X-1 TARGET PROBE TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS

You asked and you shall recieve Ralph.:thumbup:

Posted by: James N.D. [ Send a PM ]
Date: September 13, 2007 08:14PM

 

Here is a few of my better finds since the Fall of 2001 when I bought my Explorer XS from Rick(ND). Here is a pic of my Best Barber Quarter found to date that I pulled in Island Park in Fargo, ND in 2002. This baby was a good 10" Deep where a Tree had been and I know if it wasn't for having the X-1 Probe at the time, I most certainly would have either given up on this Target or badly hit it with the digger. Both a Front and Back shot on the Quarter. Here is also a Pic of a Very Nice Gold Class Ring I found around either 2002 or 2003 along with some Gold Teeth that I found in a Park up in Northern North Dakota about the same time frame. The Ring says Dickenson State Teachers College on it with the year ' 61 on the side of it. This Ring came from a Ball Diamond up in Northern North Dakota as well. I thought about returning the Ring but I had found another Class Ring made of Gold and was pretty burned by the owner after sending it to him. I asked for a nice letter saying thanks for the returning of the Ring along with a Pic of him with the Ring and never recieved anything from him. I thought I better just keep this Ring due to how nice it is. Then we have my First and Only 2-Cent Piece dated 1864 Large Motto Variety that I found in Oak Grove Park in Fargo, ND in 2002 also. This Coin I thought was going to be a New One since it showed just under the dirt and this baby shows it's face after removing about a 1/4"-1/2" of dirt. This was up next to a Tree. I also have a Pic (should have been better but only have limited space) of some other great finds I have made throughout the years. First is a 1877 Seated Quarter, then an 1878 Seated Quarter, a 1876-CC Seated Quarter, an 1854 Seated Dime I found in Minnesota, an 1889 Seated Dime, a 1906-D Barber Half that I found in a Park in Northern North Dakota (this is the best Half Dollar for a Barber that I have found with Full Liberty), and (2) 1901-O Morgan Dollars I found, both coming from 2 different Ball Diamonds in North Dakota. I have quite a few more Seated Dimes but it would take me awhile to dig them all out and post a pic. And last but not least, 2 of my Gems that I have found. I just found the 2nd one last weekend and was shocked since these are a hard to find Coin. A 1921-D Mercury Dime! They are almost exactly in the same condition as each other but the 1st one I found has just a bit more detail in it along with more luster. To see a Pic of the back of the Merc I found this last weekend, there is a Pic on the Minelab Explorer Forum. These finds were saved from damage or just giving up on some of these Deep Targets using the X-1 Probe from Sunray which shows Proof that you should have one of these Probes if you are a Serious Detectorist like I am and you will also take less chances of Damaging Coins when they get to be Deep. I have 1,000's more Great Finds which is mostly Old Coins, Relics, Jewelery, Etc that I wish I could post. Hope you enjoy the Pics and Thanks again Ralph for making such a wonderful product and something that I will never be able to detect without. Good Luck and HH to you all. :thumbup: Island Park Quarter Front.jpgIsland Park Quarter Back.jpgClass Ring - Gold Teeth.jpgFirst 2-Cent Piece.jpgCoin Finds.jpg1921-D Mercury Dimes.jpg

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Submitted by Joe DeMarco of DeMarco Detector Sales in Millville, NJ on 5/23/06

Good morning Joseph'
 In reference to your e-mail of Ralph's using my comments on their website: They most certainly can. I have to say that I also use their pinpointer on my Minelab and that it's head and shoulders above any others that I've used. The last one that I bought before Sunrays, I ended up throwing across the lot the same day I received it. It was a grade A piece of junk ! I left it where it landed.. true story. I must tell you that my Sunray pinpointer was also instrumental in my first and only Silver Dollar ( 1890 ) find. I'm sold on their products. Class stuff !!
       Regards,
         Roy   House

Submitted by John Sawyer - Ontario, NY on 4/28/05

Over the years the Sun Ray X-1 probe has become one of the most important items I carry in the field.

With out my probe, detecting takes on a different dimension.
There are many possible uses for the X-1, it can be used as a shallow coin (or soda can top) finder, it can hunt under steel bleachers where even a 5 inch coil has trouble with interference, it can help save fragile and sometimes valuable finds from being struck by your digger. 
Where I hunt, many times these area's have been pounded by others over the years, and what's left to dig are the "odd" signals that others have passed over in their search for the "perfect signal".
Using the X-1 probe is instrumental in this approach, as usually there is trash or Iron near the signal, or the signal is deep, for these targets to still be in the ground. and the X-1 probe helps ID them quickly.
An example of an "odd signal" is the 3 cent silver coin pictured, found stuck together with an 1873 Indian cent, about 9 inches down.
The coins pictured were dug in two separate parks last year, that have been pounded by others for 20 years or more.
Most, if not all were retrieved with the help of the X-1 probe.
The dollar gold coin was my first ever gold coin, they are very small in diameter, even smaller than the 3 cent silver.
Some of the 3 cent silver pieces were cut in pieces from apparently getting hit by an old "reel type" push mower, with the probe, even as small as these pieces were, I was able to retrieve them quickly and easily.
I can also say that the technical assistance and service that Ralph and his crew at Sun Ray offer is second to none, its hard to find a company in this day and age, that goes out of there way to make the customer happy like the people at Sun Ray do.
Thank-you!
 

