Stoof-tabsallday said:
Yes I agree I don't NEED it.
I'm finding a stable full of tesoros at the moment lol.
But I love the relic, and can't see anything lacking enough to actually need another.
It can be easy to have too many detectors, or let me say a lot of detectors. If all are functional and can be used often in most hunting environments an individual selects, then that makes sense to me as I have been there often, or most of the time, for several decades. It's when somebody gets too many of one particular make and model, or when they seem to hang onto models that they felt were replaced by better-performing units and the old unit just sits around doing nothing and will seldom, if ever, be used again, that I feel they have too many detectors.
Even really good detectors that can perform well in some tough conditions can cause someone to load-up on too many similar models. Then I can see trimming them down. Last September on our
2nd Welcome-to-Hunt Outing, I took along several very good detectors of mine that can work well in the ghost town settings we were searching. Tough iron littered places, to be sure. I had some along for folks to borrow, if they didn't have a good working model for those environments, or for sale so I could trim my detector battery.
These were all 'excess' Tesoro models I had, and their simplicity and very good performance for those environments had them all sold and not borrowed. An original Bandido, Silver Sabre II and Eldorado all went to new homes, but that's because I till had some of my all-time favorite Tesoro models, and that trimmed my personal detector arsenal to only include three favorite Tesoro's. I will have it trimmed to my two top favorite units, the Bandido II [size=small]micro[/size]MAX and Silver Sabre [size=small]micro[/size]MAX, probably by the end of next week as our
3rd WTHO is the 19th thru the 22nd, based out of Wells, Nevada. I will have my excellent condition Bandido II along, w/8" stock coil and a nice 6" Concentric mounted, for any participant to borrow ... or buy, and I don't think it will be coming home with me.
But my current detector battery does have multiple models in it because they are such excellent units, and have a few search coils I really prefer using, and as I have also done for decades, I like to have two or more models of the very same unit with me. Especially with models like the Makro Racer 2 and a few other Nokta/Makro models, because I keep different search coils mounted to them. They have my preferred start-up program settings saved and will start up in the search mode I am most likely to use with the attached search coil. That way I just grab the detector & coil combination I want when I arrive at a site and I don't waste time switching search coils and lower rods around. Oh, I still do that now and then, but seldom because I already have a detector with a mounted coil I want to use ready-to-go.
An example is my often used Racer 2 with the smaller coil already mounted and it starts up in 3-Tone mode due to the trashier environments where that works best, and another Racer 2 w/standard 7X11 DD mounted, and it starts up in the 2-Tone mode. With that coil set-up, I also know I can quickly select the 2-Tone Deep mode quite easily and that's the coil choice I would most often use with that mode set-up. I also keep my all-around performing Nokta FORS Relic with the 5½" DD at-the-ready to start up in Di3 [size=small]
(3-Tone mode)[/size] but have another Relic w/5½X10 Concentric coil mounted for a sparse-trash search in the Di2 search mode. I plan to get another Relic to keep a standard 7X11 DD mounted to and set-to-go, and if I had a 5½X10 coil for the Racer 2, I would probably nab a deal on another Racer 2 just to keep that coil mounted for more frequent use.
Then again, even I can get carried away with models I really like simply due to how well they work and how much I like them. I don't
need another Relic to mount a 7X11 coil for open area searches because a FORS CoRe with the same size coil can handle all my needs for open area hunts with minimal trash, and that means I seldom encounter ferrous trash so the Iron Volume isn't a necessary 'need' and falls into the 'want' category for those search applications.
But I know what you mean, and the FORS Relic IS my #1 all-purpose detector, and is also complemented with a Racer 2. and these two models are part of several I keep in my vehicle, and I will be loading up a few more Nokta/Makro models tomorrow, with extra batteries, to get ready to head off on another detecting trip that I will wrap up with the
WTHO and head back home on the 23rd. The Relic/Racer 2 team get a lot of use, for sure, simply due to the fact that they work so well, especially in the dense iron littered sites I most often hunt.
My Racer 2's will get more work-out the tail end of May and during June and July when the high desert head and current dense grassy weed growth limit my searches there and I will be doing more Coin & Jewelry Hunting in cooler shaded [size=small]
(I hope)[/size] parks and such.
Maybe you could thin out your Compadre and DeLeón and put that $$$ towards acquiring a Racer 2? Just a thought, but looking at your listed arsenal I know that's what I would do in a heartbeat. The other two would likely stay, serving purposes similar to my remaining and staying Tesoro models.
Monte
but not to soon gotta save some banana's !!
That seems to be a good break point, 6 is a necessity and 7 or more is compulsive. Monte how many machines in your arsenal ? lol
, and becoming less Compulsive minded.
Ok off to Carls Jr., treat is on me...it is my "milestone" day.