want to buy new detector

[traviswells]

WHAT IS THE BEST DETECTOR I CAN BUY FOR SAY 500 BUCKS OR SO? I'M GONNA BUY 1 AND I WANT A GOOD ONE.

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT
PLEASE HELP IDON'T KNOW WHAT TO BUY

 

[Art (NWOH)]

n/t

 

[traviswells]

i saw another video that said i was gonna have alot of trouble with it and that it often gave lots of ghost signals any reflections on that subject and i really don't know what i want i just want to get involved in the hobby and want a good detector.

Thanks

 

[Art (NWOH)]

First...
It's good that you are attempting to research detectors before handing out your cash, but you will soon find that everywhere you go you will get conflicting reports on just how good any detector is. And it does not matter how expensive it is!!!!!!
These videos can be rigged to prove or disprove anything you want if you know how to do it. Or they can be misleading by accident when the operator does not really know how to use the detector.

Ever watch the White's commercials? The guy is almost at a dead run, swinging the detector like a weed wacker and finds all kinds of good stuff.
If you do that, you won't find a hub cap!!!!!

Second...
No detector is ever right all the time, even if the operator knows how to use it . And it takes TIME to learn the best way to use any detector.
There are a lot of guys with lower priced , fairly simple detectors who do quite well with them because they know the detector well.......compared to the guys who get the complicated expensive ones but have not taken the time to learn how to use them.

Now...
I get the impression from reading your posts on the Garrett forum that you want to park hunt for coins. I think the 250 or the X-Terra 30 or 50 would be a good starting machine for you. Not all that many extra things that you would be fooling around with....keeping things fairly simple. But you still have to learn how to use it.

You could scrounge around and find a "better" detector that is used for the price range you are looking at, but it will be more complicated to learn.

HH

 

[traviswells]

Well thanks i'll prob. get the 250 then but i'll take a look at the x terra's thanks for your input i'll let you know what i get

 

[Rick(ND)]

This is what I like to tell all the newbies wanting to get into the hobby.
I find being I sell new and used detectors want the one that just finds the gold and silver and don't want the trash as they seen these detectors on TV. These are the people that are new to the hobby or those into the hobby less than 2 years. I tell them if they find such a detector I can sell 1000 of them with no problem, but those of us that have been detecting for a while knows there is no such detector and cant see it ever happening either.
I try to sell a newbie to the hobby a Ace 250, a Tesoro Compadre, or a Fisher F-2 as these are easy detectors and all around $200 to start with and if they don't like the hobby and want to sell it again they will lose very little. If they want to try something a little better then the X-Terra 30 or 50 while the 70 to those that are more experienced in detecting. Now those that have been detecting for a while and like the hobby then we talk the Sovereign GT,Explorers and the Fishers F-75.
This hobby is not for everyone as we have seen, it take patience and time to know the detector you are using, very few and I mean very few get rich in this hobby, but it can be done with less than 1% do. Many will pay for some of the gas to drive to sites, some just get enough to buy a soda or 2 and have seen where a few even will find a great find and pay for their detector first time out. In most case what you will find is the exercises, fresh air and the excitement of finding something that may not have seen day light for many years with some over 1000s of years. Most items will be trash and the more you learn of the detector the less you will see, but there is also the time you think it is trash it is a gold ring as they will read like trash too.
This is a great hobby and meet some really great people out detecting and our Internet friends are some of the best there is even if we have never meet them in person we feel we have known them for years. Been doing it since 1973 and still get excited with every find I dig up wondering if this will be a pull tab or that $10,000 diamond and gold ring I keep dreaming of finding. It is a fun and rewarding hobby that don't cost as much as many other hobbies and can be done anytime and you don't have to drive long ways to do and spend as much time as you like. If you are the person that feels you will get rich every time out and don't want to dig the trash and dispose of it this may not be the hobby for you, but if it is start with something easy to use and not a lot of controls to adjust, or should I say miss adjust as chance are you will enjoy it better and learn your detector much faster and enjoy the hobby more.

Thanks Art for saying it like it is.

Rick

 

[Art (NWOH)]

The last thing I would suggest is a BBS or FBS machine......or any other top of the line detector even at a dirt cheap used price.
It's when you start out with a modest detector and learn it really well, but you feel that it is coming up a bit short in some way that you start looking for something better. And you wonder how long it will take to learn the newer one.

Lots of fun, but the money don't just leap out of the ground and into your pockets.

HH
Art

 

[cap10joe2000]

I can attest. I started with the Sov Gt. I read and read and did the research before I bought. I am almost to the point of being able to para-phrase every paragraph in the manual. I have had it a month and still digging out of the lack of experience hole. I am finding coins. I am getting to the point where I can half way tell what my target is on the beach. My motivation to keep learning it is I keep reading and seeing what others are finding.

In my humble opinion reading and seeing what everybody else is doing and finding is more important than the machine, it keeps you engaged and trying. An expensive machine will find just as few coins as a simple one if it is setting in the corner of your garage.

Will my finds ever pay for my detector or hobby...lol I have found a little over 7 dollars in change and a childs fake ring. Will my fishing pole pay for my fishing hobby...not. How many bowlers or golfer pay for thier hobby by winning prizes. I don't worry about making money, though It would not bother me if I did. I worry about what is making my detector sing.

My wife and I went to the local steak house the other night, while leaving, there just outside the door was a shinny nickel. I was so full I did not bend over to pick it up, I walked by. My wife saw it and picked it up. Her comment soon followed, "let me get this straight you will not bend over and pick up a shinny nickle on the side walk but you will dig a foot deep in clay to find a pull tab". I said "hell yeah"..... For me it is the thrill of the hunt, kind of like Forrest Gump said. "Its like a box of chocolates you never know what ya gonna get".

Stay engaged, keep swinging,learning and read these forums constantly.

Joe