Mick in Dubbo
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How quickly time flies. I stumbled onto this forum just as it was getting off the ground. The X-terra was about to be released and looking at it, I remember thinking that I've gotta have one of these. That must have been in October 2005. The X-terras went on sale in November. Starting out with the 30, it sure was a big improvement on using the Bounty Hunter tracker 4 that I was using almost up to that point. I gotta say, the X-terra was a huge improvement! I remember being blown away by the audio and visual display, as well as the VCO pinpoint. As a relative newbie, I hadn't come across that before. Even to this day, the X-Terra's have been the easiest to master detectors that I've come across. That said, I've had my dark moments with it, but on balance, as far as what floats my boat, the X-Terras still are the best light weight detector that are on the market, and it will be interesting to see what new features will be packed into the next marque of X-Terras that will at my best guess come out around April next year, if Minelab remain consistent on updating every 2 years. Given that a number of detectors are coming out with a modulated tone feature, I wouldn't be surprised to see that sort of feature added. Given that the 30 and 50 were released in Nov 05 and the 70 in April 06, I remember seeing an X-terra 70 sitting on a shelf over the shoulder of Des Dunne in the first instruction video, which I thought was pretty cheeky.
We are pretty lucky to have a lot of good tips corralled into the FAQFAQ section as well as some very good articles written by digger, including his latest offering found at the top of the page. A lot of folks will be able to benefit from such practical insights.
Something that's surprising, that even though the X-Terras are simple to use detectors, it surprises me that even after 5 years of using then in one form or another (currently using the 70) that I'm still picking up little tricks that help ID targets.
Mick Evans.

We are pretty lucky to have a lot of good tips corralled into the FAQFAQ section as well as some very good articles written by digger, including his latest offering found at the top of the page. A lot of folks will be able to benefit from such practical insights.
Something that's surprising, that even though the X-Terras are simple to use detectors, it surprises me that even after 5 years of using then in one form or another (currently using the 70) that I'm still picking up little tricks that help ID targets.
Mick Evans.