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How about some Disc info for Coin Shooters?

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plugger

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I see a lot of "All-Metal" hunting for Relics going on, but there are as many people in Calif who hunt parks for coins as there are relic hunters in all of the mid-west. I'm not trying to start a war, but, not everyone is, or should be a relic hunter. I hunt at the beach with my Sovereign and I want the X-Terra for Coin Shooting in the parks when the beach sucks (as it does right now). I won't be looking for gold nuggets or Civil War bullets, but, I'm people too!:cheers:

Bill
 
You & I share the same sort of hunting preferences, so we're the same kind of people! No war starting here.

First of all, here is a link to my post on this forum detailing my experiences with the X-Terra 50 at a local park & Santa Monica Beach:

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,228371,228371#msg-228371

It is the first post on this forum, a combo piece with Joe of South Jersey, and should answer many of your questions.

In a nutshell, I found the X-Terra to be just fine for the parks here in S. CA and easier/more fun to use than either my old Sovereign or my Explorer XS II. Once I got "re-used" to a concentric coil I was very comfortable and found coins just fine. As you stated, relic hunting may be king in the south but here in LA it's coin shooting/jewelry hunting. I did experiment with the all metal mode and would agree with the other field testers that it works great since it allows the user to ID targets with audio & the display. But for me, with all of the trash targets in the parks I hunt, all metal just isn't a logical way to go. I used discrimination pattern 1 and was very satisfied with it.

So I would whole heartedly recommend the X-Terra 50 for coin shooting parks.

BTW, I know where you're coming from about the beaches. It's tough not to go even when they suck (like now out here as well); sometimes you just want to scoop some sand. If you do get an X-Terra, you may want to give it a go at the beach when things get better. I did (refer to my field test) and was pleasantly surprised how well it worked.

Hope this helps. Any other questions, post 'em & I'll do my best to answer them.

Bill (S. CA)
 
For the little I have used mine I like to run in the all metal mode so I can hear if the signals is a piece of iron that could be falsing. If it seem a lot of iron I will run my disc pattern 1 and if there is a lot of pull tabs i will go to my disc pattern 2.
One thing I will say it is sure different than the Sovereign as you have to go slow with the Sovereign and listen to all the different tones. The X-TERRA 50 is a silent search detector and I can go faster and only have to hear the 4 tones in all metal and those that sound good I check on the display, those that don't i don't even look at the display like the Sovereign.

Rick
 
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