luvsdux
Bronze Member
- May 16, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- Multiple Tesoros and Whites
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Every arsenal should have a water machine - so why pedal the Tiger?
luvsdux
luvsdux
Here's a dose of reality about technology.
I've owned some awesome high tech machines - still in my stable. Yeah, the monstrous CTX, and others dating to the 80's. And YES I have an EQ800 on order.
I took the lowly Tesoro Tejon out today - only lasted about 20 minutes due to the heat - got a whole too pennies and retreated in the face of sunstroke.
I've thousands of hours on the CTX, Etrac, the lower evolutions. But I found my first gold in 30 years using the Tejon.
Really it's about getting over the target and choosing to dig it.
We shouldn't complicate what we're doing. I hated my ACE250 - but it would have found everything I've found in the dirt. As for water - that's a whole different universe...
I do love my Excal - I can't drown it and it is very deep and capable.
Learn to trust whatever machine you are using, and then choose where you wish to go from there.
Moral of the story, I've spent far more than most seeking the best, and using them. Once upon a time I had the bucks to do that.
Now I'm retired and most often on the dirt I use a capable beep & dig machine.
That's just the way life and love evolves -
My very honest opinion.
,.sounds like a man that has done some detecting,..........and some living. Words of wisdom right there.
"if it's a sickness, I don't want to be well" hahaha
It's a healthy sickness until you break in cemeteries or dig up the police station lawn....
DeepseekerADS you nailed it. The target has to be there to begin with and we have to choose to dig even the iffy targets.
Thanks Smokey, maybe somebody just has to tell the truth here, and just maybe prevent the expensive detector merry-go-round I went on always looking for something better.
In the end I actually found the simpler approach. You've two good ones in your listed stable - stick with both of them and you will always win.
Actually my friend = you've completely demonstrated that over and over
Maybe it's not so DEEP after all!
anything worth having is worth having two or more of.