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Minelab X-terra 705 General Tips, Advice, Questions
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<blockquote data-quote="mbasko" data-source="post: 431140" data-attributes="member: 4485"><p>Are you running in All Metal or using some Iron Mask. </p><p>If using some Iron Mask you may be on the edge of blanking/not blanking a particular target. Try switching to All Metal & it will likely be repeatable in both directions or add more Iron Mask & it will likely blank all together? Also there are some targets that due to size, shape, orientation in the ground can also respond better on detectors from one direction over another. IMO any iffy sounds etc. are always worth checking from another direction or investigating further. Give the ground a scrape & see if it brightens up any?</p><p>When searching for gold most will recommend running in All Metal + digging everything or using a very low Iron Mask to help with ground noise/hot rocks/iron trash in problem areas. Small gold can cross over into the ferrous scale of VLF discrimination so you need to be wary using discrimination.</p><p>The Xterra 705 can find gold in the right areas. I was with a tour group last year & a guy on the tour was using his 705. He got more rattles in the jar than a couple of others using machines worth thousands. He focused on a creek bed most of the day where the ground was more forgiving (milder) & shallower although one bit came from ground higher up above the creek line from memory too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbasko, post: 431140, member: 4485"] Are you running in All Metal or using some Iron Mask. If using some Iron Mask you may be on the edge of blanking/not blanking a particular target. Try switching to All Metal & it will likely be repeatable in both directions or add more Iron Mask & it will likely blank all together? Also there are some targets that due to size, shape, orientation in the ground can also respond better on detectors from one direction over another. IMO any iffy sounds etc. are always worth checking from another direction or investigating further. Give the ground a scrape & see if it brightens up any? When searching for gold most will recommend running in All Metal + digging everything or using a very low Iron Mask to help with ground noise/hot rocks/iron trash in problem areas. Small gold can cross over into the ferrous scale of VLF discrimination so you need to be wary using discrimination. The Xterra 705 can find gold in the right areas. I was with a tour group last year & a guy on the tour was using his 705. He got more rattles in the jar than a couple of others using machines worth thousands. He focused on a creek bed most of the day where the ground was more forgiving (milder) & shallower although one bit came from ground higher up above the creek line from memory too. [/QUOTE]
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