Name one feature you wish your metal detector had....

[SmokinJoe]

Just about every detector available has the ability to discriminate different types of metal. What i really wish my uniut was capable of is discriminating out depth. In other words, i wish i could program my detector to only detect metals at the depths i specify. For example: wouldn't it be great if you could choose to "ignore" all signals in the top two inches of soil?

 

[khpony]

I wish mine would discriminate between gold and aluminum. It would make bending over and digging more fun!

 

[K Zack]

Radar
Happy Hunting
Kevin

 

[Hot zone]

Just about every detector available has the ability to discriminate different types of metal. What i really wish my uniut was capable of is discriminating out depth. In other words, i wish i could program my detector to only detect metals at the depths i specify. For example: wouldn't it be great if you could choose to "ignore" all signals in the top two inches of soil?

Depth is dependent on the expected size of your target. Large Deep objects appear on the surface. This may or may not be a benefit, ( last months banner coin purse with some 70 pieces of silver could have been passed over using this function) but as with most detector functions there is a tradeoff. The recovery time for shallow objects should be rapid enough to prevent excessive masking of the lower objects.

Personally, I tried the bells and whistles and don't like them. A pro pointer to aid in quick recovery and a good Tesoro detector digging all good hits is my preference. The two inch target is recovered with a screwdriver in 30 seconds. I used to spend that much time over a target trying to decide.

 

[MassBK]

I wish mine would display a clear picture of what the metal object is.

 

[427mike]

All i want on my minelab explorer xs is a cig liter!!!!HA HA

 

[Hot zone]

Another thing, once you have cleared away the clad and some trash, going back over with a layer removed should produce deep targets that were masked by shallow. Not to mention that some pulltabs are really gold rings I am told!

You should really give up smoking, not likely to find that much clad.

When you are quickly out of breath just swinging the detector, you are bound to have a heart attack if you find a banner coin like Smoken Joe's!

 

[Kentucky Kache]

I don't ask for much, just a detector that can sniff out a cache 3 miles away, at a depth of 20 feet. And of course a gps pinpointer.

 

[baspinall]

A clock

 

[Diggit]

I think a realistic indicator of operating time left on the machine's battery would be nice.

 

[1320Fastback]

I wish my MD could actually did the hole too.
I mean its like they did all this work designing these things but stopped just shy of making it perfect.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Just about every detector available has the ability to discriminate different types of metal. What i really wish my uniut was capable of is discriminating out depth. In other words, i wish i could program my detector to only detect metals at the depths i specify. For example: wouldn't it be great if you could choose to "ignore" all signals in the top two inches of soil?

Ignoring the top layer of coins won't help us out all here in the S.F Bay Area, especially hunting in the San Francisco parks. Our gopher infestation has brought up hundreds if not thousands of silver coins. I've had numerous seated, barber, and merc coins that were only 1 or 2 inches deep.

As far as a dream machine would go, I'd like a screen similar to a ultrasound image they use in hospitals to see the unborn person. Imagine seeing the actual image in sharp detail on a screen before you decide to dig!

 

[ppratt]

I like the clock idea.

I guess I would like a permission slip from my boss/wife.

 

[rsarge1]

one that would read the ground, emi, and auto set the machine to perfection would be nice

 

[QuarterMaster]

I think a headlight would be nice, that would be a fairly easy mod as well....hurmm I think I'll work on that! (may have to add a bug zapper then too

 

[Hot zone]

I think a headlight would be nice, that would be a fairly easy mod as well....hurmm I think I'll work on that! (may have to add a bug zapper then too

You had better add wheels-- the car battery it will need!

 

[QuarterMaster]

You had better add wheels-- the car battery it will need!

LED's

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I'd think a GPS display to help keep a grid going smoothly would be nice, I've noticed it can be hard sometimes (at least for me) to navigate a straight line when I'm looking at nothing but the ground......

 

[U.K. Brian]

Joe, they have had what you want for years, its called surface masking. Select the amount of inches you wish to ignore and off you go. Compass and Tesoro were well into it at one time.

As with tracking, discrimination, depth reading and target I.D. it was not as good as it sounds. To much of a price to pay. In the case of surface masking you can ignore the rubbish in the top few inches but each unwanted target that your not hearing still has the effect of blanking out good/wanted targets that are below and near the discriminated out item.

 

[nsdq]

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