What is next for Troy?

[MaineDigger]

Awww man, I just got the X3 in the other day, but I drive a Ford.... First few times out, I can tell you that it is certainly not the mercedes benz of detectors. It is probably built better than any detector I've owned, but performance is "so-so" thus far. I thought the same about my golden when I first got it, then it started to really do well, so I'll have to give it some time before I make a real judgment.

I'm not sure I'm crazy about that business strategy though, In the summer I 'm on a moped....

 

[John in Florida]

What coil(s) did you get with it?

 

[MaineDigger]

I got the 9" and 7"

I'll see about running some Air tests on it tomorrow.

 

[THE NICKEL PROFESSOR]

Two bridges burned...I think the name manufacurors in the industry
have taken notice.

 

[John in Florida]

Go back to the trash dump where you belong.

 

[jsamsky]

A friend of mine hunts with an X-5 and in mineralized ground here in Virginia he can't get close to the depth I get from my preset GB Cibola. I'm sure it's a good machine, but it's not as hot as my Cibola, and it costs three times as much. Maybe dealers push them so hard because they make a higher profit on them. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Dino - UK]

...your friend needs a few lessons on how to use it.

 

[Daniel Tn]

Ain't no way a Cibola can outdo an X5 if the person using it knows what they are doing. I've had both and have hunted in 3 states with the Cibola and two with the X5. I know.

 

[Tagamet]

Daniel Tn Wrote:
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> Ain't no way a Cibola can outdo an X5 if the
> person using it knows what they are doing. I've
> had both and have hunted in 3 states with the
> Cibola and two with the X5. I know.

Is the X-5 an ID machine?
TIA,
Tagamet

 

[Monte]

Just a manually controlled lightweight detector that has the best overall performance I have found in any detector. I'm not Daniel, but you asked a simple question. I can handle those.

Monte

 

[Mr.Bill]

They certainly wouldn't operate near the salt beach's well.

Near impossible to operate in Rhode Island farm fields, because of hot rocks. It just loves them.

Given credit where due, the Tesoro "T" unit was worse.

Bill

 

[Dino - UK]

...I've used the X5 on beaches in the UK, South Africa and New Jersey with great effect, admittedly I was using the 10"x5" DD coil which allowed me to run the machine with exactly the same settings I use on ploughed fields here in the UK.
With the stock 9" coil I did have to up the disc to 4 to compensate for the wet salt.
The method I used with the DD was to manually GB on the dry sand, then move onto the wet increasing the disc from 3.5 to 3.75 to get rid of the chatter.
Regarding your point about hot rocks, we have problems with coke here in the UK, but the signal given by the X5 is an echoey one unless the coke is on the surface, however the VCO pinpoint does not give a signal on coke so I wouldn't dig knowing that.

 

["DOC" in the C.S.A.]

From what I have seen ,it sells itself ! On the rare occasion that even a used one becomes available in the classifieds, it gets snapped up immediately. I have heard some detectorists thought the price was too high, but then again, you dont get a Cadillac or a Lincoln for Chevy prices .I have been hunting with the X-5 for a few years now and it is THE best machine I have ever used.I believe it to be worth every cent of the price I paid. People with Cibola's,Vaquero's and Tejon's have tried to find relics in the red soil around Appomattox and Buckingham counties here in Virginia where I dig and havent had much success. Alot of people around here ,with whichever machine they may use, wont even hunt .They run off to better ground to dig relics !!This ground is so hot that when you run the detector over a clod of the red soil out of the hole you just dug ,it sounds like a target to dig !! If you are one of those rare exceptions to the rule, and are finding relics with your FGB machine in this type of environment, then I compliment you. You can come on up and hunt this mineralized hell with me and Bebo and put on your best game-face. You would honestly be the FIRST to dig anything much up here with a Cibola. And by the way...I have a Tesoro Eldorado that I use in heavy trash around schools, coin shooting, which works real good, so please dont think I am trying to put down Tesoro products. Some machines do good in certain areas and do not perform well in others,but so far,the X-5 has performed flawlessly everywhere I have tried it...........HH..........."Doc"

 

[THE NICKEL PROFESSOR]

Hey John,

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh The shadow traveling medicine show has run
out of suckers, game's up. I think I'll hang here when I wish
and if that bothers you...so what. I'm following the rules in
here and stating my opinion. $1,100.00 for a detector without
target id that has decent performance? I'd call that overpriced.
Bottom line...when you broker a metal detector to a major
manufacturor the customer pays for two profit margins before
it even reaches the "Dealer" OUCH!

Jeff Harris
Phoenix, Arizona

 

[John in Florida]

It is so mineralized with so many different types of minerals that many Universities have field trips to the Pilot Knob, Missouri area to study the minerals.

Most of the lead and a lot of the iron ore used during the CW came from that area which is appropriately named Iron County.

I certainly don't pretend to know more about detectors than you but I found it extremely easy to differentiate 'hot' rocks from good targets with my X5. I would expect a man of your vast experience to be able to do the same.

There are trade offs for everything and I found the ML Sov the smoothest in that area but it didn't have the target separation the X5 has. The White's had to be 'detuned' to ignore the hot rocks. CZ's weren't bad but were fooled. Tesoros were fairly bad and were a tad tougher to learn how to differentiate.

In my experience if a detector is properly tuned to the ground matrix and happens across a hot rock and doesn't sound off, that doesn't mean the detector will necessarily find good stuff that's close to the hot rock.

 

[Mr.Bill]

Dino

I was a Troy dealer, and sold my share of them. I am quite familiar with the proper operation of the unit, and all the accessory coils available for it. I

 

[Mr.Bill]

Hi John

It makes no difference if the unit performed for you there, it doesn

 

[Dino - UK]

...believe me Mr Bill, I doubt anybody in the UK finds more gold than me, I don't mean jewellery either, I'm talking of 2000 year old gold of the Celtic period, some of these targets are only 8mm across and weigh less than 1.3 grams, on sites that are so irony a Minelab will null constantly..even the EXII cannot compete with the X5.
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[Les in the UK]

n/t

 

[Dino - UK]

...probably for the next 6 months or so for valuation, and my local Museum have expressed a wish to buy it.
Then the farmer and I divi up and have a beer.