John Sawyer

Here's a picture of some recent find's from the parks this past week,  you can add it to that testimonial I sent a few weeks ago if you wish.
The class ring is 10k 1963, I will try to find the owner, I was successful in returning another class ring that was initialed about 4 years ago, we'll see how this one goes, others I have found had no Initials, but this one does..
The circumstances of the half-dime find are unusual, as one of our 3 cent silver parks recently had a swing set area dug out, where the excavator had squarely cut out the top 3-4 inches of soil.
I scanned it with a hunting friend Mark,  we both found modern clad and trash, on a return trip a few weeks later, I noticed that they had dug out another 6-8 inches of soil from the swing set area.
Most of the coins I found were now just under the surface, and were easily pinpointed with the X-1 probe, a number of "Fatty" Indians and this nice half dime were recovered.
I would have hated to scratch this little beauty, the probe always contributes in some way during every recovery.
Thanks and Take care,
John Sawyer

 

Submitted by A. J. Wood - Oneida, NY on 11/16/2004

I live in upstate NY and have been detecting since 1998.  I have owned 5 different detectors.  I now have the Minelab Explorer II.
 
I have over the years dug a good many holes and not found anything, but would recheck hole with the detector but still not find anything.  I promised myself, that when I got my next detector I would get some type of probe.  I have seen different types, but the idea of having to take off headphones, get the probe out recheck and keep doing this until item was located sure didn't appeal to me. 
 
I was reading stores on the Findmall.com and noticed the Sunray banner and the picture of the X-1 probe, attached to an Explorer!  After checking and seeing that it was attached and worked through my headphones, this was great.  I ordered the X-1 attached to the upper shaft of an Explorer,  put the X-1 on my Minelab Explorer II and was ready to go.
 
My home is located right in the geographical center of New York and was in the early 1800s to be the capital of NYS.  That never happened and Albany became the capital of NYS.
 
I have detect my neighbor's house a number of times and have found some wheaties and buttons.  I was detecting again and got a good signal and at 8" located a Bronze bell.  I recheck the hole with detector and still got another hit from the hole.  I checked with X-1 and it told me something was still in the hole.  I removed more dirt and rechecked and could not find the signal.  I had a pretty big pile of dirt and was going through it with my hands and finding nothing.  I started to check with the X-1 and found this Colonial Cuff Button.  I would have put all that dirt back and never have found the button without the X-1.  Best investment in detecting equipment I have ever made.

 
 

In 22years of living at my present location, I have not ever detected my own yard.  I know what you all are thinking, duh!

 
I was in my back yard on November 11 of this year, and got a nice signal and dug another 9" hole. (I know I use the X-1 also as a depth gage!)  I found and recovered the top to an old pot that had been setting the X-1 off.  I rechecked the hole bottom and nothing, but noticed that as I put the probe into the hole about halve way down it chirped.  I started to check the sides of the hole and got a good target from the X-1 and recovered the NYS watch fob that was masked by the top of  the pot!
 
 

Okay Ralph, those are just two of the times the X-1 has helped.  There are more but I feel these are the best.

 
You have my permission  to use your literary talents as you need to re write these articles.
 
Sincerely,
AJ Wood
Oneida, NY
 

X-1 Probe finds - UPDATE! Submitted by A. J. Wood - Oneida, NY on 05/29/07

Ralph,
 
On April 11, 2007 myself and a detecting friend of mine had permission to
detect a residence just 4 houses down the street.  The house had just come
under new ownership and the new owner gave me permission to hunt there.
 
While my friend went to the rear of the residence, I started out front by the street.
I was using my Explorer SE with the X-1 probe.  (My friend was using my Explorer
II with X-1 probe I had just sold him.)  I located a 1906 Canadian one cent piece and
was checking another hole with my X-1, I knew something was there but couldn't
locate  it.  I found the target with the probe and this was a gold guilt Navy Button,
listed as 115 in Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons.
 
A short time later I had another hit, this time I found an Indian Head Cent.  I
put the IH in my bag, covered the hole and then rechecked the area and got another
hit.  I searched with my X-1 and found another IH coin.  So for grins I just
checked the hole with the probe again, another IH. Well by the time I finished I had recovered
12 Indian Heads from this one hole. I wish I knew how these 12 coins all ended up
within a 10 inch area?
 
