IDXMonster
Elite Member
Last weekend I went to an old race track from the 1800s which is now a city park. Sound familiar? One in every town it seems...but this one is tough. For the casual “swing till it sings” guy,he’ll be out of business after 4-5 hours of finding ZERO. There is a LUDICROUS amount of rotten nails in this place,I don’t even know how that happens to that degree.
Anyway,last weekend I happened upon an 1896-O Barber quarter and Merc. Then yesterday I went and the only silver I found was the 1890-O Seated dime. Today,I went again,and this is where it gets ugly for the CTX. Using the stock coil as I had in the previous 2 times,I hunted today for 4.5 hours with NO silver coins. At one point I put on the 17” coil as those are the only 2 I currently have and hunted some of the outer areas. Nada. With an hour and a half left before daylight was all but gone,I opted to trudge back to the car and get my Explorer2 with the Sunray X-8. Setting up at IM-0,Conductive sounds,fast ON...it picked 3 silver dimes out of an area that I had hunted for quite awhile with the CTX because it’s where the Seated came from. It did this before it was dark. What REALLY bothered me was...it did it without question as to whether there was a coin or not,I have some of it on film which I will edit and put up on YT.
The hard question is...WHY? One thing I have ALWAYS noticed about the CTX,even in Auto anything and lower levels of manual sensitivity....EMI in my areas KILL this machine. Like...useless. The 6” coil when I had it helped some,but compared to my other machines which include the EX2,IDXPro and Compadre,it SUCKS. Don’t worry,I’m familiar with every method of noise canceling there is,it’s not me. I was running basic settings that are known to everyone,nothing exotic or in left field. It simply did NOT report what I would have to consider pretty obvious signals. I find it hard to believe the notion that an 8” Sunray coil vs Minelabs heavy hitting CTX Pro Coil would have the X-8 just whipping the CTX...and BADLY. What I’m coming to the conclusion about is the fact that perhaps Combined is NOT the way to hunt sites that are that badly contaminated with nails and aluminum. On the next trip to this site,I will be running a Trashy Park type setup with it a bit more open and 50 tone. This is one example which I saw firsthand where Combined failed,and failed spectacularly...when compared to what would be considered by the majority to be an out dated dinosaur only worthy of fond remembrances. Instead of a wet and cold ride home I was warm inside,thinking about how good the CTX might be if run differently,and how good the Explorer really is. My eyes are STILL wide open after today’s happenings...
Anyway,last weekend I happened upon an 1896-O Barber quarter and Merc. Then yesterday I went and the only silver I found was the 1890-O Seated dime. Today,I went again,and this is where it gets ugly for the CTX. Using the stock coil as I had in the previous 2 times,I hunted today for 4.5 hours with NO silver coins. At one point I put on the 17” coil as those are the only 2 I currently have and hunted some of the outer areas. Nada. With an hour and a half left before daylight was all but gone,I opted to trudge back to the car and get my Explorer2 with the Sunray X-8. Setting up at IM-0,Conductive sounds,fast ON...it picked 3 silver dimes out of an area that I had hunted for quite awhile with the CTX because it’s where the Seated came from. It did this before it was dark. What REALLY bothered me was...it did it without question as to whether there was a coin or not,I have some of it on film which I will edit and put up on YT.
The hard question is...WHY? One thing I have ALWAYS noticed about the CTX,even in Auto anything and lower levels of manual sensitivity....EMI in my areas KILL this machine. Like...useless. The 6” coil when I had it helped some,but compared to my other machines which include the EX2,IDXPro and Compadre,it SUCKS. Don’t worry,I’m familiar with every method of noise canceling there is,it’s not me. I was running basic settings that are known to everyone,nothing exotic or in left field. It simply did NOT report what I would have to consider pretty obvious signals. I find it hard to believe the notion that an 8” Sunray coil vs Minelabs heavy hitting CTX Pro Coil would have the X-8 just whipping the CTX...and BADLY. What I’m coming to the conclusion about is the fact that perhaps Combined is NOT the way to hunt sites that are that badly contaminated with nails and aluminum. On the next trip to this site,I will be running a Trashy Park type setup with it a bit more open and 50 tone. This is one example which I saw firsthand where Combined failed,and failed spectacularly...when compared to what would be considered by the majority to be an out dated dinosaur only worthy of fond remembrances. Instead of a wet and cold ride home I was warm inside,thinking about how good the CTX might be if run differently,and how good the Explorer really is. My eyes are STILL wide open after today’s happenings...
Trapper
Bring that Bust over and that will fix up the family portrait!(Roosevelt doesn’t have to be there)
Congrats on the Grand Slam! We have not seen many at all this season! just a few IIRC...
Absolutely amazing! 
