Coherent...if you are able to use a small shovel and you don’t have one,the Sampson 31” t-handle serrated shovel will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. You can dig way better,cleaner and deeper plugs right off the bat,and of course you’re using your body weight transferring through your leg and foot,NOT through your wrist and shoulder as it would be with a handheld digger.
Also,you’re right. You can read the forums and it does offer some assistance,but if you want to get in touch with the CTX and the ABSOLUTE GENIUS of the machine....go use it. There is NO NEED to be fiddling with all the adjustments all the time,this is not like docking the space shuttle. Set up with whatever you’ve decided should be your primary search mode with a secondary mode to check targets with and GO! Do NOT second guess the machine right now. If you can’t hit that coin from 2 angles,walk away! Coins sound like coins,they don’t sound like sh*t. There are situations where a signal sounds terrible and it’s a Coin...but they are VERY few and far between. For someone just getting to learn it,you can’t go digging signals that suck. Even with the stock coil in Auto+3 which is a tame setting most places,it’ll crank dimes out of the ground at 8” without even sneezing. 9” dimes are not uncommon in good dirt with little junk and little EMI. The 17” coil will expand your depth an inch or two mainly because you will be able to HEAR the signal better,it seems to clean them up nicely.
It takes time. Most of the time,by the time a CTX hops into a site,it’s been hunted very hard with other machines that you and others have used in there. Dont be discouraged if it’s not finding stuff by the bucket right away. There are two types of people. Those who own the CTX long enough to see its genius,and the others who are too impatient to actually learn it and it goes away. The ones who learn it will have it forever,the ones who don’t will be relegated to a lesser machine in just about every way.
