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Bones

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I started off learning with a MXT 300 detector. Cant say I even came close learning how to use it. Did find a lot of coins and a lot of pull tabs. I started building a hot rod and had to sell it to buy parts for my new hobby. Now I sold the hot rod and I'm ready to buy another machine. Not exactly sure what to buy. I would like to be able to find the usual treasures you search for and the possibility of gold since its in my area. I'm looking at the MXT pro. Any suggestions. I knew when I sold the 300 I would still have the fever of detecting. Thanks
 
[size=large]the mxt pro is a very good choice but if you're looking for gold nuggets you need a smaller coil. Unless you spend a lot of time in open fields the 12" coil is missing a lot of targets. There is a forum for prospecting that will help with selecting the best detector and coil combo. If you are into coin shooting then the mxt is also good for that with smaller coils. The 300 set up is good for beaches and open fields with less trash. The mxt is one of the simplest machines to master. For silver there are better. Same for gold but it is the best all around machine. Jmho

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Take a long hard look at the M6.This machine is as good as the mxt performance wise,is a lot simpler and cheaper.Ifyou bought this machine you could use the money you save to get another coil.The M6 is also a lot better on wet sand areas on the beach......one of the best detectors ever.
 
The Mxt Pro and M6 both would be a great choice. I have Both. The M6 is the MXT minus the relic and Prospecting modes. The Mxt Pro offers a few other functions such as ground grab and backlight etc. I primarily hunt trashy iron infested sites and the Eclipse 5.3 stays on 95% of the time. If your just after coins etc the M6 would be a good choice or if you think you will do lots of gold hunting then the Pro might be the better choice and with either machine you will need a smaller coil. The MXT pro will most likely come with the 12" coil and the M6 with the 950 coil. They are ok if in wide open areas and semi trash areas....but overall for what I do they are worthless. The eclipse 5.3 is my coil of choice and I can sniff out coins better with it in trashy areas then even the 4x6 DD. And it makes the machines balance well. As far as GBing I always put the toggle in " ground" find a clean spot bob the coil and get a good GB and then (and dont move the coil) reach over and put it back in "lock" With the Mxt Pro you can update GB with the ground grab button and the M6 you can just re ground balance if you feel the need by flipping the toggle back to "ground" go thru the procedure and then put it back in "Lock" Also I find that I like the MXT Pro better as far as the way it is constructed. The M6 grip and such are designed pretty much like the ol'classic series a foam pad on the s curve part of it and the MXT Pro has a handle and grip that is a post off the main shaft. After long hunts the Mxt pro seems to be alot more comfortable gripping. anyhow just a few of my thoughts/opinions
 
Bones:

You can special order the MXT Pro with the 10" D2 Coil for the same price as the 12" or you can get the 950 coil for about $50 less. One dealer told me he couldn't order with the D2 but I called White's directly and was told I could.

I believe the 10" D2 to be a lot more useful than the 12" 300 LTD coil and accompanied by a 5.3 Eclipse or a 6X8 SEF coil by Detech for trashy areas. My favorite large coil by far is the 10X12 SEF by Detech. My favorite small coil is the 5" DD Excellerator II. It is very good in trashy mineralized areas.

ArizFlash
 
I did not know that the 12 inch coil was standard with purchasing the MXT pro. This is amazing with all of the coils that detect the different metals and different depths. And the price of the coils. I assume I need to go with one of the smaller coils for general prospecting and and coin shooting with the MXT pro. Very confusing indeed.
 
Ohers gave you helkp, too, but consider the M6 as well as the MXT Pro, and definitely add the smaller 6
 
Well I gotta say that I got my MXT Pro in Feb. of this year and played around with it but never really found nothing great , just some clad etc. Then I happened to email Monte about something and as luck would have it he was going to be in my area for a group outing that he was doing with his metal detecting group. So we met at carls Jr. and I told him I got the MXT Pro but really was kinda fumbling around. We must have talked 4 hours about metal detectors the MXT Pro and techniques Then we went to the local park for a few more hours, he made me put on the Eclipse 5.3 coil and we did the nail board test, how to set the disc to just knock out rusty nails and all sorts of info. I learned more in that 1/2 day then I would have on my own over the next several years. He then invited me to join his outing and we hit a ghost town and that was my first iron infested old town site experience and what a learning experience it was. Since then I have hit places in central NV. and around my local area and my finds have been pretty neat and I owe it all to Monte and the time he spent showing me the right way to operate my machine ......and yes if you look at monte's post throughout the forums there is kinda one theme and that is his coil of choice 90% + of the time is the 5.3 coil and there is a reason.....its just a great coil and it works well in trashy areas. I also got the 4x6 shooter but I rarely use it. I found I can do better with the 5.3 coil. Anyhow here are a few pics of my finds since middle of May till now. Most of all the finds were with the MXT Pro and 5.3 coil also I did pick up a new Whites M6 from Monte and some of the finds were with it and the 5.3 coil. Both machines are great and you cant go wrong with either. And the 5.3 coil will stay on each machine 90% + of the time.
 
