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SunRay's new Invader GI-1 Inline Probe on a 2500 (lotsa pics)

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Over the past few years, I've had the opportunity of meeting and hunting with Minelab buddies. And while we've always played up the detector brand rivalry, the truth of the matter is that under some conditions the Garrett shines and does more than hold it's own, and on other occassions, they've whooped my butt. All in good fun. :)

If there was one thing I was always envious about, it was the SunRay inline probes they always sported on their machines. As Nimrod from Michigan once told me as he demonstrated the probe one afternoon, "This probe is one of the best things about a Minelab... it's worth getting a Minelab if only to be able to use this probe."

Being familiar with it's use on the Minelabs, when Sunray first announced that their Invader GI-1 inline probe was available for the Garrett GTI Series early this summer, I jumped at the chance to get one on my machine and ordered one immediately. I've had it on and have been using it all season. Yesterday, I took a camera out with me to show you what Nimrod showed me a few years ago.

Come on, lets go detecting! :)

I've been eyeing this place for awhile. It is an old town hall built at the turn of the last century. When I drove past last week, and saw the road construction, that clinched it. We've had hot, hot weather this summer and the ground has been powder dry. With a little bit of rain in the last couple days, I'm hoping that the coins are gonna target a little better than they have in the last several weeks
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The first signal. Apologies for some of the pics as I am trying to juggle a camera and the detector. I see I cut this one off, but it is a good read, ringing high in the silver range, image locked on to coin size at 6"

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Typically, I am looking for old coins. I hunt in ZERO DISCRIMINATION working my way slowly from target to target, sweeping several times over each one and listening closely. If I am getting an interesting signal, I'll often move around 90
 
...and if you talk to any of them, they won't hunt without it. In my opinion, this probe in conjunction with the versitility, and the precision pinpoint and ID of a Garrett makes a killer combination.

I would have liked to find an old coin or two to show off in my little field test, but even so, this is a fantastic tool and I think you'll agree that its benefits become self-evident to anyone who sees it in action.

Bottom line, will you find more coins using this probe? Absolutely.

And as you can see, there is far less frustration trying to find a target, far less time recovering it, far less chance of leaving a target in the bottom of a hole. Most importantly, being 99% certain that you are within inches of a good target, makes it far less likely you're gonna gash and ruin the find of a lifetime when it is finally in the bottom of your hole. :)





 
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I just recently got the Sunray probe for my 2500 and there are some short comings. The snap-in mounting brackets for the probe have very sharp edges and will remove a piece of your skin if you are not careful! I am going to take a file to mine and round them off some. When using the probe on uneven terrain it is hard to use the probe and look at your detector's screen at the same time. I find my detector rolling over to where I can't see it and having to hold it with one hand and use the probe with the other , very awkward. The toggle switch that activates the probe is very small and fragile looking. Time will tell if it holds up. The Sunray probe is not an imaging "coil" and you lose that feature when it is in use. On my GTI2500 detector the probe would only penetrate about an inch and a half in very dry clay soil, not much better than the old Automax II I have been using. It will go about 4" in sandy soil however. I am wondering how it will work in wet sand along a beach? You have to be squatting or kneeling to use the probe and with my bad back it hurts! Ditto the extra mount so you can fold the main coil out of the way and use the Sunray probe standing! Monty
 
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