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    what's clad?:ausflag:

    being an aussie,most of your terminology for your coins is of little value to me.however all of our coins are valuble to us.historical,hysterical or what ever.i say this because after reading many of your posts,you don't like zinks,pennies or clad.we eat wheaties,you don't.what's the big deal...
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    vaquero and gold?:ausflag:

    does the vaquero,being an all round detector,able to find real gold in the gold fields.has anybody ever tried?i ask only that,is because in december my wife and i will be travelling back by car from brisbane to cairns passing through many of the inland goldfields.so ,not to make it a boring...
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    pin point on the 5"by10"?:ausflag:

    this morning i hunted a beach first with my new coil,that's okay.i then tried to hunt in the park next to the beach , a lot of hits but i couldn't find half of them.on the beach in the sand not a problem, the width of the scoop handles any discrepancies between where the target actually...
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    overload with the xt50:ausflag:

    this morning i went to a local beach to try out my newest coil and only found $3.00,so i moved on to a newly discovered tots lot.the second sweep produced a overload in the sand.with the minelab nearly all the strong signals i get turn out to be an overload.so i stopped,pulled out my mate and...
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    bounty hunter probe:ausflag:

    my only claim to this site is that i own a bh electronic probe and like many of you i originally bought it because it was the only one here in australia that i could buy and afford.many of you live in the usa and other foreign places,where you can choose what you want from the local store.when i...
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    okay bb i did what you said.:ausflag:

    the xt50 is now sporting a new 5"by10" hfdd 18.75 khz coil apart from lighting my wallet,what and where is it going to be most useful in finding other peoples lost treasure?:detecting: hh
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    laser trident?:ausflag:

    is the laser trident a tesoro detector.if it is,how come the british get combination detector,namely the cibola and the vaquero rolled into one? i was reading a review on gary's forum in the uk.they can either ground balance the vaquero or turn it off and use it as a switch on and go detctor...
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    18.75 khz 5"by10"hf dd coil ?:ausflag:

    how deep would this coil detect in the average run of the mill soil and sand on a beach both wet and dry,the sand that is? i don't want to dig to china! blowfly :detecting: hh
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    battery power?:ausflag:

    to-day i made contact with a husband and wife team,both using modified silver sabre u max's.they both wear backpacks in which they each have a small 12 volt car battery wired into their detectors,replacing the original battery system.listening through the man's earphones to the responce of a...
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    :galveston and ike :ausflag:

    my heart goes out to all those who are suffering in the wake of "ike" your storms seem to make our cyclones, seem small and insignificant.my thoughts and prayers are for you in this crisis keep your chin up blowfly
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    x terra 50 coil selection ?:ausflag:

    i was reading in faqfaq about the 6' and the 5"by10" coils and how great they are for detecting but each with it's own limitations,as as i can see, a head, i will never get to go, gold prospecting.i mostly hunt for coins and jewellery in parks and on the local beachs and i have read that the...
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    two detectors:ausflag:

    i have two detectors that i hunt with at the monent,one is the x terra 50 and the vaquero,i like both . i's a pity they can't be combined into the one machine,or maybe they have and i don't know it .i like tid and i like audio.both have worked great! i don't know which one i should get rid off...
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    sensetivity settings on the vaquero ? :ausflag:

    when i first got my vaquero from the retailer ,he instructed me how to turn on and ground balance.set the sense to 8 or 9.and how to super tune.wow !! i thought,ain't this the bee's wax! now having had this detector for a while and using it fairly successfully,i don't turn up the sense to max...
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    tots lots and re-enforced concrete fixtures?:ausflag:

    operating the x terra 50 in tot lots, i noticed this morning, that i couldn't get close up to the swings and things, leaving a grey area, where there were things still hidden! this was later proven by my little friend who i always take with me as a back up.if for some reason i didn't have him...
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    rings and things?:ausflag:

    when hunting with x terra 50 and hoping to find gold jewellery ,does one dig every tid number from three upwards or are there set numbers that you are more likely to find them on?from reading all the posts and faqfaq,it seems to me if it goes ping you dig,if bur you walk on.i assume silver is...
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    ground balancing the x terra 50 :ausflag:

    when ground balancing the xt50 must you have good hearing.at my last hearing test it was found that my hearing broke down at 20,000 ohms.this seems to upset gb the xt50 when i turn on the detector to gb it all i hear is a dull buuur and then it's bur up and bur down no matter what numerical...
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    target id questions?:ausflag:

    i'm australian.faqfaq is very interesting especially if your american.everything i've read on this site about target identification,points at clad and wheaties.i thought this was an australian company"minelab",therefore we should australian values on the numbers,surely!!or are we to small to...
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    :the first month:ausflag:

    hi one and all,i'm new to minelab.i was wondering if i should operate my x50 in all metal for the first month so as to get a better grasp on what it's saying?or should i plunge on regardless and "leave it to beaver"to tell me when to dig or not?what do you all reckon? blowfly hh
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    the x terra 90 :ausflag:

    having just aquired the x terra 50 and not even had a chance to run it yet i was thinking after talking to a minelab representive just recently about the x terra 90 and it's possible new up dates.he would neither confirm or deny it's possible planning in the near future.i said "what about a...
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    sencitivitty thoughts:ausflag:

    to-day i hunted with my vaquero in a sand filled volley ball court in all metal mode.i found $11.80 aud,two rings.one silver and one small gold.when i started leave to go home ,i went to turn off the machine and i saw that i had been operating supposedly the whole time with a sensitivity setting...
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