Minelab X-Terra 50
Sreet Price $650 - Coin, relic
Number of Reviews: 12
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Minelab X-Terra 50
I am stuck
Jerry in IA -
The X-Terra 50 is a penny killer, readings that are to be dimes and quarters are usually pennies. The depth was not accurate at all. I would compare this detector to a cheap detector you would purchase at Radio Shack, This was my first Minelab and will be my last. They pumped up this metal detector for sales when it came out and they got me, this time. Very poor detector!
Mar 15, 2008
3 people found this review helpful.
Gold, Silver and Copper, It sure works for me
Doug in Upstate NY -
I have owned my X-50 for almost a year and I am very pleased with the unit.
You can?t beat the good points of the detector
1 Great quality
2 Light weight
3 Large display
4 Very adjustable, discriminate/notch what ever you want, one button back to all metal
5 Good battery life
6 Easy pinpoint, but don?t need it with DD coils
7 Adjustable volume both speaker and headphones
8 Change search coil to change frequency
The target ID allows you to cherry pick and dig just a little trash or push the limit and dig marginal signals on the deepest or trashiest target areas. Target ID numbers can be affected slightly with ground balance and choice of coil. (If you push the limit the extra holes will almost all be trash)
The X-50 has four tones for target ID, the stronger the signal the louder the tone.
Depth varies with the coil you are using and the ground conditions, I detect in an area where I have to set the ground balance near the end of the adjustment, I think this hurts the depth. Pennies and dimes will come in down to 8? but after 6? you need to be extra attentive, larger items of course will hit deeper, a zinc mason jar lid at 14?, and iron farm drag point 2?x 5? by a Œ? at 16?.
All my experience with coins has been in lawns so I don?t push for every last inch of depth and it was a very dry summer, I usually run at 16 out of 20 on the sensitivity, some places it will hold stable up to 20 for a while but then ?. I would rather set it and go not adjust every 10 minutes.
I have had the best luck with the 10.5? DD coil but the 5x10 DD high frequency is very sensitive to very small objects and nickels and I have dug pennies to 7? with it.
I have been side by side with other detectors and although I here a lot of talk about digging 10 and 12 inches for coins only the guys with top of the line Minelabs seem to dig deeper holes than I do, and they are still digging the same trash as I am.
I did a lot of research before buying the detector the funny part is I walked into a store to buy a Whites M6, it sounded like the machine for me, I have no doubt by the reviews it is just as good in performance maybe better than the X-50; but in the store the X-50 won me over with its weight, features and display advantages.
As with my other detectors the more I have used it the better it is working for me, I?m digging less trash and I have found silver, gold, and lots of copper. As for bad reviews I am not sure why, a quick judgment on most metal detectors is unfair.
December 9, 2007
Jan 08, 2008
13 people found this review helpful.
My minelab xterra 30 experiment
kim herrick in west coast of michigan -
I have been buying and selling detectors for 25 years, and out of curiosity I purchased an xterra 30 off of ebay. I took it outside with little intuitive challenge, turned it on and dialed out the iron and set the sensitivity a little above median and searched my small front yard. I turned up a large washer, a toy matchbox car, a couple of bottle caps and a few pieces of garbage. I put the detector down and pulled out a cheap $8.00 yardsale bounty hunter with a simple goofy meter and went over the same strip and pulled out 5 late model coins in approx. 5 minutes as my girlfriend watching in excitement... I put the minelab back on ebay the very same night.....needless to say I was not impressed with the x-terra, but was amazed by that little dimestore bounty hunter!
Oct 29, 2007
6 people found this review helpful.
One of the best detectors on the market today. . .
Thurston in Wisconsin -and I have had pretty much all of them. This detector has excellent depth, very quick recovery time, and really locks on to a good target. If it repeats, it is a good target. If the numbers jump around, it is either junk, or if the signal is deep, it is a good target next to junk. This detector really sees good stuff next to junk. I have had all three Xterras, and I liked the 50 the best.
The pinpointing is the best I have used. There is no danger of nicking the target with your digger. Used you can get a XT50 for around $350 most of the time. Don't spend your money on lesser detector. Get a 50--you'll be glad you did.
May 06, 2007
14 people found this review helpful.
minelab x terra 50
scott in uk -I purchsed a minelab x terra 50,and happens to be the worst purshase of a metal detector ever,slow recovery speed,very poor indeed,even with the 18.5 eliptical coil fitted made no real improvement on performance,which may i add the eliptical coil looks very tacky indeed.not the best machine minelab have produced by a long way.Tested against the laser trident 1 the xterra 50 comes a long way down the listing.
Mar 16, 2007
15 people found this review helpful.
come on minelab who are you fooling
les in united kingdom -I have owned many machines my latest purchase has been the x terra 50, I have never been so dissapointed with a purchase in all my life. This nasty cheap little machine has no punch and recovery speed is the worst I have used, place a coin next to a nail and try this test on your x terra, now try the same test with a Tesoro or whites classic 1. The x terra is to be avoided unless you are a complete novice, I tried the 70 last week in a dealers shop and it still has the unforgivable signal delay.
Minelab should spend more money on development instead of bull advertising in magazines.
Jul 16, 2006
27 people found this review helpful.
GREAT LAND DETECTOR
JMS in FL -I purchaed this machine several months ago, and in general I really like it. The positive points are that it is lightweight, very easy to operate, pinpoints well, and reads pretty accurately-especially on coins. The batteries seem to last a long time as well.
I live near a saltwater beach and that is where 99% of my detecting is done. While it works great in dry sand, it does not do well in wet sand, even when I turn the sensitivity way down it still falses a lot...ditto for trying to use it in shallow surf. So, I bought a Whites Surf Pro PI to use in the wet sand (which, by the way, performs very well in saltwater conditions, no falsing at all!), but I do plan to keep the Xterra for dry land/dry sand use.
My husband uses an Explorer II he finds more
jewelry and deeper targets than I did with the Xterra. Also, I recommed using the All Metal setting when possible because I tested the Xterra with some of my own jewlery and found that some of my thin gold bracelets/necklaces will only register when set to the All Metal mode.
So, in summary I give it a 4.5. The only thing I really did not like about it was its failure to perform well on wet saltwater sand, but I am sure I will continue to use it for dry sand/dry land hunting.
Jul 09, 2006
13 people found this review helpful.
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