Best Beach MD for under $700?

bigscoop

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Do you want to dig it all or do you want some discrimination capabilities?
 

Treasure_Hunter

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What scoop is asking is do you want to dig 24 inches deep for bobby pins and fish hooks or do you want to discriminate that out. A PI has no descrimination ability and you will be digging everything..
 

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ron lord

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What scoop is asking is do you want to dig 24 inches deep for bobby pins and fish hooks or do you want to discriminate that out. A PI has no descrimination ability and you will be digging everything..
there is a PI detector that you can discriminate out some iron,but it cost $2500.
 

Terry Soloman

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Treasure_Hunter

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Terry Soloman

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Treasure_Hunter

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I can post lots of gold and I dig no iron....
 

Terry Soloman

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Treasure_Hunter

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Don't know why you wouldn't but I will leave it alone...
 

Terry Soloman

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You could of had three times that much gold if you hadn't spent so much time digging iron. :laughing7:

Actually, I have found a lot more than "three times that much gold," with my Sand Shark LD. I just don't want to upset Treasure_Hunter any more than I have to. He already hates me. :skullflag:
 

Treasure_Hunter

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Actually, I have found a lot more than "three times that much gold," with my Sand Shark LD. I just don't want to upset Treasure_Hunter any more than I have to. He already hates me. :skullflag:
Terry I don't know where you get that, I don't hate you, I don't diss Tesoro either, I just don't sing its praises as loud as you. I owned the Conquistador for about 2 years, just wasn't my cup of tea was all, but I never bad mouthed it.

I don't bad mouth the Sand Shark either and in fact I have recommended it to people looking for PI detector on this forum, it has lifetime warranty, I'm just not into digging holes for pieces of iron. The only thing I said about the Sand Shark is it isn't that deep for a PI. I have had hunting partners who had it and sold it.....
 

lookindown

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Actually, I have found a lot more than "three times that much gold," with my Sand Shark LD. I just don't want to upset Treasure_Hunter any more than I have to. He already hates me. :skullflag:
I know you've found more gold than that...just messing with you...if I was going to buy a PI it would be the Sand Shark but the beaches I hunt have way too much iron...I hunted the wet sand today for four hours and bet I heard 100 iron targets...I dug 47 high and mid tone targets.
 

Auriemma

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Minelab Sovereign... Any model.
 

R.Danneskjold

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For the price.....Sand Shark......but as Ron said.......the ATX is amazing with some descrim and DEEEP. Ive had em both and all I can say is wow.
 

penzfan

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Sov GT or Sand Shark
 

CASPER-2

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I know you've found more gold than that...just messing with you...if I was going to buy a PI it would be the Sand Shark but the beaches I hunt have way too much iron...I hunted the wet sand today for four hours and bet I heard 100 iron targets...I dug 47 high and mid tone targets.

but if you dug those 100 iron ones - you would not have heard them again
 

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