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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

When searching for used metal detectors, you may have come across names like Garrett or even used Whites and Fisher metal detectors. In my opinion you definitely want to go with a used Garrett metal detector.

Garrett detectors are quality units. I’ve owned a Garrett metal detector since around 1980. It’s a Garrett Master Hunter A.D.S., that is a vlf tr unit. I’ve taken care of it and it still works well and I still use it for Cache hunting and prospecting. Although it requires 6 9volt batteries.

Used Garrett metal detectors will serve your needs nicely. As long as you make sure your used Garrett metal detector works properly, and as long as you know how to use it (they’re not that hard to learn how to use), you’re in for one great time. When you’re out there, scanning the ground with your used Garrett metal detector, you’ll be surprised at what you’ll find. Find jewelry, coins, electronics or all of the above and have a fun time doing it.

Where Should You Look For A Used Garrett Detector?

When people need money, they go to the pawn shop to get cash for their jewelry, their electronics, their guns and even their used metal detectors. If you can’t find any Garrett’s at your local pawn shops, there is always the internet. You can go to Ebay, one of the free classified ad sites, or just do a web search to see if you can find any websites that specialize in offering used items, such as used Garrett metal detectors.

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

The best all around metal detector is different for almost everyone. Some people like a lot of gadgets and others don’t. Some people use a powerful discrimination metal detector with manual ground balance and discrimination turned way low. They dig a lot of junk but also find a lot of old coins. Until you’ve had a number of detectors you really don’t know what you like or need. Bounty hunter makes a tracker IV ($125.00) that is inexpensive and good. Others do as well. Look at the Garrett Ace 150 and 250. Both are good little detectors. Around $155.00 and $225.00 respectively. They are mostly all good if you learn how to use it.

What Are The Features Needed For The Best All around Metal Detector?

The best all around metal detector is known for its feature of being capable of detecting metal both on land and shallow water. It could be noted that this all around detector has been produced by manufacturers to ensure that the users are able to get the best out the tasks that it should perform. With the said matter on concern, the best all around metal detector is made out of the most metal-sensitive materials that could not be hindered easily by current, waves or even wind blows.

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It could be said that the best all around metal detector is certainly one of the most effective that could be utilized. With the right brand of the supposed best all around metal detector, it is undeniable that the process of metal detecting would become more accurate, more indicatively specific that the ones appointed to do the task would not be simply wasting their time. To pick the best all around metal detector, you must consider the best value metal detector available in the market today. Garrett, Tesoro, Whites, Fisher, Bounty Hunter
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

You Can Find Gold With A Metal Detector

You’ve probably seen the advertisements or read magazine articles and even news reports about someone with a metal detector finding a large gold nugget. Then, they sold the nugget and made a fortune. But before you go out and buy a gold metal detector, take a deep breath.

It Can be hard but it’s worth the effort.

Anyone can find gold with a metal detector. But it takes the right kind of person to go out in the wilds with a metal detector to consistently find gold day in and day out. You have to be willing to fend off snakes, angry bears and bee’s. Everything out there will either bite you, stick you or sting you. This person that does this doesn’t mind how he or she looks to others and usually is eager to show how their metal detector to find gold works. But they usually take lonely paths in out of the way places and often have a solitary day out in the wilds with only a metal detector for company. This person needs lots of patience, a love of the outdoors and a good sense of humor.

A Hobby?

Although metal detecting is often called a hobby, there are those in the hobby who insist on calling it a sport. The vast majority of players in sports will never get to the professional leagues. And yet, that doesn’t stop people playing those individual and team sports, because they love the game. It’s the same way with using a metal detector to find gold or other valuable metals.

A decent used metal detector for hunting gold will run you a few hundred dollars. A new one from around $800.00 to almost $5000.00. You also need comfortable boots, snake leggings possibly, gloves, digging utensils, transportation and batteries for your metal detector. You also need time places to go. This is not something that you can do just for a few minutes a day. Learning to use your metal detector to find gold is a skill that needs to be learned over some time.

When you add all of this up, it can run you into thousands of dollars. So, you better be sure that you enjoy the sport for the pure love of the game before you begin to play.

Gold Fever Is Catching

I love it and many others do too! Your first gold nugget and you are hooked.

