xterra 705

[voodoo]

A bit of help please. A friend of mine wants a machine for prospecting as well as for use on salt water beaches. His budget is 8-9 hundred (xterra 705 is 889 here in Canada). I've checked online, read the manual and checked other chat sites. I think I trust the opinions of those on this forum. So my question is can he use this detector on the wet sand at low tide at a saltwater beach? it comes with the 9" concetric coil and the 10" DD. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

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[coinman123]

The T2SE is a good machine for that price. I might be bias though because that is the only one I use!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Although the 705 has a beach mode, it's not really a good wet salt beach machine. I mean, there will be much better/deeper machines for the beach, than the 705. The 705 is a "cross-over" machine, made to be able to do both nuggets (prospecting) AND coin/jewelry. But as can be expected with any compromise-cross-over machine like that: It will excel in neither arena. If he just wants to fool around, it'll suffice. But he may peak out at only 6" depth, while the guy waltzing by with a Sov, excal, Explorer, CZ6, etc.... will be spanking him with 10" on the same targets.

Not sure about the 705's proficiency on nuggets, but it's probably the same story: Although it can be set up to find pinhead sized nuggets, yet there are other power-house specialty machines today that will do it to 2x the depth. Again, that's the draw-back of trying to get a machine that can do both venues.

 

[creade]

Probably be a lot better off if you could get a safari at a decent price