azsh07
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Shocked that it took only 3 days to get here from England. Picked it up from Staffordshire.
Sitting here doing the new detector thing...reading, fiddling,,,read some more...fiddle some more.....do some air tests etc.
I picked up a nice mini Sony HD camcorder to do some videos with. Also bough a hands free chest mount for the camcorder so I can video the detector while in use withough trying to hold the cam and swing the detector at the same time. Should work...might work....hope it works...sounds good in theory.
I did not plan on doing yet another video of the detector and it's functions as there have been a few already...unless someone wants that..or if they want to see something not covered in another video. Gary did a 12 minute video on his website which covers it pretty well.
Pretty much planned on doing a quick video of target seperation on iron verses good targets simply lying on the ground. Simply so we can see how it compares to units in its range like the G2 or Gold Bug Pro..or even the Omega. Thought I would also change the filter settings in the video also so we can see the affect changing filters has on targets that we can see how they are spaced. Nothing too long and boring but I would have liked to have seen that done on above ground targets to get an idea of what to expect when I want to change filters.
Mainly though will take it and my chest mounted cam and go hit some colonial cellar holes and also some well hunted fields. We can see how it performs on a basic level in iron laden cellar holes where targets are not that deep but targets are mostly iron and are fairly dense. Should be a good place to fiddle with filter settings on some in ground targets prior to digging.
Then I will try field hunting in a field I know well that has been well hunted to see how it compares in depth. I know this place so well I know where deep targets still live that my T2 (ex T2....had to sell it..:-() would id everything as jumpy iron. I am not looking to compare it to a T2 so much as I simply know this field well and how atleast 6 other top detectors operate in it. Verses a new field that I am not familiar with. I also have a Rev War skirmish site that has been fun to detect. I have hit it hard over 6 years but it gives up goodies everytime...although a 12 button day is long gone. It is a good example of a site with iron that is not too dense AND good targets that can run 10"+.
I will say this on the Rutus. This is a very well made and attractive machine upon initial impression. Seems well balanced and is like a Wites XLT?DFX in pole setup BUT a bit lighter in weight. The rear box is half size of a DFX rear box and only uses 6xAA.. The coil is about a perfect size for most relic hunting although deep field hunters may wish for a bit larger coil. Very similar to the Tesoro 8x9 in size shape and weight. Has a solid coil cover so no twigs poking through the coil...YEAH.
Just a nicely made machine that looks like the person who designed it was also a user.
Now....lets see how it performs....if it can hold itself against a G2 or Gold Bug Pro then it has achievd alot AND with alot more USEABLE menu functions. Right off the bat it has programmable tone to VDI. Adjustable filter setting, mixed mode audion, Adjustable SAT in allmetal, adjustable threshold and pitch in all metal, AUTO GB with GB offset, 2 user programmable settings and it when you turn it off and back on it saves your last settings.Try and find that in any sub 1000.00 dollar machine these days.
Scott
Sitting here doing the new detector thing...reading, fiddling,,,read some more...fiddle some more.....do some air tests etc.
I picked up a nice mini Sony HD camcorder to do some videos with. Also bough a hands free chest mount for the camcorder so I can video the detector while in use withough trying to hold the cam and swing the detector at the same time. Should work...might work....hope it works...sounds good in theory.
I did not plan on doing yet another video of the detector and it's functions as there have been a few already...unless someone wants that..or if they want to see something not covered in another video. Gary did a 12 minute video on his website which covers it pretty well.
Pretty much planned on doing a quick video of target seperation on iron verses good targets simply lying on the ground. Simply so we can see how it compares to units in its range like the G2 or Gold Bug Pro..or even the Omega. Thought I would also change the filter settings in the video also so we can see the affect changing filters has on targets that we can see how they are spaced. Nothing too long and boring but I would have liked to have seen that done on above ground targets to get an idea of what to expect when I want to change filters.
Mainly though will take it and my chest mounted cam and go hit some colonial cellar holes and also some well hunted fields. We can see how it performs on a basic level in iron laden cellar holes where targets are not that deep but targets are mostly iron and are fairly dense. Should be a good place to fiddle with filter settings on some in ground targets prior to digging.
Then I will try field hunting in a field I know well that has been well hunted to see how it compares in depth. I know this place so well I know where deep targets still live that my T2 (ex T2....had to sell it..:-() would id everything as jumpy iron. I am not looking to compare it to a T2 so much as I simply know this field well and how atleast 6 other top detectors operate in it. Verses a new field that I am not familiar with. I also have a Rev War skirmish site that has been fun to detect. I have hit it hard over 6 years but it gives up goodies everytime...although a 12 button day is long gone. It is a good example of a site with iron that is not too dense AND good targets that can run 10"+.
I will say this on the Rutus. This is a very well made and attractive machine upon initial impression. Seems well balanced and is like a Wites XLT?DFX in pole setup BUT a bit lighter in weight. The rear box is half size of a DFX rear box and only uses 6xAA.. The coil is about a perfect size for most relic hunting although deep field hunters may wish for a bit larger coil. Very similar to the Tesoro 8x9 in size shape and weight. Has a solid coil cover so no twigs poking through the coil...YEAH.
Just a nicely made machine that looks like the person who designed it was also a user.
Now....lets see how it performs....if it can hold itself against a G2 or Gold Bug Pro then it has achievd alot AND with alot more USEABLE menu functions. Right off the bat it has programmable tone to VDI. Adjustable filter setting, mixed mode audion, Adjustable SAT in allmetal, adjustable threshold and pitch in all metal, AUTO GB with GB offset, 2 user programmable settings and it when you turn it off and back on it saves your last settings.Try and find that in any sub 1000.00 dollar machine these days.
Scott
