MX Sport dry river finds, Silver and Gold but!

[Old California]

Been waiting to post my dry river finds until a piece of gold jewelry surfaced, Well its been three hunts now although the MX Sport hasn't scored gold yet did find two gold rings, but unfortunately not from the MX Sport.

A good friend and I have been hitting a local dry river bed, I've been using both Pi's and the MX Sport. My buddy is using a pi, And for good reason the dry sand is so mineralized targets beyond 2"-3" inches ID as iron, quarters, dimes, pennies, nickels gold jewelry doesn't matter it'll ID as iron.

We dig all signals, with VLF dig everything especially iron signals as they are usually a good target. Depth is limited with VLF, mineralization effects depth...... So we use Pi's, no issues with mineralization using Pi's.

With the MX Sport, Using Prospecting mode VCO on position, salt on SAT maximum 6. Sensitivity between 5-7 depending on mineralization, Ground Balance locked position.

I'll be honest, the MX Sport is not exempt from mineralization. It suffers, but is usable. So are other top end VLF, believe me I've tried them all our mineralization is really terrible.

Still, Having fun using the MX Sport here at this particular river bed. If it grunts and IDs as iron, I'm digging because about 70-80% of the time it's not iron but a good signal.

It's an old river bed, dates back to 1850's. Did score two silver coins, silver bracelet, stainless steel bracelet, watch, v-nickel, lots of coins, all with the MX Sport.

The two gold rings are Pi recovered, 14k white gold and recently this weekend 14k ladies ring. Not bad, good workout and burned some calories.

I'll continue to detect here using the MX Sport, sooner or later gold will surface! Trust me I'll post it here when it happens!

One of the pics is my buddy Denny, he already scored two gold rings this last week with his pi. So we're two for two, hopefully my MX Sport scores the next Gold!

Thanks for looking,
Paul

 

[Lake Hunter]

Great Job Paul.

I had a really bad experience with the MX Sport today. It couldn't handle a particular river I hunt. It was about useless in it. I have been having pretty good experiences with it in dry sand and some freshwater. But today I hit a spot that has given many single frequency detectors trouble, and the MX was no exception. I think it was the worst of all single frequency units I've used in the past. It was a good thing I brought one of my Multi frequency water units with me. It worked flawlessly. So with this being said...I am limited on where I use the MX Sport. I will wait for the 6X10 and see if that helps because I believe the stock coil sees too much and makes it unstable.

Darryl

 

[Old California]

Hello Darrell,

Thanks for sharing you're MX Sport experiences with fresh water sand, yes indeed West Coast fresh water sand is tough.

I agree, The smaller elliptical DD coil should help, like you I'm looking forward to getting one.

Sounds like your sand is as bad as ours, you're about 120 miles from me and we both know how bad our fresh water sand can be and can change one year to the next, this year it's extremely mineralized black sand is terrible.

Single frequency detectors don't fare well under these conditions, And auctally tried a locals AT Pro last week with a buried nickel at 4-5" inches at this same dry river bed, the AT Pro couldn't detect the coin. So later ran the same test with the MX Sport and it did detect the coin but came in as iron, so I buried it deeper and surprisingly it would get the nickel at 9"-10" inches, but was ID'ing as an iron signal which is no surprise.

The MX Sport has potential, and I'm staring to figure out how to operate the MX Sport to get maximum performance with as low settings as possible. Prospecting mode VCO on position SAT 6 works best for me on mineralization river sand, sensitivity just above mid way but maybe I need to bump it down even more. The smaller DD should help allot, we both see this so that's great we're both maximizing the MX Sport to handle this tough black sand.

Haven't hit the water just yet, but I believe the MX Sport will fare well here, with fresh drops during the water season nothing will be deep anyways. We're cleaning out the deeper stuff right now, so when water arrives we'll mainly be digging fresh drops.

We'll have to get together again, your area or mine.

Thanks again Darrell,
Paul