Minelab X-terra 705 General Tips, Advice, Questions
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Thanks for all the positive comments guys. I actually got the detector from a chap in Port Macquarie Havinago. Great part of the east coast, I love it there. I doubt there is a park in Maitland that RJ hasn't been through Rocket. Hopefully the 705 can clean up what he's missed!! Thanks Horse, those numbers will come in very handy!
DAN77 said:
I don't miss much. I can say that I have gone over ground that Rocket had detected with his 705 and I pulled silvers out.
Detector or detectorist.... you decide
A great way of showing the TIDs. Clearly shows that the numbers can represent more than one type of target. Unfortunately pull tabs and bottle caps ring up the same as many quality targets.
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Ramjet said:DAN77 said:
I don't miss much. I can say that I have gone over ground that Rocket had detected with his 705 and I pulled silvers out.
Detector or detectorist.... you decide
I have found stuff in ground, that RJ had previously detected, I still do. He misses silvers, and coppers! He really does miss stuff, but he is right....so do I
Its definately the detectorist lol
Congrats. Good hunting.
rocketaroo said:Ramjet said:DAN77 said:
I don't miss much. I can say that I have gone over ground that Rocket had detected with his 705 and I pulled silvers out.
Detector or detectorist.... you decide
I have found stuff in ground, that RJ had previously detected, I still do. He misses silvers, and coppers! He really does miss stuff, but he is right....so do I
Did I mention Rocket is a terrible liar.
why is it that some spots i go to anywhere i put my detector is is going off its head with high pitch rapid tones no matter where i go i cant find a quite spot . yet i bring out the pinpointer and it shows nothing . have had 3 places in the nt where i driven out there and cant detect . am ground balancing noise canceling and changing the senitivity levels and it makes no difference please help guru's
Your 705 is a lot more sensitive than a pin pointer. Could be highly mineralized soil or EMI. Electro Magnetic Interference. I have been to spots where both my At Pro and Rocket's 705 were going crazy. Have a look around and no overhead power lines but there are lights around sporting fields. Our best guess... buried electrical cables.
Rocket's, 705 seemed more sensitive to it than my Pro. Overhead wires can upset them too. Have a look around for electric switch boxes, transformers etc.
Rocket's, 705 seemed more sensitive to it than my Pro. Overhead wires can upset them too. Have a look around for electric switch boxes, transformers etc.
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Try a few things together
Firstly you need to make sure that the threshold is only just audible to a quite hum. After that try auto ground balance so you don't have to worry about changing it all the time. finally drop the sensitivity to like 10 and slowly bring it up. Keeping all this in mind the higher the sensitivity the deeper you will go for your targets. What cool are you using?
Firstly you need to make sure that the threshold is only just audible to a quite hum. After that try auto ground balance so you don't have to worry about changing it all the time. finally drop the sensitivity to like 10 and slowly bring it up. Keeping all this in mind the higher the sensitivity the deeper you will go for your targets. What cool are you using?
Ramjet said:rocketaroo said:Ramjet said:DAN77 said:
I don't miss much. I can say that I have gone over ground that Rocket had detected with his 705 and I pulled silvers out.
Detector or detectorist.... you decide
I have found stuff in ground, that RJ had previously detected, I still do. He misses silvers, and coppers! He really does miss stuff, but he is right....so do I
Did I mention Rocket is a terrible liar.
A domestic coming up soon :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cheers, DD
Roy , the std coil will work just about everywhere unless you are hitting the beach as said before me the wet sand containing black sand will send it up the wall , the other place it will play up in the same manner is on red hot ground the likes found on gold fields
Other than that the 705 works well just about everywhere , my kids use it now and they have no problems finding goldies and the odd jewelry that they have to hand over to me of-cause \
When I 1st got my 705 , it was paid off in 7 hrs and $900 later from just one park alone
Marty
Other than that the 705 works well just about everywhere , my kids use it now and they have no problems finding goldies and the odd jewelry that they have to hand over to me of-cause
\When I 1st got my 705 , it was paid off in 7 hrs and $900 later from just one park alone
Marty
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Might be deeper large iron giving off erratic high tone falsing at the high end of the conductivity scale (high tones/ID no.s). Discriminating out the last couple of ID numbers may help quieten things down, though will result in a fair bit of nulling if there is a hell of a lot of iron around.
I could imagine there would be a hell of a lot of buried junk in those old ww2 areas, with a possibility of everything being dozed and buried upon decommissioning vs being taken off site. Some areas may prove unworkable, with the iron completely masking anything of worth.
I could imagine there would be a hell of a lot of buried junk in those old ww2 areas, with a possibility of everything being dozed and buried upon decommissioning vs being taken off site. Some areas may prove unworkable, with the iron completely masking anything of worth.
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705 worked best for me at 7.5khz, all metal mode, slow swings, and wearing headphones. Sensitivity was usually best at 23, but dropped it down when it got batty.
