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

[Tallon]

Can't Wait!!! Just got me a mid-80s Nautilus DMC VLF(the original DMC model). Gonna give this baby a whirl when the weather clears up and have a few sunny days. Heard these are (very) deep machines. They're actually the older i.b.(induction) balance type. Mine came with the 10" concentric coil.. Most modern machines use induction balance in the form of VLF except for the pulse and multi frequency type. All VLF are an offshoot of the induction balance types. You also had the older T/Rs(pretty deep if tuned correctly; ie; the Garrett Master Hunter ADS Deepseeker but was battery hungry; took 6 9-volts) and BFOs of which neither are used much anymore. BFOs, understandably so. They never went very deep but then again, in the 60s and 70s, much of the now foot-plus deep silver was near the top of the ground and most any detector, weak or powerful could have gotten a lot of the goodies back then. Even those old bulky 'tot', kiddie detectors were merciless on the silver near the surface, LOL. Nowadays it (DOES) take a (super) deep machine to find even some clad coins. Not uncommon to be digging 'zincoln lincolns' up to 8" or more in loose, dark, loamy-type river soils. So if these annoying pennies are found this deep, (imagine) how deep the remaining silver is, and (especially) the pre-1900s silver. Just think about that one for a moment.....There was a YouTube video of 1800s coins being found at a Dallas, Texas park, even after an 8" top layer of dirt was removed, another 7" down. 15" down total !!

 

[NIBBLER]

Blisstool.

 

[Grilled Scallops]

Blisstool.

Yes. Blisstool, in ideal conditions, is the absolute king of depth and will put even high power pulse machines to shame. But I have found the bliss to be very unstable and it's target Id/disc is lackluster. In my opinion, a last resort detector when no other machines seem to be finding anything.

 

[bigchuckinva]

Nautilus DMC2b and currently use Blisstool V-5 the Deepest I ever used

 

[Southwind]

For best depth with accurate target ID the CTX with the E-Trac a close second.

 

[mtdoramike]

This reminds me of that old joke where two guys were standing on a bridge and both decided they had to pee. One guy says man that water is cold and the other guy responds yep and deep too. Which is my way of saying depth is a perception that seems to be different with everyone you ask. Is it scientific? nope but neither is pissing off a bridge

mike

 

[Old California]

For extreamly small finds, depth goes to GPX 5000

For coin size objects, deepest would be GPX 5000 and both Blisstool V5 & Blisstool V6.

For larger targets, Two box.

Paul

 

[rexy]

So Far, I talked to my detecting buddies here in SoCal, and we have agreed to the following.

1(PI)GPZ 7,000
2(Garrett)ATX
3Blisstool ltcx6xs
4Minelab Musketeer
5Troy Shadow x-5
6Makcro CF77

That is only speaking of the detecors we use, there are many that we have never got our hands on that might be a bit deeper.

 

[HaroldILL.]

Nautilus IIB,IIBa.A CZ-3D with the 10.5'' coil is rite up there also!

 

[supertraq]

Fisher cz's.Next my teknetics t2.
That for coin hunting and identifing a coin or whatever type target.
I'm not into it will detect at 3ft in all metal mode,useless to me.