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CTX Park hunt finds gold.
- Thread starter TexasDigs
- Start date
Ohio pull tabs
Well-known member
Nice find!
Thanks guys. I am still rocking the CTX. To me it's still the best machine for what I do and my location. I have had this CTX since 2016 and it just keeps going, it's constantly submerge at the beach and used for park hunts. Got another two rings at the same place the nest weekend. One of them is junk and the other is silver palladium.
sasquache this is a tough question to answer. I am sure you heard gold can come in as foil or a penny sound and this is true so discrimination is key to not wasting to much time. I have had the CTX since 2017 and the truth is I still need to pick some trash to get gold. My hunts are rarely more then 2hrs at a clip and I pull 100-120 targets each time. The pictures below are all from the same soccer fields, each weekend this past month for a total of 8 hours. So back to discrimination and settings, they change at each park or school and at different sections of the field. I set up to use two programs the stock coin and a copy of it all changed up with different audio and setting. Audio is key to hearing the sound difference in pull tabs and foil and even though you can hear them you have to did it because they will hide rings just like the coins will. Schools are hard to hunt gold because some of them have way to much can slaw so you have to use common sense like if things are quit and all of a sudden you dig foil then you know the rest of the can is all around for at least 8' diameter. so its not worth digging it if you are not in a high probability spot for rings. If I am around a tree it may be worth pulling foil, but not at a elementary school or middle school only at a high school may it be worth it. Little kids tend to have silver rings and i get a lot of very thin silver ones from those schools so don't pull foil where gold is not likely to be found and instead just take the high tones. if you take a look at the class ring hunt image you will notice a lot of coins and in the trash tent loops and tent spikes. This is a good area to pull all low tones because clearly there was a lot of activity is this corner at the field side lines. Think tents,coins.pull tabs all equal hands in pockets and rings slipping off fingers so go wide open and remove all objects except big iron, this is why i removed the tent spike because it will hide rings. Now look at the trash in the gold ring image and notice no foil just pull tabs, coins and some odd junk. This all came from in the field so at a good field there should not be much can slaw in the fields and so this is pull all low tones and go back with every coil size you got over the same field and each time it will different. To keep speed up and limit plug size I never pull targets over 4" deep unless its a great sound and if its deep I will mark it with the GPS and come back early when the park is quite so people don't see me digging a one foot hole in a field. The CTX takes time to learn and for the first year I dug a lot of junk. I saved the junk and put it in a tackle organizer with rings and coins as well and will just listen to them all at different angles and mix up objects together like foil pull tabs with gold or silver mixed in to listen and watch target trace, after years with this machine i still do this a few times a week. I will add the programs details later but play with the audio and gain settings. Sometimes I have the gain at a 5 and sometimes at 25 and this will make foil and tabs sound very different then solid objects. The pull tabs will make a wobble sound while objects like rings just get a nice steady hollow sound to them. I will get more setup detail together. Hope this helps.Hello TexasDigs You are on the rings for sure what are your settings and what are the gold number on your ctx? When I detect schools there so much foil and other junk around trying too narrow it down
These are screen shots from the targets below.
