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I am getting ready to buy a new metal detector and if anyone's willing to share some advice, I'm all eyes!
It has been a long time since I regularly detected - 2002, to be exact! At the time, my ex and I were using Garrett GTI 1500 and 2500s. I don't think I ever quite got the hang of my machine, to be honest. I may have been trying to overthink things, over-adjust stuff, and looking in bad places that always somehow seemed to be in very salty or iron-laded areas like near railroad tracks because I either looked in Missouri for civil war relics or around the beaches when we went to the coast.
Today, I still have the 1500 but there's something wrong with it and I have not tried to send it in because it's so old. I'm preparing to buy a new machine, but I am wondering if I should downgrade to something that is more beginner oriented or not. I had about four or five hundred hours on the 1500, and I think I understand it pretty well, but man it was so full of false signals that it really started getting annoying! (Or else I was just. that. bad. on. it.)
Anyway, I'm looking for something that will be optimal for Kansas City areas, mostly coin shooting in parks and lake shores but some relic hunting, too.
Recommendations, please?
It has been a long time since I regularly detected - 2002, to be exact! At the time, my ex and I were using Garrett GTI 1500 and 2500s. I don't think I ever quite got the hang of my machine, to be honest. I may have been trying to overthink things, over-adjust stuff, and looking in bad places that always somehow seemed to be in very salty or iron-laded areas like near railroad tracks because I either looked in Missouri for civil war relics or around the beaches when we went to the coast.
Today, I still have the 1500 but there's something wrong with it and I have not tried to send it in because it's so old. I'm preparing to buy a new machine, but I am wondering if I should downgrade to something that is more beginner oriented or not. I had about four or five hundred hours on the 1500, and I think I understand it pretty well, but man it was so full of false signals that it really started getting annoying! (Or else I was just. that. bad. on. it.)
Anyway, I'm looking for something that will be optimal for Kansas City areas, mostly coin shooting in parks and lake shores but some relic hunting, too.
Recommendations, please?
