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Looks to be about $700-$800 US.
Not sure if that is MSRP or if that's just what they would cost to get one. Seems awfully high for a non metered machine.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I sent Tesoro an email last night and got a reply today regarding the Euro Sabre II. They said they were available to us here in the US as a specialty unit.
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I can understand that part of it (masking due to removing the house) but I'm referring to home sites that have just been let go from neglect, and have fallen in. Usually they have rusty tin roofs that have fallen flat on top of the foundation of the house. I have hunted several of those kind of home sites and have came home empty handed of coins many times. I usually say if its got a rusty
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Just done more research and edited my original post.
Price would be equiv of $576.75 US dollars for one of them.
Three discrimination modes, and operating freq of 10.6 kHz. Youtube vids looked neat although I couldn't understand most of what they were saying, I could hear the detector when they were running it over the iron and coins they had on the ground.
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Went back out there today...my wife was having ferrier work done on her horses, and I decided to hunt the horse pasture adjacent to the homesite I've been finding the coins at.
I dug one and only one signal. A sweet 12 - 42/44 on the eTrac. Stopped me in my tracks. I dug expecting to see a silver Rosie or Merc dime and to my surprise I saw silver..and something round...but not a coin.
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Yeah but that is the point...every year on the forums you see the same chatter about "we are due a new machine..." and thus we go into the next year waiting and waiting.
I think Carl @ Whites brought up a very good point in his interview with Relic Roundup radio show a few weeks ago. Point being that in this slow economy, detector companies aren't seeing it as really a big race
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Harold -- If I had the money I would have, but technically this eTrac is already sold. I listed it on eBay and it sold last Sunday BUT the buyer hasn't paid me yet...he says he is waiting on his tax return to come. In my opinion he shouldn't have bought something that he did not have money in hand to buy, but what can I do now that wont kill my 100% feedback rating? eBay has a certain t
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3-2-2012, Tennessee got slammed by one wave of severe thunderstorm after thunderstorm, many of which resulting in tornado touchdowns and lots of destruction. We really don't know how bad as of yet; I know of several funnel cloud pics I've seen from friends on Facebook, and a few videos showing some on the ground as well. At any rate, before the storms got here I was on my way home from
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I had one of the Musky machines but in all fairness, didn't give it much of a chance. The build quality on it was not what you'd expect from Minelab and it was a very coil heavy detector. I only had the stock coil for it...I think they made several for it though. In my dirt here, I didn't see a vast improvement over anything else I had used...but at the time I had it, I wasn
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Harold -- Agreed!! I had a CoinStrike years ago when they were still making them and there were 3 things people hated about it:
1. Bottlecaps!! The steel rusty ones will ID as a coin every time...and you are correct, I took the eTrac to a site littered with them and didn't find a single one.
2. Sluggish buttons. The menu system to change the simplest of settings often requires several
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I sold it for personal reasons. My wife had to have some medical tests ran and my insurance through work STINKS, and left us with around $5k worth of out of pocket bills to pay. So I made a decision on which was more important....a $5k toy or paying bills, and thus the GPX had to go. Just not been able to get another one.
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There has been quite a bit of interest in these machines on the forum, and I decided I'd put this together exclusively for you guys. This is back when I had the machine and done some videoing with it here and there. This will give you an idea of what they sound like and what they are capable of anyway...I don't have much video in the field with the machine as I didn't get to keep
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Nautilus machines only get good raves in the sandy east coast soils....not the loam and clays of the mid south. I've had the IIb and IIba...from the 6" coil to the 15" coil. In our pockets of good ground they do okay...no doubt in sandy lowcountry soil they probably rock...but in our bad soil places, everything still beyond X amount of depth will read as iron and you're forced
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There's not much out there right now that CAN handle that kind of dirt in the VLF realm. Trust me, I've already spent a few thousand dollars trying them, and inviting people up to test them.
