Land Ranger Pro demo

[marcomo]

Land Ranger Pro air testing with a Mercury dime in disc 4 at full 10 sensitivity, I'm getting an iffy but potentially diggable audio signal at 10" About half high tone and the rest low tone and nulls. At 9 1/2" it's a definite dig signal, solid two way and almost all high tone. No EMI.

Haven't used it in the ground yet, but I would expect a 15-25% loss of depth in my soil compared to the air. Assuming this detector isn't an "air queen," I think that's excellent depth for a detector at this price point.

Bounty Hunter is the economy line of the FT family and this detector does have a lower build quality feel to me. I don't mind the plug-in coil, it goes in solid and snug. But the coil wire is thin gauge like a cheap Chinese made detector. That's the biggest negative I see so far.

Seems like a well thought out and versatile design loaded with features and a lot of bang for the buck.

 

[detectingMO]

Some more thoughts on depth and nickels:

I did another airtest and nickels id is solid 35-36 until close to end of detection.

Buried at 4" still solid but lowers to 30-32 on id.

Buried at 7" bounces all over the place with occational hit in 30's but it still hitting. More on depth in a bit

I tested under one brick and mostly solid but starts to get jumpy

I tested under 2 bricks and reads as iron but hits easily.

My soil is not very mineralized but what little mineralization I have is iron. -92 or -93 ground id on a V3i with 1% mineralization readout

When I did the video it just has rained a few inches. Grass was wet and top inch or two of soil wet. If a machine is sensitive to iron mineralizion the rain seems to multiply the issue. Depth or coin on edge will magnify the issue as well.

So all this being said, I'm afraid in mineralized areas or coins deeper or on edge, for the nickel range, is going to be jumpy on this machine. Now the coin will detect at great lengths and the depth doesn't drop any in ground in all metal or pinpoint. Pinpoint is super deep on this machine and all metal is deep.

at 6-6.5" a dime will id correctly 1 out of 4 sweeps at 7 sens. 2 out of 4 at 8 sens. 3 out of 4 at 9 sens. 4 for 4 at 10 sens. (2 year in ground) additional 2" detection jumpy not correct ID

A 8" quarter fresh buried with id correctly 1 out of 4 sweeps at sens 9 and 2 out of 4 as sens 10. additional 2" detection jumpy not correct ID

in all metal correct ID is about the same depth and consistency as disc but detection is much further in ground. Add 4" to accurate detection depth and 2" to jumpy depth. pinpoint yet another inch added. very nice

What I think was done on this machine was sacrifice tighter id at depth for additional detection depth(maybe threshold bump behind the scenes?). Sinse the frequency is low it makes sense that the lower conductors lose accuracy much quicker at depth and interference/ground issues.

I'm going to play around with gb/tones/modes/vbreak/disc/etc to see if there is a "tighter" id setup for the jewelry low conductor hunters out there.

 

[Rebel1]

Gold? Have you tested it yet?

 

[detectingMO]

Gold? Have you tested it yet?

No, but I imagine it's fine in air but jumpy in ground from the smaller gold. I'll try to test. The all metal and pinpoint on this machine(in ground) is deeper than the Omega.

 

[Rebel1]

Jumpy ID is ok as long as it gets a good solid tone signal. I don't rely on the ID much, more on the sound.

 

[Hightone]

Do you think the Quick Draw Pro may get better depth and faster response (to the TDI) since that little single 9v battery is not trying to run so many processes?

 

[detectingMO]

Do you think the Quick Draw Pro may get better depth and faster response (to the TDI) since that little single 9v battery is not trying to run so many processes?

no, pretty sure battery has no link processing. they probaby operate on exact same power draw.

 

[detectingMO]

Happy to report manual gb set in all metal does indeed carry over to disc 2/3/4 you just have to give it time to go into search in all metal after adjustment before changing modes. So you can run Gb offset if you like. however no gb/disc/tone/vbreak tweaks have helped deeper nickels. I can live with that. Will have to test more tab gold targets to get a feel for them. raining all weekend. blah

 

[Hightone]

I figured, they are a processor, just like any other processor. If I load my processor (computer cpu) with extra processes, it tends to slow down, say, scrolling. Tesoro's seem deeper because most have no screen that even needs a processor. AM is deeper due to not putting voltage towards the disc process.

Just a thought.

 

[supertraq]

I'm not brand loyal. The first texas machines feel and look like toys compared to whites/minelab. But they are light and good performers.

Whites perform like toys compared to 1st Texas machine. Whites are to complicated with mediocre performance.
Fisher cz3d is far from toyish and still kicks ass.