Andrew Kalinowski
New member
Today, thanks to unseasonably warm weather, for the first time, I took the CTX for a real hunt. Just over an hour short hunt but, steel, a real one - for the first time, I was swinging CTX to find stuff.
I'd say that I'm happy. I'm convinced that with my old detector, I would be hung up on iron. As it was, I could easily tell and avoid most of the junk. I got fooled by one steel, rusty, round hose clamp. I also dug out, (more out of morbid curiosity than anything else) a rusty bottle cap that was showing scattered on the target trace so, I knew it's not a really good target.
One pull tab and couple aluminium bottle caps did sound nice and in the possible silver range. Not to bad (for me) and I know that no machine is perfect and I'm even less perfect. Still, the key was the ratio of junk vs. good targets. For the very first time, I was digging more good stuff than bad and that really made my day. The old machine frustrated me so often. So many times I was giving up on an area because I was overwhelmed with junk and good signals just would not come through the iron. Same area. Same man. Different machine and suddenly, within the junk, I could hear and see on the screen good returns even that CTX is still very new to me. Within an hour, I got rewarded with few coins including 1919 silver, several old shells and miscellaneous copper and brass junk. Now, I can sleep well knowing that CTX was money well spent - it elevated my hunting to the next, much more enjoyable level.
I'd say that I'm happy. I'm convinced that with my old detector, I would be hung up on iron. As it was, I could easily tell and avoid most of the junk. I got fooled by one steel, rusty, round hose clamp. I also dug out, (more out of morbid curiosity than anything else) a rusty bottle cap that was showing scattered on the target trace so, I knew it's not a really good target.
One pull tab and couple aluminium bottle caps did sound nice and in the possible silver range. Not to bad (for me) and I know that no machine is perfect and I'm even less perfect. Still, the key was the ratio of junk vs. good targets. For the very first time, I was digging more good stuff than bad and that really made my day. The old machine frustrated me so often. So many times I was giving up on an area because I was overwhelmed with junk and good signals just would not come through the iron. Same area. Same man. Different machine and suddenly, within the junk, I could hear and see on the screen good returns even that CTX is still very new to me. Within an hour, I got rewarded with few coins including 1919 silver, several old shells and miscellaneous copper and brass junk. Now, I can sleep well knowing that CTX was money well spent - it elevated my hunting to the next, much more enjoyable level.
