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robert roy
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I have been spending so much time getting comfortable with the ACE250 I neglected
the MXT. I took it out to day to a small park about twenty miles from in. It’s in the farm country. There used to be an old school house there until they knocked it down. It must have been made from brick because I kept hitting several of them as I went to dig for targets that never materialized or turned out to be pull tabs and crushed aluminum.
There is a baseball field there but no bleachers. There are kiddy grounds there and a covered shelter for picnickers. I
I put on the Whites 5.3 coil expecting to hit lots of trash. There WAS lots of trash. I followed the directions in the manual for coin/jewelry turn on and go. I kept getting lots of “hot rocks.” I turned down the sensitivity. Later I tried the “relic” mode and grown balanced it. Lots of grunts and the VID kept telling me there a lot of iron in the negative zone. The ground balance number seemed to be in the sixties. I finally went back to coin mode. I ended up turning the sensitivity down to four.
I kept getting what sounded like good targets in the 70 to 76 range and reading >25 cents. At no time did I dig up a quarter. It was all aluminum and even when I had strong signals for .10 and .1cent it ended up being pull tabs. I kept my eye on the VID to check the solid blocks underneath to see if the machine was certain or only half certain as to the identity of the target. Even if it was not certain, I dug anyway to be sure I didn’t miss anything. When the block was full and looked like it was certain I dug anyway and still ended up with trash. I came out with one dime for my three hours of work.
I suspect that when they tore down the old schoolhouse, they spread around some of the junk and covered it with fresh dirt. It’s possible there are some relics to be found but all I kept getting was brick. I did see the VID gave a reading of “nails.”
I suspect a lot of people have already scoured this park. I can see where the foundations were but I didn’t get any good signals there.
Many times I could hear what sounded like a good signal but it sounded like it was a million miles away. I decided not to dig these. Was that a mistake? Am I always going to get good loud signals? Are the very weak ones to be trusted?
Robert
the MXT. I took it out to day to a small park about twenty miles from in. It’s in the farm country. There used to be an old school house there until they knocked it down. It must have been made from brick because I kept hitting several of them as I went to dig for targets that never materialized or turned out to be pull tabs and crushed aluminum.
There is a baseball field there but no bleachers. There are kiddy grounds there and a covered shelter for picnickers. I
I put on the Whites 5.3 coil expecting to hit lots of trash. There WAS lots of trash. I followed the directions in the manual for coin/jewelry turn on and go. I kept getting lots of “hot rocks.” I turned down the sensitivity. Later I tried the “relic” mode and grown balanced it. Lots of grunts and the VID kept telling me there a lot of iron in the negative zone. The ground balance number seemed to be in the sixties. I finally went back to coin mode. I ended up turning the sensitivity down to four.
I kept getting what sounded like good targets in the 70 to 76 range and reading >25 cents. At no time did I dig up a quarter. It was all aluminum and even when I had strong signals for .10 and .1cent it ended up being pull tabs. I kept my eye on the VID to check the solid blocks underneath to see if the machine was certain or only half certain as to the identity of the target. Even if it was not certain, I dug anyway to be sure I didn’t miss anything. When the block was full and looked like it was certain I dug anyway and still ended up with trash. I came out with one dime for my three hours of work.
I suspect that when they tore down the old schoolhouse, they spread around some of the junk and covered it with fresh dirt. It’s possible there are some relics to be found but all I kept getting was brick. I did see the VID gave a reading of “nails.”
I suspect a lot of people have already scoured this park. I can see where the foundations were but I didn’t get any good signals there.
Many times I could hear what sounded like a good signal but it sounded like it was a million miles away. I decided not to dig these. Was that a mistake? Am I always going to get good loud signals? Are the very weak ones to be trusted?
Robert
