fistfulladirt
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?/fistfulladirt said:Ten? "Well,...the knob on my Minelab goes to eleven."
"Spinal Tap?"Keppy said:?/fistfulladirt said:Ten? "Well,...the knob on my Minelab goes to eleven."
George, If I keep reading these wonderful things about the AT PRO I'm going to be forced to take out a loan and throw my Cortes out the window! And I'm not just reading this on this site..........I have people on Facebook that i have never met posting pix of amazing finds using that machine. You got me thinkingGeorge (MN) said:To me, the most important ability is accurate discrimination at depth. If a detector can't do this, I might only dig what IDs as coins, nothing over 4" deep with most detectors, & miss deeper, older coins. Or else dig everything that including signals bouncing all over, & dig lots of trash.
But what if a detector can ID accurately at depth? Then one doesn't miss all older deeper coins or have to dig everything.
The Garrett AT Pro is one of the best I've used for accurate ID at depth. Got a dime ID & it was a dime, 7" deep in dry, hard & somewhat mineralized soil, in a park that is heavily detected & that coin probably sat there for 20-30 years. My choice for now. Best wishes, George (MN)
Keppy said:?/fistfulladirt said:Ten? "Well,...the knob on my Minelab goes to eleven."
..................................my uncle owns one found over 170.00 in clad.with his but you could of done the same thing with any low end white's classic l,ll,or any low end prizm with less falsing...you couldn't give me an ace 2 fiddy ....The best coin detector is a White's coin master l,ll,or lll listen too the beep and dig.that what I think any.Sniffer said:a MD that falls in line with what you're looking for is the Ace 250 by Garrett. I'm not hyping Garrett, but the people that own them are finding a lot of stuff across the board, and they're lite weight
LuckyLarry said:If I didn't have a cz-70 and a few old yet fantastic Compass detectors I would opt for a Teknetics Omega 8000, for several reasons: Mostly because it cherry-picks MUCH better than either one of these other detectors in this video: I like the sound of the Whites but it appears to have a smaller coil than the E-Trac. The ML has a nicer appearance in my book. Check out the video;
packfan_1982 said:LuckyLarry said:If I didn't have a cz-70 and a few old yet fantastic Compass detectors I would opt for a Teknetics Omega 8000, for several reasons: Mostly because it cherry-picks MUCH better than either one of these other detectors in this video: I like the sound of the Whites but it appears to have a smaller coil than the E-Trac. The ML has a nicer appearance in my book. Check out the video;
I don't know how you can say the 8000 cherry picks better. The etrac gave the best signal there with the v3 right behind it. The Omega was bounching all over the place. It was a solid dig on the etrac and v3i and a questionable target on the Omega.
I own all 3, e-trac v3i and the 08, my personal experience the e-trac and 08 are the deepest,but the 08 is so much lighter and has a much faster recovery rate,It's my pic for any dirt digging.The beach is a different deal.BTW don't put to much faith in videos unless you were there
That said it isn't the same class of detector as the whites or minelab. It isn't going to compare as well so I don't understand why so many people are lying to themselves saying that the Omega is the next best thing. Great detector for the money but its not in the same class as an etrac or v3i.
Would like to have seen what they dug up from there though.