67 more coins in the bucket

[DFX-SE Gregg]

including a bicentennial quarter, a 35-d wheatie and a heart no markings, sore back ended hunt.

 

[Jack(IN)]

Thought I would comment on this post. As a DFX user for the last 3 seasons, I have formed some opinions about this machine and metal detecting in general.
1. Metal detectors are crude and primitive devices. Although I haven't any experience with the Minelabs, it seems like they find the best stuff. Too bad Apple computers does not get involved in building metal detectors. Maybe then they would work right.
2. I find over 100 coins a day with my DFX on a regular basis. Trouble is, 90% of those are modern pennies. It cannot reliably identify other modern Canadian coins.
3. As for cranking the DFX up to preamp gain 4. Never happens within city limits or within 10 miles of a power line without it being totally unstable. When it is unstable, it is useless.
4. The DFX finds lots of stuff up to 3 inches and can sometimes even identify what it is. It can find small articles of silver the size of a flea under 3 inches but does find deep silver. I am deducing this because I find many copper coins from the 40's and 50's but hardly any silver from that era.
5. The DFX can't tell the difference between silver and a rusty nail.
6. Experimenting in my yard I buried a silver quarter at various depths. The DFX could identify it at depths up to three inches, after that it had no idea what it was. At 6 inches it just made a "tick" sound and could not pinpoint it. Guess what though: I dragged out my Classic III and it found it, no problem and pinpointed it exactly although it could not tell me what it was of course. I used my custom program to look for the quarter and every other program built into the machine with the same results.
7. The DFX could not find a silver dime at 6 inches or the silver quarter at 7 inches.
8. However, it could see a large copper penny at 6 inches and knew what it was.
9. I use tone ID. Strange that the DFX makes its happiest tune when it finds a zinc penny!!
10. The DFX is no good at all in wet freshwater beach sand but it is good in dry sand.
These are my opinions at this point in my metal detecting career and are just opinions. I think serious metal detectorist need to own 3 machines. The DFX for fast searching of shallow targets, the Explorer SE for finding deep targets and one of the underwater machines for the beach.
Love this forum. Will post some of my finds with the DFX in the next few weeks.

Foiled Again.

I own both the DFX and an EXPII. You pretty much nailed it.

I'll just add this. The Minelab detector is much heavier and harder to pinpoint with.

EXPII is for old deep coins and relics. The DFX is for jewelry and shallow stuff.

I also agree with you about water machines. I'd get one of those too, but I'm afraid of sea monsters.



Ridley

I've owned a DFX and sold it, but I've seen some great deep coins found by some people. My friend just bought a DFX and first silver coin(1920 Merc) was a good six inches deep. Canadian coins stick to magnets so to me they give strange readings on both my detectors!! Won't own another DFX but I've read too many good posts about depth not to doubt it and any top of the line detectors will have good AND bad points. The DFX isn't for everyone, but like any good detector, learn your machine and you'll have great success!! I've heard about Whites and Rocks, but I look for coins, not rocks!! 8)

 

[Colonial KirkPA]

Jack, are you a Minelab user? I wonder why you are so against almighty White's!

 

[Boobydoo]

Keep em coming Greg, take care of that back.
Hope you hit a hot site next time to boost those totals, good luck!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[nealb]

Gregg - nice finds. Take care of that back.

 

[Jill in Ohio]

Hey,

Whoa, keep it clean guys! lol anyway you look at it, you did awesome! Hope your back is good next time!
Keep up the sweet work!

Jill

 

[Jack(IN)]

Jack, are you a Minelab user? I wonder why you are so against almighty White's!

Kirk,
I owned Whites since 1983 and until earlier this year had at least one Whites. I am not against Whites, and its not almighty. Not by a long shot, and not for it either. They just don't make a detector thay does what I need. You like Whites and thats good, I see no need for a Whites detector to sit in a closet to please someone else!!

Also, if you read my previous post I said positives about the DFX, but you overlooked that. When you knock Minelab, is that from experience