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What would be your choice,If its one you own now or wish to own in the near future.....Which one would you like to learn all about and master it..........hh.........Dan
PS I've read some really good things about quite a few detectors,still trying to settle on which one.....Whats your choice.......Thanks
Might get 10 different answers as they have learned their units well and work well for them. Surely personal preferences come into play along with the mineralization in your area but after using a bunch over the years an Explorer certainly stands out as excellent deep silver coin unit but is heavy and ergonomics are not the best...Certainly no perfect detector when we consider the many facets of the hobby and am sure you will get a variety of answers depending on what type of hunting the poster does..
Thanks Dan, how deep have you found silver with an Explorer.....A lot of good talk about them......I have the F75LTD at present....I found a clad quarter about 10 inches with it in sandy soil covered with grass. In allmetal mode....It will go deeper I believe if the coin is there.....at one time I had a clad quater buried at 11-12 inches ....I could barely hit it,That coin is gone now as I bogged my jeep down there not long ago pulling my camper around the house after lots of rain for several days...lol.......hh......Dan
HEY! My BH SS II UM is a coin-snoopin' son-of-a-gun. Gets old silver just fine. Clads & lincolns by the pocket. Have been turning up some good IH's here lately. I've used , and ONLY for 35 years now. BUT, here again.... Usres choice!!
Yeah... 10-4 there Dan! Don't hardly look @ my display anymore.... Got the tones down 99% accurate to my call. Years, I guess... ya know. Do check every once & a while to make sure my unit's not lyin' to me...LOL just a kool nitch I've developed. HH Bigsquid55
I'm sure everyone has their own favorite. I'm generally a Garrett guy and always have been although I have owned other brands. I think we are lucky to have such a wide variety of truly great detectors to choose from today. My suggestion is to read, think, and then buy.
What type of detecting do you think you will mostly do? I'm primarily a coin/ring shooter and don't have places available to relic hunt. My new Garrett Ace 250 works well everywere I've taken it except for the beach in wet sand. Needed to turn down the sensitivity there. I live 240 miles from the nearest beach so it's not a killer problem with the Ace.
Do you want to be able to create custom programs in the machine or will you want to just turn on and go? I once had a detector that I swear could have been programmed to find only 1929 Mercury dimes if I could have just figured out how to set the custom programming to eliminate everything else. The problem was that I never could remember all the buttons that needed to be pushed and the correct order to push them in. It really limited the usefullness of that very expensive detector for me. I mostly turned it on, selected one of the available pre-set programs and away I went. I finally sold it and bought a less expensive detector that worked just as well for me.
How much money do you have to spend? Buying a toy detector will guarantee that you get frustrated and quit. On the other hand it's not necessary to spend megabucks. Any good quality detector will find treasures for you. It is a matter of learning the machine and what it is telling you. This takes time and patience. You will get there.
Without a doubt it would have to be a Fisher cz detector. I use a cz5 and a cz7a pro and they are the easiest , deepest detectors I have ever tried. they are a tad bit heavy, but are built like a tank for years of use. just excellent all around detectors for almost any purpose. they can be purchased used for very good prices and will hunt with anything on the market now.
Elton, I want to ask you a question .....do you like the T2......lol.......hh.......Dan
PS I may give it a try it seems lots of folks like them.....Elton I know you have tried many so your advice won't be taken lightly.......Thanks
I know Monte has great luck using the Omega. Others have posted good results too. I have only watched a buddy use his Omega while detecting.
Granted he only has the 10" coil..so apples to apples it's not ..But I can say he does not hit some of the coins I do. Maybe the 11" coil would even them up..but a 9" dime it out of his reach..The T2 nails it.. We checked all targets and depth readings on a hunt...Several coins read in at 8" and 9" depths. The Omega ticked a little on the 8 and did not read the 9 at all. In iron the T2 worked much better too. He was not hitting coins next to trash!.The T2 was.
Their set up totally different so I can't judge what he was doing other than our sens was set as high as possible on both machines. Mine was at 85 and started to get a little jumpy. His was at 91 ..and he still could not hear some of the deep signals the T2 was nailing with a lesser sens setting. We both thought that was a little odd.There also was an area he could not detect. EMI wiped him out. The T2 chattered a little, but you could still detect and hear the good targets and get fairly good ID..Take this for what it's worth ..just a couple of outings and it might change the next place we detect. Nothing scientific and we were just checking each others targets to see if both would hit the detected signal from each detector,The T2 hit all targets. The Omega didn't in this particular detecting area.. I noticed he had to almost whip the coil back and forth before he got the slight tick with the 8" coin..which by the way was a Wheat Cent. The Omega did feel a little lighter in weight than the T2......I did feel the T2 felt more sturdy though. That's just an opinionated statement about the feel. LOL
You have my permission to delete this if it's improper. Though I know you don't need it.. LOL .It was just an observation we made while detecting and I passed it on. I am not saying one is better, deeper, or anything related to that. It was only a couple hunts...and that certainly does not define a detector.
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