Mick in Dubbo
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I had the opportunity to get out of town over the week end and hunt a couple of sites that I've had on my radar for a few years, but haven't been able to justify the distance to get to them. One location gets a mega crowd to it, while one only gets around 10 000 or so to it.
When I arrived at the location of where the mega crowd (or part there of) I found that it was fenced off to public access and due to the time of day, there was no site manager there to ask, so I found a secondary site that was also at this location, that did have public access. I actually pulled out my Explorer, set it up, noise cancelled and commenced hunting. It turned out, that this location has the most conic amount of metal thrash, that I've ever come access and despite having the 5in DD Sun Ray coil, it was obvious, that the Explorer was simply going to be overwhelmed by the level of targets there. So out came the X-Terra and I put the 6in DD coil on it, found a quiet spot and noise cancelled. I started swinging, but immediately had to back the sensitivity right back to 14, just to help reduce the hits a bit. At times, I must have been getting well over 20 hits per sweep (way over, too many to count) but in the real quiet spots, only 2 or 3 hits per sweep. Despite that, the X-Terra handled the situation far better than the poor old Explorer, with good targets still able to come through cleanly (more or less).
In the end, there wasn't much left to find, as I'm sure this spot had already been done to death, but it was a pleasant surprise to see how well the X-Terra went in this situation. (I ran it in all metal mode.) I ended the week end with a bit over $40 which by Aussie standards isn't significant, but better than I can do locally.
Actually, I got to hunt with another local X-Terra user this morning who reads this forum, but won't post. How about it John?! Sign up. We won't bite.
Mick Evans.
When I arrived at the location of where the mega crowd (or part there of) I found that it was fenced off to public access and due to the time of day, there was no site manager there to ask, so I found a secondary site that was also at this location, that did have public access. I actually pulled out my Explorer, set it up, noise cancelled and commenced hunting. It turned out, that this location has the most conic amount of metal thrash, that I've ever come access and despite having the 5in DD Sun Ray coil, it was obvious, that the Explorer was simply going to be overwhelmed by the level of targets there. So out came the X-Terra and I put the 6in DD coil on it, found a quiet spot and noise cancelled. I started swinging, but immediately had to back the sensitivity right back to 14, just to help reduce the hits a bit. At times, I must have been getting well over 20 hits per sweep (way over, too many to count) but in the real quiet spots, only 2 or 3 hits per sweep. Despite that, the X-Terra handled the situation far better than the poor old Explorer, with good targets still able to come through cleanly (more or less).
In the end, there wasn't much left to find, as I'm sure this spot had already been done to death, but it was a pleasant surprise to see how well the X-Terra went in this situation. (I ran it in all metal mode.) I ended the week end with a bit over $40 which by Aussie standards isn't significant, but better than I can do locally.
Actually, I got to hunt with another local X-Terra user this morning who reads this forum, but won't post. How about it John?! Sign up. We won't bite.
Mick Evans.
I think that' it's more of a case that a lot of folks use it for looking for silver and it would seem (to me a least) that the explorer's, seem to prefer lower frequencies that allow it to hit silver coins really well while doing poorly on gold targets. But that's just my opinion.