Pulse 8x or another machine?

[Anonymous]

I need your help. I am a White's DFX user in Georgia and am interested in buying a water metal detector. I am only interested in hunting in fresh or salt water up to about 5 feet deep. Would you advise me to consider J.W. Fisher's Pulse 8x machine (is this a good machine?) or to chose another machine in order to discrimate the targets. The DFX gives me a lot of clues about what I am digging up but it is definitely sensitive to ground minerals. I know that the Pulse 8x is not. Is the Pulse 8x too sensitive of a machine to use to look in shallow areas of the ocean or swimming areas in lakes, rivers, ponds and streams? I would sincerely appreciate any feedback that anyone can give me.
Tom Williams

 

[Anonymous]

Here is my personal opinion. Don't buy the Pulse 8X. It is not very sensitive compared to the deepstar or aquastar. It is an older machine that doesn't come close to the performance of the *star machines. Be aware that all those are PI detectors and none of them will have the discrimination capability of the DFX since it's a VLF. The aquastar will handle the surf better and go much deeper than the DFX but just won't have the discrimination ability. If you don't want to spend the money for the deepstar or aquastar, there are others that while wouldn't go as deep, would still outperform the pulse 8x, especially on gold rings.
Good luck,
Fred

 

[Anonymous]

Tom,
It looks like we have a couple of problems here with your question. Unless your really a experienced detectorest, why would you want a PI for fresh water work ? They hunt in the all metal mode, and in a trashy area, would cause you fits. The problems like this are not as frequent in the salt as the salt has a way of taking care of trash.
The J.W.Fisher is really a unit design for diving work. I

 

[Anonymous]

A Fisher CZ-20 would do both nicely for you!