I just finished my 60th hour today and my confidence with this machine increases with each outing.
I've detected for over 20 yrs and I mostly detect hunted out Texas city parks and schools. I spent the first 30 hrs or so using the standard coil (pinpointing seems pretty good to me, I know others have had problems), 3 tone, 14Khz with light notching and once I was able to hunt a couple of days in N. Florida in beach mode. While I was finding targets with almost the same frequency/depth as my previous machine and I liked the awesome target separation, I had to have more depth.
So I I took the advice from others here and made the switch to 2 tone, 14Khz, lightly notched and occasionally switch to 5 or 19 based on location, trash, traffic and age. That's now become my go to mode. More targets and much deeper. I've started consistently pulling out coins at 6-10 inches (I've left my depth readout in metric though cause I "speak" both, and most of the time it's more accurate). I put zincs VDI 67- 68 in the low tone range, so "good" coins and silver really stand out. I still dig the zincs, I just know what they are. Most bottle caps really zip/sing higher around VDI 74-77 in ground, more than the non bottle caps targets do in the same range. Coins on edge seem to jump true then lower in some coil swing directions and it seems I'm finding more like that, If it says steady VDI 88-89, it's 90% probably a quarter, s quarter, s ring. Bigger silver rings, a bit higher numbers VDI 88-92. I've got some more tweaks to my notch outs to make, but overall, I'm extremely satisfied with my Multi Kruzer. My hunting buddy with an AT Pro, Deus n F75, has started thinking about getting a Kruzer/Anfibio/next gen, he calls my machine the quarter magnet and likes the all weather, go anywhere, rechargeable, wireless features. I love it when he stops detecting to change detectors, more targets for me.
So far I've found $132 (not including $8 of 9volts/18 hrs for previous machine), a silver pendant VDI 80-82, 3 silver rings, two this year VDI 88-90, lots of junker rings and lots of fun goodies. In my last three hunts I've found over $30 and two silver rings. For urban Texas, that's a dang good way to start the year and the trend is up. No gold yet, but I know it'll come.
All in all, I'm just over what's basically a month's worth of regular 2-3/week detecting, so I'm more than happy with the return. I know without a doubt I never found as many good targets vs junk vs time with my previous machine and easily keep up with or surpass my mates with more expensive machines. When the new synced, rechargeable pinpointer (for MK I hope) comes out, I'll be close to my ideal setup that I've dreamed about for the last few years.
I've detected for over 20 yrs and I mostly detect hunted out Texas city parks and schools. I spent the first 30 hrs or so using the standard coil (pinpointing seems pretty good to me, I know others have had problems), 3 tone, 14Khz with light notching and once I was able to hunt a couple of days in N. Florida in beach mode. While I was finding targets with almost the same frequency/depth as my previous machine and I liked the awesome target separation, I had to have more depth.
So I I took the advice from others here and made the switch to 2 tone, 14Khz, lightly notched and occasionally switch to 5 or 19 based on location, trash, traffic and age. That's now become my go to mode. More targets and much deeper. I've started consistently pulling out coins at 6-10 inches (I've left my depth readout in metric though cause I "speak" both, and most of the time it's more accurate). I put zincs VDI 67- 68 in the low tone range, so "good" coins and silver really stand out. I still dig the zincs, I just know what they are. Most bottle caps really zip/sing higher around VDI 74-77 in ground, more than the non bottle caps targets do in the same range. Coins on edge seem to jump true then lower in some coil swing directions and it seems I'm finding more like that, If it says steady VDI 88-89, it's 90% probably a quarter, s quarter, s ring. Bigger silver rings, a bit higher numbers VDI 88-92. I've got some more tweaks to my notch outs to make, but overall, I'm extremely satisfied with my Multi Kruzer. My hunting buddy with an AT Pro, Deus n F75, has started thinking about getting a Kruzer/Anfibio/next gen, he calls my machine the quarter magnet and likes the all weather, go anywhere, rechargeable, wireless features. I love it when he stops detecting to change detectors, more targets for me.
So far I've found $132 (not including $8 of 9volts/18 hrs for previous machine), a silver pendant VDI 80-82, 3 silver rings, two this year VDI 88-90, lots of junker rings and lots of fun goodies. In my last three hunts I've found over $30 and two silver rings. For urban Texas, that's a dang good way to start the year and the trend is up. No gold yet, but I know it'll come.
All in all, I'm just over what's basically a month's worth of regular 2-3/week detecting, so I'm more than happy with the return. I know without a doubt I never found as many good targets vs junk vs time with my previous machine and easily keep up with or surpass my mates with more expensive machines. When the new synced, rechargeable pinpointer (for MK I hope) comes out, I'll be close to my ideal setup that I've dreamed about for the last few years.
