I continued on and even went into the surf but the machine was still silent, which again confirms my suspicion that the ground balance is set to zero. Single-frequency detectors can suffer a severe performance hit when confronted with the heavily mineralised ground of wet salt sand. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliate or endorsement of DealsOfAmerica.

As a beginner, you don't want to invest too much money in a detector until you're sure you'll enjoy the hobby. With so many different models and brands to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to begin. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With this detector, you'll be able to start finding treasures right away and start enjoying the exciting hobby of metal detecting.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums. Metal detectors can be an expensive purchase and many who would love to take up the hobby are often put off by the cost of getting started. I have seen some “experienced” detectorists who should know better, advising those new to the hobby and the MT-XR that they can notch out “all” bottle caps and still detect everything else. If they take to it, then I can move them up to a better detector as they get more involved in detecting.

With this pouch you can hold the digger tool and pin pointer on the outside as there are holder slots. Additionally, the detector is lightweight and easy to handle, so you won't get tired or frustrated during long detecting sessions.Deals of America is a federally registered trademark of Ziff Davis and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. This was not because the other modes were unusable, they were, but the point of this particular exercise was to see if that SAND mode worked. So on the whole, I wouldn't hesitate to deal with this seller again and found the experience positive on the whole.

Surprisingly, they gave it a backlibut no Ground Balance adjustment or other real useful adjustments to take on an assortment of challenging ground conditions. Although on standard SAND mode settings, it does knock out some of the iron and thankfully some of the rusty old bottle caps. With only 970gram unit weight and swappable middle stem, it can be transformed into a junior detector. Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the balance is not paid in full within 6 months. Age Verification Required: This product is not for sale to people under the age of 18 and will require an online age verification check.I’m new to detecting but had a keen interest for a long time now, I live in the uk and wanted to get into the hobby but didn’t want to spend a fortune on my first detector. These days we are used to spending a fair bit of money on a metal detector, especially if you want to use it on wet sand. I've relied on smaller coils most of the time since 1968 and when you get into some of the very challenging ghost towns and other sites with a lot of dense iron debris small coils rule. You can get more than a metal detector and including a premium headset, a heavy-duty digger shovel and a multipurpose carrying bag.