Metal Detector’s Blog

The Master Hunter CX Plus detector is strong in the areas of treasure caches, battlefield relics, gold nuggets, veins, and deep coin hunting. The model incorporates a unique, rugged LCD that reveals a target’s identity while in the search modes. It can be equipped with Garrett’s exclusive Treasure Hound Depth Multiplier that will help you find treasure caches three times deeper than conventional coils.

Features:
7 x 10″ PROformance Searchcoil . Instructional/field search Video . Instruction Manual . Standard Battery System . Requires 6 C-cell batteries . 2 Year Warranty . Weight: 3.8 lbs . Operating Frequency 6.5 kHz
Search Aids:
Fast Track Automatic Ground Balance . Dual Range Discrimination . Coin Depth Reading . Automatic Electronic Pinpointing . Power Supply Regulator . Depth/Sensitivity Touch Pads . Audio Adjustment by Touch pads . Visual Target ID
Dual Modes:
Full Dual- Range Motion Discrimination (eliminates trash and junk) . Deep Seeking Non-Motion All-Metal (Deepest for buried treasure cache’s)
3 Easy to use Settings:
Discrimination – Sensitivity – Threshold Audio

X-Terra 70 is the flagship of the Minelab X-Terra Series and offers the flexibility of three frequency coil options (3kHz, 7.5kHz, 18.75kHz), which are field swappable to hunt Relics, Coins or Gold. Key to its outstanding performance is Minelab’s proprietary VFLEX technology, which utilizes digital signal processing with highly calibrated analog circuits, creating a new class of single frequency detectors. This approach yields superior sensitivity, stability and improved immunity to electromagnetic interference, as well as providing high-resolution target ID even on the deepest targets. For the X-Terra 70 user, this means you’ll have the best metal detector available for your target choices.

The Musketeer Advantage has superior depth, fast target response, and the reach of higher priced detectors. It is ideally suited to the coin and relic hunter that values performance more than features. The raw power of this detector will amaze even the most seasoned hunter. Suitable for the novice or experienced detector user, the Musketeer is lightweight and easy to operate. A new waterproof all-terrain Treasure Searcher Slimline coil provides super depth and unrivaled versatility! Combination of accessories and coil sizes allow you to tailor your Musketeer to your specific needs, be it coin, jewelry, rings, as well as relics and artifacts. Works amazingly well on beaches!)

Features:
Quick Release Rugged Control Box
Sturdy 2 piece adjustable shaft
ts800 Slimline Coil
Precision Adjustable Ground Balance
Pin-point/Non-motion Mode
Threshold Reset Switch
added armrest for even greater detecting comfort
Weighs 33.1 oz
Plus a 10″ Treasure search Slimline coil, Nimh rechargeable battery system including wall charger, convertible mount armrest bracket, Instruction manual, 2-Year Minelab Warranty

Last summer a friend and I were detecting a site when I found this 1773 Spanish reale in shockingly good shape. It was about 4 inches down. This was at a site along the El Camino Reale trail in central CA. We knew that there was a small and short lived trading post on the spot in the mid 1800′s and there were a lot of corresponding seated coins found. However, we also knew that it was in the area of one of D’Anza’a camps as he mapped the inland trail of California in the spring of 1776.

In those days there was really no such thing as coin collecting and therefor the reales that we did find were extremely worn and very thin. I know that the same night I found this one my friend found an 1812 reale but like the other reales found, it was extremely slick and you could barely read it. Being as the reales weren’t made very well to begin with, we can say with almost certainly that there is no way this coin could have been carried around for the 80 years necessary to make it to the era of the trading post and still look so detailed. The picture doesn’t even do it justice. The fact that it was most likely dropped from one of D’Anza’s party makes sense perfectly with the amount of wear it has. Further excursions found other relics from that earlier time period but we didn’t find anymore coins.

That’s not surprising however, as we know from the journal entries that they only camped there for 1 night and there were only around 12 men in the entire party at this point in the trail. It’s just soooo cool knowing almost without a doubt that in all likelyhood this coin was dropped less than a year after our country existed. And the possibilty that this coin travelled with D’Anza as he was the first to map the inland trail of California just overwhelms me. I purchased this Musketeer Advantage detector in December of 2001.

Thanks for letting me share my story.

Carraig

I have had my new Fisher Coin Strike for about 3 weeks now, and I continue to learn more about it each time I take it out. It is a bit different to operate than any detector I have used in my 35 years of detecting. That said, I do like a challenge!

For the past few years, my brother and I have spent most of our coin hunting time at old home sites and old fair grounds in a four county area. With high gas prices, limited time, and extreme hot temperature, I decided “why not learn my new Coin Strike close to home”? The city park where I live is only about 3 blocks from my house. Spending most of my recent detecting time in open spaces, detecting in a park setting with modern trash would require some getting use to.

I’ve detected this park several times over the past 20 years and have found quite a few old coins. But I’ve been at this hobby long enough to know that the possibility of finding an oldie or two still exists. The first outing with the Coin Strike was a real eye opener as I wasn’t in the habit of digging bottle caps.

Digging them made me realize why there are still could be old coins there. The trash and bottle caps are doing a fine job of masking some good targets. Not wanting to leave any old coins behind, I decided to dig bottle caps as well. That evening, I dug a few wheaties and memorials and several bottle caps. Being a persistent individual, I went back a few days later with the small coil on my Coin Strike. I set the machine with full discriminate for iron 99. I notched out foil, nickels, and tabs, set the threshold at -5 and sensitivity at 3. Within 15 minutes I dug a 1897 O Barber dime and a 1891 Indian Head. I continued to detect, being a bit more excited (and optimistic) now. I continued for about another 45 minute and recovered some modern clad dimes, 2 more wheaties and 10 memorials. A couple days later I got to thinking about that dime and decided to look up the value in the Red Book. Lo and behold it was a RARE dime I had found with only 666,000 minted!!

I must admit that after the first time using the Coin Strike I was a little disappointed, but each and every time out I learn something new.I would be willing to bet that by fall, when the crops get out of the fields, the Coin Strike and I will be out there in some of our old favorite spots finding some goodies we’ve missed in the past.

Bill