First off,let me say my experience with metal detecting goes back about 17 years. I have been a hard core Explorer II user for dirt for the past 4 years and I have much experience with the Explorer on the West as well as the East coast. I have tried every conceivable set up that I could think up as well as all the ones that have been posted by the likes of Charles in New York, Paul in Ca etc. I have the Excalibur, Goldscan 5, Headhunter PI, Sov Elite, CZ 70, TF 900, Goldbug2, Compass 77B (thanks Paul!)and a few others I can't remember.
The point is, I have had some pretty wide and varied experience. I am certainly not Paul in Ca or Charles in New York but I am obsessed!
Now on to the T-2! I have about 20+ hours on the T2. I gotta be honest, when I first unpacked it I said to myself no way can this thing work, it's tiny and does not weigh anything and it looks funny!
See, the dirt sites that we have in San Diego are pretty much relegated to old house sites that have been torn down and have not been built on yet. Property is so expensive here that all of the oldest areas are concreted/built over. So what we have to work with is iron and trash laced sites like you have never seen unless you are lucky enough to get permission to search a home that is still standing.I was searching under a foot bridge this week end where I had to scrape away the top layer of crown caps just to get going and still was digging my share of crown caps and I had just dug 3 out of the same hole and up came a 1941 Merc! The point is I could hear the Merc through or around the crown caps. Now I have searched this area before w/ the Explorer and a 5" coil and not had much luck. I was searching in the exact same area as my buddies who had gotten there much earlier and were already ready to go to another site so I literally only had ten minutes to dig. I was actually digging between/around their holes when I found the Merc! Anyway we went to a demolished home site and I set up my T2 at sensitivity 30, 4 tone, no discrim. The seperation was PHENOMINAL!!!!! My buddies kept saying "Man that thing goes deep!" They were missing the point, yeah it is deep, but thats not the point, the point is SEPERATION!!! If you can't hear the co-located targets, you can't dig 'em! I did really well at the iron and trash laden second site, coming up with with quite a few relics, nothing spectacularly old but good for San Diego. The main point is, I could really hear the targets, especially the co-located ones. The bad part is, I wonder how much I have missed over the years.....
I know this field test is short on ultra technical details, I mean who really cares if the trigger nut falls off with use, put it back on w/blue loctite and keep searching! All units pin point, some good some bad, who cares. The unit is light, needs a better stand (wider)to keep it from falling over. I am sorry, but all the minor details that everyone seems to get caught up on in here kinda pale into insignificance when compared to the fact that you can REALLY,REALLY hear everything with the T2!!! The re-set between targets is AWESOME!! For iron laced trashy dirt this is now my main machine, I still can't really believe it... Thanks Mr. Bill and Paul in Ca.
Oh yeah, sucks in our wet saltwater sand but don't care not what the T2 is for and more than makes up for it in the dirt!!!!
There the report is balanced as I said something bad about the T2!
Glenn in San Diego _
The point is, I have had some pretty wide and varied experience. I am certainly not Paul in Ca or Charles in New York but I am obsessed!
Now on to the T-2! I have about 20+ hours on the T2. I gotta be honest, when I first unpacked it I said to myself no way can this thing work, it's tiny and does not weigh anything and it looks funny!
See, the dirt sites that we have in San Diego are pretty much relegated to old house sites that have been torn down and have not been built on yet. Property is so expensive here that all of the oldest areas are concreted/built over. So what we have to work with is iron and trash laced sites like you have never seen unless you are lucky enough to get permission to search a home that is still standing.I was searching under a foot bridge this week end where I had to scrape away the top layer of crown caps just to get going and still was digging my share of crown caps and I had just dug 3 out of the same hole and up came a 1941 Merc! The point is I could hear the Merc through or around the crown caps. Now I have searched this area before w/ the Explorer and a 5" coil and not had much luck. I was searching in the exact same area as my buddies who had gotten there much earlier and were already ready to go to another site so I literally only had ten minutes to dig. I was actually digging between/around their holes when I found the Merc! Anyway we went to a demolished home site and I set up my T2 at sensitivity 30, 4 tone, no discrim. The seperation was PHENOMINAL!!!!! My buddies kept saying "Man that thing goes deep!" They were missing the point, yeah it is deep, but thats not the point, the point is SEPERATION!!! If you can't hear the co-located targets, you can't dig 'em! I did really well at the iron and trash laden second site, coming up with with quite a few relics, nothing spectacularly old but good for San Diego. The main point is, I could really hear the targets, especially the co-located ones. The bad part is, I wonder how much I have missed over the years.....
I know this field test is short on ultra technical details, I mean who really cares if the trigger nut falls off with use, put it back on w/blue loctite and keep searching! All units pin point, some good some bad, who cares. The unit is light, needs a better stand (wider)to keep it from falling over. I am sorry, but all the minor details that everyone seems to get caught up on in here kinda pale into insignificance when compared to the fact that you can REALLY,REALLY hear everything with the T2!!! The re-set between targets is AWESOME!! For iron laced trashy dirt this is now my main machine, I still can't really believe it... Thanks Mr. Bill and Paul in Ca.
Oh yeah, sucks in our wet saltwater sand but don't care not what the T2 is for and more than makes up for it in the dirt!!!!
There the report is balanced as I said something bad about the T2!
Glenn in San Diego _