My advice is to start with a detector costing no more than around a thousand dollars. If you like it or find the gold you can easily upgrade.

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Metal Detector Review: The Fisher F70

If you are in the market for a new metal detector you no doubt have take a look at some Fisher metal detector reviews. Fisher has been a leader in the manufacture of high grade hobby, industrial, and security metal detectors since 1931. This Fisher metal detector review is going to take a look at what I feel is their best hobby product, the F70. There have been many different Fisher metal detector reviews on a wide variety of products from them.

Features Of The F70 – A Closer Look At The Fisher Metal Detector Review

This device has several robust features that put it right in good competition with its competitor’s offerings. The first of which is its ability to detect coin sized pieces of metal up to and beyond twelve inches in the ground. The system uses a 13 kilohertz frequency for optimum detection of coins, relics, and small gold pieces of jewelry. By fine tuning this frequency the F70 is able to detect more metal with better accuracy then its competition, a very important thing to consider when looking at this Fisher metal detector review. This goes above and beyond the White metal detector review I did a couple of weeks back.

It has a frequency shift so you can adjust for eliminating electrical interference and crosstalk. The advanced software motion discrimination has a built in notch filter for searching trashy areas and getting to the things you want without the things you do not. In addition to this it has an all metal auto tune mode for deep searches in clean areas. The visual target has sorts the ID’s by category taking the guess work out of your searches. The high resolution push button ground balance with ground balance read out lets you know exactly how your searches stand.

In addition there is a continuous search feature that will load in the different minerals as they are detected, allowing you to complete your searches in record time with unparalleled accuracy.

As you can see from their Fisher metal detector review there are many features on the F70 that you just can not find in a hobby unit in this price range. For me it has become the do all metal detector and has freed me up to do my searches with very little interference and problems. Before this unit dirty and cluttered areas where a nightmare, now I just push a button and away I go.

This is an unbelievable detector!

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Friday, November 13th, 2009

If you are looking for a Seben metal detector review then read on to take an in depth look at the Seben Extreme. This metal detector has many uses and can be used in many different environments, but I do not want to get ahead of myself so read on to see what this Seben metal detector review is all about.

What You Are Looking For?

Plain and simple I am going to get straight to the point of this metal detector review – stay away from the Seben Extreme. There are many other products from Seben that are of a solid quality and construction, but the Seben Extreme is not one among them.

This metal detector is listed as a high performance metal detector. But in my experience I found it to be completely useless. They say that it is used by archaeologists, researchers and other specialists but I have a hard time believing that anyone could find this thing useful.

According to the instructions the Seben Extreme Power has the ability to be adjusted with extremely high precision for each special application. In my experience there was only one application for the Seben Extreme, as a high powered boat anchor. Not only was it heavy and clunky, it bleeped and blooped at odd times and was unable to detect even the most base of metals.

While the manual says that you should be able to adjust the detector for metal of varying types, but I had a hard time getting the metal detector to detect anything. According to what I read it should differentiate these metals on an optical and auditory nature, but I found it impossible to configure and use. The manual says that it can detect metal at depths of up to 2.5 meters in the water, but I find that to be hard to believe considering it was impossible to detect coins on the lawn in my back yard.

Was It Defective?

Maybe the unit I got was defective and I do not want this metal detector review to be completely negative but I really could find nothing positive to say about this unit. Your experience could be completely different from mine. In my opinion, simply stay away. In the machines defense though I never did get in touch with the manufacturer so I can not say for sure if something was wrong with the unit or not, but looking back there probably was. That could seriously skew my bounty hunter metal detector review. Either way, I would never buy one again.

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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

I am sure your search for White Metal Detectors Information has come to an end as you read this article. Yes, gone are those days when we have to search endlessly for White Metal Detectors Information information. Even without articles such as this, with the Internet all you have to do is log on and use any of the search engines to find the White Metal Detectors Information information you need.

White’s Electronics is a world leader in the design and manufacture of metal detectors. The company is currently led by Ken and Mary White, using the same philosophy that was so successful for Ken’s father 50 years ago. Give the customers quality and value, treat your employees like you would like to be treated and the future will be bright. Numerous patents are material proof of White’s commitment to maintaining this leadership role. As the technology of the electronics industry has changed, so has White’s technology – from vacuum tubes to sophisticated computer driven metal detectors for hobby, security and industry.

