Out Of Production Detectors.

[Drudge]

A lot of you guys on tnet have had multiple detectors over the decades and i was curious which now out of production unit do you feel was your best and most reliable detector.

 

[warsawdaddy]

CZ5

 

[Keppy]

Garrett freedom 2 coin commander....................The problem with older detectors is finding parts for them ........With the Freedom 2 Garrett does not have coils for them but you can get coils at someplace in Tx....And Garrett can still repair them.............................................Minelab Gold Striker..Minelab Sovereign the first one they put out.....Minelab tells me no parts for those 2 detectors...........And with Minelab no one but Minelab can repair them...........

 

[Sandman]

C & G Bobcat, a hipmounted TR with a 6 inch coil that slid on the ground.

 

[EasyMoney]

A Compass Goldscanner Pro. It still beats everything but the F-75, for depth and cherry-picking, iron discrimination, nugget hunting, etc. It is however the deepest vlf or multi freq detector I have ever seen in high iron soil, maybe even a bit deeper than the F-75 in some cases. I have one that is revamped and it gets an air depth of phenomenal proportions. If I said how much nearly nobody would want to believe me.

 

[BuckleBoy]

A Compass Goldscanner Pro. It still beats everything but the F-75, for depth and cherry-picking, iron discrimination, nugget hunting, etc. It is however the deepest vlf or multi freq detector I have ever seen in high iron soil, maybe even a bit deeper than the F-75 in some cases. I have one that is revamped and it gets an air depth of phenomenal proportions. If I said how much nearly nobody would want to believe me.

My mentor was also sold on the old Compass machines. I saw him dig CW relics at almost unbelievable depths from the middle of iron patches--with a 20 or 25-year old machine! He bought a Minelab after his Compass bit the dust. Said that was the only thing he could buy that could even approach the Compass in depth or Iron Disc.

 

[ohiograndpa]

6000 Pro by Whites

 

[thompy]

QXT pro, great relic machine, handles the U.P. minerals quite well

 

[Roadquest]

1266 X Fisher...a killer Relic hunter.

Roadquest

 

[BuckleBoy]

1266 X Fisher...a killer Relic hunter.

Roadquest

You are 100% correct. Worst thing Fisher ever did--besides becoming a part of 1st Texas--was to stop making that machine.


-Buckleboy

 

[deepskyal]

6000 Di pro by Whites...kick myself in the butt for giving that one up. Woulda gave my DFX a run for it's money.
Al