There are a few VLFs that done decent here, and you've already had a couple of those. Then the PI machines that really excel in it. The only one that can handle your nail sites would be th
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First all I apologize for the quality of this video. My video editing software lets me do it really good, but in order to have very good video quality the file is huge and takes FOREVER to upload on YouTube. I only have WiFi internet available here and don't want to spend 3+ hrs waiting on a video to upload while at a WiFi spot. So I made it a small file for faster uploading purposes. Yo
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eTrac wont do that here Harold. You MIGHT get the silver half at 12 inches but not a quarter or dime. This I know for fact. At 7 inches in our ground, the eTrac begins reading a silver dime as iron...wont even pick it up in disc mode by using just the "extensive nail pattern" that you can download from the Minelab website. It just nulls on it. Yep I have it on video that I am getting r
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I tried to help find a cache once but was unsuccessful. A buddy of my uncle is an old crazy mountain man and had made him up some White Lightning and had several quart jars full of it. He came home drunk and his wife went on a rampage and began throwing his precious Shine outside busting the jars. He grabbed what he could and ran out to hide the rest from her. He was successful. Problem was...he
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The Minelab GPX will blow them all away for coins at crazy depths and for never wavering on how it reads them. It will always give a low tone for high conductive targets and can effectively give iron breakup "discrimination" down to about 12 inches or so on nail size objects and a little beyond that on larger iron. You wont dig any aluminum can slaw or pull tabs, or other common alumin
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There are little tricks to the AT Pro. Trashy sites are probably best hunted with the new smaller elliptical DD coil that came out for the AT Gold and Pro. The thing sure has a language of its own but goes pretty deep and is great in trash for cherry picking. Pinpointing is easy....a bit more difficult in chest deep water though. But the AT Pro was light years ahead of the Excalibur II in the wat
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Wow $300 a year in clad is a lot. Must have a good source of replenishing depository lol I'd be on the liberal estimate side to say I bet I don't get more than $30 a year from clad in a good year. Use to you could detect school yards but now all local ones are fenced in and locked up. This past summer I hunted swimming holes after I got an AT Pro and then Excalibur II....found over $50
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Denari -- I had trouble with understanding the language...but in one of the other videos, thanks to the bubble icons that popped up, I could tell what targets were being used and of course with the ruler right there, I could see and hear the detector and get a very good picture of what I was looking for. In that one test with the holes in the side of the dirt bank...that was really impressive wi
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I'm in the same boat as Keith. I haven't been detecting as long as him and haven't found as much either. I feel like I was born a generation or two too late for the hobby. Most of what I find is left overs from the original hunters who found the sites. Last yr I done something I said I would never do and sold everything but my plates and I kept a display case of "firsts".
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Do any of you have the 11" DD or other DD coils (Detech) for it? If so, how does it do on relics? Say a eagle coat button and .58 minie ball? I am looking at one of these with the 11" coil or possibly getting one and trying the Detech Ultimate 13" coil on it...if I can't find anyone that has one and can give feedback. I will be the Guinea pig lol
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AT Pro is a fine machine now that they have ironed out the start up kinks. Don @ North GA will do you right. He's in the old part of down town Ringgold....its easy to drive by and not see unless you're looking hard for it.
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What part of Southeast, TN? I'm in the Athens area and there are two or three local Fisher dealers here. One in Knoxville, Chattanooga, and in Ringgold, GA....I buy all my new ones from North GA Relics...can be down there in 45 mins.
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Yep coin over nail is easy. Every machine I've had will do that. But the nail elevated over the coin...different story.I've yet to test one that could get a clear signal on the coin.
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Here's another for ya. I know this one 100% true because it happened on the adjoining property where I grew up.
There was an older man and woman that owned it. He was a big time cattle man...they own probably 1,000+ acres here. Any rate, he was the guy that didn't dress in nice clean clothes and the house he lived in was probably 600-700 sq ft with dirt floor. His wife was different.
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I'm the same way with relics. Have dug 4 breast plates but not a US oval. Everybody I relic hunt with has found one....oddly, most of the same ones have never found a breastplate. In CS buttons its the same way....I've not dug any of the "common" CS buttons that dominate this area....like block I and Cast I buttons. Instead, my only two are a VMI Cadet button and CS droop wing
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Barber coins. I've found seated, mercs, Rosie's, but no barbers. Seems like most of the older homes here still standing are 1900-1920s so barbers should be easy but have eluded me.
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I have a better test for you to try.
Take a square nail or your hex wrench. And take something like a Glad snap tight container for snacks and such. And tape your nail or wrench on top of the container, and tape/glue your dime to the bottom of the container. Then report back to us your results...I bet every one of them will hit the dime when it's on top and probably none of them will e
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