Now instead of me telling you more about White’s metal detectors just go to their site. http://whiteselectronics.com

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Hooray! Your new gold metal detector has arrived! More and more people get their metal detectors through online websites, but there are plenty of others who still travel to bricks and mortar buildings and buy new gold metal detectors and all of the other equipment that they need. You may want to rush right out to the beach or park to try out your new gold metal detector, but you need to get used to it first.

How Does It Work?

A metal detector can sense metallic objects buried in the ground. Gold is certainly a metallic material, metal detectors can be used to find gold nuggets. In the last 20 years, detecting for nuggets has become a very fast-growing aspect of the prospecting world. Several companies have developed metal detectors specifically optimized to find nuggets.

The old time prospectors who searched for gold decades ago, never had any piece of equipment remotely like a metal detector.

Which Detector Is The Best

There are many varieties of metal detectors with technologies and features designed for certain characteristics and certain types of uses. All of the technologies currently in use work by putting electrical energy into a coil which creates a magnetic field and then sensing the response of a metallic object to that magnetic field.

Everyone wants to know “which one is best”? This is not a simple question and the answer depends on your finances and what you intend to do with your metal detector. When considering what detector to buy it is important to consider what type of detecting you want to do. If you plan to only detect for nuggets once in a while, you probably will be most interested in a Tesoro Lobo, Fisher Gold Bug, one of the cheaper Minelabs or a Garrett Gold Scorpion. All of these are available for around $800.00 except the Minelab.

If your serious and have the time to spend then a Minelab or Garrett Infinium which are pulse induction detectors are the way to go. The cost is around $4500 and $1100 respectively.

A good rule of thumb is the more you pay the deeper it goes and the more able it is to detect smaller gold and work in highly mineralized soil where most of the gold will be found. Keep in mind you can find gold with almost any metal detector under certain circumstances.

The Learning Process

Gold nugget hunting with a detector is a skill that does not come instinctively to the human species. You have to go through a learning process. You need to learn how to use the equipment and stay comfortable. Comfort is imperative because when hunting for gold nuggets long hours of use lay ahead.

Read The Instructions

Read the instructions and put all of the parts of your new gold metal detector together in the comfort and relative privacy of your home. It does take a little while to figure out where all of the wires go. Take the battery or batteries in and out to be sure you can change the battery easily when needed. If it’s not easy to change the batteries, then consider returning your new gold metal detector to the store and get one that does.

Trail Run

After you’ve hooked everything up and turn everything on, pick up your new gold metal detector and walk around the room with it. You may discover that you keep accidentally bumping it against the floor or raise it far too high over the floor for it to be effective. In time, you’ll discover the right height off of the ground to smoothly wave it over.

You also need to do some metal detecting to be sure your new gold metal detector actually detects metal. Drop a few coins on the floor and pass the new gold metal detector over them. You should hear a beep or get some other obvious signal that your device has picked up metal. If not, then you know that you have to take your new toy back to the shop.

Get some small nuggets or lead and I mean small and glue these to cards and start testing and learn what your detector is trying to tell you.

It’s much better to get used to your new metal detector in your home where you can act like a fool than outside on the trail where everyone can see you.

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009

After going through this information for Tesoro Cortes Metal Detector Review you will also be better informed about everything in some way related to Tesoro Cortes Metal Detector.

This Tesoro metal detector review is going to a look at the Cortes. The Cortes probably best represents the Tesoro line of products in general. It is their top of the line coin detecting metal detector making it a perfect candidate for this Tesoro metal detector review. This is not an underwater metal detector review although the Cortes can be used at some depths.

Features Of The Tesoro Cortes

The thing that jumps out right away when you get you hands on the Cortes is the control box and battery holder configuration. The batteries are down underneath the arm bracket to increase the size of the control box. This allows the Cortes to take advantage of a twelve volt system that can handle the high demands of the ID circuitry. In addition to this, because the of this the Cortes can use a two and quarter inch speaker meaning it will be much easier to hear if you have or have not hit a target. This means that you will not miss hits out in the field because of unheard or low volume beeps.

The Cortes also has and industry leading two by sixteen character LCD display. This is the information center on the detector with the top displaying a broad indication on the possible targets. It breaks it down into one of five different types. In addition to that if the target is overdriving the circuits that will be displayed on the LCD as well.

