Well I started detecting little over 15 years ago and started looking and posting on here. Started when the garret 250 just came out and then jumped right into the sovereign gt that also was just released.
Had some others quite a few Tesoro’s and pretty much ended with the excalliber II.
Didn’t really do a whole lot of detecting but got to try out a fair share of detectors and asked alot of questions on here which helped me out.
After selling everything for whatever reason it just hit me to want to get back i to it and surprised this forum was still up and running and even some same people still on here that were very informative that I remember such as Monte.
I can’t remember my old user name so i just reregistered.
I am also surprised as i have not kept up with the brands and models and shocked that companies like whites and Tesoro are no longer around.
Also surprised as the technology has advanced so much in just the last couple years from what i have read to where everything new is so light and packed with features especially with the two main companies still around garrett and Minelab.
The sovereign gt was a great machine just too heavy to swing especially now that i am older. Now it appears the vanquish has better technology packed in a small detector like the 250 was at the time.
Which leads me to a question to those that are familiar with the new ones. I am looking to start slow with something not too expensive such as around $300 or so
And the vanquish really stood out because of the price and the multi frequency capabilities.
I will mostly use it to hunt coins, Jewlery, anything of value in parks, old areas some beach, not planning on deep relic hunting anywhere will probably just use it in my state of Florida which is basically a big sand bar. No dark hard soil to speak of around here for those of you that know the state. It’s mostly sandy and not planning on taking it into the water at all at the beach as of now anyway. I used my excalliber years ago for that. Wasn’t really big on hunting in the water.
I see alot are big on this new company that makes the simplex but it is a vlf machine and here is what i am wondering for those that have used these new machines especially in Florida. Will the multi frequencies like the vanquish work better with the higher frequencies for finding jewelry like gold around here.
I know it has a fixed ground balance and from what i can remember around here ground balance wasn’t an issue as the machines i had with ground balance really didn’t do anything or change and machines with fixed ground balance like the Tesoro’s did just fine went just as deep as the sovereign which went pretty deep. The sovereign had auto gb. Maybe it was just me.
Again im not looking to deep relic hunt but would like to find that small gold and silver jewelry i used to find along with any coins.
This area doesn’t have alot of old historical sites to speak of but everything does seem to sink because of the loose sandy soil
Any help with info on these new machines and what will work best in my conditions and for what i will use it for would be great.
Maybe one day i will get back into getting something like the new 800 but not even sure i would need something like that for what i am looking to do
Thanks
Had some others quite a few Tesoro’s and pretty much ended with the excalliber II.
Didn’t really do a whole lot of detecting but got to try out a fair share of detectors and asked alot of questions on here which helped me out.
After selling everything for whatever reason it just hit me to want to get back i to it and surprised this forum was still up and running and even some same people still on here that were very informative that I remember such as Monte.
I can’t remember my old user name so i just reregistered.
I am also surprised as i have not kept up with the brands and models and shocked that companies like whites and Tesoro are no longer around.
Also surprised as the technology has advanced so much in just the last couple years from what i have read to where everything new is so light and packed with features especially with the two main companies still around garrett and Minelab.
The sovereign gt was a great machine just too heavy to swing especially now that i am older. Now it appears the vanquish has better technology packed in a small detector like the 250 was at the time.
Which leads me to a question to those that are familiar with the new ones. I am looking to start slow with something not too expensive such as around $300 or so
And the vanquish really stood out because of the price and the multi frequency capabilities.
I will mostly use it to hunt coins, Jewlery, anything of value in parks, old areas some beach, not planning on deep relic hunting anywhere will probably just use it in my state of Florida which is basically a big sand bar. No dark hard soil to speak of around here for those of you that know the state. It’s mostly sandy and not planning on taking it into the water at all at the beach as of now anyway. I used my excalliber years ago for that. Wasn’t really big on hunting in the water.
I see alot are big on this new company that makes the simplex but it is a vlf machine and here is what i am wondering for those that have used these new machines especially in Florida. Will the multi frequencies like the vanquish work better with the higher frequencies for finding jewelry like gold around here.
I know it has a fixed ground balance and from what i can remember around here ground balance wasn’t an issue as the machines i had with ground balance really didn’t do anything or change and machines with fixed ground balance like the Tesoro’s did just fine went just as deep as the sovereign which went pretty deep. The sovereign had auto gb. Maybe it was just me.
Again im not looking to deep relic hunt but would like to find that small gold and silver jewelry i used to find along with any coins.
This area doesn’t have alot of old historical sites to speak of but everything does seem to sink because of the loose sandy soil
Any help with info on these new machines and what will work best in my conditions and for what i will use it for would be great.
Maybe one day i will get back into getting something like the new 800 but not even sure i would need something like that for what i am looking to do
Thanks
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