted before and I'm surprised I had missed it. The key is that I am now running my CTX wide open and listening to the faint sounds and barely moving the coil to pick past the nails and junk. I have been digging a lot more nails, but also a lot more coins because of this. I dug a silver quarter last week and I had been over the spot 2-3 times before and I couldn't hardly tel it was there and it was only about 4 inches deep. The CTX is a great machine, but it has limitations in areas where there are nails. I've found silver in about 6 of my last 9 hunts.

It's great to hear how everyone uses the CTX. I open her up on occasion but only when it sporadically beeps over a target. Someone told me to dig any steady tone even if it's reading highly ferrous because it may be a coin despite. Is that your experience too? Is there a limit to the FE reading while coin shooting for you? I've had silvers read as high as 15 but no higher.