Could the Sierra Madre be used for coin hunting?

[king-ghidorah]

http://www.kellycodetectors.com/whites/sierramadre_detail.html

Just wondering. Is it a PI unit?

 

[Monte]

[size=medium]The Sierra Madre is a model that would appeal to many of those looking to search for the buried 'treasures' families buried down in Mexico. It would also work for anyone looking for a homestead cache or potential hidden treasure where all metal detection is desired. Those who do some serious relic hunting in All Metal mind find it appealing.

The Sierra Madre is a VLF/TR detector (GEB/Normal in White's lingo) operating at 6.59 kHz, and only operates in All metal. It lacks a Discriminate mode so you'd have to recover ALL targets.

Monte[/size]

 

[king-ghidorah]

For the price and what you get it's a pretty good deal for relic/treasure hunting.

 

[Monte]

For the price and what you get it's a pretty good deal for relic/treasure hunting.

[size=large]And that's what I said, but if you want to "coin hunt" and "find coins" but eliminate some of the trash, it isn't the best pick.

Monte[/size]

 

[king-ghidorah]

For the price and what you get it's a pretty good deal for relic/treasure hunting.

[size=large]And that's what I said, but if you want to "coin hunt" and "find coins" but eliminate some of the trash, it isn't the best pick.

Monte[/size]

Not according to this review on KellyCo,heehee

http://www.kellycodetectors.com/productreview/reviewlist.php?m=960-8000304

They found 1,000 silver coins in a month using the Sierra madre

which I find that hard to believe. A 1,000 silver coins with any detector would be hard to believe. That's like going there every day for a month and getting 33 coins per day and silver no less! or if you're figuring their putting in 8 hour days their pulling in slightly over 4 silver coins an hour or 1 silver coin every 15 minutes.C'mon!

Note that that is the only review of this model. I have nothing against White's and their are a top quality MD but a 1,000 in a month!!

 

[Bob (OHIO)]

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[Monte]

I haven't had the opportunity to use it much for that task. I might have to toy around a bit in a couple of weeks with a dealer's demo in a field scenario test.

We know there are 'specialty models' that are much better picks for electronic prospecting, and I'd take an MXT to the Sierra Madre any day. If I was looking to buy a detector that lacked discrimination circuitry with small gold nuggets being the main targets I was after, I'd opt for a more nugget-specific model.

If the Sierra Madre was all I had, and I was in decent gold nugget producing areas, then I'd put it top use as it can do the job ... just not as well as some models on the smallest gold nuggets.

Monte

 

[Bob (OHIO)]

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[nw1886]

Once you use that machine a bit, it will do fine. (Watching that needle and learning it's pattern for different types of signals will do the job.) I've used that machine and it doesn't lack for depth if you crank it up a bit, and the basic learning curve isn't that hard. I would probably cough up a few more dollars for a more modern/versatile machine though. Adjustable discrimination...multiple programs etc...sure adds to keeping the efforts involved enjoyable!

 

[bustercrab]

There is a magazine called American Digger which is aimed toward the Relic Hunter Only.. One fellow who writes in on is finds uses a Minelab $4,000 gold machine in which he digs every siginal..Within 3 months he has paid for his machine with Civil War finds plus lots of other goodies..If a person has a good back and a good set of knee pads,the sky is the limit...Good magazine to read..

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I can only imagine the amount of paperclips and birdshot he'd have had to have dug! A friend and I tried one of those expensive minelab nugget machines around a house (and only a house from the 1960s!) to help the police find a spend bullet for a crime case. I simply could not BELIEVE the amount of signals that thing could generate! I don't think we ever moved out of a few foot circle, before giving up with that and going back to standard coin machines to look for the bullet.

Things like staples, BB's, christmas tree wire hooks, etc... etc.... made it ring the bells of Notre Dame! We even tried to "dumb it down" and make it less sensitive just to start passing some of that, but to no avail. So yeah, I can imagine it'd CERTAINLY get a relic or a coin "deeper" than a standard coin machine. But Lord help the person who tries to use it in all but the cleanest environments. When you think of it, a lot of nugget places are out in nature, so perhaps man-made just isn't as punishing. In fact, if you got way up in some of those Alaskan nugget area, I bet the ONLY signals you would hear in some places, would be nuggets, since there isn't scads of habitations, industrial history, recreation usage, etc.... So for there, the super-hype sensitivity would be great.