glasartisan
Member
Hello there,
I have a question on possibly getting a 3030 for strictly fresh water use but don't know if its full potential will be realized. I will be wading with it up to my neck and obvious the screen will be of no use. I currently have and use the X-cal 2.My big thing is that Im not looking for gold or coins; X-cal does that just fine. I am in junky areas with a lot of square nails and bigger junk. These are possible fur trade sites with cut brass, pewter buttons, brass thimbles, silver trade crosses and musket parts just to name a few of the desirable artifacts and these are out in the water. I have used the CZ-21 and X-cal 2 on some of these sites but just too much nulling going on but yet a monumental task if I were to dig it all. I already dig a lot of iron and certainly all the overloads. The kicker is that these sites when discovered are contaminated with newer iron. So the million dollar question is will a detector like the CTX greatly benefit me for this kind of water work over my X-cal 2? How much info am I loosing by not looking at the screen? Im mainly a sounds, tone first guy, then do I compare where the VID is at. I keep hearing how powerful the combined is in conduct program w/ wide open screen. But will that type of set up help when Im not checking the screen/cursor movement? And go strictly by sound/tones? Thank you in advance to any kinds of suggestions and help, Steve
I have a question on possibly getting a 3030 for strictly fresh water use but don't know if its full potential will be realized. I will be wading with it up to my neck and obvious the screen will be of no use. I currently have and use the X-cal 2.My big thing is that Im not looking for gold or coins; X-cal does that just fine. I am in junky areas with a lot of square nails and bigger junk. These are possible fur trade sites with cut brass, pewter buttons, brass thimbles, silver trade crosses and musket parts just to name a few of the desirable artifacts and these are out in the water. I have used the CZ-21 and X-cal 2 on some of these sites but just too much nulling going on but yet a monumental task if I were to dig it all. I already dig a lot of iron and certainly all the overloads. The kicker is that these sites when discovered are contaminated with newer iron. So the million dollar question is will a detector like the CTX greatly benefit me for this kind of water work over my X-cal 2? How much info am I loosing by not looking at the screen? Im mainly a sounds, tone first guy, then do I compare where the VID is at. I keep hearing how powerful the combined is in conduct program w/ wide open screen. But will that type of set up help when Im not checking the screen/cursor movement? And go strictly by sound/tones? Thank you in advance to any kinds of suggestions and help, Steve