I am not posting here to defend or attack any detector model.
But to share some facts.
Those fbs1 and 2 Minelabs do provide good ID.
But remember the coin say has to be located first to get the good ID.
So what about a detector that locates a coin,,maybe the ID is good or at least tells users it is nonferrous,but FBS detector struggles to locate or can't.
Can this happen???
If FBS detectors were the end all for coin hunting,,,why are coins still being found in school yards,,parks, etc.
I mean fbs detectors have been out a while now,,I wonder just how many old school yards,,church yards,,parks,,,just what percentage of area hasn't by now had a coil swept over them using the fbs detectors???
It is not about just detection either,,,things like a detector providing a more angular attack angle for detection can help.
Yes we don't know what we don't know.
Who here has dug up an entire park and sifted the dirt,,,say the first 12" of soil??
I haven't and won't be.
O yes a lot of Minelabbers are very satisfied. Why??
Because they found some coins.
So did the self satisfaction mean they found all the coins present in the detector's depth range of detection???
Maybe some think so,,maybe some don't.
I have seen enough empiral evidence while using detectors to say,,,Minelab fbs 1 or fbs 2 units are not the end all units for coins,,and relics,,and jewelry.
A little story,,,found a nice seated and a Rosie a few years back using Nokta CoRe.
In a very hard hunted patch.
Had 2 witnesses too and they couldn't beleive.
My brother and our friend were along when I discovered.
So my brother snuck back and hunted that afternoon and most of the next day in this one area,,,he used a Etrac with stock coil and 6x8 sef coil,,,he just swore there would be some more discoveries here.
What did he find coin wise??
Notta
He thought if the Nokta unit could find a seated coin here,,,if that cheap detector could do it,,his trusty Minelab should excel here even more.
Btw,,a gent who lives in this county has been detecting since 1975,,in this county over this period,,,guess how many seated coins he has dug??? I asked him and he told me maybe 8 total.
He is a big fbs user too,,,he uses a SE Pro.
And has used other good until over time.
He had actually been in this site I talk about above,,quite a bit actually.
I was tickled with the find,,,those seated are hard find here in this area.
