Mark Gillespie

Does the 1000 ID all low conductors as possible gold? For example a beer pull tab and a nickel? Women's and men's gold rings? Is so what is the breaking point where it will not indicate a possible gold target?

Never saw one that good of shape dug up.

I'm extremely interested in this. I know and use the TDI and in some areas it will well excel all VLF machines on the market, or rather all I've tried. The one thing that I've always wanted in the discrimination abilities added to the machine. The GB can be adjusted to help to some degree, but it fails on the nails buried for decades. I've found some really nice silver coins and my must expensive gold finds have been in areas that shut down VLF machines like the F75, F19, V3i, DFX, Etrac, and CTX 3030 just to name a few. If the (futuristic) machine performs like the one posted earlier this year on the sited, I'd have to sell all my detectors and acquire one. Since Carl made that statement, I'm sure, at least part of the rumors we've heard will come to pass.

Wow, you're on now. Keep going.................

I guess my biggest concern would be if the Monster will hurt the Fisher Gold Bug 2 sales and by what I'm reading, it will. African sales for sure.

Steve I apologize for missing the other post. I allot a set amount of time each day to read every post and must have overlooked them.

Been wondering if the machine might be super good on gold jewelry too.

Steve, in your honest opinion, how does the Gold Bug 2 compare to the Monster? Were these pickers all sub-surface etc?

I'd love to try that machine, only draw back is my area holds very little gold. But it might be a super gold jewelry machine. Thanks for taking the time to post your finds.

I borrowed the 6 x 10 coil from a friend that uses it on his DFX. He states the coil is very hot and deep. But I could not get the coil to perform how he says it does on his machine. To me the coil makes the machine feel front heavy, which is a negative attribute. Then, I couldn't get it to run even close to my D2. I understand the D2 is a deeper coil, but the 6 x 10 could not respond to my deepest test garden targets, a 6 1/2 dime and a 7" rivet. This year will mark the 10th year for my test garden. As close to real world targets as I can get. It would be nice to know if the coil was at fault or maybe my machine. But the D2 and my SEF coil reacts very well to all my garden targets. I hope to borrow a 8 x 6" SEF coil this weekend and see how it does. I'm not griping, only stating results.

Thanks, I called a guy I hunt with at times and he's going to loan me one this weekend. I can say I was very disappointed in the performance depth of the 6 x 10 DD coil. I would imagine (by what I could measure) the 6 x 10 coil is best suited for medium to very small targets down to around 5-6" in depth. Go over 6" and the coil struggles to say the least, maybe I should say fails. Funny that the SEF coils can outperform the White's coils and be lighter and better balance too.

Very interesting

Boost carries over to the al metal side if set on the discrimination side firs.

Fisher F75/F75 LTD

Took all my coils to the local post office for a weigh in. The 1 in front of the scales is 1 pound.

I'll take my coils to the post office today and get a weight on each and report back.

Actually got my answer, the White's 6 x 10 DD (not V rated) coil seems or rather feels heavier than the SEF 10 x 12" coil. But a short visit to my test garden revealed the SEF coil way out performs the 6 x 10" coil. The coil would not run without overloading until the RX gain was set to 8 using the stock coin/jewelry program. Then I checked the 3 deepest targets and only one would on occasion give an audio in one direction, the other two were completely silent. Changed every setting I could think of and no improvements to the response to one dime and a small copper rivet at 7". Using the same settings the SEF will easily report an audio and valid VDI on every target. Looks like I'll be pursuing a different coil than the 6 x 10" coil. Since I rarely hunt in the brush an open coil will be good. Oops, out of time.

You keep at it and you'll get a good one soon.

As usual, great information.

Coil is at the front of my shoes now. If I go any shorter I'll have to bend over which would be worse for my neck. I have a hunting buddy that is going to loan me his 6 x 10 DD coil to try and I'll report back. The 10 x 12 SEF coil was noticeably lighter feeling (maybe better balanced not sure) than the stock 10" DD coil. In my opinion the depth between the two is very close too.

Actually hoping the 6 x 10 DD coil would be a lot lighter coil to swing since I had neck surgery.

Do you have a 6 x 10 DD coil to weigh?

The weight of the stock D2 coil is one reason I'm hunting a 6 x 10 DD coil for my V3i. But I really enjoy my V3i, yes very programmable too.

All this is why I hang out here more than anywhere else.

Fantastic recovery, it's amazing what comes to light at times. Congrats