Hi Joe, I was wondering if you could expound a bit on your 332 gram find. I was under the impression from everyone that I talked to that all the finds were on the surface. How deep was your specimen? To your knowledge were any other finds subsurface?
thanx, Steve Steve Witt IMCA #9020 http://imca.cc/ --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Joe Kerchner <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Joe Kerchner <[email protected]> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Best Meteorite hunting handheld MD?? > To: "meteorite list" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 11:20 AM > 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 > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
