Does the trick but is not as good as the 1266X.
I find all those iron disc settings useless. The silencer is useless. I do not recommend this machine for coin hunting but it's good for relic hunting.
Just recently, I reworked an area that I only hunted with the 1270. There were areas that 1270 would give small ticks and pops and I could not lock onto signals, so I thought they were just tiny metal flakes or mineralization.
Went in there with my trusty 1266 with the disc. set at 2 (not even in all-metal) and it told me that all those ticks were a big pile of deep ferrous and non-ferrous targets and turned out to be a refuse pile from the late 18th century. It is sickening to think about what I would have left behind if I only worked that area with the 1270!
It is lighter than the '66 and seems to like really small targets and loves lead but it is only half the machine the 1266 is, even with all it's extra settings. Never will compare in depth.
After saying all of that, I would still say that the 1270 is better than most machines on the market today. It just will never compare to the legendary 1266X and should never claim to be "the improved version" of such.
Cheers,
Dave.
