Rating Minelab & Their Higher End Gold Detectors - Long Read
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By GotAU?
This was our first test with her out in the Mojave Desert, and all I can say it is very easy to walk about detecting with this one. Firstly, there was no stooping over with a scoop to pick up bad targets with this detector, they were all the real thing! And GeoSense works amazingly well, love being able to go with her automatically and easily keeping up with wherever I detected, it was a breeze. I've detected with others that were unwieldly and hard to control in the desert, but I can say this one is really something special. We walked for a couple miles on the edge of a dry lake looking for meteorites and she really showed her stuff. She almost seemed to know her way over the salty ground, and picked up anything I threw at her. She easily found nuggets of every size left behind by many others, and was very quiet and hardly made any noise anywhere I went, even in the most briny parts of the ground covered with white salt, underneath the buzzing high tension power lines that cross parts of the dry lake, and even going over hot rocks did not seem to bother her much. She's quite a detector and we are finally really lucky to have one like this! All I can say is wow, everyone should have one like this for detecting!
June is a great detector dog, we rescued her from the pound, and one day I hope to find a GPX 6000 too. Happy April 1st!
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By Dances With Doves
It is mind boggling that almost all my buddies and other people I see hunting or talk to have a Nox.The same thing could be said for the Garrett At series.Almost everybody I know has had one and I have seen guys I don't know using them a lot before the Nox came out.With Garrett the At pro was the most common.On this Forum I would bet that most have had a Nox. Even though I used the X-terra I never saw that many being used around here even though it seemed to be popular around the world.The At pro was more popular compared to it in the US probably because of Garrett marketing and it being all terrain and cheaper compared to the 705 version.For the turf I would take the X-terra any day because it could be tailored to more hunting situations.The x-terra and the Nox sound very alike which made it easy for me to gel with the Nox.
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By Ridge Runner
If we look at the detectors that are already out and the one’s coming out what do you want?
The Nox 800 may not be the best swimmer but other than that it still does a good to great job of detecting. I can pick it up to go relic,coin and gold hunt on land or water.
The Tarsacci bye the videos I’ve seen can be a good to great relic detector . What being said it really shines as a beach be it land or water. I myself haven’t seen it at a straight dirt digging coin detector.
Then here comes the new AQ from Fisher and up front they say this is a water detector. It’s specialty is to find gold deeper than ever before in wet sand are in the water.
The Nokta/Makro we just not sure but according to Dilek they are working hard to get it to us .
The Garrett people not too long ago came out with the Apex . Any new detector some will say it’s as great as moms Apple pie and another say it’s not for me .
What all this comes down to would you want to buy one detector that can do everything good to great? In a roundabout way getting something free. The other choice you would have is buy one for water another relic and another for nugget hunting. Then to if you wanted to go digging in the dirt for coins only you best add another detector.
I really don’t want to be hauling all those detectors around that fits in it’s own little niche.
I could see were it would be best to have a water detector if it’s made to handle saltwater. My reasoning is saltwater is unforgiving if it gets into the electronic of your detector. Now if you don’t do saltwater hunting but just freshwater I know from pass experience it is forgiving. Then you may not have need for water only detector.
It comes down to buy one and get three free in that one. The other choice is buy and buy until you’ve got yourself covered in all of what you like to hunt .
Chuck
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By calabash digger
Do you care about these things? How good is your detector? How do I become a better detectorist? How do I become more successful at finding the old stuff?
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