Are Really High-end Detectors Worth It?

[Overkill Overkill]

Kellyco's website says, "We cannot "see" into the ground and standard metal detectors using transmit/receive Search coils are limited in depth and are restricted to a scan area no larger than the Search coils. It has been difficult for the serious treasure hunter to search large areas with any degree of accuracy or to penetrate more than a couple of feet into the ground with a standard type metal detector"

Perhaps they are targeting hunters who are going for caches? Can one use one of these (Quantro Sensing, Nokita, OKM, Lorenz, Scanmaster) on the beach? Or would it be overkill?

Maybe I've missed it, but I don't see a lot of talk of these machines on the beach and shallow water forum, perhaps because they are inappropriate for those conditions? Too heavy, cumbersome?

 

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[surfnturf]

You get what you pay for! Time spent hunting, a little luck and you'll find! So get a detector and get your feet wet, stop talking about it and do it!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

If you read up on the ones you listed most are either too expensive, too heavy, cumbersome or designed to look more for large ferrous metal, not a single small gold ring...With many the cost is extremely counter productive for general beach hunting.

There is a reason professional treasure hunters who have paid tens of thousands of dollars for boats, equipment and leases to dive on ship wreaks off Florida's coast are using Excaliburs, and Sea Hunters to search underwater....

You get what you pay for! Time spent hunting, a little luck and you'll find! So get a detector and get your feet wet, stop talking about it and do it!

As surfnturf said, get a detector get in the water and go hunt.....

 

[time4me]

I have to agree with the others. Stop wasting your time asking all of these questions, and just get a detector and start swinging the coil. The knowledge you will gain from even several hours out at a beach swinging a detector will be worth far more than any answers you'll get here.

Do you have a detector?

 

[Gilligan]

Kellyco's website says, "We cannot "see" into the ground and standard metal detectors using transmit/receive Search coils are limited in depth and are restricted to a scan area no larger than the Search coils. It has been difficult for the serious treasure hunter to search large areas with any degree of accuracy or to penetrate more than a couple of feet into the ground with a standard type metal detector"

Perhaps they are targeting hunters who are going for caches? Can one use one of these (Quantro Sensing, Nokita, OKM, Lorenz, Scanmaster) on the beach? Or would it be overkill?

Maybe I've missed it, but I don't see a lot of talk of these machines on the beach and shallow water forum, perhaps because they are inappropriate for those conditions? Too heavy, cumbersome?

You will do alot better with a regular detector with a large coil at the beach. I have a Sovereign GT with a 12.5" Sunray coil. Your ears are your most important asset, not to mention alot of digging. The sound that rings give off is similar to pull tabs. It takes alot of practice but you will soon be hooked. Test the sound with several rings of different alloys to see what they sound like, as well as pull tabs. People who find the best items with their detectors are the ones who find alot of trash too. It is fun work. You are asking good questions. The only dumb question is the one not asked!

 

[Montauk3]

How are those nose rings feeling?