Hello Monte, I often read where you've owned multiple identical detectors for example 2 M6's 4 DFX's 3 IDX pros The amounts may be wrong but why so many of the same model? Just curious... BTW I sold my IDX pro and bought an M6 with a D2 which I love...funny how when I let go of my IDX I already miss it, in fact I exchanged a brand new MXT a couple years ago to get the IDX pro I just sold with Mr. Bills mod.
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Question for Monte
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Your stated the following: "...funny how when I let go of my IDX I already miss it," and that is part of the reason.
In the first three + years I was into the hobby (spring of '65 thru fall of '6
I used home/class-built "Metal/Mineral Locators" as they were called. In the latter part of '68 my brother, Ed, and I started detecting with our first factory-built detectror, the Ghost-Towner BFO. It had the red wooden coil of about 5" diameter of so. in the 40+ years of using factory-built detectors, there have been some real 'stinkers' and there have been some favorites. Quite a few in-between, too. Not being one who's rolling in dough I have had to part with a detector for various reasons. Having six children in ten years there were medical bills. Since I have always enjoyed hunting and competitive shooting I had to gets some $$$ to purchase a new rifle or shotgun or hand gun, especially during the years I worked in private security & investigation or full-time law enforcement.
Then, too, there were all those advances, actual or claimed, in metal detector technology and design that just had to be checked out. Along the ways we can easily develop a few favorites and, soon after parting with a 'best friend' we get that urge to spend more familiar 'good times' again so we acquire another one down the road. This can sometimes happen more than just once or twice.
Remember, too, that some models often handle certain types of hunting applications better than others and as we change the nature of our searches back and forth, we most certainly ought to get a hold of what we know worked for us before,
I like the MXT as well as the M6, and with the 10" D[sub]2[/sub] coil either of them sort of 'come to life" in my mineralized soil. I remember parting with an IDX Pro, with Mr. Bill's modes, (that was my 3rd I believe) to acquire my first M6. The M6 provide me with an excellent Tone ID at the flip of a trigger toggle, and ample visual information. It did 'OK' for most coin and token and jewelry hunting .... but I missed my IDX Pro and the great silent and smooth operation in some very dense iron nail infestations i ran across. Within a few short months (2 or 3) I parted with that M6 and reacquired another new IDX Pro, from Bill with his mods. I then got a former IDX Pro back because the fellow didn't like the lack of extra TID info and had a back-up IDX Pro for some time (sold it to Crazyman).
I've had to come to grips with the reality that while I am getting older, I am wearing out at a faster rate than most folks and health issues are putting more limitations on both the types of detecting I can do as well as the actual detectors I am able to hunt with. The amount of actual field time is nothing like it used to be so I have found myself trimming down my personal arsenal. Selling or trading off some of the 'back-up' models i have had on hand in search of a lighter-weight unit ... and also wanting to seek out a few all-time favorites for "memory cruising." I've had 20 XLT's since they were released i the spring of '94, and I plan to have at least one of the next new releases from White's. Certainly their new 'top dog' when it comes out of production because I want to learn it and know first hand just what it can and can't offer me. But, to do so, I'll part with some favorites and not-to-special models I have.
Heck, when you posted last night I was out of town making a quick round-trip drive to central Oregon to beat the snow storms expected later tonight and tomorrow over the mountains. I thought I'd latch onto another favorite 'just in case'. I bought a one-owner 6000 Pro XL in decent condition. Then getting home two minutes from midnight, I find the correct taxes after my wife erred and forgot to add the income from our former employer as well as a bonus amount. Instead of getting enough back to hit Carl's Jr. for lunch we have to donate a chunk to Uncle Sam. So, my new late yesterday acquisition has to go up for sale because we also have vacation coming up three weeks from yesterday and a bill to pay, actually to the state as well.
Yes, there are many reasons why we have multiples of the same model, but it usually boils down to the fact that they worked well for us in the past and we develop a soft-spot for them.
I hope you're able to find enough with your new M6 & 10" D2 coil that you'll be able to pick up another choice IDX Pro in the future. Admit it, you know you wouldn't mind doing so.
