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Would love to see what they could do with a lower freq like 7-8 with the sparky gain and mineralization handling capabilities shown on all these 14khz and up units. Attn Dilek
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Good gracious that's some rough audio. Like they sped up the bell tone on a ace 250. Set aside some money as I'm anxious for a new machine. Unless theres some tweak to be done I Don't think I could put up with that. It would have to stay in 2 tone. From what I've been hearing they aren't a slouch on depth. Hitting that depth fresh buried penny with that aggressive discri
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After 25 (+?) years no one has topped Jerry Tyndalls DMCs. I ran mixed mode on the V3i and Vx3 some, but my preference was hunting in All metal and then checking in disc as mixed mode on the V just didnt click with my ears/brain. If disc couldn't hit a faint all metal signal or gave a very faint modulated non ferrous tone that may only hit one way when you're TRYING to hear it; better i
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Found my first this past summer in a house site, about 3" down. Came out of the dirt such a dull gray I thought it was a thin pewter flat button at first. It's one of my favorite finds, they're beautiful coins. Its amazing how small they are, if memory serves I weighed it and it was right at exactly half the weight of a barber dime.
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I use an altoids tin lined with foam I cut with a exacto knife. Used to use old film containers with cotton for buttons. Did the job, but ocasionally you find something larger like a silver quarter that wont fit. This past weekend I found a civil war belt adjuster with about 3" of the leather intact, altoid tin worked great. I cut little grooves in the foam to hold coins in place.
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Its funny how machine specific phones are. I didnt care for the prostars on my explorers, not bad just "meh". However they bring a racer to life. I was shocked at how good they sound on the makro. They do fit a little tight on a big headed guy like myself. Now the pro golds absolutely rock on FBS units
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Don't really like any of them, but have respected Cruz's perspective in the past. Rubio's slacker rep is disconcerting, but we did elect a man who's never had a real job in his life. I think Bernie is true to himself and sincere, but his economic views are just blatantly ignorant. Trump will speak on things politicans wont touch, which is good and bad. He just can't reign
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Keith
Please share your thoughts on the all metal mode with the ISAT. Curious how it performs in the 14khz platform. Any deeper than the red racer? Does the threshold "communicate" like on the older whites machines? I love AM hunting when you can do it, but found on the red racer it didn't offer anything disc modes couldn't in my generally mild dirt.
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After carolina hung up 49 on the cards, (though helped by turnovers)a team with a top 5 defense themselves I really didnt think their offense would be totally shut down. I must say I didnt think theyd struggle that badly. Kept expecting the big one over the top but it never came. Knew denver would have a hard time moving the ball and they did. Carolina had been running alot of max protect package
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Panthers are the more complete team overall IMO. Both defenses are very good but Mannings going to have a tough time moving the ball the way the panthers bring pressure directly up the gut with those two monster DT's. Pulling for the broncos as a peyton win riding off into the sunset would be cool. But realistically my gut says carolina wins by 3 possesions or more.
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Cant go wrong either way. To me, factoring in price a clean SE pro with an extra coil or two, or even a sunray probe thrown in is the better route. But the etrac is certainly a great machine. I just have a hard time with the etrac 12 line, dont like how it congests targets. Prefer the explorer "square", but I didnt hunt with the etrac a ton. I own 3 explorers now, all explorer 2's.
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My 3 year old has one. It does work though the signal is really delayed. He plays in the yard with it and I let him use my pinpointer to find the target.
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The hunter will likely balance better than the stock with the forward coil lugs, may be able to crank 2 tone up a little more as theyre shielded so well.
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If it's your thing, the all metal features should be a little deeper than the Gold (assuming comparable to the MXT). Thats one thing White's has on alot of machines is a smooth all metal. Eagerly awaiting reports. I used an Mxt when I got back into detecting and found a lot of good stuff. Can't say there's anything about one I really have to have though. All 3 are good machi
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If you have a BPS nearby they have vests in their Fly fishing section. Thats what i use one long hunts. I also have about a 40" tall camo back pack that loads from the top. It'll hold a detector broken down in half, a sampson digger, headphones, finds bag, water, snacks, plus whatever else. I use it as kind of a home base on day long woods hunts.
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Wow what a POS. The 5 "search modes" are just reccomended settings. On another note could they more blatantly copy the Garrett digital camo finds pouch? I wouldn't touch any of their products with someone else's money.
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If it werent for the bell tone the Ace series would be very formidable at the price. I grabbed my uncle an ace 150 to find track hoe teeth when he losses them. Played around in the test garden. The dern thing will hit a buried dime right at 7" with the coin tone with the smaller concentric coils. Ive had a couple expensive machines that cant hit that coin. Too bad it sounds like its a foot
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Daniel Tn Wrote:
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> The general assumption is that this is Whites
> answer to compete with the AT Pro. What if it is
> to be a new flagship to compete against the
> Minelab CTX 3030 instead?! That would be a whole
> different animal if the performance was there and
> that $1,300 price that seems to be floating aroun
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Awesome. Knowing the provenance makes it that much sweeter. The rifleman buttons are nice, never found any lettered regular eagles other than the I's.
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The deus is a whole different animal. They HAVE to make the warranty a big deal as every one sold has an expiration date of sorts.
I could care less about how long the warranty is on a traditional machine. Never had to contact a manufacturer other than Makro, and they took care of me. Most defects are going to show up like steve said in the first season and everyone covers you through that
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Tom, do you think we will get to the point where some type of in-ground imaging is possible in a conventional detector type chasis? Thinking about some of the ways Google can identify objects from images/shapes you could possibly have software that would report on coin shaped objects.
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Im sure their aware of whats out there and have a look, theyd be naive not to. But the comments about first texas shaking in their boots every time a new machine rolls out of an eastern block country is ridiculous. Read whats out there from the actual engineers, they just dont think like that. They have budget constraints and bean counters to answer to in a field thats been beat to death (VLF an
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Great people that take care of you. Don't think they get the credit they deserve for the QUALITY of their products either. Seems when they release a product, you can buy with confidence that there won't be bugs and material/workmanship issues alot of other companies have. I've got a certain Turkish detector that after a few months use is about to fall apart after the thin, cheap pl
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tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Kenny,
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> I agree the extra batteries may indeed help with
> balance --- but other material besides extra
> batteries could be used for ballast.
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> How old is the F 75??
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> And the freq on this detector is similar-- I don't
> beleive White's is capable of making
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Ive had some great results on silver coins believe it or not. Experimented with a few black mercs that were burned, nothing worked but electroylisis. Obviously anything valuable I'd beware, but if your careful not drag the clamp across the face and scratch it my understanding is you really cant booger up silver.
Ive done it on some copper coins with mixed results. Frank lopergolo (sp?) Ak
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lytle78 Wrote:
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> Here's a link to the Treasure Net thread on the
> contest which was supposed to get the winner a
> free detector but didn't. Post #58 is where the
> owner "Jason" explains what happened. It is that
> post which has the info on him relocating from
> Southern China to Southern Cali
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Whites blue and grey on .58 caliber minie's. Faint signal with that pronounced meter twitch produced some deep bullets for me years ago. Still a good machine if you want to scout a large unknown block of woods. Really want another, extra style points added due to the rebel and american flag in the box.
Nautillus dmc IIBA on coat buttons.
Explorer 2 on copper pennies. Lots of 11"er
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