Looking for a good metal detector

[justinw]

I'm from northern California am just getting into metal detecting, I'm looking for a good cheap machine to use and only have a budget about 400$ any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[squiggy]

Depends on what kind of detecting you are going to do...land, beach, lake, dry beach sand, wet beach sand etc...

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[TheRingFinder]

I'm from northern California am just getting into metal detecting, I'm looking for a good cheap machine to use and only have a budget about 400$ any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Yeah, like the squigster said - Please give as much information as you can about what type of hunting and areas you will be hunting.. Thanks!!

 

[justinw]

I'm looking for gold in a high clay and iron area.

 

[marh415]

With your price range around $400 and considering what and where you'll hunting, you may be better off looking for a used higher end machine! Good luck!

 

[Sandman]

Gold Huh, what kind, jewelry or nuggets?

 

[squiggy]

Where in northern care are you?

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[squiggy]

Was to say where in northern. ca are you?

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[Tom_in_CA]

Sandman has a good question: Did you mean "gold" as in ... "gold jewelry" ? Or gold as in nuggets/prospecting? Because the type machine will be different for both. There's a few cross-over attempts (machines that can go back and forth between each venue, with the controls switched). An example of a cross-over machine is an MXT. I think you can find one of those on the used market for your budget.

But be aware: Any machine that is a "cross-over" like that, will excell in neither arena. There will be better coin/jewelry machines, and there will be better prospecting/nugget machines.

 

[justinw]

I'm in redding ca, and I'm looking for gold nuggets.

 

[mntnflyr4fun]

I'm in redding ca, and I'm looking for gold nuggets.

Keep an eye out for a used Whites GMT. I see them on both ebay and Craigslist often and many sell in your price range. The Whites GMT is a great nugget shooter but ya gotta learn how to hunt for nuggets with any of these nugget sniffing detectors. The GMT can find very small nuggets in highly mineralized ground...Whites service is 2nd to none so you can't go wrong..

Good luck