Monte
In the first three + years I was into the hobby (spring of '65 thru fall of '6
I used home/class-built "Metal/Mineral Locators" as they were called. In the latter part of '68 my brother, Ed, and I started detecting with our first factory-built detectror, the Ghost-Towner BFO. It had the red wooden coil of about 5" diameter of so. in the 40+ years of using factory-built detectors, there have been some real 'stinkers' and there have been some favorites. Quite a few in-between, too. Not being one who's rolling in dough I have had to part with a detector for various reasons. Having six children in ten years there were medical bills. Since I have always enjoyed hunting and competitive shooting I had to gets some $$$ to purchase a new rifle or shotgun or hand gun, especially during the years I worked in private security & investigation or full-time law enforcement.Then, too, there were all those advances, actual or claimed, in metal detector technology and design that just had to be checked out. Along the ways we can easily develop a few favorites and, soon after parting with a 'best friend' we get that urge to spend more familiar 'good times' again so we acquire another one down the road. This can sometimes happen more than just once or twice.
Remember, too, that some models often handle certain types of hunting applications better than others and as we change the nature of our searches back and forth, we most certainly ought to get a hold of what we know worked for us before,
I like the MXT as well as the M6, and with the 10" D[sub]2[/sub] coil either of them sort of 'come to life" in my mineralized soil. I remember parting with an IDX Pro, with Mr. Bill's modes, (that was my 3rd I believe) to acquire my first M6. The M6 provide me with an excellent Tone ID at the flip of a trigger toggle, and ample visual information. It did 'OK' for most coin and token and jewelry hunting .... but I missed my IDX Pro and the great silent and smooth operation in some very dense iron nail infestations i ran across. Within a few short months (2 or 3) I parted with that M6 and reacquired another new IDX Pro, from Bill with his mods. I then got a former IDX Pro back because the fellow didn't like the lack of extra TID info and had a back-up IDX Pro for some time (sold it to Crazyman).
I've had to come to grips with the reality that while I am getting older, I am wearing out at a faster rate than most folks and health issues are putting more limitations on both the types of detecting I can do as well as the actual detectors I am able to hunt with. The amount of actual field time is nothing like it used to be so I have found myself trimming down my personal arsenal. Selling or trading off some of the 'back-up' models i have had on hand in search of a lighter-weight unit ... and also wanting to seek out a few all-time favorites for "memory cruising." I've had 20 XLT's since they were released i the spring of '94, and I plan to have at least one of the next new releases from White's. Certainly their new 'top dog' when it comes out of production because I want to learn it and know first hand just what it can and can't offer me. But, to do so, I'll part with some favorites and not-to-special models I have.
Heck, when you posted last night I was out of town making a quick round-trip drive to central Oregon to beat the snow storms expected later tonight and tomorrow over the mountains. I thought I'd latch onto another favorite 'just in case'. I bought a one-owner 6000 Pro XL in decent condition. Then getting home two minutes from midnight, I find the correct taxes after my wife erred and forgot to add the income from our former employer as well as a bonus amount. Instead of getting enough back to hit Carl's Jr. for lunch we have to donate a chunk to Uncle Sam.
So, my new late yesterday acquisition has to go up for sale because we also have vacation coming up three weeks from yesterday and a bill to pay, actually to the state as well.Yes, there are many reasons why we have multiples of the same model, but it usually boils down to the fact that they worked well for us in the past and we develop a soft-spot for them.
I hope you're able to find enough with your new M6 & 10" D2 coil that you'll be able to pick up another choice IDX Pro in the future. Admit it, you know you wouldn't mind doing so.
Monte
Your the one that got me hooked. It wasn't enough to have one modified IDX Pro so I bought a second one from you for a backup. You would think owning two modified IDX Pro's would be enough, nope I had to have a backup for my backup so I bought a third one. My wife thinks three is enough.
My wife, for the most part, has no idea what detector I have at any particular time even though it/they ride on the back seat, or sit right here by me and the computer. A metal detector is a metal detector, ..... to her.
When the gold jewelry I find is of a size different from her finger, or just not too exciting, she thinks it's nice, and when it 'fits' (and I let her have it sometimes) then she's just pleased I enjoy metal detecting.
She knows I have, or have had, duplicates of some models, and understands. Well, she buys my reasoning at least. But I might even wonder if a 'need' to own a [size=large]3rd[/size] IDX Pro to back-up a back-up might suggest some sort of an illness? You can tell your wife you even have ME puzzled!
