Freshwater Beach Test of the Minelab X50 & Fisher Edge

[BarnacleBill]

Intro
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Fisher Labs and Minelab have provided two new mid-priced detectors with very distinctive personalities. The Edge from Fisher is distinctly American in it

 

[Jackpine Savage]

HI Bill,

How did the X-50 handle the hot rocks at aggravation beach compared to the Edge? At a Lake Michigan beach here where the rocks are tightly packed together the Edge was very "analog like" on the few surface rocks it responded to. Some gave the overload indication with others giving either a wide positive response or the typical null over the center of the so called "cold rocks" making them very easy to ID and ignore. I was very surprised and impressed to find this type of audio response on a silent search digital detector operated in disc mode!

Hey FRL, if the Goldstrike had used simlilar audio instead of the funky 2 tones, it would have much more popular.

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

Tom,

The particular pile I was working looked like it had been dumped from a dump truck that had moved forward while unloading. Therefore the mound was about a foot higher than surrounding sand which had been washed away by a storm. The rocks ranged in size from golf ball up thru softball size.

Response by both machines was obviously affected by the sensitivity settings and I had both pushed into the 90% range. In AM mode iron responses on both machines are plentiful, but at zero disc only occasional weak high coin ticks. None of the rocks will PP, but mix in little bits of iron, and it gets interesting.


By the way Tom, when is ice out up your way?

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Bill,

I'm hoping for an early ice out. We have very little snow pack and only recently have we been getting cold nights in the single digits. When the snow goes the daytime heating should take care of the ice in a hurry. Hopefully early April on the smaller lakes, which would be a couple weeks sooner than normal. I will check the big lake and one of the larger inland lakes today to see where they are at.

Tom

 

[BarnacleBill]

This winter most of the storms went south and we have almost no snow pack. Looks like it's going to be a busy spring for the firefighters 'cause I'm looking out at bare leaves where normally there is 4ft of snow pack.

A great deal of Lake Winnipesaukee stayed open this winter, and they lost a 19 yr old who went out last night on a snow machine. Usual story, 4 college kids, alcohol, midnite, bad ending.

HH
BarnacleBill

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Wading this early in the year that is. Sunny skies, a temp of 40 and no wind so out came the Hodgmans and over to Torch Lake with only skim ice in the shallows. One ID Edge Baptised!

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[Bill Ladd]

Thanks for all the hard work....especially in the dead of winter

 

[tfo pana il]

can you tell me if the edge love iron like the cz5 or is it like the C$ not to bad with iron

 

[BarnacleBill]

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[Mark in NC]

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