chrisinspain
Greenie
Hi we live on the Sothern Coast of Spain. We moved to Spain 12 years ago from the UK but since being here have not been detecting!!
We are surrounded by literally hundereds of miles of beaches with thousands and thousands of tourists visiting yearly. Since living here I have never seen one person out with a detector. The Spanish just don't seem to get the hobby of metal detecting....so it would seem really stupid of me not too get back into the hobby I once loved. To do this I need to buy a good detector, which is where my problem is....
Since reading through various forums I am even more confused than I was before I started. Detectors have obviously moved on in leaps and bounds since I last swung one, so I am looking for advice about which detector will work best for me.
I am going to be searching dry sand, wet sand and in the sea up to around chest height. We have many different beaches around where we are from pure white clean sand to very highly mineralized dirty beaches. If a pi will do the job better, then I don't mind the digging, but if something else works better then advise me. I really do not know where to start. I am looking fr the best can get for the money that will do the job.
Because of the amount of people who use the beaches I am obviously hoping to find gold and coins, manily gold though which here in Spain is going to range from 9 carat to 22 carat.
I have made a list of the detectors I have been researchng alng with the approximate price I can buy them for here in Spain. To give you an idea the exchange rate at the moment is approx 1 euros to 1.35 dollars.
I want the best can get from the list I have written below or any suggestons of any other machines that will do what I want, which is search deep be sensative to gold and be relaible and strong.
Any help would really be appreciated... my list....budget will be 1400€ with a little stretch....
Garrett SEA HUNTER MARK II 600€
Garrett Infinium LS 1200€
Minelab Excalibur II 1400 €
FISHER CZ21X 1400€
Whites Surfmaster Dual Field 750€
Tesoro Sand Shark 550€
We are surrounded by literally hundereds of miles of beaches with thousands and thousands of tourists visiting yearly. Since living here I have never seen one person out with a detector. The Spanish just don't seem to get the hobby of metal detecting....so it would seem really stupid of me not too get back into the hobby I once loved. To do this I need to buy a good detector, which is where my problem is....
Since reading through various forums I am even more confused than I was before I started. Detectors have obviously moved on in leaps and bounds since I last swung one, so I am looking for advice about which detector will work best for me.
I am going to be searching dry sand, wet sand and in the sea up to around chest height. We have many different beaches around where we are from pure white clean sand to very highly mineralized dirty beaches. If a pi will do the job better, then I don't mind the digging, but if something else works better then advise me. I really do not know where to start. I am looking fr the best can get for the money that will do the job.
Because of the amount of people who use the beaches I am obviously hoping to find gold and coins, manily gold though which here in Spain is going to range from 9 carat to 22 carat.
I have made a list of the detectors I have been researchng alng with the approximate price I can buy them for here in Spain. To give you an idea the exchange rate at the moment is approx 1 euros to 1.35 dollars.
I want the best can get from the list I have written below or any suggestons of any other machines that will do what I want, which is search deep be sensative to gold and be relaible and strong.
Any help would really be appreciated... my list....budget will be 1400€ with a little stretch....
Garrett SEA HUNTER MARK II 600€
Garrett Infinium LS 1200€
Minelab Excalibur II 1400 €
FISHER CZ21X 1400€
Whites Surfmaster Dual Field 750€
Tesoro Sand Shark 550€
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