somevermontdude
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Hello!
Brand new to the forum so wanted to introduce myself. I just started Metal Detecting a couple months ago. Been wanting to try it out for a while and figured this was the year to start. I was able to kind of permanently borrow (i.e. well I'll let you borrow mine - I'll probably never need it back though...) a White's MXT tracker e-series eclipse 950. I bought myself a Garrett Carrot and a shovel and have been detecting three sites. One is a foundation, the next was an old farm field that is now forest, and the last was part of an old stagecoach road apparently. I'm hoping to hear back today or tomorrow about permission for part of a farm that my 5th-great-grandfather owned that had a small house up the road that his mother lived in once she got elderly. Should add even more of a personal touch!
My primary interest is for relics at old homesites. Coins are obviously great too but I'm mostly interested in matching up an old homesite or farm to the people who lived there. I greatly enjoy researching people and places from long ago and finding things at their old homesites or roads from that time is what really gets me interested and excited. I have no interest in selling stuff for scrap or finding modern coins at beaches, etc. Nothing wrong with it, but just isn't why I'm interested in the hobby.
I do have one question, which I'm not sure belongs here or not. I have my White MXT detector, which is doing the job nicely it seems, but I do have issues with it where it'll detect something, and I start digging, and the signal completely goes away, with the Garrett pinpointer confirming that, making it a false reading. I've been trying to find what makes more modern detectors like the XP Deus or a Garrett different than my now older MXT, but outside of appearing that they do a better job at prospecting (which I have no interest in), and have better depth, I'm not finding a lot. Is it worth investing in something more modern? The MXT still seems really solid from what I've read, but am looking for any input folks may have.
Brand new to the forum so wanted to introduce myself. I just started Metal Detecting a couple months ago. Been wanting to try it out for a while and figured this was the year to start. I was able to kind of permanently borrow (i.e. well I'll let you borrow mine - I'll probably never need it back though...) a White's MXT tracker e-series eclipse 950. I bought myself a Garrett Carrot and a shovel and have been detecting three sites. One is a foundation, the next was an old farm field that is now forest, and the last was part of an old stagecoach road apparently. I'm hoping to hear back today or tomorrow about permission for part of a farm that my 5th-great-grandfather owned that had a small house up the road that his mother lived in once she got elderly. Should add even more of a personal touch!
My primary interest is for relics at old homesites. Coins are obviously great too but I'm mostly interested in matching up an old homesite or farm to the people who lived there. I greatly enjoy researching people and places from long ago and finding things at their old homesites or roads from that time is what really gets me interested and excited. I have no interest in selling stuff for scrap or finding modern coins at beaches, etc. Nothing wrong with it, but just isn't why I'm interested in the hobby.
I do have one question, which I'm not sure belongs here or not. I have my White MXT detector, which is doing the job nicely it seems, but I do have issues with it where it'll detect something, and I start digging, and the signal completely goes away, with the Garrett pinpointer confirming that, making it a false reading. I've been trying to find what makes more modern detectors like the XP Deus or a Garrett different than my now older MXT, but outside of appearing that they do a better job at prospecting (which I have no interest in), and have better depth, I'm not finding a lot. Is it worth investing in something more modern? The MXT still seems really solid from what I've read, but am looking for any input folks may have.
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