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The first thing that you will notice is the control box and battery holder configuration. The µMax housing was just not big enough to hold the new circuit board so we moved the batteries down under the arm bracket and increased the size of the box slightly. This allows us to use a 12 volt system to work with the demands of the target ID circuitry. It also gave us the ability to put a 2¼” speaker on the Cortés. This will give better and louder target signals in the field.

The Cortés’ 2×16 character LCD display will catch your eye as well. This area is the information center of the detector. The top row is an alpha/numeric display that gives a broad indication of your possible target. One of five different categories are displayed. Also if the target is overdriving the circuits, the display will tell you to lift the coil for a more accurate reading. The alpha/numeric and bar graph section of the display will remain blank until the coil passes over a target. After the detectorist has decided to dig or ignore the target the display will clear itself after six seconds of not receiving a signal. The display works in all modes, regardless of the discrimination setting. By clearing the display after six seconds the user is able to tell if has passed over a new target that may have been discriminated out. The detector may not produce an audio signal, but the display will show a target reading. The detectorist then has the choice to either go back and check the target or ignore it.

The bottom half of the display contains the real nuts and bolts information that will help you to work the Cortés to its fullest extent. The far right hand part of the display is a battery level indicator. This gives an accurate measure of your current battery level. On the far left-hand side is the probable depth indicator. The Cortés uses the phase shift of the target to determine the probable target and then looks at the amplitude of the signal to determine the depth. For example: a nickel and a quarter are in the ground and the quarter is deeper than the nickel; if we just went off of amplitude change, the detector may read the two targets as being the same depth. However, the Cortés would show the quarter as being deeper because its phase shift response is different than that of the nickel.

In the center of the lower display is a nine segment bar graph display. The different segments represent the following possible targets: iron; foil: nickel; round tab; square tab; zinc penny; copper penny and dime; quarter; half and dollar. The graph shows what the coil saw during the entire sweep of the coil. The targets metal composition and orientation in the ground can cause “smearing” or possible indication in more than one graph segment. For example: pull tabs usually will not respond in a single segment but give signals in two or three segments. To help the detectorist decide on the target, we have also included an ID Number display next to the bar graph.

The ID Number takes the largest part of the signal and converts it to a two digit number. When Vince put together the scale for the ID Number, he decided to put the most resolution in the middle range of targets. This is the area where nickels, pull tabs and gold rings lie. We know that iron will always be on the low end of the scale and silver coins and jewelry will always be on the high end. So iron targets will always give a reading of 0 and silver will always give a reading of 95. The Cortés now gives you the ability to decide what you want to dig. One of the hardest parts of designing detectors is the fact that pull tabs can vary from place to place. But a hunter working in the same area can use the ID Number to learn the characteristics of the local pull tabs and effectively ignore them.

For those detectorists that prefer a notch filter discrimination, we have also added a simple flip switch to activate either a narrow or wide notch window. When the display is blanked, two “N”s or three “W”s will appear on the screen. The N will indicate a narrow notch window and will be in the round tab and square tab portion of the graph segments. The wide notch window will cause a W to be in the round tab, square tab and zinc penny segments. These indications are an easy way to check what part of the scale is being notched out. The notch indicators will only show when there is no target under the coil. When there is a target signal, no matter if the target has been discriminated or not, the display will show the information of the target.

The Sum mode is another feature to help identify targets. While the detector is in either the Discriminate or All Metal mode, the display shows the target information from the entire sweep of the coil. Each time the coil passes over the target the microprocessor generates a new target ID reading. While this is nice for general searching, it can be confusing while pinpointing. This is where the Sum mode becomes useful. Pushing the springloaded switch into the Sum mode causes the detector to start a multi-tone ID and averages all of the coil passes over the target. The tone ID has nine different tones and relates directly to the bar graph segments. The higher up on the graph the target is, the higher the pitch of the audio signal. Averaging the coil passes over the target gives the detectorist the ability to get rid of most of the signal noise that prevents making an accurate target identification. Here’s how it works: when the detectorist gets a target signal that he wishes to check out, he pushes and holds the Mode switch in the Sum position. Shortening his coil sweep to only a two or four inch sweep he passes the coil over the target three to seven times. The short multiple sweeps give the microprocessor the chance to sum the passes and average them. During the sweeps the audio ID will start at the lowest signal and will get progressively higher in pitch until there is no more change. When this happens the detector is giving the most accurate ID possible. Then the user can decide if he wants to dig or ignore the target.

