Something That Isn't Discussed Much Regarding The Legend

[Bill (S. CA)]

With all that is and has been discussed about The Legend, both good and bad, it is a bit surprising to me that no one seems to mention its performance at saltwater beaches.  Here on the West Coast, outside of mine I have never seen a Legend on our beaches.  All I see now are mainly Deus II's and a few holdover Equinoxes.  A couple of Manticores are starting to show up.

But no Legends.

Here's a news flash for you beach hunters: the Legend is a sleeper.  A MAJOR sleeper.  It will compete with anything currently on the market in terms of depth, sensitivity to small items and stability.  I've run an Equinox since it first came out and the Legend is a match for it.  My buddies with their Deus II's were a bit surprised that I could hit everything they could hit with their machines.

This isn't a sales pitch for Nokta/Makro.  Yes, they had a few missteps with introduction of the Legend.  Yes, they have gone a bit update crazy.  But in its current form, running Version 1.11, it is a serious player if you are a beach hunter. 

One small comment to finish up with.   The grip angle on the Legend is a dream.  It is so nice to be able to hold the grip with my entire hand as opposed to have to "finger float" it because the angle was wrong.

Bill

[Ridge Runner]

Bill  

 All your doing is telling it as you see it for yourself in the field and for you at half the price of some others.

 Keep it up 👍.

 Chuck 

 

[JCR]

Glad you called attention to this aspect. We don't hear much on this.  There is one You Tube channel I watch a bit of from the UK that is mainly saltwater beach detecting with the Legend. It seems to perform well. I know the Beach modes run well on conductive Inland sites as an alternative to M3.

[Digalicious]

Minelab was king and stood alone for a long time, so I suspect that at least one reason Bill, is brand loyalty. In addition, there are many who maintain that the more you spend on a flagship detector, the more performance you get.

[HerrUU]

1 hour ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

Here's a news flash for you beach hunters: the Legend is a sleeper.  A MAJOR sleeper.  It will compete with anything currently on the market in terms of depth, sensitivity to small items and stability. 

I have no doubt that this is the case. I'll be beach hunting in a few weeks on salt water beaches. I'll let you know how it went. But for everything else? Show me a detector that can do more 🙂

 

[midalake]

32 minutes ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

Here's a news flash for you beach hunters: the Legend is a sleeper.  A MAJOR sleeper.  It will compete with anything currently on the market in terms of depth, sensitivity to small items and stability.  I've run an Equinox since it first came out and the Legend is a match for it.  My buddies with their Deus II's were a bit surprised that I could hit everything they could hit with their machines.

Hi Bill

What part of the beach? One issue was when the legend first came out and before the update it was not huntable salt in water contact.

[Digalicious]

15 minutes ago, midalake said:

0 One issue was when the legend first came out and before the update it was not huntable salt in water contact.

There was a salt issue that was remedied in one of the earliest updates.

[Digalicious]

7 minutes ago, Digalicious said:

There was a salt issue that was remedied in one of the earliest updates.

Although, the weird thing was that it wasn't occurring on all Legends. It seems that perhaps due to chip shortages, chip clones may have been used that weren't jiving right with the salt algorithms. Just a guess though.

[Bill (S. CA)]

1 hour ago, midalake said:

Hi Bill

What part of the beach? One issue was when the legend first came out and before the update it was not huntable salt in water contact.

 

Anywhere.  It was excellent on the wet sand and in the water.

[Bill (S. CA)]

Just to add to this I was consistently digging coins that hit solid at over a foot down in the wet sand.

Bummer is they all read 38 and were zincs!  But a coin is a coin, right?