Have you read this ?

[steve in so la]

Almost every week on the forums I read "It rang up as a pull tab, dug it anyway, up popped a gold ring". I just read this again . Do you ever experience this reading/digs ? I only go on sounds so cannot opinionate on it. steve in so az

 

[7centsworth]

I have dug a few indians that gave the same reading as a pull tab on my x-terra . I have only found two rings and they both gave good coin tones.

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

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[DK]

Yep, evertime it comes up pull tab, it is a pull tab. How come you all get the good stuff? I guess I will keep trying.

 

[Pete in MI]

Probably most of my gold ring finds (both on the Explorer II and the Garrett ACE 250 and the Garrett GTA and GTAx detectors I have owned in the past) all fell in the area of pull tabs. So to discriminate out pull tabs not only were rings missed but nickels as well.

I love finding a place with nickels in abundance...usually means someone had their detector on discriminate to no get pull tabs and walked over all those nickels and also the rings too.

 

[steve in so la]

Yeah - I start to salivate when I get a couple nickels in a site steve

 

[pescadore]

Makes you wonder why you should pay all that money for the bells and whistles when the best course of action is just DIG IT ALL.

 

[SeniorSeeker]

After hunting with my 'New' Minelab X-Terra 70 for a few seasons, I have learned to 'TRUST' the meter. If it says pull-tab, it's ALWAYS a pull-tab. Anytime I have found rings, whether silver or gold, they have always sounded in high numbers as though I were digging half dollars. Pennies are always pennies, nickels are always nickels, dimes are always dimes, etc. It took me a while to 'UNLEARN' what I had learned with other metal detectors before accepting what the X-Terra 70 'predicts' is in the ground. I have learned that certain metals give particular sounds and, together with the meter readings, I have come to know whats in the ground before I dig it most of the time. When numbers in the 44-48 range, it's almost always rings or half dollars. The X-Terra 70 is an awesome machine. The only regret I've got is that I waited sooooooooo long before buying the MInelab X-Terra 70. I wish I had bought it years ago, when it first came on the market.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

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[pescadore]

I never have had an X-terra 70 but sounds good to me. I have owned several Minelab Explorers and they were no where near perfect on ID like you are describing. I have never had a detector (and I've had a bunch of them) that performed to the level of what's on the meter is ALWAYS what it is. I consider my X-3 extremely good on nickels (best I have ever had) but I still get a partial tab or other trash occasionally that will fool the nickel switch. You made my next detector choice easy !!!

 

[Anonymous]

Hey SS that is what I say about accepting Jesus as my own personal Savior; believing and trusting in Him, I wish I would have done it a lot sooner, to know and give Him praise and glory for what He has done for me and does do now! Betty

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Pescadore, I have a 1994 Whites Spectrum XLT that you can program for different ones that you want to use at certain times and the program I have now will tell me most of the time that the beep is a nickel find! I've found lots of them, but wish the gold rings were as plentiful as lost nickels! You all make me want to get out and detect again, but just not able as I would be really, really sick if I did! I'm a person when out wants to keep on going, especially when finding the goodies---Usually I don't have enough sense to know when to quit! May God Bless! Amen! Ma Betty

 

[steve in so la]

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