Mike Bearden
Member
Nice surprise, got a "earlier than usual" visit from UPS this morning, yeah I knew it was coming but I'm like a kid in a candy store when a new detector arrives.
Opened the small box, read the manual, and went thru the motions of assembly, man is this little guy light and natural feeling
My son drove up about the time I was considering a run to a small site to get acquainted with the X-Terra and he decided to tag along. This is NOT meant to be an official field test by any stretch of the imagination but I did want to share my first impression about todays little hunt.
First off, this ground is iron ore rich/ red clay in most places and is hard on detectors, hot rocks are everywhere and some to the point that they actually stick to a magnet (pea size).
We went to a spot that was used for several decades as a picnic area and Turkey Shoots. According to the old timers around here, only black powder rifles were allowed.
Luckily a good deal of this area is now shaded and fairly close to the river, otherwise the dirt would have been so hard we probably couldn't have retrieved a target since there has been zero rain here in a month of Sundays.
I turned the X-Terra on and it ground balanced much easier than I expected, especially in this soil. Put it in all metal, set my headphone volume and left everything else alone. My son was using my Tejon and couldn't get it to GB right, he was running it to hot, I got it GBed for him pretty quick and we both headed towards the pit area.
Not one time did I hear any interference from his detector, nor him from mine.
He got the first hit, I checked it with the X-Terra and got a soild 12, I told him nickel at 4", he dug it a sure enough it was a buffalo. Yeah, I've been reading all of you guy's post and they were very helpful
I got the next hit, reading 27 @ 8", I was really amazed that the sound was this strong and expected to find whatever it was much shallower than what the depth gauge was showing ... WRONG it was a 50 cal. 3 ringer at a measured 8" on the nose.
We each dug at least a dozen or so of these in an hours time, I also hit what was left of a brass cased pocket watch that was over 12" deep and it hit loud and clear ... had that thought run thru my mind just how good a period belt buckle would sound at that depth.
This is a FUN detctor to use ... more to come in a week or so.
H.H.
Mike
Opened the small box, read the manual, and went thru the motions of assembly, man is this little guy light and natural feeling
My son drove up about the time I was considering a run to a small site to get acquainted with the X-Terra and he decided to tag along. This is NOT meant to be an official field test by any stretch of the imagination but I did want to share my first impression about todays little hunt.
First off, this ground is iron ore rich/ red clay in most places and is hard on detectors, hot rocks are everywhere and some to the point that they actually stick to a magnet (pea size).
We went to a spot that was used for several decades as a picnic area and Turkey Shoots. According to the old timers around here, only black powder rifles were allowed.
Luckily a good deal of this area is now shaded and fairly close to the river, otherwise the dirt would have been so hard we probably couldn't have retrieved a target since there has been zero rain here in a month of Sundays.
I turned the X-Terra on and it ground balanced much easier than I expected, especially in this soil. Put it in all metal, set my headphone volume and left everything else alone. My son was using my Tejon and couldn't get it to GB right, he was running it to hot, I got it GBed for him pretty quick and we both headed towards the pit area.
Not one time did I hear any interference from his detector, nor him from mine.
He got the first hit, I checked it with the X-Terra and got a soild 12, I told him nickel at 4", he dug it a sure enough it was a buffalo. Yeah, I've been reading all of you guy's post and they were very helpful
I got the next hit, reading 27 @ 8", I was really amazed that the sound was this strong and expected to find whatever it was much shallower than what the depth gauge was showing ... WRONG it was a 50 cal. 3 ringer at a measured 8" on the nose.
We each dug at least a dozen or so of these in an hours time, I also hit what was left of a brass cased pocket watch that was over 12" deep and it hit loud and clear ... had that thought run thru my mind just how good a period belt buckle would sound at that depth.
This is a FUN detctor to use ... more to come in a week or so.
H.H.
Mike