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Talking about analogs......

Sven

Sven

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How many of you still have an oldie other than White's?

And what have you used in the past that you really liked?
 
Compass Coin Magnum, Compass Judge 6, Garrett Groundhog, Garrett ADS Deepseeker, Fisher 441, 442, 553,555, Tesoro Deep Search VII, Bounty Hunter RB 7, and several analog White's, 6000 series 2, XL Pro, 5900 Di pro. Also own several newer digital models. My favorite? Hard to pick as there are so many fond memories with these oldtimers. I still love to take them out for a "walk" and they still produce. Really partial to the White's 6000, Fisher 555 and Garrett Deepseeker. Steve
 
Bounty Hunter T.R. 500. That machine produced! Of course that was in an era where everybody and their uncle didn't have two $700.00 dollar machines in their trunk! "Ahh" the good old days.
 
Hey Sven this is crazy, My landord just bought one oF THOSE Usika chiefs at a garage sale yesterday for 5 dollars , he knows i like to detect so he always looks for detectors at garage sales I gave him his 5 dollars back. He also found a fisher 555-D a couple months ago for me The Usika Its looks like the one in your picture Was wondering how old it was yesterday and what the history was on it .(wilson neuman) on the face of the box. I have only been at this detecting for 4 months now with newer machines, I Now I have 2 wall hangers . I havnt checked the Usika out yet , but i saw your post and and saw the price . Thanks for your post
 
6INCHKID said:
Hey Sven this is crazy, My landord just bought one oF THOSE Usika chiefs at a garage sale yesterday for 5 dollars , he knows i like to detect so he always looks for detectors at garage sales I gave him his 5 dollars back. He also found a fisher 555-D a couple months ago for me The Usika Its looks like the one in your picture Was wondering how old it was yesterday and what the history was on it .(wilson neuman) on the face of the box. I have only been at this detecting for 4 months now with newer machines, I Now I have 2 wall hangers . I havnt checked the Usika out yet , but i saw your post and and saw the price . Thanks for your post
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Circa 1982
Either one of those detectors free or for $5.00 was a bargoon

Here's the downloadble brochure courtesy of my website TreasureLinx:
USIKA.pdf Brochure
 
Still have the B.H. TR500. What a machine it was back then! I made some of my best finds with that little thing.
 
I just searched it and found my answer.But I have another question.How do know when your machine needs a"tune up" and do they still do them?Thankyou.
 
If I remember right there was an article in a treasure mag I had, don't remember when but maybe 1970's, about a guy who rode a bicycle across the United States and paid his expenses with the coins he found along the way with a Usika detector he took along. Would be hard to do that now:).
 
I have a Garrett Master Hunter 7 and also a Grand Master Hunter. The GMH was my main detector until very recently. I bought the new At Pro but it will probably be spring before I get a chance to use it. The Master Hunter 7 uses a bunch of 9 volt batteries but is a pretty decent detector.

Jerry
 
I have a Master Hunter 7 ADS I bought in early 1988 and still use it occasionally. I found a lot of coins with it, including more silver half dollars than I've found with all the other way too many detectors I've had. The ADS 7 still works as well as it did when it was new, but age and arthritis makes it tough for me to use it for much over an hour at a time. The last two times I've used it I got the coins and heavy silver ring in the photos. The ring was 6 inches deep in hard packed gravel, took a while to chisel it out:).

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Hello everyone! I'm Austin, and this is my first post. I have a Technetics MK I, 1265X and 1266X Fishers, and 99B, 77B, Coin Hustler II, and X-100 Compass detectors. The 1266X is my favorite older detector.
 
I've had some good digital detectors: Whites DFX and Minelab Explorer ll but now I like the analog Tesoros. I have accumulated a small collection of them, Bandido, Bandido ll and Bandido ll
 
Got a Compass Goldscanner Pro and a Garrett ADS Deepseeker. The old Garrett is pretty fun but it eats 9V batteries like crazy in the TR discriminate mode so I hardly ever use it anymore. The Compass is still a good performer by today's standards.
 
opus said:
Bounty Hunter T.R. 500. That machine produced! Of course that was in an era where everybody and their uncle didn't have two $700.00 dollar machines in their trunk! "Ahh" the good old days.
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It was also an era where silver coins were in every park and school ground no deeper than 3".

Willee
 
My 1st was a metrotec 220. no dicrimination or ground balance , used a hard to find round transistor baterry, you could be within 20 feet of another metrotec. They were made by Carl Fisher, Gerald Fisher's brother/
 
Willee said:
opus said:
Bounty Hunter T.R. 500. That machine produced! Of course that was in an era where everybody and their uncle didn't have two $700.00 dollar machines in their trunk! "Ahh" the good old days.
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It was also an era where silver coins were in every park and school ground no deeper than 3".

Willee
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Now weren't those days fun, guaranteed to come home with silver in your pocket. Indian head pennies and a large cent here and there.
And all we wished for was a detector to go deeper to get what was out of range.............
 
Ahh......my first detector was a BH bfo......I don't think it even had a number with the name. It would pick up metal if it was written on a piece of paper! :)
I found my first V-nickel with it.....out in the middle of the woods. I removed a lot of trash for you later hunters!!! :)
 
HRife,
You make an excellent point. All the new comers should be downright grateful to us oldtimers for all the trash we have removed for them. Can you imagine how many more pulltabs they would be finding if we hadn't got them first? Just kidding!!
 
downeaster said:
HRife,
You make an excellent point. All the new comers should be downright grateful to us oldtimers for all the trash we have removed for them. Can you imagine how many more pulltabs they would be finding if we hadn't got them first? Just kidding!!
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.........................I hated most. when parks, school, picnic grounds were strewn with pull tabs. Reason you guys are finding some goodies now, we removed the pulltabs unmasking the targets out of reach by older detectors. Thank goodness we has discriminate back then, when I got tired digging a bucketful of tabs, cranked up the disc...................I don't mind digging up pulltabs today, as the amount found is a far cry of that from yesteryear. Have to say when I got disgusted with pull tab digging, hit the woods for some relaxing quietness of relic hunting.
 
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