Apex, Simplex ,and Vanquish 540 depth shootout..Who is King?

[Calabash Digger]

Depth Shootout!!

 

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[Rad1sh]

Vanquish and Simplex for the win!

 

[Terry Soloman]

VANQUISH 540 Baby!

 

[Rad1sh]

VANQUISH 540 Baby!

I do like my 540! I just wish others would see how awesome it is. I enjoy watching detecting videos @ work.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Wow! The Apex is just terrible! What the heck is going on. Crap shoot is right. Vanquish puts that over priced thing to bed.

 

[Singlestack Wonder]

Did Garrett rush out the Apex feeling a compelling need to introduce something new to the market to remain relevant vs. waiting longer and refining the Apex into a more capable product?

 

[Adrian SS]

Depth Shootout!!

Agree with your no nonsense 540 assessment.
Have a few detectors and have been playing with the vanquish 340. I have given the 540 a short run. Like it a lot.
The 340 seems pretty good value to me and has detecting ability (depth in moderate iron and wet/dry salt ground minerals) about the same as the 540 but with less tid icons.
340 performs well over wet salt beach sand. I have not tried it over black sand. Nifty little detector for not many dollars.

 

[ColonelDan]

Excellent video CD.

I picked up a Vanquish 440 for my grandchildren to use and I was impressed. Its capability on our Florida beaches is truly excellent...and at that price point, a real bargain. Once again reinforcing my long held opinion that Minelab is the premier manufacturer of detecting equipment.

Just the view from my foxhole...a view with which I feel Calabash would agree.

 

[papa920]

I have a garrett ace apex and 3 bounty hunter 1 2200 1 lone star and 1 1100 in an air the bounty hunter lone star 9"beat the ace apex 8"when in multi frequency but I tried all frequencies and in the 20 htz the apex was hitting the coins at over 11 inches .. I really wish when people make comparisons the would use the same size coils on all machines nel makes large coils for the apex and the make a world of difference . I was just wondering if anyone else tried the different frequencies with similar results I am not saying the apex is a better machine there is no doubt mine lab makes a great machine and so do others . I just wonder if anyone has tried the different frequencies in the field and what the results were ?

 

[louisianaman]

That's why my Simplex Plus beats a lot of detectors.

 

[DirtDiggerDaveinMD]

Wow...that Apex is a real dog. Garrett should change it's name to something else like the Garrett Ace Gopher because of all the shallow holes the user will be digging.

 

[billb]

Calabash. Excellent video again ..the 540 truly hits it

 

[ColonelDan]

Once again reinforcing my long held opinion that Minelab is the premier manufacturer of detecting equipment.

That is until the XP Deus II was fielded. Now I'm convinced that XP has over shadowed the Minelab line.

 

[louisianaman]

Depth Shootout!!

In almost all your videos when comparing detectors, my Simplex simply kicks ass.