Question: QXT Pro & 3.5" Snooper Coil...

[Ohio Coinhunter]

Hello all,

I just picked up a real nice used QXT Pro from my buddy Tom Hill which will back up my Explorer II. This unit will be primarily my ultra high trash detector and I am looking at the 3.5" Snooper coil. The QXT is fast in trash and has great separation compared to my Explorer II. I plan on setting the high tones for the Foil/Ring, Nickel/Ring and Coin Zones. I'm hoping to hear some good feedback and advice from everyone who has used it and the 4"X 6" Shooter coil. I'm talking about hunting around picnic tables and fire pits that are loaded with 20 tabs per Lesche scoop of dirt if you know what I mean on the kind of sites I plan to tackle. The QXT has a great ability to have the high tones sound off in the midst of all that trash as I have seen first hand with Tom in the field. I know that White's doesn't make the 3.5 anymore, but I'm sure I can track one down over the course of the winter. Just wondering what you think about it.

Thanks,

Jim

Happy Hunting

 

[Monte]

I've owned both, mainly the 4" Snooper, and it provided better depth, discrimination, and pinpointing abilities. A great dense-trash coil. The elliptical Shooter DD coils for the Prizm series and the M6/MXT/DFX/V3 work so much better than the BlueMax offering.

Monte

 

[thompy]

i wasn't a fan of the 4x6 coil on the qxt, great separation but maybe 4 in in depth

 

[ohio fred]

I have the snooper coil for my xlt it is nice.I was looking for another one cheap but i guess that wont happen. If you Post want to buy on the classified below and some one will probably send you a pm with one to sell.Some time they show up on ebay.They are probably setting in a lot of closets at home.Good luck.It works good in trash because of it footprint and separates good.Really light weight

 

[Critterhunter]

He isn't getting that QXT yet. I'm planning on keeping it for high trash areas and to scope out new locations to later go back to with my Sovereign GT. I can cover so much more ground quicker with the QXT as the GT is a slow sweep detector. The QXT also excells in recovery speed while the GT is much slower, yet I'm finding iron mask ON can make up for the slower sweep speed by seeing coins even with nails laying directly over them with NO averaging of the VDI/audio response. Pretty impressive. The QXT can laser out a dime laying right next to trash but if the trash target overlaps it then the numbers start to average. No amount of sweep speed came compensate for the two targets becoming "one". Both methods (iron mask or fast recovery) have their usefulness in certain situations, though.I'm torn between the two right now.

I've owned Explorers but there are a few things I don't care for them, including the inability to hip mount it as it's very heavy. The GT can be hipmounted to reduce the weight. Both are about evenly matched on depth. The lack of larger coils for the QXT in the 12" or so range to maximize depth on coins is the main reason why I wanted the GT.There are plenty of aftermarket coils for it in this capacity. I'm aware of the Hot Shots for the Whites but I tried two new coils on a particular QXT Pro I had at the time and neither would stabilize. This was surprising because this coil should work with any of lower frequency Whites, such as the XLT or 6000 pro xl. Either it was the QXT I was using or there is something about them that this coil doesn't like.

It's a shame that Whites doesn't make a 12" or so coil for their low frequency line of detectors. It seems all the attention and coils are given to the MXT and DFX. The other machines are what built Whites so it seems wierd that they (or somebody else) wouldn't offer an extensive coil line for them. I'm willing to bet a 12 to 14" coil on one of these machines would give some real competition to other detectors out there on silver/copper because they are lower frequency machines and thus will tend to hit harder on these targets. 14Khz and higher machines were never my thing, as I'm more of a coin hunter than a ring hunter.