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1236x2 as a first detector?
- Thread starter Woodchuck
- Start date
I used many whites detectors and still love the classic series. I think they are good performers. I think the 1236x2 is a little more sensitive though to very small items. I think it is faster than the whites IDX but it is already a few years since I used the IDX and other classics. I think it depends on your type of detecting if the 1236x2 is better or not.
Good luck with your choices.
By the way... I just bought my 3th 1236x2 last week.
Eric.
Good luck with your choices.
By the way... I just bought my 3th 1236x2 last week.
Eric.
amcjavelin
Active member
the 1236x2 is a sweet little detector and will surprise you on depth will go deep for silver, i got some vids out on it on youtube just type in travelinjavelin, in my opinion very underated, the only thing i wish it could of been better was disc but once you get use to the chirps and so fourth i think you'll like it!
The 1236X-2 is a great detector excellent depth,light and simple to use none better.I have an older Los Banos, CA model for back packing and to give my back a break from the Minelab.A beginner can grow into this unit and not get tired of this detector.
I have owned 4 Fishers, and 6 Tesoros, and my favorite thing about the 1236 is it's performance with the 5 inch coil. It's the best balance of depth plus trash separation of all the combinations out there. I do have to add that this applies to the 5 on the CZ's too. I you hunt old trash littered lots you will want a 5 inch to go with it.
Keith Southern
Active member
The 1236-X2 might be the best detector ever built by fisher or any manufacture ..The Machine may not air-test the best or unmask in air-test the best but get it in the dirt where it counts and you will see it goes deep and pulls items out of iron with the best of them..It is a phenomenal detector....
I have pulled some real nice finds with mine and would never be without one...Get the 5 incher for the trash..run it in iron disc pre-set and by all means do not turn that silencer on...
learn the language of the machine...If you run the silencer on you are basically running like any other machine out there... Remember quite is nice but it kills masked targets and iffy deep targets...with the silencer off you will be hearing the targets that are discriminated out .. they will be pop's and sputter's and spit's..but not round sounding if that makes sense to you..what this allows is a good non-ferrous target to bleed through the discriminated out nail's (when set at the iron preset nails sputter big iron sound junk'y broken like) so you can hear the target with a nice audio response..these type targets will take awhile to get use to but once you hear the target a few times that is being masked you will know what to listen for...Also try to stay with the low ohm headphones like the stock fisher phones they replicate the detector sound so much better than the killer b type phones and such of high ohms they make it hard to discern a target...the audio which can speak volumes to you is best replicated at around 8 ohms or so..Deep targets have a fuzzy type sound that would be completely quite if the silencer was on..I have ran the 1236 against some big dog detectors in my personal test and the 1236 will hear deep targets just like the big machines but it has its own language...Again what is happening is the 1236 hears it all like ground noise and such and can report a target lurking below the mineralization..a lot of machines when canceling out the mineral also cancel the target since it cant break through the extra filtration of the signal going on from the ground reading..but the 1236 just blends it and you listen for the fuzzy round modulated hit..
Now the 1236 loves round targets be it low conductor buttons or high silver coins...I have actually found coins with the 1236 that I thought I would never find one being a 2 cent Piece out of a thick bed of nails that I had pounded on with probably 12-15 machines and the other being a 177? Spanish 2-Reale which is just about unheard of in my North Georgia area and it too was in a bed of nails.... I have found many relics with it also behind other machine's and in pure machine gun type iron...
Once you get the language down and listen to some noise the 1236 is one hard machine to beat in mineralized dirt and it just cant hardly be beat in nails...Remember iron sites are a important for making find's because where there is iron like nails and stove parts and horse shoes and busted kettles and such is the habitation sites and that where the finds are at but it is hard to get stuff out of these sites...and the 1236 is one of the better machines I have ever had at picking through sites like this....There's a couple more that will hang with it and they dont have a meter neither..
Good luck with one of fisher's greatest
Keith
I have pulled some real nice finds with mine and would never be without one...Get the 5 incher for the trash..run it in iron disc pre-set and by all means do not turn that silencer on...
learn the language of the machine...If you run the silencer on you are basically running like any other machine out there... Remember quite is nice but it kills masked targets and iffy deep targets...with the silencer off you will be hearing the targets that are discriminated out .. they will be pop's and sputter's and spit's..but not round sounding if that makes sense to you..what this allows is a good non-ferrous target to bleed through the discriminated out nail's (when set at the iron preset nails sputter big iron sound junk'y broken like) so you can hear the target with a nice audio response..these type targets will take awhile to get use to but once you hear the target a few times that is being masked you will know what to listen for...Also try to stay with the low ohm headphones like the stock fisher phones they replicate the detector sound so much better than the killer b type phones and such of high ohms they make it hard to discern a target...the audio which can speak volumes to you is best replicated at around 8 ohms or so..Deep targets have a fuzzy type sound that would be completely quite if the silencer was on..I have ran the 1236 against some big dog detectors in my personal test and the 1236 will hear deep targets just like the big machines but it has its own language...Again what is happening is the 1236 hears it all like ground noise and such and can report a target lurking below the mineralization..a lot of machines when canceling out the mineral also cancel the target since it cant break through the extra filtration of the signal going on from the ground reading..but the 1236 just blends it and you listen for the fuzzy round modulated hit..
Now the 1236 loves round targets be it low conductor buttons or high silver coins...I have actually found coins with the 1236 that I thought I would never find one being a 2 cent Piece out of a thick bed of nails that I had pounded on with probably 12-15 machines and the other being a 177? Spanish 2-Reale which is just about unheard of in my North Georgia area and it too was in a bed of nails.... I have found many relics with it also behind other machine's and in pure machine gun type iron...
Once you get the language down and listen to some noise the 1236 is one hard machine to beat in mineralized dirt and it just cant hardly be beat in nails...Remember iron sites are a important for making find's because where there is iron like nails and stove parts and horse shoes and busted kettles and such is the habitation sites and that where the finds are at but it is hard to get stuff out of these sites...and the 1236 is one of the better machines I have ever had at picking through sites like this....There's a couple more that will hang with it and they dont have a meter neither..
Good luck with one of fisher's greatest
Keith
Jackpine Savage
Active member
I cut my teeth on single tone beep-dig detectors with a 1236X2 and after using many different makes and models to this day it still remains one of my favorites.
Tom Z
Tom Z
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Keith Southern
Active member
and have dealt with him a couple of times in the past... He is about 80 miles from me North of here....
No problem's if you are thinking of buying from him he is straight up...
Keith
No problem's if you are thinking of buying from him he is straight up...
Keith