First Time Out with My 705

[C&RHunter]

I added an X-Terra 705 to my Minelab arsenal very early this year. Due to a family illness I have been unable to get out and detect at all, since March. Today I finally got out, left the CTX at home and took my new 705 with me. There is a farm field where a town existed for about 20 years in the mid 1800s, that I wanted to hit. It has been roughly chisel plowed, and also in another location, an overgrown town block has been dozed off. So both places had some loose ground to check out. I hit the field first. I did check out some -6 targets and got what I thought I would, remains of square nails. I got very few higher numbered targets but checked them, a few pieces of aluminum but was rewarded with the two round bullets. One has been fired and is flattened from impact the other appears to be dropped. My other location produced quite a few high numbered targets but only gave me three coins. Two Indians (1897 & 1903) and a wheatie (1941). There were a few other items that I kept: a zinc (?) lions head, bottom of a printers plate, and a couple of other misc. items. There were two other finds that I liked real well, the bottle (surface find) for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup and a brass coal tag, made by M.F. Smith from Parsons, KS. The Soothing Syrup bottle is from the late 1800s and according to my Internet research, the "Syrup" was used for teething babies. It was supposed to make there gums feel better and let them sleep. It should have, since it contained morphine as one of the main ingredients. Still a very cool old bottle. All in all, I didn't find any silver, but was still pleased for my first hunt with the new 705.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

I would say you did pretty damn good for your first time out with the X705 and it being farm fields, WTG

That coal tag and bottle are really cool finds and I like the IH's too, lol

 

[Old Longhair]

Jumping around the Minelab line isn't that difficult, and you're additional proof. Great finds! Especially for a first outing. Just think what you might do after spending a little time with it.

I'm really not surprised. The CTX has similar characteristics by design that would make the transition pretty easy.

 

[BillF]

Interesting finds. I for one would be curious to hear how your 705 stacks up to the CTX.

 

[team sidewinder]

Nice finds. Love the ornate soothing syrup bottle and the IH coins. The little 705 worked well for you.

 

[Jack Beam]

Nice lookin finds! Congrats!

 

[7centsworth]

Nice finds .

 

[C&RHunter]

Interesting finds. I for one would be curious to hear how your 705 stacks up to the CTX.

I will have to get much more time on both machines (CTX and X705) to form opinions on comparisons. But actually, I have these two models for use in different types of locations. The E-Trac did not always perform real well in rough freshly broken fields. The CTX seemed to do okay last fall, but the fields had been disked and rained on, and that had allowed the soil to "mellow" and get rid of the voids etc. before we actually hit it with our E-Tracs and my CTX....So far very pleased with both machines, but need way more time on them.........the harvest will begin soon........