Lasivian
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- Joined
- May 23, 2003
- Messages
- 552
- Reaction score
- 25
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- Location
- Spokane, Washington
- Detector(s) used
- White's XLT
- #1
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Straight out of the box my first impression is "big". I'm used to a vibraprobe and using it to root around roughly in smaller holes. I'll probably have to change my style of digging to fit the XL-1.
The small cover on the tip seems "sacrificial", i'm going to have to find out what other covers can be used for this, it would be nice to have a plastic protective sheath over the first 6 inches or so of the probe, not just the very tip.
i've become curious to see if I could use an eliminator type coil on the probe box for kind of a "medium" level pinpointer. Wonder if you can daisy-chain 2 XL-1 boxes together as well. To bad the coil connection on the XLT is a screw-on, doesn't make for quick "snap and go" type connecting. (EDIT: figured out you can't change the probe over to anything else on the switch box, kind of a bummer
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Not sure yet if i'll go for the box-mount option, I do take-down my XLT quite often because I walk or take the bus to where i'm hunting and the clips make that a bit of a pain. Also worried if they'll hold up when I toss the broken-down detector in the bag I use. (I need a better way to carry the XLT, but a hardside case seems excessive)
One interesting benefit over the vibraprobe, I carry my wallet in my left "cargo" pocket on my pants, and the vibraprobe would constantly trip from the zipper on the wallet, keeping itself on constantly.
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The small cover on the tip seems "sacrificial", i'm going to have to find out what other covers can be used for this, it would be nice to have a plastic protective sheath over the first 6 inches or so of the probe, not just the very tip.
i've become curious to see if I could use an eliminator type coil on the probe box for kind of a "medium" level pinpointer. Wonder if you can daisy-chain 2 XL-1 boxes together as well. To bad the coil connection on the XLT is a screw-on, doesn't make for quick "snap and go" type connecting. (EDIT: figured out you can't change the probe over to anything else on the switch box, kind of a bummer
)Not sure yet if i'll go for the box-mount option, I do take-down my XLT quite often because I walk or take the bus to where i'm hunting and the clips make that a bit of a pain. Also worried if they'll hold up when I toss the broken-down detector in the bag I use. (I need a better way to carry the XLT, but a hardside case seems excessive)
One interesting benefit over the vibraprobe, I carry my wallet in my left "cargo" pocket on my pants, and the vibraprobe would constantly trip from the zipper on the wallet, keeping itself on constantly.
Back to hunting
