All,
I'm relativity new to detecting. I've been using a Tesoro Silver Umax for a few years sparingly. I just purchased a 705 with the standard coil (9", 7.5khz). I'm really having some concerns, hoping I made the right decision. I took it out a couple times this past weekend and had no luck at all. I was at an old home site in the woods with lots of iron trash and couldn't really lock onto anything past 1 to 2 inches. I then checked my machine by placing a quarter (modern 1978 model) in an open hole I had dug. Roughly 5 inches down, face up, and did not cover it. My machine did not see the coin! I did the same thing with a civil war bullet I had found before and it didn't see it either. I came home that night and did an air test. The results appeared fine as it "saw" quarters, pennies, dimes, etc out to 10 to 12 inches. Could something be wrong with my machine or is it user error?????
I did lots and lots of research by watching videos, reading forums, etc.. before deciding on the 705. I have seen videos of folks finding coins as far as 9 inches down. I know soil type can have an impact but there has to be something else going on. Since that time I have read the manual over a few times and downloaded the Xterra ebook and read it completely through. I plan to hit it again this coming weekend. Again, could it be a bad machine or just me???? Any advice would be much appreciated!!!!
BTW: Great forum......have really enjoyed reading the posts.
I'm relativity new to detecting. I've been using a Tesoro Silver Umax for a few years sparingly. I just purchased a 705 with the standard coil (9", 7.5khz). I'm really having some concerns, hoping I made the right decision. I took it out a couple times this past weekend and had no luck at all. I was at an old home site in the woods with lots of iron trash and couldn't really lock onto anything past 1 to 2 inches. I then checked my machine by placing a quarter (modern 1978 model) in an open hole I had dug. Roughly 5 inches down, face up, and did not cover it. My machine did not see the coin! I did the same thing with a civil war bullet I had found before and it didn't see it either. I came home that night and did an air test. The results appeared fine as it "saw" quarters, pennies, dimes, etc out to 10 to 12 inches. Could something be wrong with my machine or is it user error?????
I did lots and lots of research by watching videos, reading forums, etc.. before deciding on the 705. I have seen videos of folks finding coins as far as 9 inches down. I know soil type can have an impact but there has to be something else going on. Since that time I have read the manual over a few times and downloaded the Xterra ebook and read it completely through. I plan to hit it again this coming weekend. Again, could it be a bad machine or just me???? Any advice would be much appreciated!!!!
BTW: Great forum......have really enjoyed reading the posts.