First time out with XLT, not bad!

I stayed home from the gym today in hopes that my used White's XLT would show up, and what do you know, it did! It was packaged nicely from the dealer I got it from down in Florida, Myers Metal Detectors. Check out their website, http://www.myersdepot.com.

Anyway, So I got it put together, did a brief air test, and then waited for a chance to get out after dinner. Thankfully I have a school in my back yard, the perfect place to test a new machine.

This school is the one I've written about many times before about having this system of drains, and in between them are areas that are lower than everywhere else, so coins and stuff just tend to end up here. I've fished out 100+ coins easily from this section.

I through the XLT into a pre-set Coin/Jewelry mode, ground balanced and off I went. Low and behold, there were still a few coins I had failed to grab with the X-Terra 30 here. About 20 in all, not totalling much, but it was fun finding them.

The star charm you see in the image was my most interesting find of the day. Why you ask? Well it's because of "how" I found it. While scanning with the XLT I got a pretty solid hit, but nothing came up on the VDI. Back and forth, good signals, no VDI. I had read online a nice writeup about the Signograph on the higher end White's models. Reading it really clued me in on something... though no VDI was displaying, a tight grouping of + hits were building... and that hints at a half decent target. So I dug, and about 3" down was that star.

So the fact that I was able to land a bunch of "missed" chances from before really made me happy. Max depth was at about 7".