X-70... Love and hate!

[SwampHunter]

All the tones are a bit overwhelming right now, but since I am able to choose what I want it makes it alot better. I really like being able to set the machine up how I want. I was almost ready to sell this machine and thought I had made a huge mistake by purchasing it. I now see the potential this machine has once I spend some more time learning it. I can't wait to hit some of the original settlements with it where there is little to no modern trash. This machine will be a killer there for sure.

My only gripe now is that I got my new 9" 3khz coil and lower stem in, but it didn't have the rubber washers, bolt and wing nut for mounting. Buy $180.00 worth of extra gear and they can't throw in .25 cents worth of hardware?

 

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[Goes4ever]

I have tried all tones, and I feel that the absolute best for me was to use 2 tones, all metal mode and go SLOW, I have found several coins right beside iron that I feel I would have missed if I had disc out iron.

I simply dig ALL non ferrous tones, so with 2 tones iron is low, non ferrous is high. Does not get any simpler than that.

Plus if something is close to iron do not expect to get a solid VDI, or even a VDI that represents a coin. When I am in the field I have dug indians rght beside iron that bounced from low teens to mid 20's. You got to dig it all to get the goodies!

My good finds have deffinately increased since I started running this way.

 

[Shenandoah Digger]

Well they should have sent you the hardware to join the rod to the coil, but if you call Minelab I'm sure they'll drop them in the mail to you.

 

[SwampHunter]

I called my dealer and they are sending the hardware.

 

[johnnycat]

Must have been an oversight on the missing hardware. I have purchased 3 different coils and they were all complete.

 

[BamaBill]

Yesterday I figured out that I really, really prefer the X-terra 70 over the MXT I've been hunting with. In fact, I sold my MXT yesterday to the guy I've been hunting with. I still don't understand how the X-terra could be so underrated.

 

[SwampHunter]

The more I use this machine the more I really like it. Yesterday I hit an old house place. The nails were really bad. I switch to 99 tones to see if it made any difference. I never hit on anything except for iron. I loaded up and went to a CSA campsite that is fairly clean. I have pulled several bullets and other items from this site before. I switched over to prospecting mode and set out to dig everything. I found a few small nails and a grommet where I had dug most of my bullets. I shifted to the east just a bit where I haven't worked much and hit an iron patch. Within the iron patch I got a pretty strong signal. It is brass and looks like it might have been used on a rifle sling. Later after dinner I hit another yard and pulled a quarter and 2 pennies from the ground.
Today I hit an old house place where the house still stands. I worked the yard over fairly slow and never hit anything but a few iron signals. I think this yard might have been worked over before. After dinner I hit the same yard I hit yesterday evening. I pulled a 1952 dime from the ground. My first silver with this machine! Then I found a clad quarter. I got another good solid quarter tone but the roots were too bad to get to the target. I am going to add a drywall saw to my bag tommorrow and hit that spot again.

I really like the 99 tones. I never thought I would but it does help on trash. I am getting to where I can tell a pulltab just by the tones they give off. It's not a good solid signal like a coin. I am really taking a liking to this machine.

 

[BamaBill]

Congrats and welcome to the fold. I too am surprised as all &^%* that this machine is as good as it is. I only tried one because my former relic hunting partner would spank me with his. We'd hunt an identical area and he could tell by the sound what was junk and what wasn't and I spent too much time puzzling it out with my MXT (I bet the smug son of a gun is smirking from the great beyond). I thought he was full of it, but your experience with many tones just confirms it (haven't had the nerve to try it yet myself). I remember him telling me one time that he used prospecting mode to pull some more pistol balls out of an area that we had been working at 11" in bad ground. Now I can see how that might have been the case.