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I have a Smart coming with two coils...looking forward to getting back in the field and doing some occasional hunting. I hope they are better than the G2/Gold Bug though. Those were probably my least favorite of the FT detectors. I don't understand how they can rig the F75 and T2 to go so long on a set of batteries with the performance level that they have...yet the Gold Bug and G2 can ba
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
We tested the Ultimate DD on the Omega and G2, and have also tested them on the T2 and F75.
What you end up with, is a lot more ground coverage than the other coils...that is a gimme though with it being so big.
I hope I don't confuse you or anything, but we didn't really find them to be penetrating into the ground deeper than say the 8.5x11 coil on coin sized objects and smaller.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yep same goes for pulse machines....air test them and you'll be sick at your stomach for spending the amount of money for what they cost. Get them in the field on in ground objects and you'll be saying a line similar to the line in the movie Jaws except it will be "we're gonna need a bigger shovel".
I don't understand it either but then again I don't have to
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
A chunk of gold in such a situation would only be good for a paper weight or a good sized object to bash something in the head with for food. To the native americans, silver and gold was merely used for decorative purposes...not for anything of value. It wasn't until the white settlers came that it became a bartering system for them...the indians probably thought "these people are cra
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm glad you didn't wait til Friday to post this lol I get a bonus from work Friday and it would have been gone if I seen this. My lips are smacking away right now....foaming at the mouth.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Hahah I don't know about the whole mate picking thing.
I want my detectors to be vocal....want my woman to be quiet.
I want my detectors to be light weight...but prefer women with some meat on 'em.
I want my detectors to not eat a lot of batteries...but enjoy a woman who can sit down and eat instead of pick at food like a bird.
I like detectors that are easy to understand....no
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes diversity is going to be the ticket in the case of a financial collapse. Having stock and bond investments ain't gonna mount to a hill of beans if everything tanks. It is bound to happen...sooner rather than later. They can't keep on spending money they do not have. It's like a main artery in the body that has been cut...it is gushing blood and if they don't do somethi
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Ammo and reloading supplies are what a person needs to invest in lol. I've seen simple boxes of .22 LR ammo going for $80 a box and selling fast as they come off the trucks. The local stores aren't even putting it on the shelves anymore...because they have lines of people waiting on them to open the boxes so they can put the tax stickers on them to sell. These same boxes of shells ju
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Interesting. This machine sounds like it comes setup the way I would program a V3i to run...all metal mode for depth in bad ground, set the recovery speed a tick fast, with the bonus of tones. This worked remarkably well on the V3i in bad ground....the faster recovery speed lets you hear the fast double blip of a nail when you hit them. Often times in bad ground, a non ferrous target will begin
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Harold -- My take on the X5...was and is a great machine. If your dirt ain't horribly bad, the stock coil will do a great job with depth. In the bad ground like what is so common around here...the DD coil was what you wanted to have on it. The problem was though, Troy designed the X5's DD coil to be a coil used for smaller gold and such. It's not a big coil for a reason...smalle
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If he would have showed a freshly buried coin...people like you would have complained about it not having a halo or that it had air pockets where the ground hadn't settled yet, etc etc. There's no pleasing people like you. As Ozzie said...take it or leave it, or do your own so we can complain about yours.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I don't doubt the economical side of your observation and predictions...but I don't foresee the leap to metal detecting like you see it. Anybody that has ever metal detected any number of years will know the reality to the hobby....there are only very very few people that are finding enough stuff to actually make profit on the hobby as a whole. Thus why it's a hobby. Those few t
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That is sort of what I've been waiting for in the Garrett line. I liked the AT Pro pretty well. It has its quirks but I liked it over all. The big thing I didn't like was the coil size...the stock coil on the thing is too small for my liking for covering a lot of ground in a big field or open woods. That coil may be the ticket right there; would love to see one working in the actual
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Harold -- There's a bunch I ain't tried. The list is ever growing since I don't currently own a detector and am shooting competitive national level archery. The more detectors hit the market, the further I get behind. I sold the Troy because I didn't have a need for a detector....no sense in having something you don't use. Still don't really have a need for one altho
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think you're going to like it Ray. It is one of the more simple machines out there to set up. For your nugget hunting you are gonna want to keep the pulse delay down in the 10 range. The part you're going to have to figure out is where you want to run High/Low/All conductive switch.....if you're in an area with mostly small nuggets, you can get away with running it in LOW cond
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That machine picks up a lot of depth with the SEF Ultimate coil on it too. Don't worry, I got blasted by folks accusing me of my battery of not being full either when I did a video or two with the Omega. Some people you just can't make happy no matter what. Exactly why I don't do videos anymore. Let 'em figure this stuff out on their own dollar.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Now that post right there is a hidden little nugget.
"Here's a rule of thumb on the DTVG...in a hunted out site I seem to dig 20-25 pieces of iron for every non ferrous target...
If you dont dig at least a dozen pieces of iron for every piece of non ferrous you are not using the machine to the fullest potential..."
In my opinion, a machine that is hailed as great for worki
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Locally a few yeras back, they tore up some ground to make way for a new WalGreens. It was right beside a Civil War era house still standing. They took the dirt down a good ways...I don't know how deep city water lines were put in to, but they had scraped off the soil down to the old city water pipes, as they were in pieces on top of the ground that they had taken it down to. I imagine it
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Soil is not really a solid mass like bedrock. You can penetrate it. A simple way to think of it would be to look at a kids gym with the big ball pit. All of it together looks like one solid mass but it's made up of tiny dirt pieces.That's how things "sink". I believe the scientific term is "stratify" instead of sink rate. Gold panning is an excellent example of it on
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The V3i is a far better relic hunter than a coin hunter. This carries over to the VX3 as well. I had the opportunity to test the prototype for the i upgrade and I took it to quite a few places. One of the harshest soil types you will find in the US, is the iron dirt belt of northern Virginia. I had the chance to hunt with the V3 up there on 3 different farms. I had to do quite a bit of tweek
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Now the question is....is a "hair" faster worth the price difference between them? I don't live n breathe the iron sites...although I do on occasion wander into them just because so many other people usually shy away from them.
Are the other things pretty well equal on them or would there be one feature that one has that the other doesn't that you just couldn't do wit
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If a person were to get one machine and it came down to a decision between the Vista Smart and Vista Gold...which would it be and why? Strictly for relic hunting.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Don Dodson at North GA Relics is a Blisstool dealer. Richard at Backwoods Detectors in TN is a Blisstool dealer. Kellyco is also a dealer and I believe they are also a repair center for them. Several places are dealers for them; those are just off the top of my head. They are great machines for raw depth but it was a bit tricky to discern iron from non iron with it, UNLESS you used it quite a
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
www.mytreasurespot.com/main/read.php?3,576783,577213#msg-577213
A little more info on the Blisstool situation. Seems there is a little discrepancy between them being a distributor for Blisstool and DeepTech.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I wish there was some way to "rent" detectors instead of buying them, trying them out, and then selling them. I would like to give the Smart and Gold a go. I could take it to two places and be able to tell whether I would keep it or not. With these newer detectors from overseas, it's kind of risky to buy one with hopes of reselling it if you didn't like it.....you just abou
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom -- Interesting observation on the discrimination hindrance. It just opened my mind to things I hadn't really paid attention to before. I've tried a bunch of machines over the years trying to find the ones that work good in those heavily mineralized areas...and my list is very small on those that have accomplished the feat. One thing ALL of them have in common that can do great as fa
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