Xterra-Masking-Hot Area's

[Dan-Bama]

Was the unit tested in Australia hot ground? Just trying to gauge how it will do in local bad ground.

I'll be picking up an Xterra soon.. Going to get the unit & spend time learning how it reacts infield and in my test bed, but mostly in-field use & few runs in my test bed just for myself.(offline)
Old test bed consists of Gold Bearing (AL.-Ga.) aluminum-bearing red clay and iron oxides,hotrocks,coal cinders and other things that typically gives units a good go.

But more interested in the units ability to work near& close to Iron,rusty nails etc., and masked targets.

 

[Daniel Tn]

I had the opportunity to hunt with an X-50 for a couple of hours last Saturday. Mike Bearden came up to show it to me and we spent the better part of the day hunting.

I too wanted to see how the unit would do in some bad ground. The site I hunt is close to where TN borders NC and GA. We have bad ground in places...including those pesky rocks that make a detector ring out and lots of iron ore.

So how did the X-50 do in that site? Mike can tell you more about how the unit was set up. I vaguely remember that we had the sensitivity set on 12 and 14 to try it out. I'm not sure the exact number it ground balanced on but I know it was above 10. I set it a hair positive to account for the ground changes. We were relic hunting in a basically clean site...save for a few shotgun hulls and iron pieces. So we put it in All Metal. Which to me...worked like a normal detector in silent search discriminator mode. The tones were nice...the low tones for iron and the higher tone for the better stuff made it REALLY easy to understand what the machine was telling you. I dug a few minie balls with it before we headed to another site. I was just curious as to how it handled the soil there. It done wonderful. On deeper bullets it would give a low tone like it was iron but during that tone you could hear the high pitch sound starting to bleed into it and it'd show -6 on the ID screen then you'd see it bounce into the +30 range. These were deep bullets. Not to worry about that...as this was hot ground and every detector that has been in there reads the bullets odd...some even reject them totally with any discrimination at all. I think my deepest bullet was around 8 inches. That may not sound deep to you guys in better ground but that's pretty good for hot dirt.