Monte
When the gold jewelry I find is of a size different from her finger, or just not too exciting, she thinks it's nice, and when it 'fits' (and I let her have it sometimes) then she's just pleased I enjoy metal detecting.
She knows I have, or have had, duplicates of some models, and understands. Well, she buys my reasoning at least. But I might even wonder if a 'need' to own a [size=large]3rd[/size] IDX Pro to back-up a back-up might suggest some sort of an illness? You can tell your wife you even have ME puzzled!
Monte
The beauty of having so many of something is that you can add another in the mix and usually the wife will never know. Detectors, guns, radios, fishing poles etc. And if the wife somehow needs to question it, like "Honey? I don't remember that one?" I just tell her she don't know what she is talking about - I had that one for a good while. Then when adding a new one and pull it out and she questions it, I just tell her "well I think I should take this one since it's been awhile". I have got away with so much. It just doesn't work with such things as motorcycles, big screen TV etc.
Desert_Rat
New member
My wife still hasn't figured out that I own 5 guns and not just two. To her they all look a like. When she ask about something, I usually say "look over there" and run to the garage. 
To her they all look a like. When she ask about something, I usually say "look over there" and run to the garage. BarberBill
New member
I have 6 Tesoros and 2 Whites (did have 3) so I don't think any of you have a problem. LOL
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Actually I traded a Minelab detector I wasn't using for my newest modded IDX Pro that I probably won't be using either so no harm no foul when it comes to the ole gal. She likes it better when I trade. She goes detecting with me about 50% of time but spends her time digging bottles so she knows what detectors I have. Even though all three are excellent performers one of them is noticeably hotter than the other two.
Which one is hotter? Daaaammitt Monty, how do I answer that? OK, if we have IDX Pro detectors A, B and C then B would be the hotter one. See, that's what you get for asking me a puzzling question so early in the morning. Is it the one I got from you? Hahahah I should say yes but no it isn't. I did use the same coils to verify any differences. The hot one has some noticeable differences in audio and discrimination. It has wider smoother audio than the other two similar to the XL Pro but not quite that wide. It's a bit quieter in the iron using the same settings. One thing that has surprised me about the modded IDX Pros are their sensitivity to low conductors from nickels down to very small gold especially using the blacksand feature with low discrimination settings. All three detectors are excellent performers and I'm not sure most people wouldn't notice the slight differences outside of the small depth difference but I'm pretty anal at times when it comes to my detectors.
I had an XL pro that did NOT get any better depth or field performance than the 6000 Pro XL I'm hunting with now, and I couldn't crank the Sig. Bal. more than about 3-o-clock. On the unit I'm using now, I can run the Sig. Bal. at maximum setting almost anywhere, with the stock 950, and it remains as quiet, or quieter, than the last two XL Pro's I had when at or about the 3-o-clock setting.
As for the IDX Pro's, and the Classic III SL as well, I always got a kick out of the folks who suggested I couldn't find US 5
As for the IDX Pro's, and the Classic III SL as well, I always got a kick out of the folks who suggested I couldn't find US 5
I've been using the White's 5900/6000/XL Pro Since they first came out and through the years I've never found a better all around detector for depth and accurate TID in my bad ground. I'm thinking after a little more time using the modified IDX Pro in some broader scenarios other than ghost town hunting it might just become my number one detector. Besides having a quicker response in the trashy areas set up correctly it hits on the lower conductors with more authority at depth. It's also better on hitting deep dimes. This has been confirmed mostly in my old test garden along with air tests so far but when going back over some of my old hunting sites with the IDX Pro I seem to be pulling out more deep dimes than other coins and stuff that might have been missed on prior hunts. In some of the tougher ground around here I've been setting up the IDX the same as I would for beach hunting with the toggle set to blacksand and zero discrimination. Using these settings the depth has been exceptional on coins with the small Bullseye coil and the sensitivity to nickels and lower conductors like small foil and bits of aluminum has been better than any higher frequency coin detector I've used. The only thing that keeps it from being an all around detector for me is a good functioning quick response depth meter for sizing deep questionable targets and for cherry picking silver in some old parks and lawns.