Tom Slick

I hear you Steve. I do like the Racer headphones though. $119, comfortable, fairly cool and decent sound make it a bargain for me. I'm looking forward to trying the Garrett system on my DFX. 

Maybe its just me but I think a set of wireless headphones should be just that. Who the hell wants a cord wrapped around their neck? Other than having another external speaker the system looks to be at least 10 years out of date. The White's V3i "Wireless" headphones came out in 2009! Eight years later and we have cords wrapped around our necks and a big box hanging off our shirts? Oh Boy! 

A friend left his e-trac leaning against a rock while loading his dog in the car. He remembered doing it so he made a U turn to go back and get it. Gone by the time he returned.  

Steve, I'm with you on this detector. If it can replace my two Racer 2's and my Gold Racer that would be a plus. Maybe throw in the Racer 3? and I could let my Tesoro Tiger Shark move on to another home. Sure would be nice to get rid of a few more detectors and coils. After getting the Racer 2, I sold all my other Tesoros, a White's M6, and the MXT Pro. But then again I went and got a second Racer 2 so maybe they aren't helping me to reduce the number of detector I have. Had the V3i but after using for it 7 years, just for coins and jewelry, I figured the DFX would do everything I was using the V3i for and save me a bunch of money at the same time. Until Makro or someone else comes out with a BigFoot type coil, The DFX/BigFoot combo isn't going anywhere. I'm currently testing one of the Impact coils for Makro.  Probably have a couple of Racer 2's for sale before long.> 

Petrified peanut. Probably lost by a caveman.  

Great! Now we need foil condoms for our pinpointers. Well I guess we should be practicing safe detecting.

The Pearl was on our local news this morning. They were saying it could be worth 100 million$. I think they've been drinking their bathwater. 

I think that many of us with BigFoot coils have more than one. Once you use one for awhile, you don't want to be without one. At one time, I had three spares but they are really reliable as long as you don't abuse them so I reluctantly sold a couple and now only have one spare.

Nope. You're thinking of Minelab coils

Whatever, you and I got ours! ?

and mine might be for sale when I die. 

I sold quite a few when I was a dealer in the early 90's. Between myself, parents, sibling and her husband. and hunting buddies, I know there was at least 15 between us. I'm still hunting with two buddies that use them 25 years later. 

The problem was that Jim Karbowski didn't have any schematics. He kept everything in his head. When Jim passed, Jimmy Sierra got permission from Karbowski's wife to reverse engineer them and he made a few (20 I think) and sold them. Jimmy had a waiting list but just couldn't make them at a profit (for $225) so they stopped production. 

The latest HotFoot for the DFX, MXT, M6 is a great coil for the planted competition hunts. Super light weight, covers 9" on the swing and pinpoints off the end like a Pro-Pointer. Makes for very quick retrievals. 

I can't believe that Makro, Nel, Cors, Mars or Miner John can't make a BigFoot type coil. I want one for my Racer. Already have a few for my White's machines. 

If they added a couple more antennas, they could raise the price a couple more thousand dollars!

I always get a kick out of the fact that they usually guarantee satisfaction or you can return it for a "small" 20% restocking fee. For many of these so called long range locaters, that equals about $2000.00. My buddy and I used to joke about that they probably only ever made one unit and just kept reselling it, make a cool two grand off each sale. 

If it would detect a target at 2500 meters, then walking and swing would be a waste of time. It would make more sense to scan, then drive a mile, get out and scan again. What a joke. These are a total rip off.  

That's a great video! The GPZ is an amazing detector.

These are my most used scoops.

Dry Sand

Wet Sand, 14" Trenching shovel with sides welded on to keep the sand from pouring off the sides. Holes are drilled in the bottom to eliminate suction from the wet sand, and a Ü shaped handle at the top.

In the Water

I hope you'll be hunting in the water and not up on the wet sand. Those scoops are a bear to get the sand thru without water and walking down to the water everytime to rinse it out is a pain. No fun to try and shake 15 lbs of wet sand out of a scoop. 

The floating sifter is for detecting at the lake. It's an innertube with a sifter in the center that follows along behind me on a small tether. Dump the contents into it from my scoop (although I usually just shake the scoop under water). I no longer have a dredge but I do still have a drywasher I haven't used in years. 

Detectors on pegboard hooks, Extra coils on Pegboard hooks also, Headphones, pouches, Belts, picks, Hole Hogs, Horri- Hori knives, and other assorted diggers on Pegboard hooks. Batteries, 12 spare headphones, chargers, detector repair tool box, arm cuffs, coils without rods, more diggers, hand grips, meter covers, control box covers, gloves, snake gardz, etc in a hoiizonal file cabinet. Water scoops, sand scoops, scratchers, coil covers, large shovels hanging all over the place. Detecting stuff I don't use often like extra upper rods, padded detector bags, etc in totes. Floating sifter hanging on the end of the file cabinet. I think I'm pretty organized! 

That park is about a mile from my house. Really sad, he was out here on vacation. 

Steve, When you leaving? 

I've used many Single frequency detectors on the saltwater beaches in So. Cal. Of those, I have narrowed down my two favorite detectors that perform excellent in the dry sand and still have the ability to perform better than the rest of the Single Frequency detectors to the Makro Racer and Racer 2.  I've used most of the VLF White's detectors like the V3i, DFX, MXT, M6, Classic III, Mod'ed IDX Pro, Spectrum, XLT, Eagle II SL 90.5, 6000 Di Pro etc. (Yes, the DFX & V3i are multi freq.). I've used the Garrett AT Pro, and Tesoro Tiger Shark, Eldorado, Outlaw, Golden, Bandido, all The Silvers, etc., Teknetics 8000 & 8500 Omega, a few Compasses in their day and quite a few others. For me, the Makro Racer and Racer 2 have been the most quiet, stable, and achieved the most depth in the wet sand. Most of the time when I hit the beach, I already know if I'll be hunting the wet sand (Sovereign), or the Dry (Racer), but sometimes when hunting the dry I venture down into the wet to see if it's producing. It's nice to have a detector that allows you to do both. If the wet is producing, I'll sometimes switch to the Sovereign to get those targets that are out of reach to the single frequency machine.