Cherry Picker
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I guess in a since I am looking for a miracle machine. My DFX does as good as I've had so far, and it will a miracle to find what I'm looking for.
I've mentioned it many times before, but my miracle place is our city park. From 1991 to 2001 my White's Eagle Spectrum cleaned out a bunch of good coins down to about 8-9". At that point, knowing there is still plenty left, I started looking for a deeper detector. I tried the XLT for 2 years and while a great detector, it didn't get me any more depth. I bought the DFX in 2004 and it started pulling coins again from the park down to about 10", but after 4 years it started to dry up again.
I know there are coins as deep as 24" in this park. This I know for a fact. In one huge area the mud has filled on a ever deeper slope where on the south coins are only around 6", to the north where they are 24". The slope allows me to work my way from the south to the north finding ever deeper coins until I reach the limits of a detector. So far I'm mid-field with my DFX digging coins from the 1930's-1940's at 10". To get back to the 1800's, which are there on the bottom, I need to get deeper in this mid-field, I'm guessing the 1800's will be another 3-6" here, but even 1" will start it producing again. Its a very big area.
As you know I tried the Explorer SE, which didn't fair much better than my DFX, the Minelab Sovereign GT, which was deep but a major pain in this 125 year old trashy park, and the X-Terra 70 which failed to be my miracle as well. So my search continues. I'm hoping I will see reports of the Vision reviving those worked out sites, but I'm not seeing it yet. Of course it will take some time before the new Vision users become proficient enough to make that call.
I've mentioned it many times before, but my miracle place is our city park. From 1991 to 2001 my White's Eagle Spectrum cleaned out a bunch of good coins down to about 8-9". At that point, knowing there is still plenty left, I started looking for a deeper detector. I tried the XLT for 2 years and while a great detector, it didn't get me any more depth. I bought the DFX in 2004 and it started pulling coins again from the park down to about 10", but after 4 years it started to dry up again.
I know there are coins as deep as 24" in this park. This I know for a fact. In one huge area the mud has filled on a ever deeper slope where on the south coins are only around 6", to the north where they are 24". The slope allows me to work my way from the south to the north finding ever deeper coins until I reach the limits of a detector. So far I'm mid-field with my DFX digging coins from the 1930's-1940's at 10". To get back to the 1800's, which are there on the bottom, I need to get deeper in this mid-field, I'm guessing the 1800's will be another 3-6" here, but even 1" will start it producing again. Its a very big area.
As you know I tried the Explorer SE, which didn't fair much better than my DFX, the Minelab Sovereign GT, which was deep but a major pain in this 125 year old trashy park, and the X-Terra 70 which failed to be my miracle as well. So my search continues. I'm hoping I will see reports of the Vision reviving those worked out sites, but I'm not seeing it yet. Of course it will take some time before the new Vision users become proficient enough to make that call.