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sharpshooter -- You have to look past Critter. The best thing to do is if you see his name, scroll and scroll and scroll some more til you get right past the darn post/book he made...then scroll some more cause he usually posts another one to follow up the first one. Don't waste your time replying to him. You could do a video showing what you are talking about and he would say something like
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I wouldn't recommend an Infinium. It is a very very unbalanced machine. The first thing you'll need is a new rod to balance it on. The stock headphones are horrible and the machine itself is very cheaply made. I had one for a little while and was very careful with it and broke one of the knobs off of it by simply turning it. I've used the Infinium, TDI, and GPX...the 3 most popular
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I don't know much about the CTX...I have hunted with it for a few minutes and got an idea of how it works in comparison to the eTrac.
I will say this about something I saw with my own two eyes and was fairly impressed. Don Dodson took a square nail and a minie ball, and put the machine on a bench table he has in his shop. He took the nail and the bullet, one in each hand, and placed the
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Very good thread. Agreed with everything!! I will take it a step further and say that the person who learns the all metal side of a machine will also benefit from being able to pick deep non ferrous things out from iron. Certain machines are better at it than others too.
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Problem is....you guys are using settings and features of the V3I....and he is asking about the VX3. I have owned the F75 and was part of the test crew on the V3i prototype. I loved the V3I. I was forced to sell mine for the need of tires for my truck....and later on, the VX3 came out. I said to myself "now here is basically a stripped down V3i for a bargain price" and bought one. Th
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I had two XTerra 70s....neat units but buying the different freq coils for it can get expensive. I had a couple for mine and a buddy of mine had one also and owned the coils I did not have so I eventually got to try them all....except for the newest one that's after market design. The red dirt at my bullet site shuts them down no matter the coil size or freq. You'll not get a reading on
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think the new and used detector market is stagnant right now. I see a lot of detectors going on the boards but nobody's buying anything. The reason you're seeing CTXs is because a part of your brain called the reticular activator. It's the phenomenon when you buy a new vehicle and before you bought it you didn't notice anybody else in town with one...then when you buy one, y
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
There have been several great tips from you guys. I've not had the time to sit down and finish what I started on my DO's but will get to it eventually.
For now I will say this: the area of TN that I live in is well known for its racial discrimination, but it's not what you're probably thinking. Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was mostly the white folks discriminating agai
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The eTrac never was one of my favorites. If I were coin hunting, I might could appreciate the eTrac platform more for ID purposes. As a relic hunter though, I just ask for one thing as far as ID goes...and that is to tell me whether something is iron or not iron....and hopefully, what SIZE iron. I like digging medium size to big iron...don't like square nails though. The Deus is doing th
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Keith -- That's dead on the money...don't air test good at all. Its more like a pulse machine in that regard...must have ground matrix to show its muscle.
Coins really aren't my "thing" but they sure are when they have ties to the Civil War. I could care less about digging silver dimes...but if they are 1865 or older...they get my smile going.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My buddy also found a 1920ish Merc dime in the field. It's just too hot to be daytime hunting. I raised up from digging one hole and thought I was going to hit the ground from blacking out. That was my last hole of the day when I did that.
I wont go back without my buddy though...it's his property anyway and he found the spot. We're gonna hunt tomorrow night at a couple of m
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Went digging early this morning to a Civil War homesite...spent several hours there looking around and didn't find much but odds and ends. I got one fired roundball and that was it. It got hot very quick and I took my buddy back by his house. Saturday he had hunted a newly cut field across from his house and had got into a bunch of iron signals and had dug "a button" he wanted m
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I wish we could hunt them here. Our problem in Tennessee is that most of our rivers are dammed up by TVA for electric purposes or flood control...and nearly every inch of river bank is owned by TVA...in which they don't allow detecting. You can get a permit to metal detect TVA beaches, campgrounds, and boat ramps but you cant use it to relic/artifact hunt on their property. They consider an
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I didn't think the GMP could be purchased in the US? How are you guys getting them?
Fortunately it is summer and I've been using the speaker on the Deus remote instead of the phones. I have tried the headphones but can't get them to stay on my ears or head. I knew people had been iffy on them but had adjusted to them...I can't even get them to stay on my ears long enough t
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have the Blisstool and Deus. The Deus is the newest to me. It is perhaps the funnest machine I've used. I can't get over how tiny it is. Great machine for exploring new ground or hunting really thick iron trash. It's no slouch for bad ground...not as deep as the Blisstool in bad ground though.
There are things I like about each...and things I don't like too.
