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That's one thing that makes doing detector tests great. Any and everybody that wants to test can make up their own tests by burying whatever they want, however deep they want. They can also post videos if they want or have the ability to do so. These tests will be a great help to all of us.
Have at it!
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
After having the G2+, Gold Bug Pro, and F19, I still think my Racer 2 smokes them all in both park hunting and especially hunting iron infested home sites and ghost towns. JMHO
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I agree with Brian, I have both the 6" and the 5X10". Used mostly hunting western ghost towns and empty lots. I feel the 5X10 separates better side to side while offering better coverage. I think it's as deep or deeper than the 6" also. Since getting the 5X10" right after they first came out, I haven't taken it off the 800.
Tom
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'd like to see some of those coins tested without being surrounded by staples in the folders.
As a long time Nokta/Makro user I appreciate seeing the new Legend. Thanks for the Video!
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When I see a test with the coil cable real loose and flopping around, I wonder just how good or experienced the tester is? Do they really understand how to set up a detector and use one correctly? JMHO
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For years the average standard coil was a concentric coil about 8" in diameter. Companies competing for depth kept increasing the size to increase depth. soon, most all companies had reached their design limits so they started designing DD coils to help with separation. This allowed customers to go back to sites they had hammered with their early concentric coils and allowed them to recover
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Great Hunt Brian! Looking forward to getting out more often now that we're finally into our winter detecting weather here in AZ. Best I could do here today was two 1940 Nickels from a WWII military camp.
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Dilek - I for one am really looking forward to getting my hands on the Legend. I bought the original Racer when it first came out and it was the first detector in a long time that I was really impressed with. I'd been using White's detectors for the most part up until that time. As an ex-Whites dealer, that was where my heart was. The speed and light weight of the Racer really opened my
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One thing I've found after 45+ years detecting and now living in Arizona is that most of the inexpensive batteries don't hold up in the high temperatures we have here in the summer. For example, the Costco Kirkland brand batteries perform well in the winter months but corrode quickly in the heat. The Duracell batteries who make the Kirkland brand (as I understand it) hold up to the heat
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The only drawback to the IDX is that it's a single tone machine. If White's had ever updated it to at least two tones it would really made an excellent detector outstanding. The IDX is a fast response but slower recovery detector. You need to sweep a little slower with it but it will hammer those round non-ferrous targets. Good luck with you IDX.
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In years past the Tesoro's with small coils were good as was the White's Classic III and IDX Pro especially with the Mr. Bill Crabtree mods. Nox with 6" coil is OK but I like the Deus/ORX with 5x9.5" HF coil better. But where the 5x9.5" coil is too large, I'll grab a Makro Racer or Racer 2 with the OOR Coil or the Nel Snake/ CORS Shrew 3x6" coil. I know the Nokt
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Tom Slick
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I've had no issues with the 6" coil but I just, this morning, finished repairing my buddy's 11" coil. Cut new additional ears out of ABS plastic. Reattached the original ears with Black ABS cement then attached the new ears using the same cement. The ears are now twice a thick as the originals. I did this on a Macro Racer coil a few years back and and it's still going str
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$450 for a coil and shaft makes it as expensive as the XP Deus coil and shaft. I just can't see it performing at the same level as the Deus. JMHO. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. They've had an additional two years to get it right. Wasn't it initially due to ship back in Nov. 2019?
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I don't do videos so I guess the 5 x 10 on the end of my detector's lower rod is just a figment of my imagination. I'm too busy using mine to make videos.
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There are other detectors that can perform as well or better than the Equinox 800 at specific tasks. There are better nugget detectors, water detectors, competition detectors, Iron infested site detectors etc. But in my all knowing opinion, There is no better "All Around" do well at all types of detecting than the Nox 800. Put another way: If I could only have one detector and not the t
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For me in CA and AZ soil, a 5" coin is about as deep as the BigFoot will go. I think even a quarter at 6 inches would be missed. You're talking about a coil that's only about 4 inches wide, but bottle caps are nearly invisible to the BigFoot.
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I can't argue with calibil above. I've got a number of the newer detectors with extra coils but the BigFoot coil on a DFX or V3i does a job that no other detector/coil combo can match.
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How about a detector that doesn't need an aftermarket carbon fiber shaft, "S" rod mod. or counter weight to make it swing nice. Come on, Fisher had the ergos figured out years ago with the F75.
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As most detectorists are men, and almost all color blind people are men, I stay away from using color to distinguish density. Just a thought.... Maybe a bar graph much like Fisher's "Confidence" bar. The more blocks filled in the higher the density.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom - That is the older LF or original Deus coil. The Newer LF coils are marked X35 in both 9" and 11" (also larger). The HF coils come in two sizes, 9" round White coil and a 5x9" White elliptical. I use both of the HF coils, and the black LF coils, but for ghost town, iron infested sites and all around hunting, my favorite is the 9" round HF White coil. In my testing it
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