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
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