Help needed!!!

[Grumps51]

Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase a new Minelab before Christmas, but need some advice on which to buy. It will either be an Explorer SE, X-terra 70 or the Quattro. Price aside which will give the most depth on the beach? Which is a better all rounder? I have heard that the Quattro gets a bit heavy after a long days detecting.
I use a Goldscan as my principle beach machine, but I need a back up.
Any help please.
Mal

 

[beachguy777]

I've never used an x-tera so and I'm not familiar with them, but I own a Quatro, and I love it. It goes pleanty deep, probably competing witht the Explorer on depth. The explorer has to numerical readouts, one for ferous and one for conductivity. That gives you some more info on whether to dig the target or not, but I'm thrilled with the Quatro. It's very user friendly, has notchible discrimination, very sensitive and goes pleanty deep. It has a numeric readout that seems to be very accurate on what it's saying and also has a depth guage. Works great in salt water, VERY,, littl mineralization problems there. Keep reading the posts about all three detectors and you'll make an "informed" decision. :|

 

[Golden]

I have to agree with beachguy in reading the posts from users of these different detectors, asking questions, etc. I use a Quattro. On the beach, I've gone down to 24 inches digging out sinkers! On the goldfields, gone down to 14 inches, and in very hard, compact and rocky ground ground, with a hell of a lot of ironization. The machine handles iron infested ground, and salt conditions extremely well. No problem detecting near other detectors too, so long as you "noise cancel" when near one, before you start detecting. Powerlines, not a problem either. In saying all that, there is a learning curve with it, and it takes time and patience to master it.
Golden

 

[beachguy777]

Thankyou Golden, it makes me feel like I'm not completely "out to lunch" here on all my posts, but I would totally respect any one for any difference of opinion too. I think I forgot to mention doing the ground cancel adjust thing. God, I've been away from it so long I forgot the precice wording, but you know what I mean. I do remember that in a tough area I would ground cancel more often to try and keep down the falsing. P.S. Oh, and by the way, Golden,:| "my detector goes so deep" I have to use my "dog Bonnie" to dig out the treasure, I used to use a back hoe, but I'm too poor now to rent the back hoe, so I just use the dog.:O:| (you better take that as a joke, now, or I'm gonna get scared again):|

 

[Golden]

joke taken! I reckon that dog of yours would be the way to go for the deeper targets. But you might have to sweep your coil over a fair bit of the sand flicking out of the hole, for the digging! Now a backhoe would be the way to go for old bottles!!

 

[beachguy777]

YEA BABY!!!!!,...let's all go in on renting one and we'll dig up the whole darn area. Then we'll put up some signs to make the cops think the city is doing some work, while we excavate. See how devious a mind can be?:|

 

[beachguy777]

The real truth with my dog is, a couple of times she saw me digging for someting and tried to jump in on it, but mostly she digs here own holes looking for dead fish. She's found a couple of them. Maybe I could look into the "dead fish sales department" or something. Perhaps fertalizer.:|