Critterhunter
New member
Just pointing out our old friend Wpruden has his XS up for sale in the classifieds section- with a 12x10, Sun Ray inline probe, and other extras. The 12x10, being hard to find used and the best coil I've ever used on a machine, along with the Sun Ray probe makes the price worth it IMO, not to mention that the XS seems to be one of the favored older Sovereign models.
I'm sad to see he's leaving the hobby as I enjoyed his posts in the past. I suspect he might get the itch again and get a GT down the road, as I've seen friends get burned out at the hobby, sell off their machine, and then 6 months later they are itching to go detecting again. Heck, I even did that several times over the years, then several months later I'm very sorry I sold off the machine I had at the time.
My usual routine was to sell off a machine to buy another, but I can say for the first time the GT stays for good no matter what else I buy, God willing of course. This machine is too unique in several ways to ever let it go. I always could find some aspects of what I wanted in a machine, but then they lacked other aspects I also wanted. The GT gives me everything I was always looking for in spades- long detailed audio, numerous tone alerts, extreme depth, excellent unmasking ability, large range of coils to choose from, super high resolution in the low and mid conductor range for avoiding tabs while digging nickels and such, ability to water hunt with it, and so on.
Wpruden, don't be a stranger my friend...
I'm sad to see he's leaving the hobby as I enjoyed his posts in the past. I suspect he might get the itch again and get a GT down the road, as I've seen friends get burned out at the hobby, sell off their machine, and then 6 months later they are itching to go detecting again. Heck, I even did that several times over the years, then several months later I'm very sorry I sold off the machine I had at the time.
My usual routine was to sell off a machine to buy another, but I can say for the first time the GT stays for good no matter what else I buy, God willing of course. This machine is too unique in several ways to ever let it go. I always could find some aspects of what I wanted in a machine, but then they lacked other aspects I also wanted. The GT gives me everything I was always looking for in spades- long detailed audio, numerous tone alerts, extreme depth, excellent unmasking ability, large range of coils to choose from, super high resolution in the low and mid conductor range for avoiding tabs while digging nickels and such, ability to water hunt with it, and so on.
Wpruden, don't be a stranger my friend...