Upgrade Advice

[wiimii]

New to site so hello all. Its time to upgrade from ACE 250. Have decided on Omega 8000 or T2. The area i am working is small 100+ year old farming community. Heavy CW activity, finding things on top of ground very common and if one takes the time to walk fields after plowing can find a lot of things on ground. Trail of Tears passed 1/4 mile from our farm and a lot of Indians in area. Have mounds on family members land. Have access to all farms in community. Community church is as old as community and has all activities held there. Area never been worked. I find a lot of things with 250 but I'm sure i am missing a lot. Advice on what you think would be best machine for type of area would be very helpful. Thanks for your time.

 

[Keith Southern]

If it me and what I know now! I would not hesitate to get the T-2 if I was after relics( Which I am).Not knocking the Omega but the T-2 when set accordingly is one hard unit to beat in depth and in trash(Especially in Trash)..

Just my take

P.M. me if you like

Keith

 

[Elton]

It can pick coins out no matter where you use it.. I noticed it has a bit more depth than the Original Standard T2 had......(In My Soil)...............

I tried something today just for no reason..Set sens at 75...tones to 3, Discrimination to all out up to Zinc Pennies.. You know this T2 found Silver, and a small Silver heart.............No popping, Stable operation....and it also found several clad coins in an area I had just hunted. One hole had two tabs, and a piece of iron in the hole, yet the T2 6.5 sorted through it and hit 83 on the Silver dime..and 81 on the Silver Heart. and it had a tab within two inches of it too..Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........... It is very fast on response..and depth is still good...in fact up above 50 in disc. it seemed to go into overdrive on the depth..............

 

[bubbadirect]

wiimii, welcome to this forum. This is a GREAT place to learn more about yourself and your detector. I relic hunt and coin shoot with the Omega 8000. I have never played with the T2, but I'm sure I would love it. But, The price to features combination makes the Omega one of the best in the market, period.

It takes a little while to get used to and learn, but I am still learning everyday from this awesome machine.

If you are free, I would be happy to come down and relic hunt with you sometime!

Let me know,
bubbadirect

 

[chuck ky]

do you mean you disc. out the zincs or just below zinc. i hunt a lot of newer spots at full disc. to miss the zincs and pulltabs but i usually use 1 tone. in wood chip areas i use 3 tones since i learned that zincs give a lower signal in 3 tone.

 

[wiimii]

That's what i forgot in my post. I was interested if the T2 with single coil or if the Omega with the 3 coils would work OK. Could save a little money with Omega.

 

[space_weaseal]

That's what i forgot in my post. I was interested if the T2 with single coil or if the Omega with the 3 coils would work OK. Could save a little money with Omega.

I bought the newer 6.5 version, brand new for $600.
I know i got a smoking deal, but right now is the time to buy a T2. Watch the forums for some great deals because it seems that plp are holding out for the LTD's so the price on t2's has dropped alot.

 

[marcomo]

Don't have either machine, but I have their FT cousins, the F75 and F5. Both are excellent machines.

No doubt the Omega would be a significantly shorter learning curve which is a big advantage if you're still fairly new to detecting.

A 5" coil is a big help regardless of what detector you decide on. Some spots are just too trash and target dense for a big coil to work well.

Whatever you decide, good luck. Sounds like you've got some primo real estate to cover!

 

[Elton]

Now let me say this up front to all.. This is not the standard hunting procedure with any machine. I just tried it "Because".... I wanted to see how the machine would do set up like that. I was very surprised at how well it worked..

This would be a good setting for heavy trashed ares.
This would be a good setting for picking coins only.
This would be a good setting if in a well manicured lawn, and, you wanted to dig little, if any junk targets.


Or just for the fun of it like I did...