If you could only have/keep ONE of the detectors you have (had), which ONE would it be; and WHY?

I'd have to say the Racer. Its audio is the most intelligible of all the detectors I have. It has earned a very high level of confidence and trust in finding good targets while avoiding more trash than my other detectors.
Its 4 modes are very well implemented and cover a wide range of environments. It's feel in the hand and its balance is awful; worse than all my other detectors except the Nautilus with its weight and "J" handle, but it finds the goods!

Wayne

Pleasant Garden, NC
AT Max, Nokta Impact, MX Sport, Nokta FORS Relic, GPX 4800, Infinium, Racer, Deus, F75SE, Nautilus DMC II (order of acquisition, last to first)

Does an archeologist argue with a plow? A bureaucrat with a bulldozer?

Cz-6a,followed by my t2.

Serial #1021 Fisher CZ-3D...without question for me...after 40+ years of detecting.

Nokta FORS CoRe Pro Pack

After using near on fifty metal detectors in the last few years I thought nothing would beat my well balanced Musketeer setup.

That was until I felt the FORS - Its simply a one machine go anywhere metal detector with fantastic abilities and awesome support by a company that DOES care about its customers

The Minelab CTX. The most versatile detector on the planet. Salt Water beach hunting to trashy and iron riddled dirt the CTX can handle it. The weight is the only draw back.


I hope the Impact changes my answer.

Sovereign
Always surprises when least expecting.

the racer is working for me along with f75.. racers audio is so nice with or without headphones.. using 5x10 coil balance is sweet and can swing all day.. i cant put racer down just for its audio though! that small coil works wonders in my hunted out places..

Would have to say up to this point the Racer then the 3D. Ease of use and being able to pull keepers from the trash. OOR shines in the trashiest of sites.

Digital CZ as it would double as a deepseeker for the old areas and with the notch and low sensitivity would handle the local parks....especially with all the coils and hipmounting abilities for large coils...

Being that I'm mostly a coin and park hunter. Omega or E-trac

Hard choice for me between two units. Both are Minelab machines. It would be between a GPX pulse machine and one of the FBS models.

I guess it depended on whether I would be relic hunting or coin/jewelry hunting, to which I would give the nod to.

Minelab has an opportunity at their finger tips to make one of the best multi use machines ever developed in the GPX platform. They already have it doing two tones....and there is an assigned tone break in which it goes from a high tone to a low tone. What they could do to make it better, is to make it a 3 tone unit....make it give one tone for the smaller low conductor items, a mid tone for the mid conductors, and then another tone for the high conductor items. And not only that...but instead of doing actual discrimination...it could do audio filtering like the Whites TDI does....in which you could silence one of two of the tone channels.

So in other words...if you were coin hunting...you would want to focus on the high conductor items...and if you could close the low and mid conductor audio channel...you could just dig the high conductor items and not have the sound fatigue of listening to EVERY SINGLE SIGNAL like you have to with the current GPX setup.

If you were at the beach and wanted to look for jewelry...you could opt to listen to all channels or shut high conductor channel off, and just cherry pick those signals that might be likely to be gold.

CTX. Reasons obvious.


If you mean detector that I no longer have, then it would be my mid 70s Radio Shack. My first detector.

Racer is easy to understand, deep, fast hits on all targets battery's least forever. Great coils...MY PICK right now

LowBoy

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MXT Pro which I own now or would take any variant of the MXT, its the most versitile machine I have ever used, killer for coin/jewelry, especially gold jewelry, and will double as a decent nugget machine if necessary. Coils I would use would be 5.3 eclipse, 8x6 SEF, and 4.5DD detech.



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It would have to be the latest version F75 (with FA, boost, etc). It is so versatile and ergonomic. Plus, I can hear AC/DC belting out "Back in Black" in my head when I see it. Granted...I haven't used any of the recent European Invasion machines.

#1 would be the Racer, it's been making the finds, easy to use, light, good audio and unmasking capabilities.
#2 would be the F75 LTD2.1 (had to send it in to get the 11/14 firmware upgraded to the 1/15 and then it was right). This machine is deeper then the Racer, and I used to think it was great in iron until I started using the Racer. BUT it's still deeper and does pretty darn well in relic hunting situations

Tough question, if my back was fine I'd go back to a CTX/E-Trac. (Or just for shorter hunts)

If I was going for the long hunts (and a little less fun with the sounds) I'd use my current AKA Signum - Deepest detector I have used. Beat my CTX by an inch+.

Looking forward to some of the hopefully lighter multi frequency machines on the horizon.

Albert

CTX/Deus/F19/Racer/Sov.GT/Vaquero/Tejon/CZ6a/?/?/?/? all combined into one

CTX I would have to say as of current.

I'll NEVER TELL














“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla

One detector?,,,,lol....metal detectors are like Lay's potato chips, "you can't have 'just' one" !!!!!!!!!



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I own several detectors and do all types of hunting and if I could only keep one than it would be the AT PRO. I can use it in all weather and water and it's not to bad a park and tot lot hunter.

CTX 3030 Best coin and silver coin detector I have ever used. Love how it ID's targets at depth and all the different setting and programs to choose from. Next would be the etrac.

If I could only have one detector, I'd have to get another wife, or no wife. One detector, how ridiculous

It would have to be the Minelab Musketeer Advantage or the Tesoro Conquistador uMax, they would find everything from soup to nuts.

Keith, in the past, you have already stated your pic.....the CTX, memory serves me.

SkiWhiz Wrote:
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> It would have to be the Minelab Musketeer
> Advantage or the Tesoro Conquistador uMax, they
> would find everything from soup to nuts.

Everytime you do this Ski I hesitate in selling my Musketeer lol

Honestly mate - Try the FORS CoRe - I know you will like it

rustic charm Wrote:
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> SkiWhiz Wrote:
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> > It would have to be the Minelab Musketeer
> > Advantage or the Tesoro Conquistador uMax, they
> > would find everything from soup to nuts.
>
> Everytime you do this Ski I hesitate in selling my
> Musketeer lol
>
> Honestly mate - Try the FORS CoRe - I know you
> will like it

Just when I thought I had my choice narrowed down (Makro Racer) you give me another machine to toss around in my head, lol. Hang on to that Musky.

The one detector I regret selling was my first Sovereign XS with the white coil. It was super hot/ deep. Mid 1990's.

I wish I had my Sovereign XS and CZ5 still.

Right now it is Tejon. Great separation. Great depth.

It would have to be a CTX

Walt,

From the GA-FL line

Silver microMax, CTX 3030, Excal 2, ATPro