I have owned the MXT Pro for a few years and overall have found some great finds and, to me, a lot of silver. But most of the silver wasn't found until I switched to the D2 coil and I was detecting in well hunted areas. Its a great detector but unless you use a specialized coil it may not find much more than the detectorists found in the 70's, 80's and 90's. If you happen to have virgin ground, the coil is not a big concern but virgin ground is very rare these days. The good areas were high priority in the silver rush days of the early 80's. To find silver in those areas you need something they didn't have. If there is a lot of iron or trash in the ground they missed some good targets. But if you are to find those targets you have to have the right coil. It doesn't matter how good the detector is if you have the wrong coil on it for the conditions you will miss the same targets they missed. I have more faith in coil selection and very slow methodical detecting than the actual detector. Don't get me wrong, I own the MXT Pro for a reason. Its just that a lot of people own a great detector but use only one coil that really has the same characteristics as the coils used 30+ years ago.