Sure looks like a new machine is coming out because that combined with this guy's blurb of a Minelab tech saying we'd be "blown away" is starting to add up to something...
cuzzi25 said:
I was at the B.O.N.E. last weekend in NH and there was a Minelab sales rep & tech there at dinner every night. Was great to have someone answer questions. I begged for info on new products but they wouldn't give a peep, even after a couple beers. Only thing they'd say was that we were gonna be blown away this year.
I just hope the machine isn't a giant leap in technology some how (like say a picture of the target in the ground) that will make it real easy for people to clean up all the silver that is left in old parks, and easy to find all the gold rings while leaving the junk...Because if that kind of thing ever is developed it will quickly KILL the metal detecting hobby and in the long run hurt their sales as well for these companies. As it stands right now even with the best of machines (Minelabs) on the market you still have to work in many instances to pull more silver from pounded out sites. Things like digging signals that are so deep that they are iffy, or one way coin signals that are a null or junky sounding the rest of the way around the target because of severe masking. I like things the way they are...Where most of the time you have to work for those silvers still left and nobody who doesn't earn his stripes through experience can just buy a machine and walk away with all the silver that is left to be found. If that changes to where some machine can easily get all the coins that are left and not have to fight for many of them then good bye hobby.
