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troy x5 shadow
- Thread starter Texan
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TerryEastTexas
Well-known member
I have had three of them. I keep coming back to it. It's light weight goes with my bad back. It's very sensitive to small targets. It goes deep. I like the light tone on a deep target and it is simple to use.
I wish I had never sold the one I had as it did good for me and easy to use. I found that doing air test was not as deep as actual hunting and also digging a plug and putting a coin in it didn't get the depth as the actual coins in the ground did. One more thing for me was by swinging the coil faster on some close signals a coin would lock on while trash like bottle caps would break up, so I always swing over a target and change the speed and those that locked on where good one while those that started to beak up were false off of iron.
Good Luck as you have a very good detector.
Rick
Good Luck as you have a very good detector.
Rick
silverseeker 2
Well-known member
You won't regret having one in the arsenal. Can go deep.
Very good relic finder. It'll find deep coins but that takes
some learning. They like Iron. Like Terry says, great on
small targets. Found some really nice brass items, and
small crackerjack toy items from way back, and tokens.
Had one, sold it, bought another one. Found me my best
relic in Virginia one year on a trip. It was a golden glint
Eagle cuff button with many Minnie ball bullits. Haven't
used her in awhile though. Good Luck with her....
silverseeker 2
Very good relic finder. It'll find deep coins but that takes
some learning. They like Iron. Like Terry says, great on
small targets. Found some really nice brass items, and
small crackerjack toy items from way back, and tokens.
Had one, sold it, bought another one. Found me my best
relic in Virginia one year on a trip. It was a golden glint
Eagle cuff button with many Minnie ball bullits. Haven't
used her in awhile though. Good Luck with her....
silverseeker 2
silverseeker 2 said:
The first ones out were WAY too "chatty" . Scores of iron objects were practically indistinguishable from various iron objects. So they had to revamp (dumb it down on sens. level ?).
It's not a machine intended for certain types hunting, that's for sure. There's going to be way better turf machines. There's going to be way better wet salt machines. There's going to be better machines in nasty soil minerals. So it just depends on what type hunting a person intends to do.
I had the x2 and loved it for certain ghost-townsy needs. It's basically akin to a variety of two-filter Tesoros, which are all about the same. The x5 was merely an "amped up" version of that. Which .... got some flack because, as noted, therefore became chatty and loves iron.
Cajundirtdobber
Member
The shadow is kinda old school now but it is still a great and one of the deepest detectors today and it has several great features.Get one you will like it and they are still being repaired so you have nothing to lose,if you didnt like it they sell fast and still hold $500 easy.