mtwolf2270
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Finally got to get the CTX on land after some much needed rain. Been predominantly water hunting so far. Went to an old park that has been heavily hunted with all kinds of detectors over the years. Hunting the last two days I picked an area where a buddy of mine had picked two wheats and a barber over many hunts with his E-Trac. This area had about been written off as picked clean of coins and ignoring trashy signals. I was running a modified park program, combined audio, auto plus 3, fast on, deep off, pinpointing sizing, response normal, gain at 24, and switched between high trash and ferrous coin for each target. On a side note, I went through this area and an adjacent area of the park specifically hunting deep iffy signals just to prove to myself what everybody else is saying that iffy's are just that, junk. So, note the picture that says 50 iffy's. I dug 50 targets, all 50 were iffy, and all were trash. What I defined as iffy were VDI numbers within ranges I would have dug with my SE. Keeping in mind that I am saying comparable numbers for like targets on the SE as it has completely different numbers than the CTX. All of these targets were only detectable in one direction but, would have qualified them as iffy because of the stability of the VDI number and all had clean audio response. Now, though my take for today was nothing stellar or to brag about, the fact that I pulled any coins especially from this section of the park is saying a lot. The four wheats are 1921, 1940, 1951 and a 1956. The Jeffersons are a 1964 and a 1959. Now, here is the reason I am posting this. What I found was that the numbers tend to be far less consistent on the FE side using high trash but, the CO remained constant. Verifying each target in Ferrous Coin stabilized the numbers and brought them more in line with the respective target. Also, made the depth accurate. This is clearly noted in the picture of the large piece of iron and the wheat penny comparing screen shots. In Ferrous Coin the audio was almost not there in open screen. In my discrimination screen it was nulled as the iron was sitting at 4 inches and the wheat was sitting at about 8 inches. What's really interesting to note is that in high trash I could hear the good target but, did not see the iron on the screen even though it was above the coin. You will note is shows 5 inches on the screen shot and in ferrous coin it shows 8. Ferrous Coin definitely does as advertised and truly separates the targets but, like the manual says, the audio may be masked by the iron. The quick recovery time of the CTX, I believe, allowed me to hear the target in high trash mode. Like I said, not stellar finds, but a great example of the power of the CTX and the versatility of this machine. I wish the video had come out but, due to user error it has great audio and a picture of the grass and parts of my detector in the frame but no screen, no hole, and no targets!!! Hopefully next time I will get a better video. Sorry for the long posting. Just thought it was interesting.
HH Randy