First of all, I want to thank the folks at Minelab for allowing me to be part of the Field Testing team for this new detector. It is an honor. And, I would like to thank Findmall for responding so quickly with this new forum. As many of you who read the forums know, I am a BIG FAN of the Minelab single frequency machines. Especially those 5kHz units! And, as many of us have stated over the years, "if they would only incorporate a meter into the Musky"! Well, they didn't add a meter to the Musky. But, I think you are going to like what they have come up with. Like the other field testers, I received my X-Terra 50 last week. And believe me, it was tough not being able to come on here and tell you all about it then. But, after talking to Dick today, it seems the cat is out of the bag, so I just as well throw my 2 cents worth in to the mix. I won't bore you all with the specifications, as there are many sites that are offering that information at this time. What I would like to share with you is how it has been working for me the past few days.
The first thing I did with my X-Terra was to take it outside and pass a couple hundred old coins under the coil. My findings have been a bit different than some of the others in that I get a wider range of readings on certain coins. For example, silver dollars and half dollars hit a hard, constant 45 on the meter. And, quarters hit a hard 42. Seated, Barber, Standing Liberty, Washington. Mine were all the same. But some of my dimes varied. I passed about 50 Seated, Barbers and Mercs under the coil and the readings were 33, 36 and 39s. No certain type of coin seemed to make a difference. In other words, one mercury might come in at 33 and another at 36. The next one might be 39. But what I found was that, if a certain dime read 36 one time, it would always read 36. All the nickels I tested read a solid 12. Shields, V-nickels, Buffaloes and Jefferson
The first thing I did with my X-Terra was to take it outside and pass a couple hundred old coins under the coil. My findings have been a bit different than some of the others in that I get a wider range of readings on certain coins. For example, silver dollars and half dollars hit a hard, constant 45 on the meter. And, quarters hit a hard 42. Seated, Barber, Standing Liberty, Washington. Mine were all the same. But some of my dimes varied. I passed about 50 Seated, Barbers and Mercs under the coil and the readings were 33, 36 and 39s. No certain type of coin seemed to make a difference. In other words, one mercury might come in at 33 and another at 36. The next one might be 39. But what I found was that, if a certain dime read 36 one time, it would always read 36. All the nickels I tested read a solid 12. Shields, V-nickels, Buffaloes and Jefferson