I've been swinging the 6000's for twenty years. First the Di Pro then the Di pro SL. I just retired the SL. for the XL Pro. New body, same ole gal though. Here's two days hunting using the XL pro at an old hotel site I just found at a lumber mill ghost town I've been hunting for awhile. The place is huge and employed up to 3000 people during it's peak years and ran from the late 1850's thru the early 1920's. The 45 Merc. must have been dropped by a hunter. The Merc the Barber and the Seated silver were found in a big depression area that looked like it might have been a pond at one time and still holds a little water in the winter months. I left the Merc uncleaned to show how black they were.So sad that they are not going to be making these excellent units anymore.
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Spent a couple of days breaking in my new XL Pro.
- Thread starter MG
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Great finds!!!! I'm considering the XL Pro as well. Why did you choose it over a XLT, or DFX? I'm fairly new to the hobby, and having a tough time picking the correct detector. I'm sure it will be a White's, but not sure if it will be the XL Pro, and the XLT, or the MXT. 
Thanks for any input you have on this topic!
Chris
Cape Coral, FL
Thanks for any input you have on this topic!
Chris
Cape Coral, FL
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
I was a White's Dealer and I had the chance to use there whole line. First the XLT very nice and then the DFX so many was to use it. But it made a lot of noise and didn't do well in masked targets. The Xl Pro has the old meter and you can see what is going on not numbers jumping around. You can hunt in all metal and have target ID that is the best news for me. And when you hunt in Disc if you go a little lower the the preset setting the detector is clean on all of the targets.
Chris,I haven't used the DFX but I did use the older Eagle Spectum for a couple of years and then the XLT for about a year alongside my 6000. I have also used the Minelab SOV., Shadow X2, Tesoro Bandido II, Compass Gold Scanner Pro. Note
My second favorite detector )and other Whites models I have nothing bad to say about the XLT. It's a great detector but I'll try to explain why I personally prefer the 6000 or XL Pro. If you are new to detecting or Whites machines and you use both detectors side by side for a few months I think you'll find they are pretty even as far as depth and discrimination go. After learning the 6000 I find the analog meter is much more accurate and provides better target ID to it's maximum range.In my highly mineralized ground that is full of hotrocks I can get solid locks on coin size targets to about 6 1\2 inches but that little needle on the analog meter provides a wealth of information well beyond that range. An example would be an old resort I hunted years ago that was started in the 1870's I hunted the large lawn area for 2 days and found lot's of wheaties, Silver Merc's and Quarters but nothing earlier than the 20's. The third day I learned how to pull out those deeper coins with the 6000. I would look for those broken signals that most would pass as iron or other bad target and would watch the needle as I swept the target. Deep coins beyond the normal TID range would cause the needle to jump and float for a second in the coin range about every third or fourth sweep of the coil in all directions. I would then check the depth. if it was deep I would use the needle to size the target. That little needle is second to none when sizing deep tragets. If the needle indicated that is was small I would dig. I ended up pulling over 50 Indian Head pennies and fifteen pieces of silver including Barbers and Seated at depths that even suprised me. I used what I learned that day about the analog meter on the 6000 and deep targets to find many goodies at hunted out sites at impressive detphs. One other thing obout the 6000 is that at normal depth it will tell you if the coin is silver. In my ground Indian Head pennies will read in the dime range. Silver dimes will read higher between dime and quarter range and silver quarters will read high quarter closer to half. Talk about cherry picking for silver. I'm not saying it goes deeper than other models or makes but if you learn what that little needle on the analog meter is saying you'll dig deep coins that others have left behind.
My second favorite detector )and other Whites models I have nothing bad to say about the XLT. It's a great detector but I'll try to explain why I personally prefer the 6000 or XL Pro. If you are new to detecting or Whites machines and you use both detectors side by side for a few months I think you'll find they are pretty even as far as depth and discrimination go. After learning the 6000 I find the analog meter is much more accurate and provides better target ID to it's maximum range.In my highly mineralized ground that is full of hotrocks I can get solid locks on coin size targets to about 6 1\2 inches but that little needle on the analog meter provides a wealth of information well beyond that range. An example would be an old resort I hunted years ago that was started in the 1870's I hunted the large lawn area for 2 days and found lot's of wheaties, Silver Merc's and Quarters but nothing earlier than the 20's. The third day I learned how to pull out those deeper coins with the 6000. I would look for those broken signals that most would pass as iron or other bad target and would watch the needle as I swept the target. Deep coins beyond the normal TID range would cause the needle to jump and float for a second in the coin range about every third or fourth sweep of the coil in all directions. I would then check the depth. if it was deep I would use the needle to size the target. That little needle is second to none when sizing deep tragets. If the needle indicated that is was small I would dig. I ended up pulling over 50 Indian Head pennies and fifteen pieces of silver including Barbers and Seated at depths that even suprised me. I used what I learned that day about the analog meter on the 6000 and deep targets to find many goodies at hunted out sites at impressive detphs. One other thing obout the 6000 is that at normal depth it will tell you if the coin is silver. In my ground Indian Head pennies will read in the dime range. Silver dimes will read higher between dime and quarter range and silver quarters will read high quarter closer to half. Talk about cherry picking for silver. I'm not saying it goes deeper than other models or makes but if you learn what that little needle on the analog meter is saying you'll dig deep coins that others have left behind.n/t
I a thr
Member
I agree with you on the Analog and mine reads silver the same as yours a little high in the meter. I have used many detectors including several of the newer high end digital machines and found that the XL Pro is the one for me. I just recently about 3 months ago bought a used XL PRO and liked it so well that I purchased a new one about 2 weeks ago since they are no longer producing them. Haven't even took it out of the box yet. Probably end up selling the used one and breaking in the new one next season. I am so impressed with the finds I have made in the past few months with the Pro that I have sold my other favorite machine, that I said I would never sell.
XL PRO is good.
Bill
XL PRO is good.
Bill