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If Minelab brought out a lightweight etrac with the processing speed equal to or faster of the racers/deus etc at an inbetween price folk would queue up to buy them, i know i would...
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
For myself using the r2, it's being able to, as best i can, differentiate between a false high tone and a coin high tone near iron, once i got half good at this it made sense. Practice with some nails and a coin in a test hole helps.
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A video one of the lads done on the day, at 2.30 in you can see my nice find of a 1576 hammered coin and bigging up the makro racer2, though my 10yr old daughter did beat me up finding more tokens with her bounty hunter tracker lol
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Is it to be a multi freq as per etrac or selectable or both?
Ive been saving up my pennies to buy another detector to complement my R2 and would dearly love another multi freq machine.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I had a big plastic barrel that i drilled holes down the side and slid in small plastic tubing into, then filled with soil. At the time i had an etrac and set the coil flat and stationary on top, got a thin piece of wood with a coin taped to the end and slid it in and out of the tubing at different depths down the side of the barrel and the depth results were very very good, i guess as the detect
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Cal it was in Northern Ireland, i was at a minelab seeded token hunt and found this in the free detecting area before the event started. The organisers said they have had other detecting events in that 1 acre area over the years and there was over 40 guys using it that morning ( mostly minelabs ) so a bit of luck involved lol
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
depth will vary greatly with the r2, ive seen some testers boasting they can get 14 inch on small copper coins even though in there test videos they haven't bothered to GB the machine, or they dont show the ground mineralisation etc so im wary of most manufacture sponsored tester videos, unless of course it's one of the credible testers found on here. In my area its minimum 3-4 bar soi
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my makro pointer kept turning itself off when held upright, the supplied battery was losing contact no matter how much i tightened the threads, in the end i used a bit of wire and pulled up the battery contacts and it sorted it.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I like to see finds, like the history and knowledge shown, i don't care if it appears showboating, almost everyone can showboat about something/skill/achievement etc etc It's life and the internet. Goodmore are you into archery? sorry to go off topic!
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Some difference in detecting setups across the globe, the furthest I've traveled to detect was about 20miles, usually i pull on my boots, load up with a bottle of Guinness in each pocket and start walking, with 9000 years of human history on my doorstep i dont have far to walk to find targets lol
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I've been struggling with depth on mineralised ground that shows typically 4-5 bars on the racer, so i thought i would try a bigger coil and went for the 13x12 nel
First impressions is its very well made, weighs in 126g more then the stock but has the mounting lugs in the middle which should help balance it nice.
So off with the stock coil and straight into a issue with mounting the n
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I live in Northern Ireland, most of the ground i detect is 3-4 bar on the racer. I was on a 6 acre pasture field that was a soild 4-5 bar last time and struggled to get 5-6 inch depth, not much use when all the targets are sunk to the clay at 8-10 inch lol i know they are there because i had my etrac over the ground for a short hunt before and found good targets.
I will be going back to a fbs ma
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Im waiting on a nel 13x12 coming for my R2, hoping to get a bit deeper with it as i was hunting in 4-5 bar ground the other day and struggled to get 5-6 inch depth!
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Jack, can you post the gb and the bars on the mineral scale for the test, im waiting for the nel attack coil to arrive and i will run a few tests with it, cheers Robert
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My ground balances out at 75, with 3-4 bar on the mineral scale, i started at factory 90gb and the coin came through clean, i need to spend a little more time experimenting to find the sweet spot!
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I've an old worn half penny buried at 9-10 inch in my garden, upto now the R2 could only get it on deep mode but i tried in 2 tone today with a + gb and it got it good, anyone done any testing on this to give the best average amount of + GB???
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It would be interesting to here what people in different parts are commonly searching for and the general age and how it effects our views on what is a good/average/poor performing detector, here in Northern Ireland on general pasture/farm land we will find coins from the time of the plantation in the 1600s onwards, on older more specific sites they go back to before the 12th century, and occasio
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Quite possibly, there is another seller on ebay doing them but I've just ordered the large racer coil instead, just too much fluffing about with some suppliers lol
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I had the detech on my etrac and it was just ok, tried to order a mars 13x10 for my racer off a supplier on ebay but none in stock, really bugs me when they advertise them as available but they have no stock!
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