Howdy, my name is Earl. I started metal detecting in 1979 with an old bounty hunter red baron vlf machine. I then graduated to a whites 6000d then a whites 6000di. I quit the hobby back in 1985. I got back into the hobby in 1993, when I bought a tesoro Diablo nugget machine. I then traded it for the new diablo 2. I recently (last year) started looking for a coin machine. I moved to the south eastern oregon desert area and there are a lot of old ghost towns and homesteads around here. I contacted the Tesoro distributor in the area and he sold me on the Tesoro Golden Max with tone id. I was more interested in the elderado which had a manual ground balance. He assured me that this factory preset ground balance machine would work almost as well a a manual ground balance machine plus it had more features. Well to make a long story short, I bought the golden max. I like the features but it does not seem to go very deep in this soil. My place has a lot of alkalia and black sand. And when I hunt one of the old homesteads that has a lot of trash around the tone id drives me nuts. My question is, does anyone on this site have experience with the golden max. Is it a good machine or is it just me and I need to learn the machine better. I know my old whites would put this machine to shame. Even the old bounty hunter found deeper coins. I'm thinking about selling it and getting a whites mxt. Any comments?
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