Ralph, since the CZ5 is not your favorite what metal detector is?
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If you could only use one detector for land hunting what would it be????????
- Thread starter Ron from Michigan
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Jackpine Savage
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For deep methodical work the CZ's and Sov's are great. The ML Advantage will do that too.
For covering ground at a faster pace the new digital Fishers and others will do that.. so will the Advantage.
For working heavy trash and bad contaminated ground conditions the MXT and many others work well..so will the Advantage with the 8" coil and its pretty quiet doing it unlike the others which drive you nuts with all their noise in those conditions.
I put thousands of hours on the 1236X2 and its a great detector. The new digital ID Edge has all the great see-thru and iron handling characteristics of the 1236 plus you get tones and some notching ability and a seperate iron disc which works better than the silencer on the 1236 which can kill depth and response on iffy targets.
The Advantage will hunt in nails maybe a little better than the 1236 IMO.
Put a bigger aftermarket coil on the Advantage and honestly it is as deep or deeper than any of the top of the line detectors out there. Good ground or Bad it handles it.
Both the Advantage and ID Edge can be hip/chest mounted and both work great for shallow wading in fresh water. Very important to me!!
TID or beep dig these 2 cover it for me.
Ok the question was which one for land hunting? The audio quality of the ID Edge' tones suits me well whether using it as a beep-dig detector or shooting for coins only. It has a great "sniffing" ability on some pretty iffy targets after you get a little "zen" with it. (sorry Sov owners you aren;t the only ones
) Its not as deep as the Advantage but as a one and only one detector choice.. the ID Edge is it for me.
Tom
For covering ground at a faster pace the new digital Fishers and others will do that.. so will the Advantage.
For working heavy trash and bad contaminated ground conditions the MXT and many others work well..so will the Advantage with the 8" coil and its pretty quiet doing it unlike the others which drive you nuts with all their noise in those conditions.
I put thousands of hours on the 1236X2 and its a great detector. The new digital ID Edge has all the great see-thru and iron handling characteristics of the 1236 plus you get tones and some notching ability and a seperate iron disc which works better than the silencer on the 1236 which can kill depth and response on iffy targets.
The Advantage will hunt in nails maybe a little better than the 1236 IMO.
Put a bigger aftermarket coil on the Advantage and honestly it is as deep or deeper than any of the top of the line detectors out there. Good ground or Bad it handles it.
Both the Advantage and ID Edge can be hip/chest mounted and both work great for shallow wading in fresh water. Very important to me!!
TID or beep dig these 2 cover it for me.
Ok the question was which one for land hunting? The audio quality of the ID Edge' tones suits me well whether using it as a beep-dig detector or shooting for coins only. It has a great "sniffing" ability on some pretty iffy targets after you get a little "zen" with it. (sorry Sov owners you aren;t the only ones
) Its not as deep as the Advantage but as a one and only one detector choice.. the ID Edge is it for me.Tom
Jackpine Savage
Active member
Ron I have found that to be true. If you cannot adapt to a particular machines language it is useless to you no matter how it performs for others. I prefer the CZ's simple tones to the Sovs and as a silent search machine much better than all the nulling and tone carryover. I do not mean anything bad against the Sovereign, its just not for me.
Tom
Tom
Tom,I had a ID Edge and the one thing I found frustating was the pinpointing.It worked well but I found it a little slow to center.With me too much attention was neeeded for the ID screen numbers. Minelab Advantage owner's seem to have only good things to say about the performance of this metal detector.The Advantage is one of the units that I'm looking forward to using in the future.
Jackpine Savage
Active member
what is up with some of the pinpoint functions on the newer machines. Take the X-70 for instance, its a great detector but they designed that P/P function to impress newbies. You almost have to know where the target is before you go to p/p or it takes forever to get the circle to fill in and in trash... Ha!. The constant depth arrows on the Xterras are a great feature tho. I'll take a good simple no-motion all metal or a decent easily detuned VCO like on the 1236 anyday instead of these over done modes. That said I seldom use pinpoint when hunting. Mostly I just try em out when I first get the machine to see whats up with the latest. 
Tom
Tom
I've used all the mentioned detectors at one time or another and agree some work better in certain circumstances than others, so having to choose a detector to cover whatever may come up in the future is a tough decision.
I'm leaning towards alot of nugget hunting in the future with the occasional coin hunt, the Garrett Scorpion is a proven detector with its Groundhog circuitry at 15khz its great for both worlds.
I'm leaning towards alot of nugget hunting in the future with the occasional coin hunt, the Garrett Scorpion is a proven detector with its Groundhog circuitry at 15khz its great for both worlds.
Mike,I agree Garrett has a very nice product line and user following.
jackintexas
New member
Not the deepest or the fastest but the XLT is still home to me,
Jackpine Savage
Active member
He makes great finds no matter what detector he has in his hands! 
<p>seriously RL you have the ability to make any detector sing and make good finds. I know you have used em all so it is nice to see you list your all time favorites. Or should that be you "current" favorites?
HH Tom
<p>seriously RL you have the ability to make any detector sing and make good finds. I know you have used em all so it is nice to see you list your all time favorites. Or should that be you "current" favorites?
HH Tom
Tin Nugget
New member
and I believe it proves that the best detector is the one that you enjoy using the most.
I use the Minelab Advantage, Fisher 1236-x2 and CZ-70 Pro. The Advantage has worked excellent in every environment I've used it in. Swing it fast or swing it slow and it's still deep. Put a small coil on it, swing it slow and it's the best detector I've used in iron infested sites. Put a big coil on it, swing it fast and cover a lot of ground in those big fields. Doesn't need a halo to get good depth so a great demo site hunter. It has worked excellent on nasty hot rock infested black sand beaches also with good sensitivity on small gold which is suprising considering the low 5kHz. freq. Depth in my high mineralized ground is excellent. If they would have put an accurate meter on the Musky years ago it would have been Minelabs biggest seller.