X-terra 50 has been a joy to use the
past 7 days. I went down to southern Indiana to detect with
Sonny Brown for a few days but as luck would have it, I only
found a few silver dimes and lots of clad. Sonny was impressed
with the X-terra as I was too. It squeezed some silver out
of a place Sonny had thought was detected out long ago.
The X-terra with it's vflex technology is one sweet little
machine. The ground where I live is highly mineralized and
the X-terra was immune to the mineralization. It handled all
areas fine and was simple to Ground Balance. The few places
I hunted that are known to have electromagnetic interference
was handled with no problem with the noise cancel button.
The deepest coin I dug all week, was my first coin I found,
a wheat which came from the depth of 8 inches. I found the
digital display to be easy to read and accurate. All my dimes
came in at med-hi tone and read with a digital number of 33,36
or 39. The quarters always read a solid 42 high tone for me.
The Indian pennies with their composition read 27 and 33.
All the nickels read a solid 12. I did find one small .925
silver ring about the diameter of a dime which read 39 and
was 6 inches deep. This is no doubt a very sensitive machine
and I found myself running with a sensitivity most of the
time at 16 with 20 being the highest setting. Pinpointing
was easy and accurate as the depth meter was too. I can honestly
say this is the best machine I have used in this category
and price range. I believe once you try it, you will love
it, especially because it is lightweight which allows you
hunt all day with no fatigue.
The all metal mode is really the first machine I've ever experienced
such quietness. It is as quiet as hunting in discrimination
with the silent search. It was nice hearing the iron
tones and not having the detector re-acting to the mineralization.
I need to mention that being able to hear what's in the ground
with the all metal mode and still getting the different tones
and digital display was a refreshing feature for a detector
in this category. I think the relic hunters are going
to enjoy this feature.
I feel Minelab has a winner here and I can't wait to
get my hands on the coils that are due out in the future. If
you want a light-weight machine that goes deep and has an
accurate display, check out the X-terra 50.
HH Larry
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