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Im starting to LOVE the Xterra 50

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MichiganJason

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Well, I made my oldest find yesterday. I was messing around in my parents front yard with the Xterra 50 just messing with the ground balance and taking with my dad. Oddly...I recieved a weak but repeatable signal bouncing between 27, 31 and 36. So I pinpointed and decided to dig it, Well after about 6 or 7 inches of dirt was removed, There it was...an 1870 Indian head penny. Might not seem to spectacular to some, but where I found it was about a 10ft by 5ft strip of grass...Which has been detected no less than 30-40 times, I used my Cibola there, My brother used his Garrett 550 there I even used an XlT there and did not get so much as a beep. The xterra really seems to be alot deeper than people give it credit for, I have read alot of bad reviews of the Xterra's, But I am starting to wonder how they base that opinion.
 
No matter how many old coins I find, I always enjoy digging up the old Indian Cents. As to the jumping numbers and why some of your other detectors didn't pick it up.... could be a couple possiblities. (question: you said the TID was 27, 31 and 36. Did you mean 27, 30 and 36 OR 27, 33 and 36?) One possibility is that there was an adjacent piece of trash that was distorting the numbers. Another possibility is that the coin was not laying completely flat. If the coin is buried at an angle, the signal you get from the "top side" when sweeping one direction will be different than the ID you get from the what it sees of the "bottom side" when coming in from the other direction. Kind of funny, but when I get mixed signals like that, I don't think of analyzing the target by varying sweep speeds, crossing over it from 5 or 6 directions, or tweaking the settings to see if I can improve the signal until AFTER I have dug it up. Then, once I see what it is, I wish I had done more testing. :nerd: Old habits die hard! Congrats again and I am glad you are enjoying your X-50. HH Randy
 
And the way you found it just proves what we X-Terra users know. It is a deep, simple to operate machine. Those people who trashed it probably used it for an hour and went on to the latest, greatest machine and then on to the next after that. The X-Terra was voted relic machine of the year by our local TH'er Gazette.

Nice coin and hope you find many more in hard-hunted sites. Ron
 
Yeah, it was 27-33-36.....All numbers I would dig, Not to mention it was a very quiet, dull signal,but very repeatable, Im glad I dug it. This is a great machine......Still waiting to find a nickle with it though, have not found a single nickle yet.
 
RonNH, Thank you for the response. I really feel that people just want to be able to say that they have the "Best" machine. Explorers and DFX's mainly. Price doesnt mean everything. As a matter of fact, I have used an Explorer and found it to be heavy,awkward, slow sweeping, overpriced, and hard to learn. Yet some people will hear nothing of that. That is all right with me, Lets just quietly use out Xterras and rid the ground of nice coins and jewelry.
 
While theyr'e analyzing numbers and checkin readouts, we be fillin the pouch and a movin on X 30 works same way with less buttons to push:minelab::detecting:
 
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