Originally Posted by
gustavus
Which metal detector are you using, is your detector just as good at hunting in the parks as on highly mineralized beaches. At what depth was your average find. How many false digs do you do in a day of hunting, in other words is you detector good at discriminating between trash and treasure.
I want to purchase another detector for use in highly populated areas your answers could help me make that decision on which one to purchase.
I use an older white's electronics Spectrum XLT ....which is the same as the newer model just called "XLT", but they stopped selling them a few years ago. Mine doesnt work well on beaches. I tried it out in england years ago & it had problems. The salt water I assume. Average depth?... I dont know how to answer that....Deepest is probably about 9 inches for a coin sized object & THAT is just barely reading it as "something" and not accurately showing what it might be. I'd say its pretty capable at discriminating out trash for the most part, but there are some sought after objects that will always register the same as trash.
Note: you see a lot of trash in some of those pictures because I was looking for gold rings & you gotta dig up pulltabs & misc, trash to find them.
dirtymoney 
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