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I hope it only reads at the tip. That is what I don't like about the ProPointer...it reads the whole length of the probe part.
The Pistol Probe is a much better probe but wont work in my ground here (it sounds off on the ground itself) but reads from the tip end and can get 3" on a coin.
Very interested in the Minelab version. I just sold my inline probe for the eTrac because of
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Probe is gone. Detector and other accessories mentioned still available. Yes that is shipped price. PayPal is okay but only if 3% is added or gift option selected.
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That depends...are you digging coins 12-14 inches with your Explorer? BTW...if the ground is really good, you can put the TDI into pure PI mode and get crazy depth but everything sounds the same without any low/high tone difference...just one single tone but with that, you can open up the depth range to probably 14 inches with stock coil on coins and maybe even 15-16 inches with after market coil
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Will bust it up since some might not want the probe.
Detector by itself with factory accessories -- $975
Andy's book -- $15
X1 Probe with mid rod -- $125
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James - That is a tough one to answer. I will say....partially. What I mean is, that I'm finding the eTrac to really like mid to high conductive targets and not so much on lower conductive targets. The TDI seems to really excel on low conductive targets. For example, I have a thin brass Civil War eagle cuff button at 9" deep in my test garden. It has been there nearly 7 years now. The T
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The eTrac is a lot more balanced than the Explorer was....they done a little to it to help. The 11" Pro coil was a big part in it, as well as the carbon fiber lower rod. They changed the angle of the grip too. It still isn't as balanced as a F75/T2....especially when you put the SunRay probe on it. The V3 is balanced decently well...with the position of the grip and arm cuff, it puts so
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That has been my finding as well. When I first got the eTrac I still had the T2 with boost mode. The eTrac could ID things better in the ground to depth....vs the T2 that could also see the signal BUT wouldn't ID them correct. If you were just ignoring ID numbers on the F75 - T2, then you're good....if going by ID...then you're leaving silver and other goodies in the ground cause o
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If I keep the eTrac I am either getting an NEL coil for it or the new Detech Ultimate coil.
I once again concur about the other forums and disappearing posts. I am a pretty bold guy and ain't afraid to mix it up with folks if I don't like something. I am one of the few that will do that and I have done it on several occasions on other forums for having posts of mine deleted for reaso
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Ozzie -- That's at 0 disc correct? What happens on yours if you bump it to a setting of 1 or so? I know on the T2 that it wouldn't reject a cannonball frags until a setting of 19-20 pending on the size, vs the F75 where it began rejecting them at around 1 or 2. I remember when artillery frags hunting I had to always drop to all metal on the F75 whereas with the T2 I had a wider range in
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I am looking to sell my eTrac for money towards a GPX unit.
I have a 2011 eTrac with all factory items they come with....chargers, headphones, battery packs. In addition I also have the black SunRay inline probe with an extra middle rod for easy attachment. I have a digital camo screen cover, and Andy's eTrac/Explorer book. Everything is in perfect working order.
If you have any ques
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Will be interesting to see what comes down the pipe in aftermarket coils and accessories for the AT series. I imagine the SEF coil people are probably getting something in the works as well. It would have to be lighter than the stock 8.5x11 though.....on the chassis of the AT Pro, even that coil is very unbalanced. May be in part due to it being weighted to help swing in water or additional seali
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Troy had a device he sent me one time that was used to calibrate the units. It plugged into the control box via the coil connection point. What it done was it allowed the machine to not be affected by EMI...and you could turn the sensitivity up to a certain point without it getting erratic, etc. There was a whole check list but I'm sorry I can't be more help. This has been 10 yrs or so
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Troy recommended setting the GB slightly positive. When I had an X5 I spoke to him several times on the phone. I really wish I would have held onto mine....awesome machines. Troy is a bit of a perfectionist and everything has to be just right or he wont go with it. Plus there was some bad doings from folks that were bent on running him and his company into the ground. Great machines though and st
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Come around here with a 1265 or 1266 and you'll be better off digging holes at random by throwing your shovel into the air and digging where it lands. :-) As the Hardees commercial says "And that's just the way it is". Hehe. Now if you found a brand new camp that had never been hunted and most things were 6" or less then you're cooking. But the camps around here..
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I never thought the F75 done well in iron either. It and the T2 were suited for relic hunting more so than coin hunting IMO. Even in the better soils I hunted in, the way to get the most out of them was motion all metal and ignore the meter and numbers...just go by the philosophy "if it doesn't double blip, dig". Or at the very least, hunt in 1 tone mode and very little discriminat
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If you want to detect freshwater beaches here you have to have a permit. I've applied twice and not got one yet. It's a TVA thing. Has a set of rules I don't care for too.
