The CTX with 17" coil.
I love the processing speed and the fact that you can make up your own programs. I was able to change the tones in the combined mode ( which I think is the best ) so all the high tones were higher and the low tone is lower. It helps me hear those little cuff buttons mixed in with iron. I also got a mode from someone else that all targets are high tones including iron. When you turn iron reject on it picks a good target under iron as one target and gives you a good solid signal. I just run it in all metal combined mode until I hear a iffy signal then switch over to confirm it. I think what helped me was I never had a E-trac so I never tried to compare it...
My disclaimer would be , like everyone else once you commit to learning and loving a machine it makes you biass and that could be my case here.
I will say I have only used my GPX on this camp 3 times...
The 1st time was on the 1st place field. I gridded it with the CTX & 17" coil and was averaging 35 targets a day. I figured it was worth hitting with the GPX before I moved onto the next field. I used the DD 12x15 and spent the day gridding all the hot spots. I got 1 bucky ball and a piece of camp lead. I even tried it in sharp instead of sense extra.
The 2nd time was in a small area next to a swamp where I found 26 mini's and 2 buttons with CTX. This time I went back with the GPX and the 15x12 mono. I pulled another 8 mini's out of that little spot. Then I worked my way towards a hot spot where I dug 105 targets in 1 day. ( this 105 target spot ended up being where the huts were) About 20 paces form the swamp I hit another hot spot , mostly small targets, a few mini's and a staff button. From there to the hot spot proved to be too much iron.
The 3rd time was after finding the huts with CTX. I went back with the 15x12 mono coil and worked that same line from the huts to the swamp. I used a whole can of paint to mark promising sounding targets. Then I rechecked all those targets with the CTX and dug most of them. It ended up being a iron clearing day, mostly big 4" spikes and square nails. You know it's funny I've hunted some pretty slim camps before and was always able to get some good iron out of them like gun tools. The only good iron from this camp has come from the pits.( Baffling )
The CTX with !7" coil has been finding frying pan pieces, horse shoe's and the cannon ball at 3 foot and out done the GPX with 15x12 DD. My plan is to do the whole farm over with the GPX and the mono coil, depending on results.
Awesome ,It look's like you had a Summer of fun ( dig fest 2013) . What metal detector did you use the most ? around here the GPX series seems to be pulling deep relics out of ground that's been hunted fairly hard in the past.?
