Back from the beach.

[bcoop]

Spent the last week on the beach with family and friends and detected with 2 buddies for the week. I used my CTX for most of the week except for about 6 hrs that I used my Excalibur.

The CTX ran smooth for the most part on all the wet sand and in the edge of the water at low tide. I ran the CTX in auto plus 3 on most every place on the beach and it ran smooth. A few places I would get just a little bit of noise in the threshold and a little falsing once in awhile but I could back it down to auto or auto plus 1 or 2 to quiet it down. In the surf at low tide when a wave would splash over the coil it would produce a false signal but not a problem and easily identifiable with just a short blip in the headphones.

Here are a couple of pictures of what I found, the bag has some broken pieces of jewelry and junk ear rings, a lighter and a matchbox car and about 14 bucks in change. The watch was 9 scoops deep with my Nuttall scoop and is in great condition and running like it should. Nothing spectacular on the rings, 1 silver and some stainless and tungsten and a junker.

 

[Jason in TN]

Nice work I found auto + 3 was the way to go at the beach too. I saw sensitivity run from 13 all the way up to 31 a couple time on my CTX. Ran much better for me in auto than in manual.

Jason

 

[Crusty]

I'd say you have been doing pretty darn good........congratulations

Dave

 

[bcoop]

My buddy Fred was with me as well, he was swinging your Old E-Trac he purchased from you. He ended up with 3 rings, 1 gold and one silver with a gold inserted accent and a snake ring.

Glad the CTX worked out for you on your beach hunt.

BCOOP

 

[Jason in TN]

That is awesome glad to here the Etrac is still out there hunting. Was a great detector just was uncomfortable for me to hunt with. Are you liking the CTX better than the Etrac?

 

[bcoop]

I think I do like it better than the E-Trac. Fred ran my CTX for about an hour while I used his E-Trac, it felt like it was pulling on my arm compared to the CTX. I kept my E-Trac and I have an Excalibur as well, I like them all.
I ran my Excalibur for about 6 hrs that week and it has a straight shaft with the controls mounted behind the elbow and the CTX is more comfortable to swing for long periods than both the Excalibur and the E-Trac.

One thing I noticed is the CTX seems a lot more sensitive to small items. I dug some really small items that were 2 or 3 scoops deep that the CTX hit solid and hard. For instance I dug the end of an aluminum rivet that was at least a foot deep, it was just the head of the rivet about 3/16" in diameter.

BCOOP

 

[Jason in TN]

I will agree on the small stuff. I dug a bunch of tinny stuff on the beach that took a while to locate in the pile of sand. I think I am going to really like the CTX I am excited to have a good ID detector that balances well and is water proof. I am not going to say it is the deepest detector I have used but at the beach it gave good ID on targets deeper than any detector I have used so far.

Jason

 

[bcoop]

I got a few deep coins that were a little off the normal but they were several scoops deep. Target Trace works well, once I got a weird signal and looking at the target trace there was a long horizontal line across the screen and a hot spot on and with penny TID. I pinpointed the penny and pulled out a scoop, there in the hole I could see a penny and the end of a necklace or bracelet, turns out it was a broken ankle bracelet and the end of it was in the hole with the penny and the rest of it was stretch out about 6 inches to the left of it.

BCOOP

 

[beachdude]

What kind of patterns or modes were you both using (etrac & ctx)?

 

[Philo_NY]

are everywhere... but this what we have at the beaches now, along with the fake ear rings and the like.

Philo_NY