All of these new features are complimented by Tesoro’s easy to use controls. No touch pads or scroll through menus. Set the detector how you like it by adjusting the knobs on the front of the machine. The Cortés features an On/Off Sensitivity knob; a Discriminate Level knob; a Manual Ground Balance knob; a Mode Switch with All Metal, Discriminate and Sum mode settings; a Notch Width switch with Off, Narrow and Wide settings and a Light switch to control the LCD backlight with a High, Low, and Off positions.

The Cortés fits into a package that weighs just less than three pounds (including the batteries!) and is covered under Tesoro’s Lifetime Warranty. The Tesoro Cortés makes target ID easy and fun. Contact your local dealer or the factory for more information.

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Tesoro Tiger Shark Underwater Metal Detector Review

I have been a metal hunter for years and over time I have learned that the absolute best place to find things is out in the water. In order to do this you are going to need a robust metal detector and after years of searching I think I have found mine. I have read hundreds of different underwater metal detector reviews including fisher metal detector reviews. While these proved ultimately fruitless, the process of looking through them has helped me to be able to write a decent underwater metal detector review.

The Tesoro Tiger Shark In Depth Underwater Metal Detector Review

The first thing I always like to look at when starting an underwater metal detector review is the specifications of the product. This way if it is not what you are looking for you will know right away. The Tiger Shark from Tesoro has an operating frequency of 12.5 kilohertz and round, open concentric search coil that is 8 inches in diameter. The audio frequency for the beeps is at two hundred and seventy hertz and is transmitted out through stereo, Piezo headphones. It weighs in at around four and a half pounds and runs on eight double A batteries. Typically these will last from 10 to 20 hours before needing to be replaced. The unit will operate in temperatures ranging from thirty to one hundred degrees Fahrenheit. It has four modes of operation – No-Motion all metal, Normal Mode, Salt Mode, and Silent Search Motion Discriminate. The maximum operable depth for the unit is 200 feet.

SPECIFICATIONS
Operating Frequency 12.5 kHz
Searchcoil Type Round, open center concentric
Searchcoil Size 8″ diameter
Audio Frequency Approx. 270 Hz
Audio Output Stereo Piezo Headphones
Weight (may vary slightly) Less than 4½ lbs.
Battery Requirement Eight AA DC (alkaline)
Battery Life (typical) 10 to 20 hours
Optimum Temp. Range 30° to 100° F
Operating Modes No-Motion All Metal (Fast & Slow Tune)
Normal Mode
Salt Mode
Silent Search Motion Discriminate
Maximum Depth Rating 200 ft

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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Fisher Gold Strike

Fisher Gold Strike

If you are looking for Fisher Gold Strike Metal Detector then you are in the right place.

My neighbor has a Fisher Gold Strike. This detector was well liked a few years ago when it first came out… then Fisher mysteriously quit manufacturing it and now only makes the Gold Bug 2.

I have heard of no one who didn’t like this detector. It looks a lot like the CZ7 with the flat surface push button controls.

This 30 kHz detector is the first Fisher to provide operators with a constant control readout. It boasts a digital LCD display, fast automatic ground balancing, two-tone ID system, advanced digital signal processing, and a 10.5” elliptical coil. Some of the other exciting features include; an automatic low battery warning, an automatic signal overload warning, F.A.C.T. (alerts the operator when the coil is not properly installed), 3 memory locations to store your favorite settings, and an LCD backlight for hunting in low-light situations.

I don’t know why Fisher discontinued this detector I was out in the feild with another $1000 gold detector I noticed the Gold$trike was much more sensitive to smaller pieces of gold and other metals, also it has the ability to reject hot rocks and detect gold underneath them where my other gold detector does not, this is almost cutting edge for its ability to detect very very small pieces of gold!! Once you learn how it behaves in black sand and how to set it up properly for mineralized soil it works very well.

Overall this is a very good prospecting detector. To bad it’s no longer made. This is a link to the manual – Gold Strike Manual

Gold Strike Field Test – http://www.arizonaoutback.com/goldstriketest.html

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