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X-Terra 705
- Thread starter Anna
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There used to be a coin TID chart for the 705 someplace. If you can't find it shot me an email and I will send it to you I have it saved on my phone. Makes for an easy reference for the field. I usually use my 705 for relic hunting. Good machine and really deep when you put a 10.5 coil on it. I have the 7.5 in the 10.5
Lots of information in the FAQFAQ section above. (tips, settings, charts, ebook link, TTblog posts etc) If you are just starting out, the factory preset programs are decent. As you get to know your detector and how it responds to various targets, you'll likely find that you are comfortable making some changes and tweaks of your own. I'd recommend making yourself a test plot (coin garden) to practice in. Use various coins, as well as those pieces of trash you're finding. Listen not only to the pitch of the tone, but how that tone quality varies between types of targets. (broken, full, chirpy, choppy, solid etc) HH Randy
Welcome to the site Anna! Try running in Coins an Jewelry mode pattern #1. Turn you sens down to the teen area (13 say). Have your threshold just so you can hear a hum and go from there. A quarter is a 42, Dime comes in around 36, 38 same with a copper penny. A Zinc penny will ring in lower 32 34 that range and a nickle is gonna be a 10 12, Beale.
DirtAngler
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Unfortunately, pull tabs and bits of aluminum are going to sound good and come in at the coin readings. That is the case with any machine. You have to dig some junk if you don't want to miss possible good targets. Gold rings will come in from foil to pull tabs and class rings can come in as zinc penny signals. Dig anything above iron if you're not relic hunting but also consider the site you are metal detecting as far as what it probably holds.
Don't give up! You have yourself a very good machine. The more you use it the better your ears will become intune with the sounds. Even after all these years I still mostly use program # 1. Once you start hearing the sweeeet sound of dimes and quarters you'll be hooked.
Welcome Anna!
What part of the UK are you from?
What part of the UK are you from?
Welcome to the Xterra community. You are already ahead of the game by choosing one of the best machines in the world. Certainly, reading Diggers manual is a must and will help you learn the basic concepts about settings usage and techniques. As you already found out the hard way, trash mimics coins very frequently, so although knowing target TID's are helpful, it does not guarantee that a coin will be under your coil! I can't tell you how many times I got a solid 42-44 TID only to find a rusty bottle cap in the hole! Randy Horton's (Digger)
Articles on Minelab.com in the Treasure Talks section explain his excellent technique of weeding out trash signals. Once you master these techniques, your MD'ing experience will be very rewarding and pleasurable.
Happy Hunting
Articles on Minelab.com in the Treasure Talks section explain his excellent technique of weeding out trash signals. Once you master these techniques, your MD'ing experience will be very rewarding and pleasurable.
Happy Hunting
I would think the F70 is deeper but not sure , in hard ground probably but in airy ground or shingle stones then the Terra 705 with high sens and 10in DD coil it is deep , i find coins at 10+ in on the beach i search. Though not as good on the salt wet . But not sure of the F70 either.
On the whole it depends what you want out of a detector.
As things go the 705 is very good coin hunter and maybe the F70 is too, i have only had the 75 and T2 and did not like them.
On the whole it depends what you want out of a detector.
As things go the 705 is very good coin hunter and maybe the F70 is too, i have only had the 75 and T2 and did not like them.
The 705 with the 10.5 DD coil is deeper than the F75 that I have. A couple of hunting buddies came down with their 705's and u was still using the F75 and told them I could find anything they could with 705. Wasn't long until one of them called me over and asked I I could hear a target. My F75 was set up in JE mode no disc and sensitivity I cranked up just to show them I could hear it. Swept over the spit and nothing went to all metal nothing. TSGman pulled his head phones and swept over the target and there was a consistent high tone. Tsgman dug the target and it was a rocker base sharps bullet about 13 inches deep.
Needless to say I had a 705 and 10.5 DD coil the next week. This set up is deep I personally have recovered civil war bullets at 12-13 inches and have witnessed TSGman dig some that was 3 inches deeper than the full length of his Lesche hand digger.
Needless to say I had a 705 and 10.5 DD coil the next week. This set up is deep I personally have recovered civil war bullets at 12-13 inches and have witnessed TSGman dig some that was 3 inches deeper than the full length of his Lesche hand digger.
TURNMASTER
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Anna, welcome
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