Thanks for the replies. I have a Pro on the way. I will get a 5.3 coil as it seems to be the best for trashy areas.
 
Just be patient. Don't get carried away with long-sweeps or fast sweeps. Don't over-use the Discrimination. And for sure, nab that 5.3 Eclipse coil. I keep those 6
 
Hey! It's a new month today so you need to find your hot ticket items for August now! Going to be tough to keep up with June and July, but I am sure you'll try.

Monte
 
The Born 36 I found at the old POW camp in Nyssa. The letters spell N E V A D A and if you flip it over it says "centennial of the great state of Nevada" 1864-1964 so its not too old ....heck i was born in 65 so its not old at all :) I wish I could have got some better pics but had to knock the resolution way down on my camera in order to get pics that were 420 kb or less to be able to post pics on this site. If there is anything ya wanna see more specific let me know and I can snap an individual pic of it. I included a few pics front and back and also a pic of a trade token I found Good for 5C trade F Ross if anyone has any clues about where this token might have originated from ?? Cant find any info on the net or at tokencatalog.com
 
My mxt pro deal fell through. Just bought a different mxt. Now I can buy the 5.3 coil and get a pin pointer. I guess I did not need to hunt in the dark anyway. Probably saved me from getting robbed.
 
The MXT is the same great machine with just a few differences. get the 5.3 coil on it and you'll be on your way.
 
The Mxt is a great machine, only differs a little bit from the Pro. At first it might seem noisy but put some hours in with the machine and it will all make sense. You will eventually tune out the chatter and when ya hit a good target you will know. When I first got mine i was a little overwhelmed, but once I started learning the machine and a little lesson or two from Monte, it finally made sense. It really is a great machine and with the right coil its a tremendous machine when hunting iron infested ghost towns and what not. I would start right out of the gate with the 5.3 coil......just for the fact that with a big 950 or 12" coil most places we like to hunt has had a lot of people activity.....thats where they are losing the stuff we want to find.....but on the downside with lots of people activity comes lots of trash.....pull tabs etc etc. Why Whites made such big coils standard on the machines is beyond me. In wide open little trash, far apart targets the big coils have their place.....but it seems in most situations, you come up against more trashy sites then not, and the big coils just fail. And believe it or not the smaller coils will damn near just achieve about as much depth. Also unless for some weird circumstances most coins are not that deep. I am finding coins 100+ years old at 2" to 3" deep. They just didn't decide to sink a bunch in the last few years. I really think the big coil thing is just a new marketing thing .....ya gotta go deep , depth depth depth, to find the good old coins.....but in reality old coins are not a renewable resource, they aren't replacing the old coins and quite frankly most the good stuff has been found, mostly by the "ol timers" back in the 70's and mid 80's I am finding that in ol ghost towns etc, I look for the trashiest spots because that is were the old coins are still hidden , being masked by the trash all these years and if I can get lucky and sniff a few out............ but in the wide open clean areas, hell they done hit that years ago. Just ask Monte when he was detecting back in the late 60's early 70's he tells me stories that looking back it was astonishing the amount of coins they would find. He had 120,000+ coin finds a year and most of it silver. Hell I prob wont find that amount in my lifetime and that would be counting all my clad finds. There is stuff still out there , but its not going to be shooting fish in a barrel so to speak. just have to get a little more creative, a little luck and know your machine and you will find some good stuff. For example I hit a ghost town down in nevada that has been pounded for years. If you look up above at my pics you will see a 1900 IH Penny. I had my small coil on (5.3) , but i was poking the coil into and around the sagebrush and bang...there it was all by itself no masking by iron etc.....it was just under the sagebrush by the base of the plant about 1" deep and no one else bothered to search underneath the brush , they just always searched the areas between the brush. And actually i found that one with my M6 and 5.3 coil. Anyhow I'm babbling so i'll end it here. I wish you the best of luck with your new MXT and find lots of good stuff and get a 5.3 coil on it lol
 
Great post OG.Smaller coils are definately the way to go for all the reasons you have mentioned.A lot of people are looking for a quick fix in metal detecting and to help them they buy big coils because they believe they will cover more ground at depth and find more stuff.WRONG.Like you said,the majority of good finds now lie in tougher ground conditions and it requires more patience and hard work to find them.Searching trashier sites is harder work but with a good detector like the MXT or M6 and a smaller coil it will yeild results.The size of some coils available today is ridiculous and in my opinion just marketing gimmicks.Using a good detector with a small accurate coil and taking your time will always be better than swinging a coil the size of a trash can lid and trusting to luck.Both the mentioned whites machined will do the job as good as any and better than most.
 
If your going to hunt after dark you will be wearing a headlight and it lights up the screen just fine.....
I have never needed a backlighted screen and I turn it off on my Eagle Spectrum and V3i.
 
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