PokerShark
Full Member
I have been talking to my friends privately here and I am getting good advice but conflicting advice. Here is the situation:
I got back in the detecting hobby a couple months back, but I have had a prospecting detector for the last 5 years - an original Fisher Gold Bug which aggressively finds anything metal and I swear would target a bird flying over with a tag on it's leg. That thing is sensitive!!
To get back into general purpose detecting I bought a used Garrett GTI 2500 and I truly love it. It does a good job, but I still want to do more. I am honestly a hopeless techie and I crave more and more tech.
I got a good deal on a used Whites XLT thinking I would have a second detector to use when my wife or older kids wanted to go out with me. And I admit the XLT kicked my butt - at first, but we have declared a truce and I am getting results with it as well. Turns out my wife and kids would rather go out an let me operate the only machine and they help dig. Not a bad deal really.
But I find myself craving a Whites V3i and the boss (my wife) has said no more detector purchasing because I spent my budget. The V3i is the detector I wanted from the start until I found the deal on the GTI 2500 that was too good to pass up. So I am thinking about selling or trading off all my detectors for a Whites V3i. My question is; should I go ahead and do this, or will I just be getting something that I already have between the 3 detectors???
Thanks
The Shark
I got back in the detecting hobby a couple months back, but I have had a prospecting detector for the last 5 years - an original Fisher Gold Bug which aggressively finds anything metal and I swear would target a bird flying over with a tag on it's leg. That thing is sensitive!!
To get back into general purpose detecting I bought a used Garrett GTI 2500 and I truly love it. It does a good job, but I still want to do more. I am honestly a hopeless techie and I crave more and more tech.
I got a good deal on a used Whites XLT thinking I would have a second detector to use when my wife or older kids wanted to go out with me. And I admit the XLT kicked my butt - at first, but we have declared a truce and I am getting results with it as well. Turns out my wife and kids would rather go out an let me operate the only machine and they help dig. Not a bad deal really.
But I find myself craving a Whites V3i and the boss (my wife) has said no more detector purchasing because I spent my budget. The V3i is the detector I wanted from the start until I found the deal on the GTI 2500 that was too good to pass up. So I am thinking about selling or trading off all my detectors for a Whites V3i. My question is; should I go ahead and do this, or will I just be getting something that I already have between the 3 detectors???
Thanks
The Shark
