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Pombo,

I have an F19 and a Legend, and previously traded off a GoldBug 2 in favor of a Makro Gold Racer.   The legend is simply more feature rich. It is not at all difficult to set up and run once you get used to it. The chief advantage is that it can be set up to run pretty much any way I want, much more versatile. 

The Legend is more complicated. For sheer simplicity the Fisher wins. I love the Legend, but am keeping the Fisher. 

22 minutes ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Just use the Gold Prospecting mode in Multi M on the Legend for small gold nugget prospecting. It works really well. Lower the sensitivity to just below where the Legend with the smallest available coil runs a tad noisy, lower the iron filter setting to as low as possible (0 or 1), set the recovery speed between 3 and 6, run threshold anywhere you like or can stand as long as its above 0 and don't notch anything and ground balance when needed.

No Boost or Beast mode that Nokta has put on its detectors was really for smaller targets less than 0.5 grams or so. In more mineralized ground, the Boost mode on the Gold Kruzer just boosted the ground noise.......

This is what I use to hunt jewelry with. I run sensitivity a hair lower and recovery a bit higher because I am deliberately hunting a bit shallower and use the all metal disc mode. This is for alloyed gold which is a little different of course, but the idea is to hunt gold jewelry with a prospector’s mindset. The thinking process is the same.

I have been following this thread with great interest hoping the new update would turn into something for me, but the more I read the more it looks like the opposite of what I want. There is clear utility in the thing, just not for small gold. 
 

Has anyone tried these yet? The Snake and Sharpshooter coils look interesting. Would there be an advantage compared to the lg15 and lg24?

It is not just the 20 kHz doing it. I like 20 kHz though, it runs very smooth, so I was trying the pulse to get around the issue. For most of what I do, I choose multi, but will use 40 kHz without much trouble with the Acupoint if the EMI is too bad for multi. I am using the multi in the goldfield program, that may be why the Acupoint is less stable but I will give up the pinpointer before the goldfield.

Could be my cell phone was being the problem with the f-pulse now that you mention it. That will not make it any more sensitive to small but may be the instability problem. 

Thank you for the tips. They are most helpful.

Thank you for posting your test results Jeff.  

Today was off to a frustrating start with both the Acupoint and the F-Pulse. I had thought to run the Legend at 20kHz with the F-Pulse to get around interference with Acupoint. That was a failure as well, so went back to multi and toughed it out with the Acupoint which has the annoying habit of wanting to scream bloody murder for no reason at all. 

Only sometimes of course, and shutting it off and restarting sometimes makes it stop. Some sites seem worse for this. It seems to stop when put into the hole and start again when it comes up into the air sometimes too. If I had any hair left I would pull it.

Going to try the Garrett’s next even though they are less sensitive to small. Is there another pinpointer out there that is that sensitive to small. So far I have not seen any running that high a frequency, and would wish for something easier and less complicated to use.

Sorry to hijack your thread. The F-Pulse does not hit small enough to pair with a legend when seriously hunting jewelry, and the Acupoint, even though it works is frustrating to use. I know the Garrett’s do not have the sensitivity to hang with the Acupoint, but am going to try them and see if they are good enough to get by till I find something better.

The Acupoint is the only rechargeable pinpointer I have ever had. It works ok, and is very sensitive to small, so is fine for what I use t for. I do not believe it is exceptional, and it sometimes does not get along with he legend, I cannot use 20 kHz with it at all.

I also have black and orange Garrett’s and the f-pulse. For turf I prefer the f-pulse, though that is not rechargeable. In truth I am not entirely pleased with any of them, rechargeable or not. The multifunction buttons are a problem for me. On all of them i am forever fumbling with them and changing settings accidentally or going into menus and being unable to get out without screwing them up.

I like the pulse because it hits clean and is deep but am always fumbling with it. I would like to be able to just turn the blessed thing on without worrying about holding the button too long or not long enough. The Garrett’s are the same but not as deep and do not hit as clean as I like.

Me, the Acupoint is good for tot lots. For turf I want something better but do not know a rechargeable machine for that.

Sometimes I forget if I am supposed to hold long or short, and am usually unable to do either the first time reliably when I intend to even if I do happen to remember which I wanted to do. You can about imagine what that looks like.

I use the Acupoint. It can be fussy sometimes in bad emi, and does not get along with the Legend if running single frequency at 20 kHz. I was unable to pair it and now do not care to. Most of the time it behaves fine and I like it for it’s ability with small jewelry. The legend’s ability with small jewelry needs a pinpointer like that. It is amazing how small this combination will get.

10 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Thanks Phrunt. For the price and since I know the F19 platform really well, there won't be any surprises and I won't be disappointed. I am not asking anything of the F19. I just love that platform and have been looking for a new one with the 10x5" coil for a while at a rock bottom price.

Personally, the Legend with its 9.5X5" coil seriously will out perform it head to head using their discrimination/multi tone modes with the Legend on Multi or 20 kHz.

However, switching the F19 to its live threshold based all metal mode is a one of a kind experience. Like Steve said, I can crank it up to 99% sensitivity and it will just effortlessly detect in bad EMI and 19 kHz is just about the perfect transmit frequency for my sketchy ground. It even competes well with the ORX and Deus 2 in Mono set on similar frequencies.  Experiencing that live threshold is an experience I miss and one that people who have only owned the newer selectable single frequency and SMF detectors with hybrid prospecting modes and reference thresholds have no concept of. 

Until a couple weeks ago the f-19 with the 5X10 was still a useful tool. Sad to see what has become of the company, and what it is probably now worth as a used machine, but that thing works as well as the day it was new. The only thing I did not like about that is the batteries it takes.

A couple weeks ago, I got a Legend. It was a process learning how to use it, but I could not go back now. You can see I have a detector for almost everything, now it is hard to see what a Legend could not be made to do. Despite the happiness with the new detector, I am a little sad about that.

So that wound up in the wrong thread. Cannot see how to fix. Hope you all understand.

New legend user here. Like the OP, the IF and stability seem a little vague and the manual is not helping. What little Nokta says about it is well summarized above.

This is what helped me: This is what I see this machine doing when these settings are changed, and is enough to make use of what it does in the field. Not enough to know how it does it but enough to get it to do what I want.

A truly remarkable machine.