1. I don
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That boy who posts as "nugget noggin" with his YouTube vids and such is a Garrett poster child. He has Garrett on speed dial. I think he owns 6 ProPointers and if you follow him on Facebook, at any given time one of them is being worked on at Garrett. Of course he hunts nearly every day so maybe it's just excessive use.
Critter -- You are the most pessimistic person I think I
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
We did a similar test on Civil War bullets at one of my bad dirt sites with the CTX, Deus, and Blisstool. I think we located and tested 9 bullets that day, and the CTX didn't get a signal on any of them...wide open field, no masking. I wasn't impressed at all with it...but we didn't video any of the CTX stuff because Don had only had it out a handful of times at that point and wa
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I've seen more eTracs for sale than I have anything else...people going TO the CTX from the eTrac.
There ain't a do it all machine for sure. The FBS stuff is neat technology but it does lack in a lot of areas. I have a home site I had hunted for several months with several different coils on the eTrac that I had. I dug a lot of silver and wheat cents out of that yard and had hun
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
We hit a rabbit trail with this in Kevin's thread about offering $ to hunt places. I thought it would be a good idea to start another thread on getting permission...the do's and don'ts of doing it and such. Every forum we visit, we seem to get hung up on the metal detectors themselves....which is deeper, which is better in trash, how to set them up, etc. Often over looked, is th
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think we need to open a thread about permission seeking tactics and all of us add to it the DO's and DON'Ts we've discovered over the years. As mentioned before...that is way more critical to successful hunting than having the latest and greatest machine AND knowing the ins and outs of it.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
People down south are no different....actually landowners here are probably harder to get permission from. Why? Because of so long of a history with other detectorists...one bad apple ruined the bunch for them. All of the known civil war sites down here are that way and their main thought process is that ALL relic hunters are that same way. So every door we knock on has probably had run ins with
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The way a person asks permission is a whole tactic in its own right. I've been metal detecting for 16 years this year and I can think of only 3 times I've been told no. 3 out of a crapload of sites I've been given permission for. We spend so much time here discussing new products and how to get the most out of our detectors...when we overlook the most critical of all...gaining a
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BG -- I just bought a XP Deus on Saturday so my detecting play money is spent right now or I would for sure hop on the X5. If you're interested I will give you his email and you could pick up a really nice condition X5 for $500 with 3 coils. There is one on the classifieds of another forum for $600 something with 2 coils.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have. Sometimes you run into people that are loaded anyway and say they don't need it. That's how the DIV hunts get on property that hasn't been hunted much or hunted at all except by brave/stupid night hawkers. When you make an offer of $250 a person for 350-400 people for a weekend of Diggin...when that kind of money talks, people start listening. Now I know they don't get
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tested today with more in ground stuff...my main curiosity was to see how big or little of an impact frequency played on known in ground targets. To be honest I didn't see that much of a change in its performance via just swapping frequencies. Or would I be better off by saying not much measurable difference as far as response/depth. The big change I saw was on a bullet at about 7 inches in
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I mostly relic hunted with my X5. I do recall its strong suit being nickels though. That seemed to be the eyebrow raiser with it...some claimed getting 14-15 inches in air tests on nickels. The X5 was a very high priced unit for the time...not many people wanted to lay down a grand for a machine without target ID or tone ID. On top of that, in its heyday, not many people were doing the detecting
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I actually caught my 5th or 6th wind....ain't crashed yet lol Deus charged fast and I had to try it out in the yard. Impressed with it in my test garden with just factory settings. The only thing it don't hit is my 12" minie ball but as said before, I took it from factory settings and it was dark. We've been blessed with several inches of rain for the past 5 days. Good soaking
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I like those Injun head cents. They are one of my favorites. Just got home from picking up my new to me Deus and have it charging now. Have been up 26 hrs straight as of this message at 6:30 p.m. EST...and its time to crash lol Wanted to play with it a bit this evening but don't think that's gonna happen. Maybe I will have luck shine my way with the Deus when I take it out. I have sever
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The Shadow X5 is one of my favorite machines of all time. A local hunting buddy of mine has one for sale right now with 3 coils for $500 and I want it so bad I can't hardly stand it. Deep iron fooled it but that thing went deep, was easy to set and just fun to use.
I had the Musky for a little while and it never grew on me. For a Minelab, its build quality was very cheap looking and feeli
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Daniel Tn
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think the biggest issue is that its summer time and many of us aren't out hunting because of heat or fields with crops, etc. So we are spending more time indoors and snooping and pooping the forums way more than normal. Thus tension between folks is higher than normal. I see it on all the forums I visit...not exclusive to metal detecting either. Some of the deer hunting forums I visit are
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Daniel Tn
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