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Hey all, Talked with my grandfather over this holiday and got into an interesting conversation on detectors. He still uses a whites 6000 which he says he thinks has an 8 inch coil. From listening to him explain that model and the depth at which he found coins just made me wonder if tech. has really came that far. He talked about finding old wheats and indian heads at 8-9 inches down, then a silver half in a school yard embedded betwwen two tree roots about a foot deep, he said he worked 30 minutes to get that coin out. I know new machines take less batteries and are nicer looking but has the basic detecting ability , depth and trash dicrimination really changed that much over the years ?? My grandfather has detected for over 30 years and says some of the first machines he used would get 8-10 inch coins easy, if you knew the machine. I laughed when he told me about how heavy a Bounty Hunter Red Baron machine was with all 17 of it's batteries. He said it was a good macine just heavy. So if he was getting stuff that deep back then what makes these new machines so great ??? Other than weight reduction and ease of use.
Ray
 
Have an old Master Hunter from Garrett which will get almost the depth of the MXT. The only difference that I see on the new machines is that you now have a meters reading out depth, VDI numbers, coductivity, etc. , and a better ground track system.
Also much less weight or balance.
 
I had the first model of Whites that would balance out the ground--it had NO disc--A real pain,It would find quarters arm pit deep in the sand around Horseshoe lake next to I5 Woodland Wa.-but since it was in the All metal mode %100 of the time it found every piece of iron in the ground-I only kept it a few Mo.--Then Whites came out with Disc.for it so I traded it in--I have Never had a detector that ever aproached that depth ever again--Just a side note on it--I told a nother detector what it would do--so he made me turn around while he buried a quarter and told me to find it, which it did,NEXT week end he was over there with 1 of his own--I never told him how much Iron he would get----Beleive it or not--deathWind1
 
Thanks for remembering the name---I still have my old COIN 4.It was the the machine that I realy liked the best of all the old time machines of the 60s and 70s--Almost bought a RELICO as the had good ads but were junk---- COMPASS was a good machine--Those were the days when a hand full of silver in a hour was very common--DeathWind1
 
My first machine was a Compass 94B in 1972. It sure was hard to justify spending $124.95 on such a frivolous toy. Sure glad I did. You're right about the silver. If you didn't come home with a handful or two, it was a bad outing. Although fewer in-between, I think the quality of finds has improved though. The Coinmaster IV and the Compass 77B were the top of the line back then.
Good hunting,
Otto...
 
The Coinmaster V Supreme still holds the record for my deepest Barber Dime. It was a miracle that I kept digging for it as it wasn't uncommon to dig a BB at 8 to 10 inches. The ground where I dug that dime registers low 80's on the MXT. The dime was around 9 inches. It was a good one too, 1896 in EF condition.
Otto...
 
Here is some old detectors,and I think they are the best,thats why i still own them. manny happy hunts
 
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