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I'd have to say in the last 40 years, these are the detectors that I used long enough or made big enough finds to say they actually paid for themselves. I've had many others that just didn't get used enough.
Compass Gold Scanner Pro
White's Eagle II SL 90.5
White's DFX
White's PI Pro
White's V3i
Tesoro Tiger Shark
Minelab Sovereign Elite
Minelab Sovere
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That's how they get around the "they don't work" issue. They say you have to "be in tune with it", "your body energy has to be correct", "You must be one with it" or some other bull @#$%&. Ooops, I said a bad word. Well that's just how I feel about LRL's. Why spend thousands when you can just bend a couple of coat hangers or get a forked
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Somethings wrong with your computer. 12 detectors and about 20 coils and I've never gotten that email. I've probably owned over 100 detectors in the past 40 years not counting the ones I had in inventory when I was a dealer. You'd better get a new computer FAST!
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I always got a kick out of the fact that if you buy a LRL and are not happy with it, you can return it for a refund (less a small 20% restocking fee). So a person spends $5000, returns it and the seller keeps $1000. I'm pretty sure they only ever made one of the damn things and they just keep reselling the same one over and over.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Darn. Somebody else has found out about the Racer! We all need to keep quiet about it. Seeing as how you've already discovered it's abilities I guess I can say congrats, and I'm sure you'll really be happy after using the Racer at your ghost town site.
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I haven't found the 82 VDI to really be an issue for me. When hunting newer parks or schools, I usually ignore the 82's as they are MOST always a zinc penny or a screw cap. Neither are items that I care to retrieve. When I hunt older sites such as ghost towns, and railroad sidings, where there's a good possibility of older coins then I'm going to retrieve any and all targets t
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Lawrenzo, I'm hunting here in AZ where most of the targets in ghost towns and Railroad sidings are very shallow because we don't have all the vegetation dropping leaves over the top or insects and rodents digging below targets causing them to sink. Often I run The Racer gain at 01 in the really nasty iron infested sites. It sure helps to eliminate responses from adjacent pieces of junk.
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
At first I didn't like the Camo on the F19 but seeing as how it didn't come in black and I liked the pink even less, I ended up buying the green Camo F19. After a short while I began to like it and actually like it better than the black.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Mike,
My other detectosr are used for other types of detecting. White's V3i, I use for clad and jewelry fresh drops using a BigFoot coil. Tesoro Tiger shark is used when I'm water hunting fresh water lakes. Minelab Sovereign GT is for wet saltwater beach sand, M6's with HotFoot coils for competition hunts (one for my wife, son, and myself) etc. Not so hard to believe. F19 can
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I used my F19 and Racer for the same two tasks. One being hunting ghost towns with huge amounts of iron nails and tin cans. The other area I used the two detectors is on the dry saltwater beach sand. After using many different models and brands over the past 40 years of detecting, I had settled on the F19 for these two areas. I had a Gold Bug Pro that I was using at these sites and when the F19 w
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think someone had planted those eggs the night before and was planning on bring their kids that morning for an Easter egg hunt. Probably showed up as soon as you left. One year we died Easter eggs with my young daughter. I went around the back yard hiding them the afternoon before Easter. The plan was to have my daughter hunt for them the following morning (Easter). I didn't worry about le
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The PI will work fine in fresh water but the difference between a VLF and a PI is a lot less in fresh water. In salt water the PI has a much greater advantage. The PI will also keep you from missing good targets because you'll be digging or scooping everything. Some folks like using a little discrimination to eliminate the iron bobby pins and fish hooks but you do risk missing good targets t
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Dug a complete cast iron pot with a glass lid. It was centered between three pine trees that formed a triangle. This was in a state park about 20 years ago. It was a perfect spot so that the person that buried it would always remember where it was. Being in a state park meant that it wouldn't get built over in the future. After reading one of Carl Vonmueler's books, I was sure I'd
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Mike,
I also liked using the F75Ltd2 with the FA mode. I had both the 5"DD and the 3"x 6" concentric for the F75 but as soon as I started using the Racer with the 5" coil, the F75 went up for sale.
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Troy X2 and X3 were designed by Troy and manufactured by Tesoro for him. The X5 was Manufactured by Fisher for Troy and built to his specs. or design.
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My favorites have been some of the Tesoros and the White's Classic III and IDX Pro until recently. I also like the Fisher Gold Bug Pro and F19 but my latest is, so far my all time favorite and it's the Makro Racer. It picks goodies out of areas full of iron that have been hunted to death for many years.
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Only 106 here today. Same tomorrow but I'll be hitting the site about 6:00 AM. We usually manage to hunt until about 10:00 or so and then it's pool time.
Mesa, AZ
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The F19 is super quiet even running it at maximum gain on the dry sand. It works like most all VLF's on the wet saltwater beach sand and by that I mean it doesn't work very well. It works so - so on the wet but not near as well as the ***** or the ********. I loved using mine on the dry sand with the 11" coil and it was my favorite dry sand detector until I started using the *****
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Tom Slick
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum