teknetics t-2. sold my qxt last fall and need a new unit. I coin shoot relic hunt and want to get into prospecting. thought the x sounded like the way to go. now out comes the t-2, sounds like a nice detector, anyone try one for nugget shooting? ive been detecting about a year & half and have had 4 whites and a discovery . Looking for a fast responding unit that ican hold onto for a while. the wife gets a little irratated with the buying and selling.
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was thinking of buying the x-50, then comes along the
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Mike Hillis
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I had planned a nugget hunt with the T2 over the Thanksgiving break but the person who had invited me onto his claim got the flu that week, so it didn't work out. We are trying to reschedule now around a surgery, but someday we will get it together. Probably March 
In the meantime, I've been looking for somewhere closer to go nugget hunting on.
Bill Crabtree reported he could air test a 5 grain nugget at 4-5" laying on the ground. Course, ground is different in different places.
I think it would do ok because because of the separate all metal sensitivity setting and the fine manual ground balance control you can keep your thumb on. While the FastGrab ground cancel feature works well, I'm not sure it would be tight enough to use for nugget hunting in bad ground.
The Xterra with the 18kHz coil might do good too, if you can keep it balanced.
Yep...I lurk around following the Xterra wondering which of my machines it might replace as I only have a limited number of doors to lean these things behind
As a DD coil fan, its hard to break over to a concentric coil only machine.
Sure be glad when someone makes the perfect machine just for me
Mike
In the meantime, I've been looking for somewhere closer to go nugget hunting on.
Bill Crabtree reported he could air test a 5 grain nugget at 4-5" laying on the ground. Course, ground is different in different places.
I think it would do ok because because of the separate all metal sensitivity setting and the fine manual ground balance control you can keep your thumb on. While the FastGrab ground cancel feature works well, I'm not sure it would be tight enough to use for nugget hunting in bad ground.
The Xterra with the 18kHz coil might do good too, if you can keep it balanced.
Yep...I lurk around following the Xterra wondering which of my machines it might replace as I only have a limited number of doors to lean these things behind
As a DD coil fan, its hard to break over to a concentric coil only machine. Sure be glad when someone makes the perfect machine just for me
Mike
steve herschbach
New member
Hi Mike,
My X-Terra manual mentions DD coils. So you simply may have to wait a little bit, and that issue will be resolved per the X-Terra.
Steve Herschbach
My X-Terra manual mentions DD coils. So you simply may have to wait a little bit, and that issue will be resolved per the X-Terra.
Steve Herschbach
thanks Mike and Steve, i also thought of the mxt but i like the tones option, something my qxt lacked, had excellent depth, also had a hard time finding good info on it, great for rellics, have about 20 old gold mines in my old stompping grounds, spent some time locating some of them, foung some quartz with silver in one of the tailings piles, which guess was common in some of the mines, but would imagine there must be some nuggets below some of these mines, pretty hilly terrain
steve herschbach
New member
Hi thompy,
Well, if gold is your thing I can make one observation about the T-2 and the X-Terra 50 both, and that is that the jury is out and we will not know for awile how they rate for nugget detecting.
The MXT is another story. It has been a very successful prospecting machine. Go to the Alaska Gold Forum at http://bb.bbboy.net/alaskagoldforum-viewforum?forum=2 and do a search on MXT. I've found a couple pounds of gold nuggets with my MXT so I can vouch for it as a prospecting unit.
I plan on giving the X-Terra 50 a serious go as a nugget machine later this spring and am quite confident it will do fine in more moderate ground. How well it will handle tougher ground conditions and bad hot rocks is another thing yet, however, and so time will tell. But I hope to be one of the first to post pictures of nuggets found with my X-Terra unless somebody down south beats me to the punch.
Steve Herschbach
Well, if gold is your thing I can make one observation about the T-2 and the X-Terra 50 both, and that is that the jury is out and we will not know for awile how they rate for nugget detecting.
The MXT is another story. It has been a very successful prospecting machine. Go to the Alaska Gold Forum at http://bb.bbboy.net/alaskagoldforum-viewforum?forum=2 and do a search on MXT. I've found a couple pounds of gold nuggets with my MXT so I can vouch for it as a prospecting unit.
I plan on giving the X-Terra 50 a serious go as a nugget machine later this spring and am quite confident it will do fine in more moderate ground. How well it will handle tougher ground conditions and bad hot rocks is another thing yet, however, and so time will tell. But I hope to be one of the first to post pictures of nuggets found with my X-Terra unless somebody down south beats me to the punch.
Steve Herschbach
Scott Maine
New member
While I was in Arizona i had used several detectors that were built for relic hunting and such...and also used em for nugget hunting.
The obvious MXT worked well.....no complaints at all. I also found that the Shadow X-5 worked extremely well in this area too especially with the small coil.
I would not have had any reservations using these two machines for nugget hunting on occasion.
I think since you are not experienced in many detectors for nugget hunting I would choose ones that users know work already as a multi role detector. I say that as it is hard to know what you should expect from say an Xtera for nuggets if you have not used other similar detectors for this that DID work well...so you would not have a huge base for comparison.
Plus the MXT and Shadow have multi coil selections.
If you want a detector that has an ID ability built into it then the MXT is the way to go at this point.
Now not saying the Xtera is or is not gong to work....but let people like Steve be the guinea pigs testing it. He will know very quickly if it is going to keep up with other multi role detectors like the MXT.
Scott
The obvious MXT worked well.....no complaints at all. I also found that the Shadow X-5 worked extremely well in this area too especially with the small coil.
I would not have had any reservations using these two machines for nugget hunting on occasion.
I think since you are not experienced in many detectors for nugget hunting I would choose ones that users know work already as a multi role detector. I say that as it is hard to know what you should expect from say an Xtera for nuggets if you have not used other similar detectors for this that DID work well...so you would not have a huge base for comparison.
Plus the MXT and Shadow have multi coil selections.
If you want a detector that has an ID ability built into it then the MXT is the way to go at this point.
Now not saying the Xtera is or is not gong to work....but let people like Steve be the guinea pigs testing it. He will know very quickly if it is going to keep up with other multi role detectors like the MXT.
Scott
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
I found the DD coil reference. That would be a good thing. I'll have to wait and see.