ivan salis
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- Feb 5, 2007
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- delta 4000 / ace 250 - used BH and many others too
for christmas this last december * after being elected to be the president of our local area metal detecting club -- I showed folks at the club all about the "AMAZING' machine that while it was basically a 3 tone machine -- one tone only in all metal -- mid and high tone in "tone mode (no iron) and up to 3 tones availble in disc mode (low, mid and high tone) depending upon how low or high you set its disc level up to -- (with a fairly useless meter on it why only god knows--its the only flawed part of it in my veiw) once properly adjusted the machine could in most cases tell the differance between a pulltab and a gold ring --something many high dollar detectors can not do * --this "AWESOME' MACHINES NAME --
none other than the "old school" two knob and 3 position toggle switch -- about $100 to $130 (depending upon where you get it at )--TRACKER IV -- i think many folks were deeply surprized once they found out what they thought of as a 'low end machine" could do in skilled hands .
its was all a matter of setting up the disc level to the proper setting in disc mode * -- depending on the type of tab it often did not detect it at all or it came in sort of "broken" or crackly sounding --where the gold ring "pinged' soundly and crisply -- while its not 100% fool proof (no machine is) a large % of tabs could be picked off this way -- cutting way down on useless digging of many pulltabs --thus increasing the good possible target % of targets dug.
as I often say -- just like buying a high dollar race car , will not make you a skilled race car driver --- buying a high dollar detector will not instantly turn you into a skilled detectorist. -- it takes both time and effort to aquire the skills to get good with and to fully understand your machine and what its trying to tell you. -- some folks want to "short cut' the learning curve , these folks tend to normally rapidly fall out of the hobby once they find out it actually requires a bit of effort to make good finds on a steady basis .
( haved used a lot of BH products in the past -- and with the buying out of fisher and with the teknetic line that FTP is putting out -- there is somehing for everyone at differant "price levels" the T2 and F 75 (fisher and teknetic lines are far from beginner level products and are not "cheap detectors" by any means ) -- frankly one of my favorite current detectors that i use is a teknetic's delta 4000 -- i also have a "time ranger' (got it when they closed out the model line at a deep discount) and a tracker IV -- i also have a ace 250 -- frankly speaking in my veiw the delta 4000 * at $279 is a better buy than the ace 250 at $212 --for the $67 dollar differance you get 99 numbers vs 12 blocks to help id your find --so a 8 numbers per 1 block ratio -- which do you think will sort 'finer' thus allowing you to a high % to figger out whats treasure (dig) and whats trash (don't dig) ?
none other than the "old school" two knob and 3 position toggle switch -- about $100 to $130 (depending upon where you get it at )--TRACKER IV -- i think many folks were deeply surprized once they found out what they thought of as a 'low end machine" could do in skilled hands .
its was all a matter of setting up the disc level to the proper setting in disc mode * -- depending on the type of tab it often did not detect it at all or it came in sort of "broken" or crackly sounding --where the gold ring "pinged' soundly and crisply -- while its not 100% fool proof (no machine is) a large % of tabs could be picked off this way -- cutting way down on useless digging of many pulltabs --thus increasing the good possible target % of targets dug.
as I often say -- just like buying a high dollar race car , will not make you a skilled race car driver --- buying a high dollar detector will not instantly turn you into a skilled detectorist. -- it takes both time and effort to aquire the skills to get good with and to fully understand your machine and what its trying to tell you. -- some folks want to "short cut' the learning curve , these folks tend to normally rapidly fall out of the hobby once they find out it actually requires a bit of effort to make good finds on a steady basis .
( haved used a lot of BH products in the past -- and with the buying out of fisher and with the teknetic line that FTP is putting out -- there is somehing for everyone at differant "price levels" the T2 and F 75 (fisher and teknetic lines are far from beginner level products and are not "cheap detectors" by any means ) -- frankly one of my favorite current detectors that i use is a teknetic's delta 4000 -- i also have a "time ranger' (got it when they closed out the model line at a deep discount) and a tracker IV -- i also have a ace 250 -- frankly speaking in my veiw the delta 4000 * at $279 is a better buy than the ace 250 at $212 --for the $67 dollar differance you get 99 numbers vs 12 blocks to help id your find --so a 8 numbers per 1 block ratio -- which do you think will sort 'finer' thus allowing you to a high % to figger out whats treasure (dig) and whats trash (don't dig) ?
Sandman I got my 505 from Kellyco not WalMart MIKE send me a F5 to test out LOL 
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that will injoy the hobby, I hope. I don't know of any pawn shops around here. I did see a Fisher CZ7a on craigslist for $200.00 but it's gone
