Interesting to read your results on this. I won't watch his video. I'm assuming you guys are digging in dirt and wanting the dime , not the foil. I am looking for the opposite on my beach. Could care less about the dime and would rather dig foil all day ! Because on a slope or in the wet that foil will either be just that.... or pulltab , aluminum blob ...or gold.
I'm digging for both dimes and foil/pulltab/gold targets whether its in parks, fields or beaches.
That's what interested me about some of these tests by tnsharpshooter and CD. They are very valid tests using the static setups they have chosen. Whether they are definitive as far as actual performance in the real world is another story.
For me it all boils down to things like explaining clearly to anyone watching that the testing is dependent on the size and type of nail and foil and that the Legend or Equinox will pass the test using other nails and sizes of foil/aluminum. Instead, we get the "well, look a there" response when the Legend or Equinox fails a test
If I use just a piece of a modern oval pull tab vs dime I get one result. If I use a whole modern oval pull tab I get another. If I use just the right sized or larger piece of foil=fail. Just the right sized or smaller=pass.
Same with the nail vs dime test. I have done those two tests with many types of nails in the last 24 hours including a concrete nail. I cannot get the results to match those shown by tnsharpshooter. Like he said, his results with the concrete nail he is using speak for themselves.....
However, watching some of these videos could lead an unsuspecting Legend owner to the conclusion that the Legend and/or the Equinox stink in modern aluminum trash and around nails. They don't.
If the Legend had a serious target separation issue, I wouldn't be finding gold rings, silver rings and almost $400 in clad since I got my Legend back in March and I have almost exclusively used my Legend for modern aluminum trashed park hunting using the 11" coil. I deliberately have used it in heavily trashed areas where there are multiple co-located aluminum/steel targets in every swing. It has done very well. I actually prefer it to the Equinox for cherry picking higher conductor US clad/silver and especially for nickels since there are way less aluminum targets that also share the nickel target IDs. I like Deus 2 for the same type of areas too. I just wish I could set more than three notches using Deus 2.
