New detector reduced depth.

[detectorman12]

Most people don't know that the newer detectors just don't have the depth of some of the older models.
The older Wilson detectors and Pillars, and some older Garret's had way more depth than any of the detectors of today.
That's why people are buying these older models if they can find them.
Thanks,

 

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[fella]

Fascinating

 

[Minrelica]

I'm actually glad that my detectors don't go very deep.. Most of my detecting is in people's yards or in city parks.. I can't dig a 2ft hole to recover a target.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Nothing but "sour grapes". Older detectors were deeper in what? Air? playground sand? When it comes to detecting through mineralization that occurs everywhere, modern detector are MUCH deeper.

 

[dirtscratcher]

That helps explain why all those coins are still down there.

 

[fella]

lol yeah ^^^that^^

 

[Adrian SS]

When you have gone through as many detectors as I have in 53 years of detecting since age 15 you will realise that newer is not always better. That digital is not always better than analogue and I can give an absolute guarantee that I have used 25 year old machines that utterly anihalate many of todays all metal vlf GB machines for depth in any ground that the oldie can be balanced over. No brand or model given as I don't want to start a big argument.

 

[detectorman12]

Hey,
Another bit of info that most of you guys don't know.
There was a few models of detectors in the 70's and early part of 80 that could get good signals on buried paper money.
I know of one man who actually made his living finding this paper money that elderly people buried in tupperware bowls.

When I was a detector dealer from 94 to 06, I would come across these detectors and would make bets with my customers and win every time.
I still have two of these detectors that I kept because they also have great depth.
The trick is the ink to make the money.
The higher denomination of bill, the more metal used in the bill. A hundred has more metal than a one.
Thanks.

 

[fella]

I had this one detector that I got back in the 70's. It was so deep it could actually detect the Earths core. I know because I dug to it more than once.

My other favorite was the one that would detect cheese. I went to the moon twice!

 

[fella]

Hey,
Another bit of info that most of you guys don't know.
There was a few models of detectors in the 70's and early part of 80 that could get good signals on buried paper money.
I know of one man who actually made his living finding this paper money that elderly people buried in tupperware bowls.

When I was a detector dealer from 94 to 06, I would come across these detectors and would make bets with my customers and win every time.
I still have two of these detectors that I kept because they also have great depth.
The trick is the ink to make the money.
The higher denomination of bill, the more metal used in the bill. A hundred has more metal than a one.
Thanks.

Check post #12
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/other-brands/135545-1980s-treasure-hunter-phantom.html


Care to change the story?

 

[detectorman12]

Hey,

One of those detectors we talked about that can detect paper money is on EBay now.
The phantom.

 

[fella]

Hey,

One of those detectors we talked about that can detect paper money is on EBay now.
The phantom.

Yours?

 

[Detector Wars]

That helps explain why all those coins are still down there.

In all fairness, there are many reasons why coins are still down there, other than depth. Yesterday's detectors may well have been deeper, doesn't mean that the ground they covered are empty of shallow coins.