Mick in Dubbo
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I've dusted off the old XS over the last week and have hit the ground running with it. I've set it up in audio 2 (not a fan of the normal tones yet) and had fast and deep off.
I took it for a spin earlier in the week with significantly higher finds than I'm used too. Anyway, fast forward to today. I'm a modern coin hunter and I was hunting the local farmers market site. As I was looking for newly dropped coins, recovery was going to be easy; probably not the type of hunting that hunters of old coin go for, but we've all got our own interests.
I hunted for a bit over 2 hours for a total of $17. I had an unusually high coin to rubbish ratio. Ten coins (all $1 and $2 coins. Surprisingly, I couldn't hit any of the lower ones
) that normally read 25 and 26, to one crushed up screw cap at 5 inches plus one smallish piece of rectangular can slaw. It'd be nice to get a ratio of 5 to 1 regularly, but it would be a bit unrealistic to expect that all the time.
Listening to targets in audio 2 sure is great and makes telling coins fairly easy as they give a nice smooth tone. I noticed that the $1 coins were giving a bit of a warble, but the tone was so strong that they screamed at me to dig them. (Actually, pick them up out of the grass would be more accurate.
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The light bulb moment came when I was getting quite a number of signals that were reading 28. They sounded good and strong, as well as shallow, however they were quite deeper so I think that they must have been coke cans or can slaw. Any way for the light bulb moment. I often ignore the pinpoint feature as it doesn't seem to give any useful information, but today I put that pinpoint to good use. I was starting to notice that I could properly locate the targets (at 2
. What hit me was the fact that the targets were bigger than coins and the pinpoint was telling me exactly how big! All I had to do was watch the ground and see it.
Der! How simple it is when one opens ones eyes! Further to that, I applied this new knowledge to the rest of the hunt and was impressed with what I could now see. $2 coins, which are three quarters of an inch in diameter, gave off a very short beep and I mean very short. The $1 coins which are exactly an inch in diameter gave a longer beep, but interestingly, 2 of them (sitting in the grass) gave a very quiet tone, it almost sounded a bit like a half null, with a bleep at the edges. (It sounds very similar to how a piece of iron sounds when pinpointed with a Sovereign if any of you have heard that.) That will be worth taking a further look at the next time I get out for a hunt.
It looks like I'll have to keep the dust off the XS and get busy with it. I hope that the Explorer's are still being sold when it finally dies, as they sure are great little detectors. I'm not sure of the status of whether they are still being made or not.
Mick Evans.
I took it for a spin earlier in the week with significantly higher finds than I'm used too. Anyway, fast forward to today. I'm a modern coin hunter and I was hunting the local farmers market site. As I was looking for newly dropped coins, recovery was going to be easy; probably not the type of hunting that hunters of old coin go for, but we've all got our own interests.
I hunted for a bit over 2 hours for a total of $17. I had an unusually high coin to rubbish ratio. Ten coins (all $1 and $2 coins. Surprisingly, I couldn't hit any of the lower ones
) that normally read 25 and 26, to one crushed up screw cap at 5 inches plus one smallish piece of rectangular can slaw. It'd be nice to get a ratio of 5 to 1 regularly, but it would be a bit unrealistic to expect that all the time.Listening to targets in audio 2 sure is great and makes telling coins fairly easy as they give a nice smooth tone. I noticed that the $1 coins were giving a bit of a warble, but the tone was so strong that they screamed at me to dig them. (Actually, pick them up out of the grass would be more accurate.
)The light bulb moment came when I was getting quite a number of signals that were reading 28. They sounded good and strong, as well as shallow, however they were quite deeper so I think that they must have been coke cans or can slaw. Any way for the light bulb moment. I often ignore the pinpoint feature as it doesn't seem to give any useful information, but today I put that pinpoint to good use. I was starting to notice that I could properly locate the targets (at 2
. What hit me was the fact that the targets were bigger than coins and the pinpoint was telling me exactly how big! All I had to do was watch the ground and see it. Der! How simple it is when one opens ones eyes! Further to that, I applied this new knowledge to the rest of the hunt and was impressed with what I could now see. $2 coins, which are three quarters of an inch in diameter, gave off a very short beep and I mean very short. The $1 coins which are exactly an inch in diameter gave a longer beep, but interestingly, 2 of them (sitting in the grass) gave a very quiet tone, it almost sounded a bit like a half null, with a bleep at the edges. (It sounds very similar to how a piece of iron sounds when pinpointed with a Sovereign if any of you have heard that.) That will be worth taking a further look at the next time I get out for a hunt.It looks like I'll have to keep the dust off the XS and get busy with it. I hope that the Explorer's are still being sold when it finally dies, as they sure are great little detectors. I'm not sure of the status of whether they are still being made or not.
Mick Evans.