Dirty Dirt
New Member
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2020
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Hey guys. I'm new here. I've been looking through the posts here for a while and finally decided to join. A little background: several years ago I tried to get into metal detecting. I impulse bought a bounty hunter platinum detector at Cabela's just because it was there. I never really got into it much because I was too busy with other things. I do remember that I really didn't care much for all the adjustments and digital readout, probably more than anything was because I just didn't have a clue as to what I was looking at.
Fast forward to today, I'm in a unique situation. I had a baby born over in the Philippines in March, got laid off due to this covid, had a tree completely destroy my house in hurricane Laura, and bought some land over on Palawan island in the Philippines. I'm going to be moving there before the end of the year. I want to get back into metal detecting. I already bought a Tesoro Vaquero for general use on land. I love the fact that it doesn't have all the digital readouts and seems to be easy to adjust. Let me know if my choice was bad.
I'm also wanting to get another detector solely for beaches and shallow water. I already ordered a wedigout smaller handheld underwater units with no adjustments to use while scuba diving and snorkeling. I ordered it off of Amazon based on reviews. Now for my shallow water / beach unit, after a lot of research, had decided to try to find a Tesoro sand shark. Well they're next to impossible to find now. I do have a lead on one but it's halfway across the country and the transaction seems a little sketchy to me so I held off and did more research. It seems like the more I search the more confusing this becomes. I've now looked into the white's surfmaster and beach hunter, which are also very hard to find. I've looked at the excalibur 2 and the Garrett sea hunter. So many choices.
Can y'all help me out here? This is almost Greek to me lol. I'm sure any of the above would do but I'm looking for good quality. A company being out of business, or a model being discontinued has no affect on my decision as I'm going to be too far away to try to get warranty work done anyway. I'm very open to getting a second hand unit as long as it fits my needs. Thanks
Fast forward to today, I'm in a unique situation. I had a baby born over in the Philippines in March, got laid off due to this covid, had a tree completely destroy my house in hurricane Laura, and bought some land over on Palawan island in the Philippines. I'm going to be moving there before the end of the year. I want to get back into metal detecting. I already bought a Tesoro Vaquero for general use on land. I love the fact that it doesn't have all the digital readouts and seems to be easy to adjust. Let me know if my choice was bad.
I'm also wanting to get another detector solely for beaches and shallow water. I already ordered a wedigout smaller handheld underwater units with no adjustments to use while scuba diving and snorkeling. I ordered it off of Amazon based on reviews. Now for my shallow water / beach unit, after a lot of research, had decided to try to find a Tesoro sand shark. Well they're next to impossible to find now. I do have a lead on one but it's halfway across the country and the transaction seems a little sketchy to me so I held off and did more research. It seems like the more I search the more confusing this becomes. I've now looked into the white's surfmaster and beach hunter, which are also very hard to find. I've looked at the excalibur 2 and the Garrett sea hunter. So many choices.
Can y'all help me out here? This is almost Greek to me lol. I'm sure any of the above would do but I'm looking for good quality. A company being out of business, or a model being discontinued has no affect on my decision as I'm going to be too far away to try to get warranty work done anyway. I'm very open to getting a second hand unit as long as it fits my needs. Thanks