Denny

I use mine for freshwater hunting in bad ground, relic and park hunting. I purchased my MDT in mid-October and is #000058. How many did they plan on selling in their first year?

Hit the gravel area of the river where I dug up the two silver coins. After a couple of hours of hunting I dug up a nice silver pendant.

Hi dew, No it’s not the headphones it’s the MDT. No other machine I have does this. Just the MDT. The use of AM is a pain in the butt when park hunting too many targets. Even at the dry river bed AM is not a good choice too many junk targets. People over the years have dumped TV’s, radios, car parts, household items, etc from the bridge.

Nox price was to suck in buyers. They could have sold them for way more. I don’t think it is new technology just refined. That’s why price is so low. A 3 inch difference to the Nox is a big jump in depth. What if that quarter was a rare one. Your comparison to price per inch cracks me up reminds me of buying a house.😁 HH

I agree, The places I hunt with the MDT I have unstable numbers as soon as I turn it on. I like to have the sensitivity and threshold as high as I can go if still jumpy I will switch on blacksand mode. The only settings I haven’t used yet are salt and tracking mode. Haven’t yet made it to one of the SoCal beaches. The park I hunt I hear music in my stock plug-in headphones coming from one of the radio stations in the area. It’s not loud but takes some getting used to. Nothing corrects this issue on the MDT. Some may experience this. Denny

Yesterday hunted a old 1850’s settlement here in California and used 9khz, sens 9, threshold 0, blacksand On, mixed mode. If I turned blacksand off machine becomes a bit erratic so I left blacksand On. When I got home I did a air test with a nickel 9khz, sens 9, threshold-1, blacksand Off. I found that using threshold-1, blacksand Off you will get less depth a little more than 1/2 inch compared to threshold 0, blacksand On. Also helps with EMI if hunting around buildings. Anybody else use blacksand mode while hunting? Here’s a pic of my finds from the old settlement. pistol balls, rivets, rusty nails (still getting fooled on some) and some modern trash.

Beautiful sunrise wish I was there. Nice ring!

Hi TallTom I used blacksand mode at the dry river because of ground noise.(blacksand/mineralization) For the park I was hunting it was for EMI. Blacksand mode was a must for both sites. Denny

Been hitting the dried up river and haven’t found anymore gold other than the one I found in November. So I decided to go for the silver. Dug up 2 silver coins in a littered gravel area. Not bad for a New Year’s Day hunt. The MDT is good for park hunting also. Dug a deep 1888 V nickel close to 10 inches. My CTX couldn’t do that. Settings: At the dry river. Sens 9 max, threshold 0, mixed mode, blacksand on, 9khz or 18khz. park: sens 8, threshold -1, mixed mode, blacksand on, 18khz.

My bet it’s gold. I haven’t found a stainless steel ring that has been repaired.

Way to go! Congrats on your first 3 cent nickel and nugget.

Teriffic

Tot-lots are the easiest places to find gold and coins for someone getting into the hobby.? I noticed you found only one nickel which tells me another hunter may have been there. Some only chase low conductors and pass on high conductors. I was one of them who would pass on high conductors and chase only the lows and would hit about 10 tot-lots every Saturday. Paid off a few of my detectors. As for demo lots I just dig everything.

Thanks Steve for the info. I hope they do well. I really enjoy using the tarsacci and it’s not that complicated.

I bought the tarsacci to replace my Garrett ATX for beach and water finds. It is detects deeper than the equinox in salt water and heavy blacksand according to users I know who use the tarsacci. I only use the ctx 3030 for deep Silver coins at parks. I wasn’t trying to compare the equinox to the ctx. The marketing of the tarsacci is not the way I would have gone. It seems to be word of mouth I don’t see any kind of advertisement I understand it is a company with limited funds and to keep costs down they decided to not advertise. This will probably work for some companies that have a good reputation for good detectors but for a company starting up I think it is important to have a good marketing/advertising plan on all the metal detecting forums. The release of the AQ I feel will slow sales even slower. Not a VLF or pulse I hope we can hear the truth of what it is from the designer/ engineer. I really am enjoying the tarsacci it’s very similar to the T2 which I still use for demos and tot-lot gold.

It is not a genuine diamond. I don’t know if it’s a VLF or pulse? Maybe the designer engineer will chime one day and tell us.

I tested it with my diamond tester 3 times and each time it was negative.

$1539 is what I paid. Equinox is very good detector but I already have a ctx 3030.

I found the gold ring pretty quick after cherry picking through the rusty cans, rusty bottle caps and digging up only 4-5 pulltabs in the first 10 minutes. Probably dug up around 100 newer bottle caps, pulltabs, aluminum foil.

They need to do a better job of marketing only 2 sellers selling the tarsacci. Nasa-Tom of Dankowskidetectors.com and Greg of Trans Bay Metal Detectors. Also someone needs to answer questions on their website. I guess they are expecting users of the tarsacci to spread the word by posting finds but I don’t see many.

Detected a stretch of a river that had some erosion on the banks and sand removed down to the gravels. I dug up many coins including a buffalo nickel and a silver dime that someone was going to make into a ring. The best find was a 14k ladies ring 3.1g (not a genuine stone). Also dug up what looked like a white gold ring turned out to be stainless steel. The tarsacci has good recovery speed like the T2 worked great in the trashy area with broken pieces of rusted old steel cans, bottles caps, bits and pieces of iron along with all the newer junk tossed into the river. The tarsacci worked better than my T2 it found targets in a area I couldn’t use the T2. The 2 wheat pennies were dug up at a old park 6-7 inches deep. The tarsacci goes deeper it’s just that my ctx did a good job sniffing out most of the oldies at this old park.

That was my post. I contacted Garrett with the coil problem and they sent me a new replacement coil. Been 6 months and no problems. I haven’t heard of any problems from anybody else so they must have corrected the problem. When all the issues started Garrett sent out another new coil but problems were still there. Disappointed at Garrett many sold their ATX machines probably not saying anything about the coil cable problem. There’s one guy on the ATX forum who believes the issue will still happen again and insists garrett admit that there was a problem.