beachboy
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What machine would be better to use in the park and tot lots? Prizm 3 or Sovereign...
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beachboy said:What machine would be better to use in the park and tot lots? Prizm 3 or Sovereign...
The Prizm is OK for the junk you'll find in the tot lots. For anything more the Sov GT is the way to go.Deepdiger60 said:A Sovereign in a very old park would work great if the targets are deep 8+ a Sov. in a tot lot ? that is like driving a Porsche 911 GT2 RS to 7-11 for a coffee Jim
liftloop said:The sovereign would be good for the junk you find in a tote lots but in old parks were you need the power to go deep for the old silver the prizm is what you want.
LuckyLarry said:I think Sandman got it right, in fact the MOST correct. Sandman is a Sov expert - in my view.
The Sov IS NOT a machine one should use in a trashy area where items are close together. The coil windings and it's inherent slow retuning dictates that. Using a Sov in cherry-picking type of applications is a lot like using a D-4 to dig a small 4" diameter hole. It is not designed to find targets close together, it is in fact designed primarily for use on wide-open salt beaches where targets are far and wide, not close together, and it does well at that too, although it's a detector that by design needs to be swung at a rate of about 2-3 feet per second to be at it's finest. Anything faster or slower than that will rob you of your targets, and for very complex reasons. .
The Prism 3 though (IS) designed PRIMARILY for tot lots, and for people who take metal detecting not very seriously. I have the big brother to the Prism3 and I've owned the Sov too. Both are fairly cheap now because the newer machines just plain work better.
Good luck,
Larry (AKA EasyMoney)
Treasure_Hunter said:I can only speak about the Sov GT since it s the only SOV model I have used, I have hunted with it in city and county parks using the WOT coil and found many pocket spills where I had multiple targets close together under the coil and I got multiple signals from them. Earlier models of the Sov may not have reported them, but the Sov GT does.....