Metal Detectors that I have owned:thumbup:

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Metal Detectors that I have owned and some Comments

Brink-man
Treasure Sensor 5000 with 8 inch Target Eye 1977-1983 junk

Detector pro
pirate pro 2010 good

Fisher
1280x Aquanaut 1990-1992 deep, bunch of rings
CZ6A Quick Silver 1992 deep, bunch of square nails
1265x 1995 deep, and light
Garrett
GTA 1000 1999 good detector, not much depth in bad ground
AT-pro 2011-2012 a lot of ring's and gold chain's
A3B Gold hunter 2001 good relic
Minelab
Sovereign original 1994-1999 My deepest coin 12" on penny wet salt sand, heavy bulky
Sovereign xs2-pro 2012-2013 very deep
Quattro MP 2010-2011 deep, but can not hip mount

Teknetics
Mark 1 1986-1991 sweet, loved the tone ID

Tesoro
Stingray 1992-2000 Lots of gold rings and thin chains
Golden Saber 2 1992-still use it as of 2013 best all round coins and rings nice notch
Golden Umax 2003-2005 small, light, good depth
Toltec 100 1990-1997 deep,tid,in nails and trash bit heavy, good notch
Toltec 2 1994-2004 good but no notch
Tiger Shark 2000-2012 gold rings and thin chains, deeper than Sting ray
Sand Shark 2012 sweet
Lobo ST 2012 best on small gold chains,wish I could water proof it
Sidewinder uMax 2009-2010 good competition unit
Tej

 

[Rick N. MI]

Compass 77B - Profession, great in iron
Garrett GTA 1000 - dug a lot of coin with it
Tesoro Shadow X2
Tesoro Lobo Super Traq - Like this detector. Didn't go deep. Was great in the water.
Sovereign XS2a - deepest detector I've had, dug Indian Heads at 11"
White's IDX Pro modified - Loved this detector, wish I still had it
Fisher CZ5 - Dug more 1 way signals that were good than anything else
Tesoro Stingray II -
White's 5900 - I really liked this detector. The meter and sound was awesome.
Minelab Explorer XS - Never really learned, had to sell to pay taxes
Fisher 1236X2 - My current detector. Nice all around detector
Treasure Baron - Like this detector a lot. Had modules Gold Trax, Pro Hunter, Deep Hunter. Shouldn't have let go.
Fisher CoinStrike - Use for a couple years but never really did good with it
Tesoro Toltec 2 - Sweet sound on deeper targets
Tesoro Bandito
Tejon - Liked this this detector a lot
AT Pro - Used it for a summer and was liking it ok
Gold Bug Pro - liked it a lot, not great depth
White's MXT - was a nice detector
White's Surfmaster II VLF - My current detector. This detector is awesome, goes deep, great iron relic hunter, works really well in iron trashy sites.
Minelab Explorer II - I learned this detector and was loving it, it was just to darn heavy
Fisher F70 - Liked it, was worried about the build quality, was noisy
Vista RG 1000 - This detector went deep and was best in heavy iron trash, only discriminated iron, 11"dd round coil was heavy
Teknetic Omega - My current detector with 10"dd coil. Looks like it's going to be a good detector and won't let this one go. Light.

Detectors I want back, Tejon, Sovereign XS2, White's IDX Pro, Vista RG 1000, Explorer II. Detector I would want if it was light is the Explorer II (se). Also interested in the Vista detectors. Detector I would like to have White's XL Pro.

Rick N. MI

 

[Nauti]

C scope 1mx
CScope 1220xd
C scope 3mx
C scope cs6 mx
Red heat mk2
Red heat lightning
Tesoro cibola
Minelab quattro
Minelab musketeer
Minelab sovereign gt
Whites m6
Whites mxt pro
Xp goldmax power
Xp adx250
Xp adx100
Bounty hunter sharpshooter
Teknetics t2
Nautilus dmc2b

All these detectors have found a decent amount of stuff.The ones I have now are the minelab sovereign gt,c scope cs3mx and the nautilus.

 

[Woodchuck]

WAY TO MANY!!! LOL running out of detectors I want to try

 

[Nauti]

Hi woodchuck,what do you think of the c scope?

 

[Rick N. MI]

n/t

 

[Tallon]

My DeepTech Vista Gold. Fastest detector I've ever used. One field test graph showed it was quicker than a Teknetics T2 SE. Tremendous recovery/response time. Iron(low tone) volume can be turned down and almost silenced while the high (non-ferrous) tones still come through loud and clear. I dig even the slightly broken high signals as they often turn out to be goodies in between, next to, or underneath iron junk. You will occasionally dig tinfoil. But if you don't you will be missing some good small gold, silver, brass, copper, and other non-ferrous items. Iron does not fool this detector. It either is a positive or negative(low-tone) (AND) it's loud and clear. Hardly any guessing with this gem. A (VERY) deep analog detector too. Use the smaller 8.5x5.5" coil in amongst a lot of iron contaminated sights for better target separation (and) virtually as good a depth as the larger 8x11" coil. Also the smaller coil works better in red-clay, highly mineralized soils better than the larger coil. Less complicated to use than constantly looking at a screen-i.d. detector too which I find distracting. Only two tones so if it's a high tone, just dig it! ANY high tone is (going) to be non-ferrous and could be something like a ring thin gold chain, large gold chain, etc., etc. So if you want quality vs. quantity, I'd recommend this machine. Happy Hunting!!!! Tallon.