MXT was going to be my machine until I read some of these posts.

[Anonymous]

Hey Rudy I have been hunting coins many times before where there is tons of coins and tons of pull tabs and related items, and I would have much rather lost some nickels ( ok gold would not be a good thing to pass up ) in order to pull the bigger coins and not have to be irritated by pull tabs and similar junk. Also it makes a good tool for i.d.'ing junk, which was also touted in the manual, for further i.d. purposes in case their was a nickel under your coil. Example: You find a target that is within the nickel pull tab VDI Range. You then click your trigger forward to notch out the pull tabs. The idea being that if it is a nickel that the MXT would not notch out the nickels signal. Usually this is how I would use this option, I havent tried it with gold yet but it might work. Just a couple examples of why I wish it would actually work like it was stated to. Yeh I like to get what I pay for when I buy something. Lying to a customer is not a good habit. I am sure everyone appreciates you bringing this up. If you want more examples just ask. I do realize however this is delving more and more into new technology and I am sure the future holds much more stable options for us in the metal detecting saga. By the way I do acknowledge that the pull tab notch does work somewhat it is just not that reliable. MXT is still the funnest detector I have ever used. HH Jason

 

[Anonymous]

Craig
The mxt is about one of the bet detctors out there. Who says you can't disc out iron ?? Part of determining good targets from bad is actually the user him/her self. The mxt has tone ID in relic mode , low tone on iron high for orthers, it is also adjustable. In relic mode trigger in the center anything under the disc setting gives a low tone. Id is also helpful and I can tell you that the MXT has a world better system than a lot of other machines out there, Keep in mind these things are metal detectors and regaurdless of what manufacturers claim what at best a metal detector will tell you what the "PROBABLE" target in the ground is. Talking about iron, I went to an old site where a house had burned down and been pushed off, this place was lousy with big nails and pieces of old plows and the like, I ran relic mode using the stock coil and pulled 27 wheats a buff nickel a 1930's miltary button and a 1916 merc dime out of this trash heap. I will admit it got noisy, so I set the disc on 3 and flipped the pin point trigger forward and the iron was silenced and I dug all high tones. Yeah i got trash too but anyone who claims the don't dig any trash aint digging much at all. I tried 2 Bounty hunter machines and 2 fisher machines, The mxt is the winner hands down any where you want to trey them, now fishers got deep but there are iron crazy. So in short get a MXT MAN !!!!! Easy to use and find deep stuff, If you want an awesome setup get an MXT and a 14 inch excellerator coil Then my friend you will have a kick a$$ setup where ever you go !!!
Ray

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Jason,
I've used that feature as well (pushing the trigger forward to see if the nickel reading stays). It does reject SOME pull tabs, but it can't reject ALL pull tabs. This is simply because there are different types of pull tabs and depending on the type, they'll fall on either side of the nickel. Thus it is impossible to notch out ALL pull tabs and not lose nickels and other goodies in that range.</STRONG></FONT>