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First Day Results For My CTX 3030 / Civil War Campsite

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DaveStar

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My new CTX 3030 arrived yesterday afternoon. By early evening, with help from another CTX owner, I had the machine programed and ready to go. At 0630 hours this morning, I was in Culpeper, Virginia at a campsite that has been previously hunted heavy by two Etrac users and by me with a White DFX. I concentrated on a small area that I had found fourteen bullets about two weeks ago. Within minutes I had my first find, a single ring bullet at nine inches deep. I quit around 1100 hours with a total of seven Civil War bullets and several contemporary rounds. Several of the Civil War bullets were eight to ten inches deep. These depths were several inches deeper then what I had been previously finding bullets at this location. The ground was hard and very dry.

I recognize that these finds are not a big deal in the "metal detecting world" but what makes this significant is that I was digging alot of these targets just a few feet away from holes where I had dug two weeks ago with the DFX. As a matter of habit, whenever I hit a good target I always work the surrounding area very slow and meticulous, so I know that two weeks ago I must have passed over some of today's finds with the DFX.

Today I was using the combined program that "Gonehunting" had posted on this site with a few personal preference modifications. I changed the tones a little, used an "auto +2" sensitivity and used target trace/target trace pinpoint. I was very pleased with the results.

Dave
 
It looks like the CTX is going to be a nice relic machine as well. Congratulations on the finds Dave.
 
Very nice always like those civil war relics. Need to get mine out to give some relic hunting a try. It is hot I have been working and I must be a wimp. I just can't get into dirt hunting with temps in the 90's for some reason. Looks like a lot of you guys are doing great though. Guess I am going to have to give some relic hunting a go just needs to cool off a little.

Jason
 
Some nice finds congrats:twodetecting::minelab::cheers:
 
I thought the soil in Culpeper was too hot for a FBS2 machine to perform. Guess not. And aside from a PI machine what would be considered a deep find on a bullet? And what mode were you running in to find those bulllets. They are nice. Congrats.
 
Very nice finds, and a good report. Finding civil war relics is just amazing to me. Congrats

Randy
 
Very nice congrats on the finds i always wanted to hunt civil war relics just haven't tried it yet


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Congrats and I think those are significant finds in our world. Any time I pull true history relic or coin it is a treasure; cause it has a past and we unearthed it. I also agree those depths in bone dry conditions especially in the clay of Culpeper. Great post
 
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