Recently bought a X-Terra 705 Gold and a X-Terra 505 for the wife. She now says she is not interested. What would you do ? I can still take the 505 back for a full refund at this time. Maybe I should keep it ? Does it have any advantages to the 705 making it worth keeping or should I take it back and buy another coil or 2 for the 705. Or, take it back and upgrade with another 705 with a different coil. I would like to have two detectors because I have a son that would detect with me at times or even a friend. Any thoughts on this ?
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Advice Needed
- Thread starter pilot
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Speaking from personal experience, it's always nice to have a backup detector and better yet if a quality machine such as the XT-505. For one you never know when your detector may need to go in for repairs and two the "505" would always be available for your son or a friend to use, not to mention your wife too, if she ever changes her mind. I tried having friends and relatives use an inexpensive backup detector when out with me, but it just wasn't an enjoyable experience for them. Now that the XT-70 is my backup detector, their enjoyment has went up 10 fold just by knowing when a coin is probably under the coil.
FortuneFinder73
New member
Hey Pilot, If it was me I would take the 505 back and get the full refund and then you should be looking at $550 to $600 to spend... I would get the 6" DD high freq. coil for the 705 because thats going to be your main detector and thats a great coil for high trash areas which most of us run into unless your a strictly relic hunter and your out in the middle of nowhere then I would get the 10" DD High Freq. coil ( you might want to research that coil i mostly hunt parks, schools, old homes.. etc) but back to the topic I would get a pro pointer(makes things alot easier) and then for a friend or your son get a cheaper detector that is easy to learn and still has a good reputation.. for example an ace 250 (I know this is a minelab forum but its good to have variety...lol) and all that should add up to about $600 give or take a little.....but thats just my opinion... Good Luck
mapper65
Member
I kind of agree with both of these guys but you have to look at it a few different ways.
On the standpoint of keeping it, will you son or friend get that much use out of it or will it sit more often than not? That's a nice little chunk of change to be sitting most of the time at your expense. It's nice to have a backup detector but ever since I purchased my 705, I've never had the reason to have a backup detector. It would be kind of nice but I've gotten more use out of the additional coil that I purchased compared to if I would have bought a backup detector.
In my situation, the coils have been a better idea. I have a few people that I detect with from time to time so I'm not sure would it would be like to always be hunting on my own. If that were the case I may feel a little differently about having an additional detector. 4 of the 5 people that I have detected with have 705's and a few times someone showed interest in trying out a coil or two. That also helps confirm my opinion of having a few extra coils.
If you buy additional coils and some day your your son or friend buy a detector, you'll have coils that you can loan them when you are out hunting beside the day to day use that you will be getting out of them. That 6" HF is a nice coil in addition to the coil that came with the gold package. Being that the gold coil is a HF if would get the 6" HF and possibly the 10.5" MF. You would be set with all 3 of those coils and have change left over.
It may be a tough call for you depending on your situation.
On the standpoint of keeping it, will you son or friend get that much use out of it or will it sit more often than not? That's a nice little chunk of change to be sitting most of the time at your expense. It's nice to have a backup detector but ever since I purchased my 705, I've never had the reason to have a backup detector. It would be kind of nice but I've gotten more use out of the additional coil that I purchased compared to if I would have bought a backup detector.
In my situation, the coils have been a better idea. I have a few people that I detect with from time to time so I'm not sure would it would be like to always be hunting on my own. If that were the case I may feel a little differently about having an additional detector. 4 of the 5 people that I have detected with have 705's and a few times someone showed interest in trying out a coil or two. That also helps confirm my opinion of having a few extra coils.
If you buy additional coils and some day your your son or friend buy a detector, you'll have coils that you can loan them when you are out hunting beside the day to day use that you will be getting out of them. That 6" HF is a nice coil in addition to the coil that came with the gold package. Being that the gold coil is a HF if would get the 6" HF and possibly the 10.5" MF. You would be set with all 3 of those coils and have change left over.
It may be a tough call for you depending on your situation.
Pilot: Your situation is a little different than mine. When I up-graded from the XT-70, I would have lost half its value if having sold it, because it was already 2 yrs. old by then. As a result it was an easy call for me to keep the XT-70 as a backup machine. Admittedly it doesn't get a lot of use, but have never regretted keeping it as a backup detector and now that one brother has just retired and another brother (both have inexpensive detectors) has moved in close by, suspect it will be getting a lot more use.
I am leaning towards getting the full refund. I will have to talk to my wife first to make sure. When I bought the 705 Gold, the 505 was added at the wifes request when she said...what about me? Because they only had (1) 705 I got her the 505...kind of an impulse buy. She likes to fish and always comes with me, and also likes to pull the slot machine handle once in a while, so I thought she might take to the metal detecting to get that type of fix (never knowing what you might catch, win or find). I think it may also be more work than she thought it was going to be. BTW I did get a Bounty Hunter pin pointer but have since ordered the Pro Pointer. Heck, maybe I will just upgrade it to another 705 with the smaller 6" coil ! Thank you all for your thoughts !