sold my M_6

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

after using my M-6 for 5 months i finaly sold it just to heavy for me i tried some straps and felt like i was all tangled up but hear is my opinion of the machine . It is great for parks beaches playgrounds between the VDI numbers and tone ID you really get an accurate idea of whats in the ground especialy on coins so if you are lazy and only want to dig coins its a great machine no doubt when you hit a quarter or dime copper penny zinc penny sometimes you get fooled by a aluminum scew cap but not often great at telling you what is foil i dug any + 12 number and nickles alway came in at 18- 20 thats what is great about it it tels you wheather its iron or some better metal so if im getting - numbers - 20 - 40 - 80 it is almost always iron i loved the toggle switch forward gave tone I. D middle was one tone and back pinpoint all metal makes digging fast DEPTH well they dont call it m-6" for nothing i found that 6" was max on most coins but i tried the 4x 6 6x 10 5.3 and stock coil 4x 6 was my favorite gets 4" strong on a dime exelent seperation very light able to get close to fence and metal poles 6x10 can find a dime at 5" for shure and gets great coverage 5.3 can get the dime at 5.5" to 6" i use a dime because if you can hit a dime at those depthes you can hit most other coins deeper i did not like the weight to heavy for me and when i put on my jacket the sleves turned the knobs up and down scewing whith the detecting if you are hunting for deeper items this is not the machine for you if you hunt the parks and playgrounds and beach its going to really do a good job been nice being on the whites forum looks like i will be going to a silver umax because of my budget great finds are found in great spots not nececarily by great detectors i had very meger finds it would not have mattered if i had a 4.0000.00 minelabe i still would have found what i found gunnar

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Your posts here have been great...you will be missed....you never know you may be back someday with another White's detector...maybe the dfx2 or something... Good luck!

 

[colt]

and you will find the detector that fits your style, the most important thing is to get out there and get some excerise and enjoy the outdoors. Right now the detectors that work for me are the MXT and a RS 3300, my oldest son is 30 years old, lives in Colorado Springs, CO and his weapon of choice is a modified White's IDX, he has tried different metal detectors but sells them, because they don't perform as good as his IDX. I think part of the problem is he has used the IDX for 4 years and it works for him. I have other friends that use different metal detectors than what I have and they are happy with what they have.

The Tesoro's are good machines, Monte can give you some good tips, he post on some of the Tesoro forms, as well as this one, do a search on Monte, he has a wealth of great information about different brands of metal detectors.

Colt

 

[khouse]

Gunner,
As you know there's not a do it all detector. Hey I own right now and have owner different brands of detectors. We're all in the same family! I used to be brand loyal and thought I had the biggest baddest detectors. Well after trying different brands I have found that most all brands has great units. Too bad the M6 isn't 2.2 pounds!

 

[Elton]

Gunnar let us know what you buy..Greg is correct your posts will be missed !

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

now that i have a low buck machine i will hit the mother load i got a silver umax looks like it came out of a bubble gum machine but i hear they find moor coins than a bubble gum machine can hold i will be checking back often whith you guys and the phenominum of dfx greg i think he may be an alien from outer space like on men in black ??? and elton keep checking out new detectors you can be a valuble adviser to the rest of us metal searchers