I then found three more IH in this yard.
 
I just have no idea how I ever detected without the X-1 probe.  I know that a lot
of my finds today just would not have happened without the X-1.
 
Thanks for an exceptional product.
 
AJ Wood
Oneida, NY

X-1 PROBE AIDS DETECTORIST IN FINDING COINS IN DIFFICULT CONDITIONS

submitted by Charles Keith-NY

If you are reading this testimonial then you are probably thinking about buying an X1 probe for your Minelab Explorer. Maybe you have hunted without a probe for years or you have tried other probes and found them lacking. Hey and its no small investment either. I thought the same things a few years ago. I'm a skeptic and I had just paid upwards of $1,000 for the Explorer. Most of the experienced Explorer users were telling me to buy the X1 right away but I wanted to buy a larger coil and I didn't see much value in some probe gadget. Big mistake! I ignored this good advice and purchased a big coil instead.

For the next two months I suffered through trying to learn the Explorer with no probe. I'd dig a plug and find nothing. I'd dig deeper and wider and sometimes I would find a nail, other times I would find nothing at all. I tell you there is nothing more exhausting in June heat and humidity than spending 15 minutes on a target and walking away empty handed and confused. Worse, I was slicing up old silver coins on a regular basis. Worn out I finally purchased an X1 probe.

So what were the results? Well my target recovery time dropped from 5, 10, 15 minutes to about a minute. This resulted in my covering a lot more ground and finding more good targets per hunt. I never chased after another nail. A quick scan with the X1 probe told me iron and I moved on -  probe tone ID is king! Its very rare now that I slice a good target with my digger because I dig a safe 2 inches short of the target on purpose and pinpoint with the X1, taking advantage of the X1's depth.

But perhaps the biggest advantage is this...after 2 months of chasing rusty nails and walking away from iffy signals empty handed I had begun to dig only signals that ID'd rock solid in their textbook screen location. But deep coins or coins near iron/trash don't ID in the textbook location and I was missing many good finds. How many rock solid signals are left at sites that have been hunted hard for 20-30 years? With the X1 probe I started digging iffy signals again and the number of old coins I recovered skyrocketed. That first season they numbered in the hundreds, 140+ old silver coins, 200+ Indian head cents. I dug one very iffy signal that I would have never dug before - it turned out to be a bust dime standing right up on its edge. Half dimes, 3 cent silvers, two cents, fat Indian and flying eagle cents to name a few more.

I tell you with complete confidence, buy the X1, it will more than pay for itself in short order. If you are not yet convinced or even if you are, here's my latest X1 probe success story, its a great example of why I would not hunt today without my X1 probe.

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Sundays X1 Probe & ML 8 Inch coil finds

Posted By: Charles (Upstate NY USA) <Send E-Mail> (alb-69-200-179-10.nycap.rr.com)
Date: Monday, 18 October 2004, at 11:52 p.m.

Still sniping with the ML 8 inch coil and I'm making some finds in the old areas we pounded with the stock coil.

Sunday I met up with Ed and we struck out at park 1 so we headed to the 1860 park after the walk-a-thon cleared out. Instead of meandering around I picked a long mound about 30x50 feet and began griding it back and forth. I finished about 60% of it with only a few wheats in my pocket...then I found this!

If you are on the fence on buying an X1 probe this story is for you...

Two more passes and finally I got a good IH signal at about 5-6 inches. Sure enough out popped an IH, 1887 5-6 inches down. I went back in with the X1 probe just out of habit and thought I could hear a peep of a coin signal. Sometimes I get that if a nail is on the other side of the hole -  didn't really get a solid nail signal, it was pretty noisy in there. So I switch back to the ML 8 and sweep the hole, nothing. Hmmm, I jam the ML 8 down in the hole and hear a solid iron tone. I think okay there is a nail down there somewhere. I'm getting ready to fill in the hole but I go back in with the X1. Again I think I hear a coin so I dig out another 3-4 inch plug and stuck on the side of the plug is another 1887 IH. Pretty cool. I can say with complete confidence that had I not had the X1 probe, I would have never found that second IH or...the next coin. Sure maybe when I refilled the hole and scanned it I would have gotten a high signal but I might have figured it was the nail I disturbed, they often will do that around our parks.

The plug where I picked the IH off had a green coin impression which is not unusual up here. I never paid it any mind until I scanned this plug with the ML 8 and got a another solid coin signal, a bit higher in pitch. I take a closer look at that green patch and notice some silver peeking through...a nice seated dime!

There are not many products I strongly recommend but the X1 probe is a close 2nd to the Explorer itself.


Its nearly mirror like where the IH was protecting the back.


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