Hope This Is The Right Forum. VLF Minelab Question.

[WILL_PENNY]

Excluding hot ground which my state is free from, What model VLF would be the favorite among users for general all round detecting,excluding the gold fields.

 

[Critterhunter]

That's a pretty broad question. For one thing the Sovereign isn't a conventional VLF detector. It uses multifrequency BBS technology which means it will handle various ground conditions better, discriminate better, and ID targets at depth better than a regular single frequency VLF detector. It makes a great beach/shallow water machine as well as a great old coin shooter at pounded out parks and such. Places that other detectorists have given up on because they can't find any more old coins while the GT still produces there. It's also an excellent gold ring detector. I haven't owned or used another machine that gets as deep in my soil either.

Now, if you plan to just clad hunt where depth isn't a factor there are plenty of machines on the market that will let you sweep faster and thus rack up the clads faster. Not that you can't clad hunt with a GT. It's just that you would be buying a lot of machine to do a job that much cheaper and less capable machines can also handle with no problem.

 

[imalookin2]

A great and affordable machine is the Whites MXT. If you are not hunting wet salt beaches this machine is less $$$ than a Sov and is very deep too. If you have access to salt beaches get the Sov GT with a meter. You can hunt everything with the GT but it will cost you more. The MXT while excellent, is not the deepest on wet salt sand but it hunts nuggets too, coins and relics. The Sov will do the same and gets my vote IF you have the money.

 

[scoper]

Two detectors spring to mind for all round use and they have both been mentioned in the previous two posts.I own both these machines and both do an excellent job.The great thing about the sov is that it is a great land machine and a great beach machine......if you are going to hunt land and beach the sov can not really be bettered by any other detector.