which price level detector should we be using? - borrowed from tesoro forum/thanks guys

[GRAY GHOST]

hello everyone, ive been doing this great hobby of ours for over 25 years, and tried just about every machine out there. some were good, some were ok, and some just downright sucked! imagine, if you will: the good man who owns the simple to operate, inexpensive machine has a bad day detecting, not finding much and thinks to himself, "hmmm, i think i need a better machine. i know this one well, its paid for itself, but i think im missing stuff." on the other hand, the good man who bought a top shelf, expensive machine says to himself, " i really do like this machine. lots of bells and whistles. a real step up from where i started. too bad its a pain to program. really time consuming. be a heckuva hit if someone stole it. it cost a lot, so that alone makes it superior." ...so now you see. it seems that more is less, and less really is more. many of us have thought these same thoughts many times, only to return to what we know best. what that "best" for you is, i dont know, and i cant tell you whats right for you. you can rest assured, my friend that the metal detector makers already know how we feel about our machines, how often were likely to switch models, how much were willing to pay, etc. i for one believe that there should be no monetary limits on what makes you happy. i will greet a fellow mder with a radio shack model the same way i would a fella with a very expensive unit. but i do think its important to stay as simple as possible. ive never felt the need to buy a 40 dollar digging tool; or spend more than 400 bucks for a detector. personally, id be scared to death to take a higher priced detector out my door! the truth of the matter is, the mid level detectors are finding just as much if not more than the higher priced detectors are. seen it hundreds of times. and pretty much across the board. just my 2 cents, hh,


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[tabdog]

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[GRAY GHOST]

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[GRAY GHOST]

yeah, tabdog, thats ok my friend, youve made some killer finds with that little machine and quite frankly have done a great job of depleting the arkansas soil of its secrets! i believe the whole message were trying to send is this: its more about the man and the machine than anything else. bravo!


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[jdstawker]

I think I should be using a machine that costs $158.85 including shipping.

 

[mattockman]

I agree with you to an extent.....Yes I feel mid $ detectors can be very good and can hunt fast and find more chump change......but if it wasn't for a higher priced bought used $750 Explorer XS I would have never even seen or heard some of the things I cherish most......A 14k gold ring with 60 diamonds or some very deep or iron covered silver coins or a silver ring buried from the tip of my fingers to the crook of my elbow deep.......I have never regreted the purchase.....so if all you hunt is clean, reletivley iron free, shallow,not much trash to mask......Targets then you will be fine.......I just want whatever other detectors have missed due to the above.......cause they have been around since the 60.s? So areas and places to hunt is getting few and farther every year......people are posting their lands and its getting tough to find a place to hunt.........due to more laws........so if you want the older stuff they all think is long gone......try an Explorer....cause the others think it is all hunted out........and you will have the whole place to yourself with nice finds to boot!
Just my opinion and I am sticking to it!..........

 

[Ron from Michigan]

I think a good step down unit from the top of the line metal detectors.Good used equipment price range 4 to 5 hundred dollars.

 

[tabdog]

I agree,

I would not want to be without the 14k gold pendant with over 70 diamonds found with my $180
Silver Sabre uMax.

I would not want to be without the two diamond rings I recently found in a site hunted out by
high dollar Minlabs and Whites and others for decades. Way to go $90 Compadre.

I have found five cold rings. Several gold ear rings and pendants, some with gem stones. I have
found these things in about the last 5 months. That's when I learned how to do so. You want to
talk silver. Well I got a bunch of that. Don't even keep track.

I love the bad trashy sites. That's where the high dollar machines leave me my booty. They
have depleted the easy sites. Maybe they have a different definition of trashy. Or too trashy.

I have never hunted a high yield ocean beach like a lot of guys finding a lot of stuff. I had to get
mine from the hunted out, trashy park sites. I did my first fresh water beaches starting last
month and I'm just getting started. There I found more stuff with dig holes dig holes everywhere.
I haven't found any un-touched sites. Mine came out of over worked, trashy sites. I just started
metal detecting 6 months ago, after a 24 year lay-off. Glad I didn't buy into the high dollar
machines that leave me my booty.

