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[King-Of-Bling]

I'm surprised Slimpickuns hasn't chimed in. I think he has had a minor issue but I do know for a fact he has killed it out here with his. I know 2 others here in So.Cal that , for them , have been a nightmare.

[bklein]

Like you guys mentioned, it apparently misses coins.  I went out to a beach with a friend and AQ owner - we had just compared AQ depth in air tests at a park. I think the EMI there was too bad to make good determinations but his probably has more than an inch more depth. Anyway he used a Manticore at the beach and got way more stuff - including a lot of trash. He got more coins but I don’t think either of us got gold - just not there or we just didn’t hit on it. Someone had completely gridded the whole damn Montage beach! Crazy! He even found coins I missed on a hole. So I guess I’d trade a few less coins for missing all that trash - if that is really what occurred. I worry though that it could be missing more than just coins.

I think I need to change my hunt time to early or late in the day. If you watch youtube you see groups of guys hunting while I’m still asleep.

i have yet to try my bigfoot type coil on the AQ. I think I’ll be very happy with that if it works ok.

Its nice to hunt with such a light detector. I usually hunt with my CTX but I can’t stand hunting with the 17” coil - just tried it after 3 years or so. Even with the 11” I use the ML harness and probably scare some people...  Bring on the CTX replacement!!

[tvr]

10 hours ago, bklein said:

i have yet to try my bigfoot type coil on the AQ.

Hmmm ... I've got a 3x18 coil from a Tesoro Sandshark. I'll have to check the impedance. What coil are you talking about with the bigfoot type you have?

[Slimpickuns]

23 hours ago, King-Of-Bling said:

I'm surprised Slimpickuns hasn't chimed in. I think he has had a minor issue but I do know for a fact he has killed it out here with his. I know 2 others here in So.Cal that , for them , have been a nightmare.

Hey KOB!  Yup I still use mine and thankfully I haven't had any technical problems with it since the last time I sent it in for warranty repair about a year ago for a faulty potentiometer issue. Felix handled the warranty repair and they did a good job of repairing it and getting it back to me quickly with no money out of my pocket thankfully.

Now that my warranty has been up for about a year I got my fingers crossed. I did have a few issues with it recently, a broken "Clevus" and broken arm cuff. I bought a spare clevus & rod long ago when others were having problems with theirs so I took care of that problem quickly when it broke recently. The arm cuff I replaced with an after market aluminum cuff, plastic arm cuffs just don't hold up for me and always crack and break eventually. Its a great machine but I would not buy one for 2g's and not without the warranty to back it up.

July has been slow for gold so far but with all the heat we've been having lately more people are heading to the beaches so hopefully some gold is being dropped by the masses. I've been seeing more detectorist out on the beaches in the wee hours of the morning, the good news is a lot of them don't know how to swing a detector, a lot of smiley face golf swinging goin on.

[bklein]

5 hours ago, tvr said:

Hmmm ... I've got a 3x18 coil from a Tesoro Sandshark. I'll have to check the impedance. What coil are you talking about with the bigfoot type you have?

It’s called the TDI Razorback Beach Hog.  I have it on a GP Extreme now.  It should work on the AQ - really fun how it can skim the water as you run.