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Hit my fav spot again this arvo, about 20 metres across from where Wally and I were swinging the other day, managed 3 Shillings, 2 Sixpence, 2 Penny's and a Half Penny. Will post a pic of the cleaned coins after a CAB.

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good hunt Heatho, its good going home with the goldies but id be really happy with that many PD's in one hunt, my PD's= total of 8 :lol:
 
Was weird GP, very rare to only get $2, normally heaps of moderns there but the Silvers just seem to keep coming, was pretty happy with my effort.

You'll get more in the near future Numpty I'm sure.
 
I was eying off a spot tonight, right next to where I've scored 2 shillings before,... will have to at least ear mark it for my progeny. If I don't ever get to it myself that is. ;)
 
I keep a few good ones earmarked for the future just incase the young uns want to have a go,... mind you it's always possible someone may cut my grass so to speak,... acceptable risk. ;)
 
Hi Heatho,
Myself and a prospecting mate have been toying with the idea of joining the CTX 3030 madness club;I went out with some of the PA boys last Friday week to have a swing for relics/coins and quite enjoyed the experience and company.
My GPX 5000 with the 11 inch DD coil worked fine if one wanted to dig every no blanking target; on the other hand the guys with their dedicated machines were doing it with a fairly high degree of target selection.
When you have a spare few minutes could you give me, and anyone else that may be interested, a run-down on your thoughts on the merits of the CTX3030 based on your experience with the machine.
The Lower Hunter region is well endowed with beaches and parks, a good many of which are only a few minutes from home rather that four/five hours to any worthwhile gold country, hence the interest in this type of detecting.
Beach detecting on a balmy summers evening/night five minutes from home has quite a bit of appeal, to say nothing of the exercise to keep fit for the gold prospecting season.
Thanks Heatho.
Cheers, SinHof.
 
SinHof said:
Hi Heatho,
Myself and a prospecting mate have been toying with the idea of joining the CTX 3030 madness club;I went out with some of the PA boys last Friday week to have a swing for relics/coins and quite enjoyed the experience and company.
My GPX 5000 with the 11 inch DD coil worked fine if one wanted to dig every no blanking target; on the other hand the guys with their dedicated machines were doing it with a fairly high degree of target selection.
When you have a spare few minutes could you give me, and anyone else that may be interested, a run-down on your thoughts on the merits of the CTX3030 based on your experience with the machine.
The Lower Hunter region is well endowed with beaches and parks, a good many of which are only a few minutes from home rather that four/five hours to any worthwhile gold country, hence the interest in this type of detecting.
Beach detecting on a balmy summers evening/night five minutes from home has quite a bit of appeal, to say nothing of the exercise to keep fit for the gold prospecting season.
Thanks Heatho.
Cheers, SinHof.
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G'day Sinhof,

How's things? Hope you've been well since we met that time?

I couldn't praise the CTX3030 any higher to be honest, it has really given me an edge for the treasure hunting and has really brought home the bacon for me. Same as you, the goldfields are quite a distance away and I bought mine for the same reason you are thinking of buying one, to keep in practice for the gold hunting season. Being a Zed owner you'll already have a feel for the CTX format though the CTX is quite a bit lighter than the Zed with that big 14"coil.

The discrimination on the CTX is outstanding and once you get a feel for it and the tones and target ID numbers you can get a pretty good idea of what is under the coil, for instance a 12:33 signal will nearly always be a post 1946 Sixpence, 12:36 - 12:38 will regularly be a $2 coin. You can create your own discrimination patterns that are very narrow and just go for targets such as say just goldies or just silver coins. The discrimination is not perfect and you will still dig junk but alot of the time you can ignore some signals and confidently leave them without digging them. It has a lot of settings and can be a little tricky at first but if you read the manual before purchase you should have a good idea on it by the time you get one.

It is great fun treasure hunting and can be quite rewarding, I paid my CTX off in about 3 months. I use it probably 4 or 5 times a week, it's very addictive. Gold is the only thing that really perplexes me with it as gold ID's can be nearly any conductive number due to many different alloys but will nearly always give a ferrous number of 12. If you look back through this thread from page 1 you'll see all the decent finds I've made with mine as I like to document it all. A couple of nice chunky gold rings in my finds too, nearly 1/2 an oz so far.

You can can use it in the really trashy areas of the goldfields too, I haven't yet but might this Autumn in a few spots just to test it out. A couple of fellas on the other forum have done ok on the gold with it by just sticking to the trashiest areas and discriminating out the iron trash.

I hope that gives you a bit of an idea on it, if you want to know anything specific just ask mate, I'll be happy to let you know.

Cheers
 

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