Counterfeit Golden Mask machines made in China have already gone on sale. The dealers selling original detectors name fake ones the electronic junk. Is that so? For example, fake Minelab GPX units from China are real remakes of calculators. Although the same cannot be said of the Chinese Garrett ACE and Teknetics T2. Continue reading
Am I the one who creates Minelab news? Of course not, the manufacturer does everything by itself. I am the one who just tells detectorists and distributors some piece of news. And this is just the case in point. Do you want a new product 2018, Equinox, for $23,100? It’s not a joke, it’s a real price. Continue reading
It’s really a shame that the MD-Hunter blog didn’t exist in the ’60s. We would have known for certain who and when was the first to make (and set to launch for sale) a pinpointer. As now it is anybody’s guess… Garrett, Fisher, or White’s? Today, any serious MD manufacturer has at least one probe in its lineup. Interestingly, it is not so simple to make a pinpointer. For instance, Nel promised to manufacture a super probe but failed. XP has managed to produce its pinpointer just now. Besides, this year (2017) we have seen 5 new devices at once: the XP MI-6, Minelab PRO-Find 35 / 15, Tenetics Tek-Point, and Fisher F-Pulse. Do you know what unites them? Great depth and ability to withstand submersion. Continue reading
Any treasure hunt resulting in discoveries is a hard work. The more you dig, the more you find. But… Apart from this principle, there is another, more important one: where you come to dig is what you dig up. Take a look at the photos of these finds. Can it really be true? Continue reading
Back in my days, the only test performed with a metal detector was the one on depth, and everything was clear after the first sweeps with a search coil. A modern approach to a detector is not as simple, including a wide variety: a recovery speed test, a test of how a unit emits false responses, a test on brick and gold, a salt water/beach test, a gold chain test, etc. You want to buy the device that really yields finds, don’t you? Or will any rod that makes a beeping sound and costs $25 be enough for you? Here’s an illustrative test showing how the Nokta Impact works on salt beach: how the machine reacts to a gold chain and whether or not it’s possible to miss such a find. Continue reading
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