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Explorer Question

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AgileMJOLNIR

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The Explorer is no doubt a top notch machine...

My questions is though that if your a dig it all type of guy then is the extra price for the target ID at depth capabilities of the Explorer worth it? Is it safe to say that most top end machines will get the same depth it's just the target ID at depth that separates them?
 
The Explorer just goes deeper than most other detectors. Have owned about fifty detectors, now own eleven. The Explorer just amazes me at the depth and separation with the small coil.
 
has now been hunted in the exact places that I have hunted for the last 6 years. I've hunted this ground with: Whites 6000 DI, three Bounty Hunter Series, the Tek Turbo, a Tek T2, Garrett's CXIII, Garretts scorpion series, Garretts GTI 2500, Tek netics 8500,and the Teknetics Mark I, Garrett's ace 250, BH 3300 series, all the detectors found good and bad stuff in the 3-4-5-6 inch range in this same identical area.... I have a 2 ft by 40 ft area I call the wall of shame, and found things with every detector....however the Minelab Explorer has pulled items from underneath deeper and older dated coins than any of those other detectors. There isn't any silver in the area as it dates to the late 6o's. But the Explorer pulls the 60's and early 70's coins that the other detectors have missed.
Plus the Minelab Explorer II has what I refer to as a Find's Box, it's and area that a detector can or for some can not keep you in. Explorer Keeps me in that Find's box and I find more and better quality find's that any of the other detectors that I've used!
There may be better detectors out there....I haven't used them all, but in the dirt I hunt in I'm in love with my Explorer, ,to the point where I can concentrate on my ground hunting, and not hunt so much for the better detectors on Ebay and the likes!

For now....my Explorer is meeting my detecting needs 100%, and if I get the urge to change again....well the ground in my area will have to be empty first ...and we know that's not happening.

Detectors will improve in the future...I don't know how much,time will tell and show us some really neat changes in our hobby! I guess LCD color screens and other wishes should come into play soon. I'm not saying I'll never buy another machine other than the Explorer or Minelab models. But I am saying that I really have a lot of faith, extreme confidence, and a firm reasonable idea in treasure finding abilities of the Minelab Explorer II series detector right now!
Please remember that I'm only about 3 months old with my Explorer II but I've learned a lot about it and it made it's impressions on me.
I've detected now for about 10 years and I really have done some homework but most of my training has been in the field and what I've learned has been trial and error. Boy...do I have a lot more to learn...and I know I can count on the Explorer team out there to help me learn all the ropes. It really doesn't get any better than the support team we have in the members of Find's Forum!

Thanks Finds!

And Special thanks to the Minelab Group!

KCK/Ohio
 
I have been hunting for 13 yrs and had all the top end detectors and the Fisher CZ will go the deepest and then the Explorer the the others are less. CZ = 9" on a dime with 5" coil, expl. = 7" on a dime with x-5 coil, others are what size coil you have is how deep you go. Some of these detector co. need to wake up and make the detector go deeper.
 
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The 2 D discrimination is the best thing that has ever come to detecting in the past 20 years imho. The target separation is unbeatable and so is the depth. So go get one!
 
No I have never compared the two, but the 10 1/2 fisher coil will get a dime at 13 to 14 " , I know that. A lot of you larger coil gives you more coverage not much more depth. I hunt a lot for trash so I use small coil and you need to get a dime at about 7" to do any good.
 
I love this when I hear this. Try using a 4' excelerator coil on an Explorer. You will find Dimes at 8+ inches I think you will reconsider your thinking. How about it Mike from VA , anything you would like to add.

Tom
 
Hi Agile. I can respond to this from an evolution perspective: There were those guys, who got the very first TID machines, back in the early '80s, like Teknetics and the Whites 6000 ID incarnation. There were others who thought exactly like you do: "What's the point? You're going to dig it anyways, right?" And for those very reasons, a lot of folk resisted getting the new fangled TID machines. But the results couldn't be ignored: somehow, someway, no matter how you tried to explain it, the TID machine buyers were coming into the club meeting with the superior finds. Of course, in some environments, you may truly intend to dig all items above iron, but there's still no way to explain the thought-process that occurs when you're in an area where every everything is 1800s, and you get the perfect "penny/dime" signal on your machine. Sure, you would've "dug it anyways", but somehow hunters tend to start "knowing" and thus subconsciously favoring certain signals.

My good finds started increasing when I turned to TID, VS the old-style increasing pot-knob. I don't know how to explain it, since there's still lots of areas where I dig all anyhow.
 
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