minelab x50

[parfind]

I have a chance to buy a little used x-50. How much better is the x70?

 

[khouse]

What and where will you be hunting? If you just coin and jewelry hunting in the parks and tot lots then the 50 would be great. Now if you ever plan to do some prospecting or salt beach hunting the 70 would be the best choice. If you have the extra cash then go for the 70 anyway then you'll have the best of everything.

 

[coinsh00ter]

Just as important as the what, is where. I coinshoot almost exclusively, but in places high in pig and slag iron. I have been very impressed with the 70's auto ground balancing. Very simple to operate, and seems to make the soil invisible to the detector, enabling me to run the detector at higher sensitivity than other machine's I've used. The best example is the silver saber umax I used years ago. It was a great little machine, but the ground balance was pre set. I could never run as high sensitivity as I run with the 70. That being said, you can manually ground balance the 50, but I feel the auto, and tracking features of the 70 are worth the investment if you are in areas with alot of iron junk or high mineralization.
Dave in NJ