Riverdance or Moonlight Bay?

[BarnacleBill]

I visited two locations with the X70 today. In the morning I ventured back to the river beach I first visited last week for a second time, but unlike last week I had the MF coil attached rather than the HF. I initially planned to walk upstream to the footings of a defunct circa 1850 covered bridge that had been removed in the 40

 

[BobH]

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[BOB VALDEZ]

BarnacleBill,

That spoon is SO ugly it is beautiful ! And if your finds weren't too great, your pictures are.

Thank you !

BOB VALDEZ, Belgium

 

[Mike Hillis]

on my hunt. Two dashes on the display but with a good high coin tone. Repeatable high coin tone. After about 3 or 4 sweeps I guess I charged it up enough to finally register a 46. I too had stability turned on. I figured rusty iron was bleeding over into the 47 range and giving the tone but since now the signal sampling is changed by the Stablity mode and now is being averaged, the display kept the rejected response of a 48.

That one turned out to be a rusty 3/4" allen head setscrew

Looks like you had fun.

HH

 

[BarnacleBill]

Hi Mike,

Consider that in stability mode, the tone ID & visual ID will not always agree. I believe you were hunting in nasty ground, and I was hunting in nasty ground. It appears that iron in the stability mode can have a wide disparity in response, in those soil conditions. This may bode very well for rejecting iron in nasty ground by using stability mode.

I recall you had a previous iron target response before leaving for the big hunt, were you in stability mode at that time? May explain the threshold null and no tone, if the ID was 48 and you were in disc 1.

Keep in mind that the manufacturers(all of them), try to test the new releases in a wide variety of conditions, but you just can't cover every last contingency, and the more complex the machine, the more room for error. The X70 is a feature/mode rich machine without a doubt. And you'll have people using it in ways never planned for, like Visiting Professor Hillis using prospecting mode instead of pinpoint mode, to pinpoint. Who'da thunk it?

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Mike Hillis]

Bill,

Yep...I'm very resourceful Like using a +3 threshold setting on the CS to saturate low foil, thereby giving me a notch within a notch, so to speak :blush: Two bad that doesn't work on the Xterra (I tried)

Nope...that first iron wasn't in the stability mode. It was a definite bleed over and I could tell it. When I dug it, it turned out to be a rusty cable end. The center was solid rust. You are right though, I was in pattern 1 at the time.

The stability mode did work well in conjunction with tracking turned on. It may become a regular setting, depending on how it works in the bottle caps next week.

Are you going to get the 3 kHz coil?

 

[BarnacleBill]

I am concentrating right now on the HF coil, since ice out is approaching on some lakes, and I want to be tuned-up to hit the beaches that may yield some gold chains. I did have an interesting experience in some very heavy iron though. I was in coin mode on basically an iron carpet, and thought I heard/saw a good target squeak out within some iron chirps. I punched up Prospecting mode with iron mask set to 10 and easily pulled out this small aluminum rivet. I think this may bode well for the relic types who are willing to work slow in iron with the HF coil.

HH
BarnacleBill