For the Minelab CTX screen watchers

tnsharpshooter said:

Took a short hunt today in the rain.

I have been back tracking as of late,,,,going to sites I ve've pounded previously using Deus,,Racer mainly.
Have also run CTX with stock coil on these sites.

So my back tracking work is using CTX with small coil,,,concentrating on the worst areas first at sites.
These sites do contain iron,,many nails and some modern trash.

I tend to run my CTX with a nickel window,,,,opened up 11-14 conductive with high tone like silver assigned.

Well today,,I get this high tone,,,,I always seen 12-09 in the window,,,never a nickel TID.

Ferrous coin process in use btw.

So I dug,,,about 4" a nickel(non war) pops out.
No other targets even ferrous noted in around nickel.
So the tone was right as far as my target and setup,,,but ID numbers were wrong.

Gotta love the CTX.

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coin chaser said:

What were the numbers when pinpointing. I tend to trust the pinpoint numbers and depth more then the swing numbers and depth.

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tnsharpshooter said:

Don't remember,,,may not of even looked either.

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coin chaser said:

I hunt some trashy areas and I go by tones first then numbers when swinging to dictate when I need to investigate further. That's when I start using pinpoint and it's numbers. I will bounce back and forth between pinpont and swinging to better paint a mental picture of what's down there. Real handy to use both especially when there are other objects in the hole with a good target. I also found when I'm looking for deep stuff swinging will say 6 or 7" on a weak target and when I pinpoint it will be more accurate and show 4 or 5".

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tnsharpshooter said:

I've seen that also.

Sometimes,,when I'm not finding much,,,I don't get to involved with studying a target using all options.
Besides,,,using them,,,detector might lie to me and make me change my mind,,hence not dig.

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coin chaser said:

It's a fine line when to dig and not to dig! Lol. I tend to find with me personally the more I analyze a target the more I can "make" it look dig able. Then it's time to dig up that 9" squarenail.

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