Save up your Christmas cash.........

[Ivan]

............from what I'm hearing from dealers...............2016 will be quite the year for new metal detector introductions. I just wish there would be some " breakthroughs" rather than just tweaking of models/features. When I started detecting in the 70's it was the golden age of metal detecting. Every 6 months there were real breakthroughs. First it was no more TR.......went to VLF but with whipping.........then VLF slow motion.... then True Auto Ground balance/Tracking.......then Visual Target ID.....next Audio Target ID......on and on....boy I miss those days.

 

[Grilled Scallops]

Hey hey now, you haven't even seen what's coming out! I for one am pretty excited.

 

[Dancer]

Guess I better wait. I've been doing some investigating on some different machines also. So there are the videos, manufacturers claims, testimonials, etc.
I watched about a four minute video of a average guy on a beach showing a machine I'm sorta interested in. Well the guy fiddled around, and around trying to scoop up what this powerhouse found. This guy couldn't have had this tool set right. Finally ended up , a very shallow tab off to the right. And then he posts this for the world to see !

Now watching some more knowledgeable guys using some pretty hi-tech machines, for discrimination, depth. I believe these are needed by the relic & silver hunters who have to sift through a lot of iron at their sites. My hat is off to these guys for digging up history.

Funny though, no matter what machine, there's those iffy signals. Along with the claim if you want it all you got to dig it all. With in reason.

I'm just saying , you got to have a machine that fits how and what your hunting. Like a super deep machine, with decent discrimination, that can stand a dunking. Now that's what I'm talking about. Lol

 

[Nauti]

Hi Ivan,
I think you are right in what you say,the age of great new innovation has long gone.The problem is the fact that any early technology such as the first proper detectors are easily improved on,but now technology is at the point where it is hard to make advances.This is why new models just tend to have useless features added which people still buy because they believe it will improve their chances.
Dancer makes a really important point and one that is forgotten by many.........it does'nt matter what machine you have,the most successful detectorist is the one that digs it all,again,within reason.I've seen so many detectorist give up on iffy signals because they rely too much on what their detector is telling them........no detector finds everything and every detector makes mistakes.
A great innovation I would love to see is genuine discrim on a pi machine but I think this is still a few years off yet.......but what a machine that will be.

 

[Davethejunky]

Tesoro made a big deal about releasing old models with new colors. Teknetics adding a 5 to the 8000. Then enter Turkey with the Racer and Forscore.

 

[Sven]

Trouble is most machines are built for the masses. There's always something wrong that we don't like or is missing in a machine.
If we have enough money, we can try a whole bunch of them and still not be fully satisfied. More so when a new machine comes out and the hype
says its better than anything used before......

I am now finally happy with what I own. I even went back to a ID model I sold last summer, should have kept it. It may not be the best currently on the market but, for me its right there near the top.
What it has going for it is that its a target ID machine with infinite amount of menus that I can taylor just about every parameter so the detector feels like it was custom built for my personal likes and
needs. Isn't that what we look for in a detector? So I just gave myself a Christmas present to play with next spring. Won't see it until early January.

Have to admit all these new machines coming out are pretty cool, wouldn't mind having a bunch of them just to have them. ....LOL.....as a former collector of lots of old cool stuff, it would be
easy to binge buy a bunch of machines.......no longer have the cash......keeps me under control.

Have to admit its fun trying different machines....................after this purchase, no more for me. Think my wife may want a new one...................

 

[JimmyCT]

I hope there is the introduction of a lightweight Sovereign setup like the x-terra. That would truly be sweet! Ok... back to reality

 

[slingshot]

Enjoying what I have-like Sven said. Strange thing- most finds are only 3-4" and when I do pull out my MX5, the sites in MY areas have a sort of "floor" to detection where deep iron is the main targets and I end up turning DOWN the sensitivity! Kinda silly when I think about a new detector.

 

[HaroldILL.]

I think I will Pass and stick with ''My Big 3''.

CZ-3D
ETRAC
Nautilus IIBa

The only 3 Detector's I will ever need!

 

[icurabeachguy]

If Fisher finally releases their CZ21 replacement this year, Id be all over it...for now though, my PI does everything I need it to do without the weight, which is my only complaint with the CZ20/21.

Even if Fisher just updated the electronics and made it fit into a smaller/lighter housing I'd be all over it...

I really do hope 2016 is the year of new tech and new beach machines!!!