Semtav
Elite Member
When I posted my first year finds a short while back, I kinda thought I was at the end of my rope. The racetrack had dried up and the homesteads weren't producing any coins. kinda figured now I'm gonna get bored and wind up putting this thing away.
But with a little encouragement to try different setting from Cfmct and Ohiodigger, I thought I'd give it another try. Although I knew I'd covered that racetrack area so many times, there was no chance anything could be left and the reason I hadn't found a single thing in the last half dozen hunts.Boy was I wrong. First I started turning it on in the coin mode and then switching to relic mode. This brought on a whole new set of tones and I was able to find some pretty small items at a couple homestead hunts. Then I tried turning the machine on in the relic mode and switching to coin and that again brought on new tones. finally I tried the recommended relic mode only, but that brought horrible amount of noise in the real trashy areas.
But through it all, I learned there was a place for each setting and I was able to capitalize on the versatility of this machine.
In the last week or so, I've been able to find :
1 Washington Quarter
a 53 and 59 Jefferson Nickel
1 War nickel
1 Buffalo Nickel
2 Mercury dimes
2 Roosevelt dimes
and 7 wheat pennies
Altho I had worked the area to death, I didn't find most of the coins at some magical depth unheard of before. I did, however start paying more attention to the different sounds and VDI numbers and dig more signals because of it.
I do now think the MXT is a deep machine in the relic mode because some of the areas I was able to find coins in were trashy areas (weed and grass wise)that I hadn't been able to get close to the ground on before.
Is the MXT the one size fits all machine?? Nope !!!!!! I still struggle with homesteads and very trashy areas with a lot of rusty tin in them
Todays finds:
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But with a little encouragement to try different setting from Cfmct and Ohiodigger, I thought I'd give it another try. Although I knew I'd covered that racetrack area so many times, there was no chance anything could be left and the reason I hadn't found a single thing in the last half dozen hunts.Boy was I wrong. First I started turning it on in the coin mode and then switching to relic mode. This brought on a whole new set of tones and I was able to find some pretty small items at a couple homestead hunts. Then I tried turning the machine on in the relic mode and switching to coin and that again brought on new tones. finally I tried the recommended relic mode only, but that brought horrible amount of noise in the real trashy areas.
But through it all, I learned there was a place for each setting and I was able to capitalize on the versatility of this machine.
In the last week or so, I've been able to find :
1 Washington Quarter
a 53 and 59 Jefferson Nickel
1 War nickel
1 Buffalo Nickel
2 Mercury dimes
2 Roosevelt dimes
and 7 wheat pennies
Altho I had worked the area to death, I didn't find most of the coins at some magical depth unheard of before. I did, however start paying more attention to the different sounds and VDI numbers and dig more signals because of it.
I do now think the MXT is a deep machine in the relic mode because some of the areas I was able to find coins in were trashy areas (weed and grass wise)that I hadn't been able to get close to the ground on before.
Is the MXT the one size fits all machine?? Nope !!!!!! I still struggle with homesteads and very trashy areas with a lot of rusty tin in them
Todays finds:
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