WHAT IS THE BEST DETECTOR MADE TODAY ??

[St Bernard]

What do you consider to be the best detector made and WHY? What would be you second choise and WHY? feedback appreciated

Thanks Bill

 

[sprchng]

The best detector is the one you want , the second best is the one you have,,,,,that's what keeps the industry alive and the ridiculous youtube videos going.

 

[dan h]

For general purpose, e.g,, hunting coins in local park, or prospecting, or beach hunting, etc.? People on this forum can help once they have more information on what you plan to do with your detector.

 

[mascard1]

I would say the thing we have between our ears!

 

[slingshot]

For general purpose, e.g,, hunting coins in local park, or prospecting, or beach hunting, etc.? People on this forum can help once they have more information on what you plan to do with your detector.

Absolutely! We MUST know what kind of sites you'll be hunting. I once criticized a guy in my former club for spending over $4,000 on a detector. THEN, I found out the sites he hunted required it.

 

[still looking 52]

What's the best car made? You'll find as many answers to this question as the best metal detector made.

 

[St Bernard]

Sorry for asking the question.

 

[Greg (E.Tn)]

n/t

 

[parkgt]

As a non specific question it was pretty lame.

 

[Mega]

Alas no such thing,all detectors are basically just a big lump of plastic,alloy,and some electronics inside,you could have the most expensive detector on the planet but on its own it does absolutely nothing,even by switching it on it still does nothing,but put it in the hand of a experienced detectorist and also have some decent finds on your permission,then that is when the magic starts happening......it has nothing to do with a detector having the most expensive whistles and bells.

If you dont have any finds in the ground it makes no odds how good the detector is or even the skill of the detectorist,you aint going to find the goodies.

 

[slingshot]

The largest detector find known was made with a Radio Shack detector (ads embedded Re load without ads).

 

[Dave_E]

The best detector is the one you want , the second best is the one you have,,,,,that's what keeps the industry alive and the ridiculous youtube videos going.

Hands down BEST answer!!!

 

[sprchng]

Sorry for asking the question.

Don't be sorry , it's a good question , just rephrase it a bit.

 

[Tom Slick]

How long is a piece of rope?

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Sorry for asking the question.

Don't be sorry.

What people here are trying to say, is it's like asking: "What is the best motor vehicle?" The obvious followup contingencies would be:

What do you want to use the motor vehicle for ? Hauling rocks from the quarry ? Consider a dump truck. 1 to 100 in 8 seconds ? Consider a Corvette. Taking the kids to soccer practice ? Consider a mini-van. Gas mileage ? Consider a Prius. Pulling stumps out of the ground ? Consider a low geared 4wd truck, etc... etc...

Your question needs to be more specific. Eg.: nuggets ? jewelry ? Beach? Old coins ? Relic ? Turf-cherry picking ? etc... And don't say "all of the above". Otherwise it's like answering "all of the above" to the motor vehicle question example.

 

[vlad]

Well a Diablo is fine to go detecting by yourself, but if you take a friend the detectors will be between his legs.
Otherwise....we use a van.

 

[mrwilburino]

I would say the thing we have between our ears!

I've been using that for years. Used to work pretty well, now it's a good day when it can find my car keys.

 

[vlad]

Lets say you are hunting gold nuggets in very bad ground, a ML GPZ-7000 might be what you want. But go into a very trashy local park and an Impact might be a very optimum unit.
An area that is saturated with iron nails, you might excel with a vintage unit like a Compass Yukon 77B which will hit conductive targets covered with nails.
(The PI hits everything; a very experienced user can discern some target's type, but for the most part its a beep and dig. Go to NASA Tom's site and read about him hunting a field with VLF's digging all targets,
then he goes back in with some PI's and digs an astounding number of new targets-good and bad-purposely cleaning out the field.)
But you must have the time-that is the most scarce commodity, and why your choice in a detector that is in many ways a compromise must be very specific to your type of hunting so that you have
the highest treasure to trash ratio.
Its a learning experience everyday-trying to change detectors that must too be learned makes it even harder.
(they used to tell us in the army there is no such thing as a stupid question-stupid people do not ask, and the only way to learn--is an open-ended inquiry, asking)

 

[HuntinDog]

Your Digger...

All the beepers do is tell you where !

 

[kansas_jayhawks]

Probably depends on what you are hunting and where you are hunting. One thing that will never be done is a real side by side test of different detectors.

I've owned a Minelab and currently own a Tesor and Fishers. I'm not good enough to outperform the detectors. I think that is the key. Once you learn the tones yreaou can really start finding stuff.