Minelabs are good machines but here in the Red irony dirt of Virginia, Minelabs don't do very well. Twice a year I attend an invitational hunt in Culpeper called Diggin IN Virginia as well as go up often to dig with guest and friends and have had amply opportunity to see them in action, get reviews from others who use them, as well as have used them myself. If that's all you have, than you can manage it, but it does not perform as well as other VLF machines do in the irony soil here. That said, many VLF machines don't do well in the Irony soil, an exception to this is the Teknetics T-2 Limited (SE) and the Whites DFX does fairly well also. If you live in an area that is mostly irony soil, you may want to augment your collection of detectors with a Pulse machine like a Whites TDI or Garrett Infinium if you don't already own one. They handle the Red iron-laden soil much better than most VLF machines. Hope this helps.