There is another area close by that is not a TVA lake and the beach area of it is detectable but you have to pay a daily use fee of $5.
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I didn't notice a depth difference between the Pro and regular TDI either. I liked the Pro for the volume control feature and the eliminating of the toggle switches.
We didn't really do much air testing between the machines. I think the most I did was at North GA Relics when I first held the SL and ran a few items across the coil to check it out before buying it.
I've had s
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SL - 12 years ago
I am not a fan of the SL. Carl Mooreland gave a radio show Q&A last night on Relic Roundup and discussed the future of the TDI platform and beyond. Basically the SL was designed as an entry level PI...it is not as powerful as the TDI or TDI Pro and wasn't designed to be. Whatever it was that they done to smooth the machine took some umph out of it. I think it had something to do with how
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Heck yeah I'm interested if the Price is Right lol I can think back over the many MANY detectors I've had over the past 15 yrs and can only honestly say I regret parting ways with just a few. The CoinStrike was one of the few. A bit unbalanced unless it was hip mounted but otherwise it really brought the relics out of the ground in red dirt. Seems like I recall having to run the thresho
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Not trying to hijack a thread, but why isn't the CoinStrike discussed as much as the CZs are? I have only had three CZs....had the CZ-70, a CZ3D when they first came out, and a CZ20. Now this is back before we realized the danger if running discrimination in red dirt...but even back then, I favored the CZ70 over the CZ3D. And to this day my favorite of the older Fisher machines is the CoinS
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Battery life is a lot longer on the F75 vs G2/Gold Bug. If you detect 2-4 hrs a month it might not be a big deal though. Throw 4 AAs in a F75 and hunt all week every day for 8 hrs a day :-).
Not sure about the 1266 suggestion though. I had a 1265 and 1266 and actually still have the 1265...more so as a memoir of the first "real" detector I ever got than anything else. I wouldn'
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Wouldn't it be awesome if we could get a magnet powerful enough to rip iron up out of the ground that didn't require heavy machinery? Lol just drag it behind you on the ground and anything magnetic down to 6" just gets sucked up and stuck to it.
This lower iron disc thing worked awesome for us Monday. I took a fella hunting I go to church with and let him dig some relics. I did
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Ahh but there is no promise that tomorrow will come. We like to plan ahead and in advance and think we have many yrs ahead of us. Truth is: cemeteries are full of young folks who never made it to their plans for tomorrow. So enjoy things today is my motto.
If they come out with a new unit it is always wise to wait til they get the first run out and about. Let the show boaters pre order them a
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I find myself coming here more and more to read and just post in general. I like being able to post about different brands and models in the same post and not having to work around red tape. Not worried about getting banned for life because I post on other forums and don't suckle at the "power teat". Not worried about getting posts deleted because I compared a F75 against a AT Pro
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Ahh but when (not if) gold hits $3000-5000 an ounce, that micro gold will be worth going after for sure.
I too would love to see a better pulse machine hit the market, barring that it's not priced like a Minelab GPX (or higher). If I could buy any currently available machine today it would be a 4800 or 5000 GPX but that's still a huge chunck of cash even at discount prices.
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If I remember right, the F75 still has a certain degree of iron rejection even with the disc set to 0 or very low numbers. That was one area that the F75 and T2 differed majorily. I recall one site I hunt regularly that has artillery shells and frags in it and the F75 could only get them in all metal where as the T2 could get them in disc mode if you lowered it enough....the F75 would knock out a
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This holds true for here as well...most places are red clay and some places have the prettiest black/grey dirt that you can find. The same goes for the infamous Culpeper County in Virginia....most of it is the nastier of red dirt I've hunted in...yet on the ridges in the woods, the ground is black/grey and rocky and VLF machines do extremely well. In the red stuff, the pulse machines take ov
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Fe03 - 12 years ago
If the ground is reading that high (I often encounter it at .1) then you are right and wrong at the same time. Detector is seeing the deeper coins but you are discriminating them out. Even at your disc level of 6. The coins 5+ inches are reading bad enough that most of the time they are IDing into the iron range and not coming through as good targets. What they will be doing is bouncing back and
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I actually just got back from a short relic hunt with a Tejon. Last year I done a couple videos showing the Tejon in red dirt against an F75. Since doing that video I've received a crap load of hate mail, fan mail, and also some tips worthy of giving it a go.
I will say one of the tips stunned me. It was the only one to work out of the list I had of things to try. It came from Monte on wh
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You might try looking into after market coils for your G2 as well. Not sure which coil you are currently running on it but anyway you cut it, the cost of a coil is a lot less than a detector and if you're relic hunting open areas, something like a 12x15 will give you the 2+ inches without much added weight over the 8x11. I'm not sure what all is available for the G2 though.
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