[meteorite-list] Best Meteorite hunting handheld MD??

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 15:46:36 -0400
Message-ID: <AANLkTil7S9lThZYR8ANUqh6OtFGiGedGhLn--a0h_q5H_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Joe and List,

Erik hit on a good point - mineralization of the soil is important.
The Tesoro Compadre is a pleasure to use, I can swing it around all
day without my arm getting tired. I've owned wrist-watches that
weighed more than the Compadre. But, it's got a small coil and it
doesn't perform well on mineralized soil, so it's basically an
overgrown pin-pointer with only about 2-3 inches of useable depth at
the most. It's next to useless in wet packed sand at the beach.

Best regards,

MikeG

On 5/16/10, Erik Fisler <erikfwebb at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe, The problem with the Xterra is that it has less than an inch and a
> half depth in highly mineralization areas. It should work great in good
> soil with it's discrimination features. Too many rocks in Arizona sound
> off as 25-25 on the ferrous-conductive scale on the Xterra.
>
> [Erik]
>
>> Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 09:20:21 -0700
>> From: skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Best Meteorite hunting handheld MD??
>>
>> I use the Minelab Xterra-70. I believe it is the best meteorite
>> hunting hand-held. I can set it to discriminate everything except for
>> meteorites. When I have it set to find only meteorites, I get very very
>> few signals from other iron, once in a while I will get a signal for iron
>> that has chrome on it, not sure why.
>> While in WI, I used it quite a bit in the trees and tall grass, and
>> hay fields. I only got a couple signals the entire time. While other
>> detectors got many many signals. If I didnt have mine to double check the
>> others, they may have spent all day digging. Even though not many hunters
>> up in WI are using detectors, I was part of the time. After all, if I
>> wasn't using it, I would not have found my 332g stone, it was completely
>> buried, with no sign of disturbance at the surface.
>> I know a few people who had Gold Bugs up there, but didnt use them
>> because of all of the iuron junk in the ground up there, I used mine and
>> found less than 5 pieces of scrap iron(fencing, old cans, much more).
>> I was wondering what others use.
>> I VERY HIGHLY recommend using the Xterra-70(now the Xterra 705) for
>> meteorite hunting, it is very light weight, has changeable coils, very
>> highly tuned discriminating options, very accurate. I love this thing. One
>> of the other guys I was with this last trip was wishing he had an Xterra.
>> There were very few hunters using detectors at all in WI, not sure
>> why with all of the forest, tall grasses, and hay fields in the heart of
>> the strewnfield. I think if more people would have been using an Xterra or
>> another good discriminating MD there would have been many more finds made,
>> I am sure of it.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Joe Kerchner
>> http://illinoismeteorites.com
>> http://skyrockcafe.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> Visit the Archives at
>> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
>> Meteorite-list mailing list
>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>
> ______________________________________________
> Visit the Archives at
> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html
> Meteorite-list mailing list
> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites
http://www.galactic-stone.com
http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone
------------------------------------------------------------

Received on Sun 16 May 2010 03:46:36 PM PDT