Wading W/ CTX at strictly fresh water relic sites;full potential?

[glasartisan]

Hello there,
I have a question on possibly getting a 3030 for strictly fresh water use but don't know if its full potential will be realized. I will be wading with it up to my neck and obvious the screen will be of no use. I currently have and use the X-cal 2.My big thing is that Im not looking for gold or coins; X-cal does that just fine. I am in junky areas with a lot of square nails and bigger junk. These are possible fur trade sites with cut brass, pewter buttons, brass thimbles, silver trade crosses and musket parts just to name a few of the desirable artifacts and these are out in the water. I have used the CZ-21 and X-cal 2 on some of these sites but just too much nulling going on but yet a monumental task if I were to dig it all. I already dig a lot of iron and certainly all the overloads. The kicker is that these sites when discovered are contaminated with newer iron. So the million dollar question is will a detector like the CTX greatly benefit me for this kind of water work over my X-cal 2? How much info am I loosing by not looking at the screen? Im mainly a sounds, tone first guy, then do I compare where the VID is at. I keep hearing how powerful the combined is in conduct program w/ wide open screen. But will that type of set up help when Im not checking the screen/cursor movement? And go strictly by sound/tones? Thank you in advance to any kinds of suggestions and help, Steve

 

[Rich3030]

The CTX will certainly find you the brass, copper, lead and silver amongst the iron. It will still overload on large items though. You can set up the combined mode with ferrous coin and another mode with 50 conductive. You can have two discrimination patterns for each mode, so use one wide open and another discriminating iron for each...giving you 4 ways of checking your sounds. This should give you a pretty good idea of whast under the coil without looking at the screen. A six inch coil will also help isolate the better signals in high trash areas.
I believe any detector will have trouble finding good deeper signals until some of the shallower trash is cleaned up. The CTX seems to have a fast recovery speed in iron riddled areas which helps.

 

[GateKeeper]

Since your wading neck deep, I would think a diving mask and snorkel would benefit you so that you could see the screen. That way you could utilize the target trace, target trace pinpoint and see the TID. Just a thought.

 

[glasartisan]

n/t

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

Since your wading neck deep, I would think a diving mask and snorkel would benefit you so that you could see the screen. That way you could utilize the target trace, target trace pinpoint and see the TID. Just a thought.

Agreed!! But this machine does awesome i iron! If you have the money you won't regret the purchase I promise u that