PennyFinder, very good points, and thank you! First of all I made a mistake, I had an A3B, not an A2B.
"Garrett with little fanfare, updates and improves their circuits over the years. Ask yourself why has Garrett carried the Scorpion for such a long time. It was not from inept corporate business decisions or from lack of imagination. If you never used a Scorpion, I mean really learn it? How could you form a credible opinion of it and then make suggestions for a "better" detector on the basis of nothing other than hear say and propaganda?"
OK, I will take my words back(eat my words) on what I said, since I have never used a Scorpion, you are right, I do not have the grounds to make suggestions for a better detector, is correct. The Scorpion may surprise alot of us on performance as a true sleeper and perform very well.
More good points, the MD engineers are multi-brand designers, I knew something of this.
So the Vaquero may have problems with EMI and bad mineralization. I knew the Vaquero did not handle iron trash well according to Monte, as the Lobo does handle iron trash better. Most ground mineralization has a lot of iron, so a detector that can handle iron better can handle bad mineralization better IMO.
"John Earl designed the Compass Gold Scanner and it is a very versatile machine and handles heavy mineralization and EMI better than the Vaquero."
I drilled a hole in my Compass Gold Scanner in 1990(with advice from Jim Straight) so I could set an internal pot screw from the outside with a small screwdriver. It seemed to handled mineralization well and was a good machine.
A used Scorpion can be picked up for a good price, and a new one is not too expensive either. I would like to get one and try it out.
Can anyone please list ALL the 'coils' in order(by size, DD, Concentric, if any custom-homemade or aftermarket ones, discontinued, and/or still available) that are still available now, and 'coils' that were available in the past(even though discontinued) for the Scorpion?? Thank you.