Whites Surf PI Pro Help/question for newbie

[rugbyman187]

How would the whites surf pi pro be for a first time user? Its used and $450. Any thoughts. I want something for water, land, coins, relics, gold, and other cool stuff. I have been looking at the whites MXT. So please help.

 

[Tom Slick]

You don't want the Surf PI for anything besides hunting in the water or using on a salt water beach. If you're looking for an all around detector that can be used in the water then the Tesoro Tiger Shark would be a good choice. It's a VLF not a PI and it has discrimination and is water proof to 200'. The MXT is a better coin, jewelry, prospecting, and relic detector but only the coil is submersible.

 

[therover]

The Surf PI Pro is a speciality unit designed for beach hunting in conditions like salt water and black sand, where it is not adversely effected from the ground conditions like a VLF unit. Also, the coil and headphones are hardwired, so you can't swap out coils or change headphones. If 80-90% of your hunting is going to be in the wet sand and water on salt water beaches, with little iron trash, then it's a great unit.

The MXT, with the coil options, visual ID, tone ID ( on the newer Pro model), ground balancing, etc. is a much better unit for land and dry sand hunting for coins, relics and jewelry. There are other VLF units as well. A PI unit is your last option for any land type of hunting unless you want to explore the Whites TDI line of units. Bear in mind they are PI units as well but have certain capabilities that other PI units do not have.

 

[rugbyman187]

Thanks for the great information