Whites M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

[Phillip_in_NM]

White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

I now have probably a hundred hours spent with the White's M6. I rarely go out with it that I'm not amazed at its capabilities. I've found more gold rings with it than with my previous three detectors - Ace 250, GTI 2500 and White's DFX. My favorite coil is the 4x6 shooter DD coil.

It seems that here in the desert southwest, coins rarely are deeper than 5-6 inches. Unlike the wetter areas of the country, we tend to lose more topsoil than we gain. So, for the purpose of this discussion, I'd suggest that depth is really not part of the issue. I know my M6 will get 6 inches on a Barber dime (My first - a couple months ago.)

Question is: how much might I gain with an Explorer SE - would target ID be markedly better, target separation better and would my trash to treasure ratio likely be higher or lower?

Lots of experience on these forums. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Phillip_in_NM

 

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[LI Tom]

Re: White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

I have an M6 for the last 15 months.I like it a lot,very easy to use,love the tones and it will find coins.I have found around 90 silver coins with it.That said,I regularly hunt with friends with Explorers and they seem hotter on silver coins,than any detector I have seen and have great depth.They are complicated and much harder to learn than the M6,and ,of course ,a lot more expensive.

 

[Bill(de)]

Re: White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

Hi Phillip,

I've been using the M6 over 18 months and love it at trashy sites with smaller coils due to the excellent tone id and quick response target separation. I also have an Explorer XS and it will No Doubt hit deeper high conductive targets than the M6 but loses the battle on smaller lower conductive targets in the foil range. I actually feel they are very complimentary detectors as one fills a void in the other's weakness. Just my thoughts and enjoy using both. HH Bill

 

[EARTHLING]

Re: White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

the explorer vs. the M6...... keep the M6 .... the explorer is a VERY SLOW hunting machine.... i proved that with my TROY shadow X5 that i can blow away an explorer because of how slow they are.... the recovery speed of the processor in the explorer is very slow and if you try to swing it to fast you will blank on a lot of targets that are next to each other...... i am NOT a fan of the M6 because it does not have a prospecting mode and a couple of other things but it is a lot faster and will cover more ground than the explorer

 

[riverite]

Re: White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

After changing my mind daily for the last 6 weeks finaly decided to go with the m6 ,hope i made the right choice. cannot find much negative about this machine , gonna order today

 

[Digger]

Re: White's M6 vs. Minelab Explorer SE

The Explorers visual target ID isn't all that great, but the tone ID is pretty accurate on deep targets.