Does your XT like wet conditions???

[Mtnmn]

Was surprised to read on one of the other forums (non-Minelab) that guys were having problems using their detectors in wet ground conditions. Don't know about you other XT owners, but my XT-70 seems to just love wet weather conditions. I just put a 2 qt. zip lock baggy over the environmental cover, tape it up a little and it will never miss a beat in the rain (admittedly in light showers and with plumber's goop over the coil cord connector). While the coins are just popping out one after another in the wet ground conditions... How about you guys???

 

[Digger]

I've hunted in the mist. But I worked outdoors in the weather for too many years to want to do it "on purpose". However, I find some of my deepest after a good rain, when the ground is wet. Apparently the dampness gets those eddy currents all excited when they bounce off of a coin! HH Randy

 

[Beale]

I have hunted in rain, mud, and snow. Mine likes wet ground. The only issue is the clean up, Beale.

 

[xwyokid]

My best token find was a few years back after 3 days of soaking rains. But, there's nothing out there that warrants me to hunt in the rain.

 

[skippers]

I took my 70 to England to hunt in October. The first 6 days it rained or misted or was wet and muddy from having just rained. I was ready to run over mine with a truck. Then, I took the standard coil off and started using the 5 x 10DD coil. The machine started acting better, and I decided to keep it. I can't answer Why?, but in all that wet, the DD works better, at least where we were. I still didn't find as much good stuff as usual, but that was caused by other factors. Skip

 

[7centsworth]

I like to hunt when the ground is wet or even muddy. My x-terra acts a little eratic when it is wet but I am used to that . I get more depth and seem to find more things when it is wet.

 

[TURNMASTER]

Depends.
I have had some really poor results with moist soil conditions. Machine was real hairy and jumpy as can be. However, I have had mixed results in that area because of the EMI (I think). We have got much hotter soil here than a lot of you folks. I regularly GB in the 9 to 15 range to as high as 40 in places.
Lately I have been runing a lot hotter and just living with the noise, both Xterra and Explorer.

Its all good
Jeff

 

[Mtnmn]

Will admit that my 6" DD HF coil works the best in wet ground conditions with the 10.5" DD MF coil a close second. In the early spring have actually had my holes (plugs) fillup with ground water before I could get the coin out which shows you good the X-T can be in extremely wet ground conditions. I usually only go detecting when it is drizzling out because my jobs require me to work outside when weather condtions are good...

 

[kiwi-jim]

I would agree my xterra works better in the wet ground,not that I intentionally go out in the rain.I also have read other forums about xterra's not perfoming,but I suspect they are referring to salt water.
As I live on a coastal beach i spend a lot of time on the sand mine works great in the dry sand.But not so good in the wet tidal areas,the only way I can get any results is to turn the sens way down.And ground balance when changing from wet to dry etc.But i am more than pleased with what i get in the dry sand.....

 

[David]

Depends.
I have had some really poor results with moist soil conditions. Machine was real hairy and jumpy as can be. However, I have had mixed results in that area because of the EMI (I think). We have got much hotter soil here than a lot of you folks. I regularly GB in the 9 to 15 range to as high as 40 in places.
Lately I have been runing a lot hotter and just living with the noise, both Xterra and Explorer.

Its all good
Jeff

Me too, in a old river oxbowl in wet (gray) clay with that was wet with a high water table, I dug this hole fairly recently on good high solid TID numbers on my X-70 with a round 10.5" HF DD. I kept chasing the noise down and I thought I had something good as it still had a good TID number near the bottom. I went back home and got my GP-3000 (PI) with the stock 11" DD to check it out again (by that time water had seeped in bottom of the hole), nothing, no signal there! What a learning experience with good TID's on that wet clay!

 

[Mtnmn]

David: That is a truly awesome hole, what kind of target did you think you were hitting on? Did you try re-scanning your hole in the prospecting mode when you began to have doubts about your target? I can't ever remember of getting a false reading (phantom target) with my XT-70, but then all I have to deal with is plenty of small iron and all kinds of modern day trash, no clay or salt water beaches.

 

[David]

David: That is a truly awesome hole, what kind of target did you think you were hitting on? Did you try re-scanning your hole in the prospecting mode when you began to have doubts about your target? I can't ever remember of getting a false reading (phantom target) with my XT-70, but then all I have to deal with is plenty of small iron and all kinds of modern day trash, no clay or salt water beaches.

Yes it was quite a sweating dig. No bedrock here so I thought maybe a chunk of silver or gold that was brought in by an ancient glacier was in my mind. Yes I used Prospecting Mode and it screemed loud as a metal target(but in Iron Mask it blanked out a bit, I cannot remember what number I had it set at from 1 to 20), so did Pinpoint Mode show a strong reading that wrapped around as well. It all truned out to be a phantom target in the end(or some type of soil-clay that is conductive). The TID #'s were in the 30's and one at solid 40 from both ways. I cannot believe for the life of me that there was no metal down there! After digging that hole there was still a signal at the bottom with the X-70! I went and got my Pulse Induction GP-3000 machine with the 11" DD there was NO signal there. None in the bottom of the hole, none in the plies of dirt, and none around that on the surface of the ground! I am still confused and would like to know what type of wet soil-clay would give that type of reading in the X-70? Any ideas?