When it comes to metal detecting alot of us go in to the detector store and want to buy the best we can afford
or just buy the one that has all the hype in the adverts and the magazines, I myself in the early days fell in that
hole,
I asked what was the best machine on the market and at the time was the GP3500, i was told that it had limited
discrimination and it would work down to about 8 to 10" so i bought it thinking that this beast was gonna change
my world and i had the only one around so if it was there then it was me who was going to find it so at the mear
price i jumped in boots and all ?2484.00 = $4043.45c .
Upon my first trip i dug holes like you would'nt believe, big enough to put a small car in, so not put off i went home
and thought it was just that i'd left the book at home. When i bought that monster i also bought my son/me the
minelab muskateer advantage and i could understand how that low priced machine could do so well and walk all over
my singing all dancing GP3500, then i still had my dreams of finding treasure and gold, so i resigned my self that
when i go back to OZ i'd be set and all would be mine,
So now i was reduced to using this lowly muskateer, this being the second time i was proved wrong that machine
found more coins than i had left in the bank and that was in the first week.
After about six months i was getting bothered by bits of Iron so back to the shop i went and looking in the new
minelab catalog there was my prey THE SOVEREIGN GT , yes yes yes all that unbrideled power, Step aside
I'm coming through, off for two weeks in york at my brother in laws house built in 1845+/- a yr,
after drivin two hundred miles and five hours of stop start traffic and numb from the waist down i was fearless
out the truck coffee down me neck and i was in to it, Now what did the guy in the shop say
Oh yeah just turn
it on and turn it up and off ya go
Well that did'nt work so i just left it in auto
after 4 or 5 days I'd had enough so i was changing coils like
a man possest, that did'nt work then i thought what have i done and i wanted my musky back, like a love sick fool.
Well enough was enough time to fiddle with the switches and then the world turned and i was on a mission, if it
beeped i dug it up so i was happy again but one target really amazed me from 17 inches down and 15 minutes of
diggin out came a 30 gram lead soldier that stood 1 1/4" high but there was still a target in the ground and after
a quick rumage i found the base plate on which he was once welded, There was two people watching me waiting
to see what had me working so hard and they could'nt believe the depth and nor could I.
anyway when i returned home i went to the fields where everyone else goes but then my GT would not work very
well at all, after messing with all the knobs, switches still no good, and i tried for a few days to no avail,
History was not to be mine, buying 8 more coil due to miss-information, still no good,
Well one day i was at my buddies house and he got out his trusty MXT which did not impress me much coz i was
a snob loyal to my countries products, and then he showed me a trick test and my machine would not do it,
This bugged me for about six months or more and deep down i knew he was right.
Well then after a phone call from him i had the ump again so off to the shop again and back with the new MXT 300
Still keeping my sovereign gt i noticed i was not using it so then i went after multi frequency machine and sold the
sovereign and bought the new one, and that did'nt work here either,
All in All the bottom line is dont buy the detector that has the best adverts buy the one that suits the areas you
are going to search and ask others in you're area and ask the guys in the shops. theres no bad detectors just bad
choices, coz every machine i ever bought was brilliant, It's just that i used them in the wrong sites,
So just remember to ask all the questions that i forgot and happy hunting to you all. AU
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