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

[Steve Witt]

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 <skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Kerchner <skyrockmeteorites at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Best Meteorite hunting handheld MD??
> To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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