I wrote this on the Sovereign-Excalibur forum and thought this would be appropriate to post here as well:
Now people with the new E-Trac out will rely heavily on the meter more so.
Also the 2 big disadvantages of the BBS and FBS units is they are very slow "and" also not sensitive to very small gold.
I was told by Minelab this about not being sensitive to very small gold and also many reports of the slow coverage speed.
Otherwise they are about the best machines(ones with BBS and FBS) out there.
I was told that the extreme depth VLF Minelab Muskateer Advantage found things behind the Sovereign that it missed, meaning deeper(in a black dirt type field if I heard right) and was many times faster than the Sovereign in coverage. So a person may prefer to use a ordinary VLF in black dirt--ploughed fields also to cover many times more ground in a day.
Jack Lange in Australia did tests and said this about the X-Terra 70 as compared to the FBS and BBS units, this says it all, read this:
DEPTH
(The X-Terra 70)This detector goes as deep as the expensive models (Explorer Quattro Sovereign) in dry beach sand, all soils, but does not go nearly as deep in damp beach sand because of the salt effect. Especially when set in
Now people with the new E-Trac out will rely heavily on the meter more so.
Also the 2 big disadvantages of the BBS and FBS units is they are very slow "and" also not sensitive to very small gold.
I was told by Minelab this about not being sensitive to very small gold and also many reports of the slow coverage speed.
Otherwise they are about the best machines(ones with BBS and FBS) out there.
I was told that the extreme depth VLF Minelab Muskateer Advantage found things behind the Sovereign that it missed, meaning deeper(in a black dirt type field if I heard right) and was many times faster than the Sovereign in coverage. So a person may prefer to use a ordinary VLF in black dirt--ploughed fields also to cover many times more ground in a day.
Jack Lange in Australia did tests and said this about the X-Terra 70 as compared to the FBS and BBS units, this says it all, read this:
DEPTH
(The X-Terra 70)This detector goes as deep as the expensive models (Explorer Quattro Sovereign) in dry beach sand, all soils, but does not go nearly as deep in damp beach sand because of the salt effect. Especially when set in