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I have very little experience on the small coils as i mostly detect pasture, but i know a lot of you guys love the smaller coils, so please give it a view and tell me how it rates in your experience.
It a 5'' coil on a 9''( or the depth of a makro pointer lol ) nickel, the ground balance reads just touching the high mineralisation at 26 (0-25 high mineralisation, 35-80
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Unfortunately not, I'm taking the family off to the beach a for week, I'll get to it as soon as im back.
I did give the hay field a quick hour though, after years of going over it, using a different detector on different day it still throws up some bits and bobs lol
Had been using an etrac for pasture till i sold it, tried the Racer2 lately, it just didnt cut it, been using the GM
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This is the scene at my place, the fields are getting baled and im soon to have my test area back.
You can just see the roof of my house in the 3rd pic, it's on my old map back in the 1830s, in the 2nd pic in the far field between the trees you can see a pimple sticking up out of the green grass, that's a bronze age barrow, in the 1st pic the trees just in front of the tractor hide
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I don't know, his detector showed 2 bars, my soil typically showed 3-4 on the R2 and i found 2 tone deeper, saying that i mainly hunted slow and low in deep mode to get some sort of depth lol
But he's put a fair bit of effort into making a decent test garden for any detector, i really like it.
There was another guy on ytube who tested detectors with one sweep, as in a hunting situati
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Nice vid Ziggy, really surprised it struggled on the 10' viccy penny to be honest, took several sweeps to hit it. I know you cleaned your test bed to make it neutral but if there was a bit of mineralization to the soil it defo would have missed it in a real live one sweep hunt.
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Thanks guys, Brian I'm pretty critical of the detectors I've used but to be honest this one ticks all the boxes for my type of hunting.
For a modern coin/park hunter or depth machine in good ground there's better alternatives out there, but for relics, old copper and silver at depth in mineralised ground its ace, and the headphones are spot on, no lag that I've noticed,
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Cheers Ziggy, i watched your vids of it before buying, i love the simplicity of the spectrum screen compared to a number ID, and it cuts through my mineralised ground like a knife, it's a keeper.
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Thanks Ozzy, it's smaller than a 5 cents and about a 5th of the thickness!
It's a bit older than i thought, King Edward 111, dated 1307-1327
700 years in the dirt, real history, got to love this hobby!
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Had an hours hunt on the same field this morning before rain stopped play, absolutely stoked as i got a hammered coin, think its 1350s, just waiting for a confirmation on ID
I was running the 18khz which is very sensitive, coins like this are rare in my area as in this period we were bartering and trading goods more than using coinage.
Totally loving this detector!
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Just watched the commercial for the MX sport on youtube, 1 comment left by a Thomas Boykin ' Love my MX sport'
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So at least someone loves it!!
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Had another outing with the GM5 last night at a site of an old schoolhouse. School houses here mostly only go back to the 1600 from the time of Scottish and English plantation of Ireland. A couple of friends also went, one with minelab 705 and an etrac.
The little GM5 sparked some interest especially the weight, carbon shaft and wireless headphones, ran it in 2 tone in 8khz and it held it
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The AKA Signum runs a threshold based all metal mode at the same time as running a disc mode, susposed to be a deep machine, almost ready to buy one.
Watch Garys detecting on youtube of it, very interesting how it works.
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Ozzie, green waste is susposed to be recycled biodegradable type of fertiliser but it also contains small fragments of glass, ferrous and non ferrous metal etc you can see it by eye when the ground is ploughed and and harrowed, nasty stuff!
There's stories of farm animals getting it stuck in their feet and mouths, I'd never use it on my own farm.
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Hi, forgot to update this, i found nothing age related to the site, a couple of musket balls, religious pendant and an 1820s silver shilling.
Wasn't expecting much to be honest as it was more of a test session for the detector and operator as the ground has been destroyed by green waste, you get dozens of signals in each sweep of the coil. I ran it in 8khz and on mono tone which see
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Yes it's a bit of a cock up, not saying all testers are old lads with bad hearing lol but I'm surprised it wasn't picked up on before final production, to not give a volume control from zero to max is basic stuff.
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Seen this on another forum, bloody testers fault lol !!
Please note that we sent the wireless headphone samples to a few testers in the USA, Europe and Australia.
We got no negative feedback on the volume from any of the testers so we released them as they are. We believe it is more of a subjective point rather than an issue.
However, we are tweaking the volume now since some customers are
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Hi guys, another quick vid showing recovery speed and the spectrum screen showing 2 co located targets. Compare this to a detector showing an number ID, it correctly shows iron and copper as well as giving clear audio, i just love the way this detector feeds target info to the user.
I was using a big old tablet so sorry for the poor quality video!
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It's a hobby to myself, not a sport, but im 45, have a big beer belly and still represent my country in an 'olympic' type sport, so who im i to judge lol call it what you want!
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