My $90 Compadre can do things my other machines can't do. It apparently can do things
the high dollar machines can't do. That's what my booty pile tells me.

I've never tried a high dollar Minelab or Whites. I guess they are great for ocean beaches and
relics. I don't have ocean beaches. I do hunt relics and artifacts. I think the Tejon will keep up
there. Hope to get one some day, but for now I'll just have to be happy with what the big boys
leave.

Maybe less is more

HH,

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

The point being made is that the detector is only as good as the person operating it. Lots of great finds being made with the ACE 250 and that average price is $212. Lots of pros and cons for all machines but if you know YOURS you will do much better than someone who is trying to use a high dollar unit and has not read the operating instructions to understand all the possibilities offered on his unit.

 

[tabdog]

You are absoluitly right.

If we are finding lots of good stuff, we then to think our machine is better at doing so than other machines.

I am absoluitely guilty of this. I am afrade that I over state the abilities of my machine. It is a good one, but

it's just another machine. I have to realise that I am not the norm and be grateful for that. It's hard for me not

to brag about my machine though. I have affection for this object that I have spent many hours with, experiencing

successes and failures. I can't help it. It's like supporting a good friend.

I have to pleade guilty. I regret if I have missled people. It is not on purpose.

There's all kinds of things I need to learn in this world. That's one of them.

HH,

 

[jmaryt]

best "short money" discriminator in the industry!..nasty!..nasty!..in trash!..the wonderful ed-180!..compadre!..truly a genuine "sleeper!"..the silver's ed-120 just as good!

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[jmaryt]

keep an eye on the little f2 fisher!..could be the next "sleeper!"..time will tell!

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[tabdog]

10-4 j.t.

that's what some are reporting. I'm listening. have checked it out some. sounds good.

HH,

 

[Pap]

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[leesumm]

I suppose some of you remember me telling of my buy of the BH Lone Star plus the Junior for 150 $ for me this is a real good machine for picking out pop tops and cans. Went down on the river close to me and searched what my cousin said were swiming holes on a gravel bar . But the water being high I couldnt really get down. I picked up a couple of unknown pieces , a door striker, some long unknown piece of metal and a what looked like a blade from a cicle bar on a mower. plust the usual 50 or 60 pull tabs and two cans .

 

[jmaryt]

bought one for my daughter,and the first time she used it she finds a barber dime at 6 inches in a trashed park!..nice clean hit!..dug down and foil and iron in the hole!..sold me right there,and i bought this detector for her because it was light and she could sweep it easily!..shocked hell out of me as i am using a xl-pro,that gives me tons more info than the silver!..gifford did a wonderful job designing that detector along with the little compadre!..real sleepers!..both of them!

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j.t.

 

[tabdog]

That's interesting.

I've been thinking about swim spots on small rivers and creeks.

Been so long sense I've swam in those holes I don't know where

very many are.

Be interested to know how you do, if you do some more.

HH,

 

[mattockman]

But you are missing the point....I can hunt most anywhere with the Explorer.....its very versatile and is the machine to have if you only want one machine to do it all.....I think if you say the minelabs hunted the same park as you and you found things there then the man running the machine was not working it like he should.....we all know that sometimes you can run in one direction and hit it from another you can find things you ran over before....so I truely believe if using a machine in any conditions the Explorer is the machine to use. On the other hand other machines absolutely have an advantage......but I don't have time to get into all that......What I have been doing is reading up on all the diff. detectors and want to try a new one....but all I have read is WHY should I.....I believe I have the best......I hate 1-4 tone machines.....I have one that will give me more detail of what I am going to dig or not dig.....If you dig by alot of maybes then you dig alot more than me.....at least I dig with a better pic of what maybe......I hate digging junk and can slim that ratio down by using the Explorer.....So anyways......Hope you have a great year and am looking forward to some great posts this year!!!......

 

[GRAY GHOST]

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[tabdog]

But you are missing the point....I can hunt most anywhere with the Compadre. It