NAME SOME OF THE BEST DETECTORS OVER THE YEARS

An Interesting topic you brought up here! Well, personally I wouldn't agree on all of those e.g. not on teh JW Pusle 8X or the Garret Sea Hunter nor the MXT.

Some detectors I would like to include are:

Fisher CZ20, Aquapulse 1B, Gold Scan (both by Eric Foster), Red Heat XD17, Goldmaxx Power, Minelab eTrac.

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Christian

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The XP Goldmaxx is made by XP, a French company. It has an automatic ground balance and runs very smooth also on heavily mineralised soil. I would dare to say that the XP Goldmaxx and Minelab eTrac are presently probably the best machines around.

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Metrotech.   The best relic machine of it's day.  Back in the 1960 and into the 70s it was the machine.   Large collections of Civil War relics were amassed by Metrotech users.   However, by today's standards it was a fairly primitive machine.

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My hunting buddy tenclaw used a metrotech way back in the 1970's and he said it was a pretty decent and deep going machine but no disc mode on it-so he had to dig up all sorts of trash...But it wasn't as user friendly as his Sovereign or the Tesoros...

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I got interested in detecting in 1964 when i bought a detector made by a Dutchman who lived in Gelong Victoria Australia, it was a BFO and was told it was designed to find gold. hehehe I was gullible in those days first detector hehe.  It was no good on the gold fields because of iron stone and highly mineralised areas. However on the beach it was a wizard at finding coins together with a load of those dreaded ring pulls hehehe.   Then I went onto to a Whites gold master which was a little better until the first VLFs cam out when i renewed my interest around the 70's with a fisher and upgraded to a Garrett ADS master hunter. I had a load of coils to go with it too including a co-axial coil which had 3 windings in it was was designed to detect near fences.
I used that machine to get into the water with initially and drowned it several times hehe. However I was able to get it working again time after time with a wash in clean water and dipping it in metholated spirits to dry the water.
Then I managed to get an Aqua-sport made by Eric Foster which was a PI and really started to find the real goodies as it was not affected by black mineralised sands or salt water. Hence my love affair with PI detectors. As I was the only person writing about shallow water detecting as I called it I was able to test a lot of new machines that came onto the market and had a whites PI 1000, and 3000 which I still own. Things started to get better when fisher introduced the Impulse which I fell in love with because it was so sensitive and in my opinion was the ultimate machine in its day.  Of course they later produced the CZ20 and that was a fantastic machine. Unfortunately for me I took a friend Mick Killeen out with me to get 2nd opinions so my readers would have two opinions not just mine. Well, Mick was so impressed with it he contacted the dealers behind my back and bought the machine which was the only one in the country at the time.  So i lost that machine to Mick but made money with the article I wrote about it.
I could of tested the excalibur but they made a claim it could detect a brass porthole on the side of a sunken ship which I thought was an exageration. I invited minelab to test the excalibur against a new machine Eric Foster had put onto the market the gold scan 2 which was a much lighter version of the original Goldscan. Minelab refused to be involved but I knew someone who had a Sovereign which had the same circuit board in it.  On wet sands the goldscan found more targets  which the sovereign was incapable of detecting.
Minelab then applied for import duties to be applied to all imported detectors pushing up the prices of the competition I never forgave Minelab for that as they had jumped in on a market I had basically created for them and were fleecing and ripping off detectorist with a leaking machine.  The fun had gone out of detecting by that stage and I wanted to chase bigger and better treasures instead of 3 or 4 grams of gold at that time. Having bought the Pulse Star 2 I was off to merry old england in my quest for King Arthur.
the detectors I use today are an old Whites Spectrum, the 3000, goldscan 2, fisher impulse and my trusty pulse star 2.
On occassions I also hire out a GPR unit as seen below.

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