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

[Erik Fisler]

 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
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Best Meteorite hunting handheld MD??
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>     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.
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>  Best Wishes,
> Joe Kerchner
> http://illinoismeteorites.com
> http://skyrockcafe.com
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