I've gone back through quite a bit of older posts trying to learn what I can. It seems everybody agrees that the T2 is the relic machine and Omega is the better one for coins. I'm putting together a bit of a string theory kind of thing.
In going back through all my past machines and from people I know that hunt locally...almost everybody has one thing in common for doing well in heavily mineralized iron dirt: low-mid frequency machines do extremely well.
The big power house machines of today, that run in the upper khz zones...say 13-19 khz...get the credit for the best depth for most people. In good ground I can add testimony to that. But in hot ground, they seem to lose their umph so to speak...as do all of them. But I have noticed that the lower khz machines do give better responses to targets in this kind of dirt. From the CoinStrike to the 1200 series Fishers, to the Spectrum XLTs, and even today with the Whites V3i...it really does its best in single frequency, 7.5.
Which brings me to the Omega. I know the 7 khz is killer for coins...but the operating frequency has me interested in this machine. It is a newer generation machine with this operating freq zone I'm talking about....and with the older units hard to find, and no aftermarket accessory coils being produced for them....the Omega has me wondering about it. It has several coils available, even larger than the 11" DD.
So I'm wondering, has anybody from VA, TN, AL, or GA...in red clay or iron dirt hunted relics with the Omega and DD coil?? If so, what were your thoughts about it, and how bout a depth range on Minie Balls and such in this kind of ground? I may be wrong, and the T2 walk the dog with it, but that 7 khz has me awfully curious. The thing about the T2 here is that it could go really deep as long as you didn't trust your target ID and if you ran it in motion all metal. Other wise, even in BP mode, in my dirt it would start to ID a minie ball as iron at just 6" in the ground....so if you ran discrimination any above iron range, you would be walking over everything 6" and deeper.
In going back through all my past machines and from people I know that hunt locally...almost everybody has one thing in common for doing well in heavily mineralized iron dirt: low-mid frequency machines do extremely well.
The big power house machines of today, that run in the upper khz zones...say 13-19 khz...get the credit for the best depth for most people. In good ground I can add testimony to that. But in hot ground, they seem to lose their umph so to speak...as do all of them. But I have noticed that the lower khz machines do give better responses to targets in this kind of dirt. From the CoinStrike to the 1200 series Fishers, to the Spectrum XLTs, and even today with the Whites V3i...it really does its best in single frequency, 7.5.
Which brings me to the Omega. I know the 7 khz is killer for coins...but the operating frequency has me interested in this machine. It is a newer generation machine with this operating freq zone I'm talking about....and with the older units hard to find, and no aftermarket accessory coils being produced for them....the Omega has me wondering about it. It has several coils available, even larger than the 11" DD.
So I'm wondering, has anybody from VA, TN, AL, or GA...in red clay or iron dirt hunted relics with the Omega and DD coil?? If so, what were your thoughts about it, and how bout a depth range on Minie Balls and such in this kind of ground? I may be wrong, and the T2 walk the dog with it, but that 7 khz has me awfully curious. The thing about the T2 here is that it could go really deep as long as you didn't trust your target ID and if you ran it in motion all metal. Other wise, even in BP mode, in my dirt it would start to ID a minie ball as iron at just 6" in the ground....so if you ran discrimination any above iron range, you would be walking over everything 6" and deeper.