What is the absolute deepest detector you have ever seen. (In your humble opinion)

[pescadore]

The deepest detector that I have used is the Minelab Explorer. I took one to Padre Island one time and made the mistake of carrying a hand digger. After digging holes up to my elbows and needing to go deeper, I finally went to town and bought a shovel.

 

[LINDABONITA]

I have used only tesoro compadre, bounty hunter 101, cx master plus and the ace 250. From all these aforementioned the ace 250 with the 9 x 12 coil will detect a dime up to 10 inches in air and with 2 still discrimination bars to fill out. For $300 dlls I think is superb. I made tests on my retail store with $1000 dlls machines and the ace goes (deeper) in the air. I'm planning to buy the excellerator coil just to try it and compare it with th 9 X 12. This is all I know, hopefully it helps.

 

[Critterhunter]

I'm amazed at that report on the Treasure Ace. That was one of my first machines and I couldn't sell it fast enough for what it was able to do depth wise. Maybe I had a dud.

 

[morelic55]

For what it's worth, the Xterra series from Minelab have been the deepest running with the 10.5 DD coils, HANDS DOWN in my soil..........

 

[Critterhunter]

If they made a 3khz coil in the 10 to 12" range to hit deepest on silver/copper coins for the Xterra I probably would have bought one. I'm sure Sunray or Detech will come out with a low frequency larger coil for this machine because it's begging for one. That's going to be a BIG seller for the first company to do it.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Indeed the DFX set correctly for an area will go deep, but change areas its a different story..My hunting buddy used to have a old wheat penny buried in our favorite spots so he could fiddle with the unit to catch the deep wheatie....Have to say I personally saw him dig a Barber Half at over a foot so properly set do the job depth wise. Used to think a CZ or Explorer was about the deepest around(never used a Nautilus) until I tried Troy's X-5 and found out this little 2.5 pound beauty will blow most of them out of the water used correctly..Again this is in my neck of the woods so your results may vary....
Certainly not knocking Whites as they make super unit and back it up with excellent service after the sale...

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

Non TID....Shadow X-5
TID............F-75 LTD or T-2 LTD

 

[Pontiac68]

My Cobra II is the best for depth with an 8 " coil of any detector I've used (and that's saying a lot).
Mine has manual ground balance and threshhold tuning.
And I must add a "thank you" for JB for all of his helpful tips on these Discovery Electronics detectors.

 

[UK Brian]

Quite agree re the DFX. A real disappointment to me living in a hilly area with the mineralisation changing every few yards.

On the Geotech-Tech forum in 2003 there was a report comparing fourteen machines on a range of coins. These included the Explorer, Fisher CZ, Nautilus Ba, Tesoro, Shadow X5, MXT, XLT, XP, and Whites Turbo's.

On larger coins the Whites Classic Turbo took first place closely followed by the XP Adventis, then the Explorer.
On small coins the XP Adventis did best followed by the Classic Turbo and Explorer in joint second, then the Nautilus and MXT in joint third.

If the top of range Nautilus (DMC II B) had been used rather than the power restricted Ba with the 8" coil, that would have been higher up the rankings

 

[UK Brian]

Quite agree re the DFX. A real disappointment to me living in a hilly area with the mineralisation changing every few yards.

On Geotech-Tech in 2003 there was a report comparing fourteen machines on a range of coins. These included the Explorer, Fisher CZ, Nautilus Ba, Tesoro, Shadow X5, MXT, XLT, XP, and Whites Turbo's.

On larger coins the Whites Classic Turbo took first place closely followed by the XP Adventis, then the Explorer.
On small coins the XP Adventis did best followed by the Classic Turbo and Explorer in joint second, then the Nautilus and MXT in joint third.

If the top of range Nautilus (DMC II B) had been used rather than the power restricted Ba with the 8" coil, that would have been higher up the rankings

 

[GunnarMN]

well i have owned anM6 and a cibola , a silver umax a golden umax and a compadre but the minelabe musketeer beats them all I can get dimes at 9" to 10" deep in bad ground

 

[Canewrap]

Is that depth with the 8" coil or the 10" coil?

 

[Tallon]

UPDATE: Guys. Try a DeepTech Vista Gold/Smart or a Nexus Bonanza/Credo/Credo DDM or a Standard SE, the last-mentioned one reportedly being the deepest detector ever made, beating out the Minelab Explorer/ GPX4500, 5000. On a recent Nexus Bonanza video, the video shows (just) the base Nexus model, which is the Bonanza, air-testing on a thin gold ring at 11" so, one very sensitive detector and from what I understand, has the power of the first-generation Nexus Standard SE of only a few years ago of which, the first-gen Standard SE also held the title for the deepest-seeking MD for individual coins, bar-none.

 

[hershey1]

Minelab GPX 5000. These machines find targets at the DIV hunts (bullets, buttons and other CW relics) NO other machines can can even hear. You-Tube has several videos of this machine doing it's thing. BUT it is not waterproof Dig. Good to hear from you and crazyman. HH

 

[Tom_in_CA]

But heaven help the poor soul who thinks he's going to take that GPX 5000 to junky parks, thinking he's going to dig coins at 1.5 to 2 ft. deep. He'd never progress out of an area 10 ft. square. Every single BB, staple, pin, etc... will blow his ears off.

 

[D&P-OR]

How true!!---Plus the fact of getting the user kicked out of the park & the park closed down to metal detecting.

But heaven help the poor soul who thinks he's going to take that GPX 5000 to junky parks, thinking he's going to dig coins at 1.5 to 2 ft. deep. He'd never progress out of an area 10 ft. square. Every single BB, staple, pin, etc... will blow his ears off.

 

[hershey1]

Good point about the parks. Dig don't dig in parks. He never mentioned where he was going to use a deep machine but my guess is in the sand. HH

 

[Dig]

Hershey... You are correct! I don't dig in parks and the nugget hunters blow away most others as far as sheer depth. You do get every little scrap and I'd probably never take one near the water but, they are pretty awesome machines. There is a video on YouTube of a hunter using a minelab gold machine (the model escapes me) and he digs a fat gold that's half way to China. Hope your hunting is going well buddy ;-)

 

[earthmansurfer]

The AKA Signum is so far the deepest detector I've used in my somewhat mineralized ground. In my first 3 hunts I matched then subsequently got the 2 deepest coins ever - 9" and 10". (And it hit solid on those, would go deeper.)
I was using the stock 10"DD 7kHz coil. That 10" coin was actually made out of Nickel, which is pretty amazing to hit it so deep (but it was a little bigger than a quarter.)
Check my videos in this forum.

I have hunted (and gridded) the exact same spot with both the E-Trac and CTX. E-Trac is still the most fun to use, but balance was the killer for me. They both got down around to 9" (maybe deeper on silver.
At other spots I used the Omega 8000 (next deepest after the Minelabs), T2 and Nautilus.

EMS

 

[Hobo lobo]

Sounds like everyone has the deepest detector. Think I will stick to my dowsing rods. LOL