I have read many of Montes posts regarding the omega and all the tek line really. I love my T2se, I don’t always connect with it right away but when I do it’s a very impressive machine and produces good finds.
I was able to stop for a short hunt after work. I chose a yard in my neighborhood that has low emi and a variety of trash types. I GB’d at 57 with the 10x5dd. I have left many foil range and nickel range targets here along with iron over the past several months. I’ve dug most of the good clear signals out already. I wanted to see how the omega sounds vs the t2 in this familiar setting.
First off, comparing the ergonomics to the s rod gold bug vs the Cadillac feel of the t2, the omega feels like a great union of both. The pistol grip prevents a rolling motion in my wrist at the end of a swing that is apparent on s rod tesoros and the gold bug. Not that it matters, I just notice it. With the 10x5 it feels excellent, lighter than the t2, better swing than the gold bug.
I experimented with a few different settings. Mainly with notch and sens. I only used d3 tones. There’s a lot of foil and can slaw here, I wanted to see how notch quiets my hunt in that little strip of yard. It did just that, without the pops and clicks of normal disc like I’m used too. I’ve never had notch on a machine. I was very pleased to be able to run at 90+ sens here and it was only chattery when digging. Once in motion, quieter than the T2se when cranked. Let’s just say I love the tones, they have a great quality to them that I really enjoy. The iron tone is more like my gold bug, less fuzzy than the t2. Its not as fast as the t2 from what I can tell this soon. I haven’t dug a coin yet but was more about seeing it work in aluminum trash. It has many of the same mannerisms as the t2. My deepest find was a brass backing to some kind of lock, about 2” square, at about 6” deep. Gave a solid loud 84.
Now a couple questions. Why is 99 Id showing on several targets in the lower range? Like foil and nickel targets will for example go 55,57,99,99, 48, 41,55,56. Even occasional low tone in there. Is 99 indicate somthing? I backed off sense to 60 then 50 and it will still show 99 sometimes.
Any additional coil recommendations? It’s my dedicated coin hunter. I’m thinking 8” concentric. Read a lot of good things about it.
I also experienced some wrap around on iron targets. I then would pin point and get a solid iron grunt when releasing pin point. A t2 trick for big iron.
I want to get along with this machine as I feel it really rounds out my FT collection. Time will tell how productive it is.
