New CTX owner - New digger 1st post:clapping:

[Northeaster]

Well I jumped right in head first and brought a new CTX, I have not owned a detector since I was a child in the late 70's.


I Like how the machines feels and looks..

After many hours of reading / watching vids. I ventured outside, after locating every nail in the house first.. lol.


1. 1940 penny
2 . .22 cal shell casing
3. 1971 penny
4. 3 nails
5. misc. pinky size pcs of aluminum

so far only time to dig a few holes in backyard.



Let the adventures begin..


Ordered Andys book yesterday, looking forward to reading and reading it again and possibly again to understand it all. lol

 

[GKMan]

Welcome... You should find all the answers to your questions in this forum... HH GL!

 

[StephenA]

I am about to enter the same realm as you with the CTX. Mine will be here Tuesday and I do not mind telling you I am already intimidated. Along with reading everything here before buying it I decided to order Andy's book at the same time I ordered the CTX. I am going to take it slowly and go to some open non trashy fields to start. Then maybe to the local sand lot to find a few clad items and lost keys. After all that I will progress to some old areas of town hopefully find some older coins and relics. Keep posting as to your progress, inquiring minds want to know.

 

[amberjack]

probably better looking for the old stuff straight up its silver going to jump out like dogs things, just look for those high numbers over 40 want to hit the ground running get confidence up just turn it on , select the coin mode and ferrous coin noise cancel and start digging those high tones

after all 99% of detecting is finding the spot


AJ

 

[tcornel]

Buy Andy's book and set up your machine to run the patterns suggested and with the settings. You will save months or years of missing things.

 

[Northeaster]

Just added

1936 Indian head - 12-36 for those wondering (clear/ large target on screen)
1962 silver? quarter - forgot the ID number but large / clean target on screen
1910? penny - (waiting for new tumbler/ vibrator. to arrive to clean coin to show date)

junk fishing reel in the lake 12 inches of water 4" inches deep- came up as multi targets area
3 hot wheels cars - strange, all the tires missing, but bodies clean
strap 4' will metal buckle - not old(newer)


Good day I say..

I'M Learning the CTX every day..



Gotta love the warm weather run we are having here. Going out again tomorrow.

Cant wait for Andy's book to arrive.

 

[raylesnau]

No reason to be intimidated. Really isn't that much to adjust on this machine. Just have to be able to read what it is telling you. I think that's the tricky part.
Ray

 

[Northeaster]

First beach day..

Some quarters some dimes some pennys..


Some diamond ?? earings.. two different earings. wife says they have to be CZ Stones. I say Diamonds.. haha


Reading Andys book still only on page 70..

 

[Northeaster]

Yep wife was right not real diamonds.. .. But good news is, came home and my new tumbler was here waiting. So now it's tumbling some coins..

Also wrapped my 3030 handle with some horse tape (camp pattern).. Feels good, looks great, and it well protected.

 

[glenn3-88]

I am about to enter the same realm as you with the CTX. Mine will be here Tuesday and I do not mind telling you I am already intimidated. Along with reading everything here before buying it I decided to order Andy's book at the same time I ordered the CTX. I am going to take it slowly and go to some open non trashy fields to start. Then maybe to the local sand lot to find a few clad items and lost keys. After all that I will progress to some old areas of town hopefully find some older coins and relics. Keep posting as to your progress, inquiring minds want to know.

Don't be. My hang up was the first few days moving from one app to another.
My problem, I didn't study how to move around on the CTX to get where and
what I wanted on the machine. I'm retired so I got the machine out about the
5th day, sat down with the manual on what each button did and just practiced
going from one app to another. After that, no more problems in the field.

 

[knucklehead]

Congrats on the new machine you will have blast the more you use it the easier it will be

 

[Geoseeker]

I am about to enter the same realm as you with the CTX. Mine will be here Tuesday and I do not mind telling you I am already intimidated. Along with reading everything here before buying it I decided to order Andy's book at the same time I ordered the CTX. I am going to take it slowly and go to some open non trashy fields to start. Then maybe to the local sand lot to find a few clad items and lost keys. After all that I will progress to some old areas of town hopefully find some older coins and relics. Keep posting as to your progress, inquiring minds want to know.

Don't be. My hang up was the first few days moving from one app to another.
My problem, I didn't study how to move around on the CTX to get where and
what I wanted on the machine. I'm retired so I got the machine out about the
5th day, sat down with the manual on what each button did and just practiced
going from one app to another. After that, no more problems in the field.

Good advice for a complete novice - for me anyway, ordered the recommended book and hope to get the 3030 in a few weeks, so studying hard

 

[pacer]

Lots of good recommendations by many.