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D&P - I agree with you 95%. I prefer the 7 x11" coil for the beach dry sand for the extra coverage. I think that if Makro had used the 5 x10" coil as standard, they wouldn't have sold as many accessory coils. I've always had a number of coils for each of my detectors but almost exclusively used a large coil for coverage or depth and a small coil for trashy areas. The 5 x10
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Starting to cool off a little here in AZ. At least from a couple of weeks ago when it was 122 degrees. Now were only looking at 108 - 110 average for the next two months.
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D&P - You know, I don't think I've tried it with the 5 X 10 coil. When I'm hitting those trashy areas I just always put on the OOR or 5.5 DD. I'll have to try the same setting with the 5 X 10 and see how it works. I'm usually guilty of setting up a couple of detectors than taking them with me and not switching out coils so much, so when I hit a park, it's usually
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I have a very early Racer and a pre-ordered Racer 2 that came out of the first batch to the U.S. My Racer 2 doesn't overload as easy as the Racer but still overloads pretty easy. After using them both for quite a while now, what initially was a bother, has now become just another tool to use. An example is hunting super trashy park areas with the small coil where I'm just picking coins
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tnss - Thanks for the response to my question. Now I understand how you're using your terminology. For a minute there, I thought you were using a different Racer 2 than I.
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tnsharpshooter, I found your post above a bit confusing. You made a number of statements along the line of targets below the tone break not being heard. Are you sure you don't mean below the ID Filter? The tone break should only change the tone of the target low to mid, mid to high etc. Please explain your use of tone break vrs ID Filter.
Thanks
Tom
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I have found many of those at ghost town sites. The smaller ones are usually about .375" x 2.5". The larger rods like you have, I usually find at railroad sidings and towns near the tracks. The railroad used large batteries for some of the switches and those batteries were the glass jar type mentioned above. They also used Battery oil in these batteries by pouring the oil on top of the
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Years ago, there was another company that made a Hole Hog copy. It was made with a thicker tube and it didn't work nearly as well. Was heavier also. I cut very small notches on the end of the tube and it allows it to cut thru the sod and roots much easier. Otherwise, sometimes the edge of the tube would hit a thick grass root and not want to cut thru it. I think the tube was made out of the
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The BigFoot mounted to a Classic III or IDX goes really deep with the Black Sand switch flipped over to Black Sand. Much deeper than flipped over to normal. That's with the Disc set to minimum of course. Makes a great Saltwater dry sand beach detector.
I sold my 6.59 kHz BigFoot.
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The Hole Hog is a great tool in the right soil. They don't work worth a crap in rocky soil but nice damp sod they work great. I recently saw someone selling a copy. Not sure of the quality, but someone is make a "Hole Hog" copy out there. Keep looking. I'll try to find out who was making it.
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Rick,
I had sold my 8000 a few months back to a hunting buddy and he found he wasn't using it so I got it back this past weekend. We need to get together for an IDX, Omega hunt.
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Rick,
If a company releases a new, do it all detector with all the attributes we'd all like to see, no one will need to ever buy another detector. The companies surely don't want to put themselves out of business. Oh, and by the way. I still have way too many detectors and the bottom has dropped out of the used detector market so why don't you help a brother out, come over and bu
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They need to make some changes to the 8500. I had the 8000 and it like it. When the 8500 was released, I had to have one. I thought great, an 8000 with added features! Kinda like the Racer (which I have) and then the Racer 2 being released (which I have). I had to try the Racer 2 so I bought it and I'm glad I did. Still have both Racers and they are excellent detectors. The 8500 was a big le
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Harold, If you'd buy better detectors to start with, they'd have better resale value. What did you expect to get from your King Detector?
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Zincs, Aluminum screw caps, and bottle caps although you (or I) can tell by the sound if it's a bottle cap. Keith Southern has a youtube video that really helps in learning the different sounds between the bottle caps and coin sounds.
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The M6 is a great coin and jewelry hunter. The MXT Pro is the better relic detector. For your type of hunting, seeing as how you do both, I'd go for the MXT Pro. I recently sold two M6's and an MXT Pro in favor of the Makro Racer 2. For me, the Racer 2 beats both in both types of hunting, especially when hunting iron infested sites.
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I bought the same detector new in 1987. It came with the hip mount bracket just like yours. Maybe yours was one of the first released without the bracket? Was an excellent detector. Very accurate VDI meter, very good depth, and very fast. I loved mine. Replaced it with a White's Eagle II SL 90.5. $350.00?
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The Racer does have a modulated audio but I don't think it's to the same extent as say a White's XLT (one you're familiar with). The audio is a little quieter on deeper targets but not a lot quieter.
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I'm usually using three tone and set my breaks at 29 and 82 so nickels and zincs come in at the mid tones and copper pennies and above are the high tone. When hunting ghost towns I set them at 11 and 65 so non-ferrous hit mid and coins hit high.
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Are you holding the trigger forward with the back of your finger while pumping the coil? Both the Racer and Racer 2 will give a single beep when its ground balanced.
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