My dad and I got into detecting about 15 years ago and we started off with analog detectors all tesoros for years. Then went whites , fisher, etc. Im glad we went analog because it was all about the listening to tones and no visual id. I laugh when i watch videos of guys passing up targets because of ID numbers. Great video!!!

Honestly the secret to success in metal detecting is to avoid trying to find ways to dig less. I get it when you're in a new spot or have limited time you want to cherry pick and if you're looking for coins or high conductors only that will work. If you want relics and gold...........you need to dig more.

My house, and others around me were built in the late 40's. I hunted my and my neighbors yards several times. My old Garrett Freedom II found a couple newer pennies and a couple clad dimes. I then bought an ATpro and found a few more coins, but nothing to brag about. My Nokta kruzer found a few more including a war nickel. Then I got my Legend and found five wheaties, a very old pocket knife, a couple more nickels and a merc dime in my yard. My neighbor's place: a pile of pennies with 7wheats, 3more nickels and two silver dimes. All of this among a lot of nails. I even dug a little brass 6-32 nut at nine inches. I'm sold on the newer technology, including multi frequency.

I agree with you, but it’s always nice to have more tools in the chest so to speak. I was using an old bounty hunter tracker before I bought my Legend. Found plenty with the tracker but having those options on the legend is nice to have to optimize the chances as conditions change.

I have an old Fisher 1235X and 1236X and they still hold their own at the local park. And they work a long time on a couple of 9V batteries. Beep and dig, Bam! 😎

I started out with a cheap Whites 4DB in 1979 at 16 years old. My father and I crushed silver coins daily. Granted less people hunted so sites were virgin and many of today's trash wasn't thrown over yards yet and it's almost 50 years less that they had to get as deep at today so it was easy like shooting ducks in your pool. Large coppers, halves and quarters were well within reach of those inexpensive machines that either beeped or it didn't. One thing I will say is we didn't hit as many nickels to disc out most garbage but it was no big deal. I think that's why today you can dig a buffalo but no quarters or halves because in the 70's to mid 80's Whites coin master detectors were slaughtering them all lol. Then my dad gets a Tesoro with that higher frequency and he started working on the nickel population lol. By then the XLT came out and hit everything leading to the DFX dual frequency in the late '90's with Minelabs CTX and other multi frequencies and the detecting world took on a new breed. My early DFX dual frequency has every adjustable feature available to set which will compete against today's high tech if you know how to use those settings. 20 plus years later I still have the DFX as a back up in case my knew machines stumble too much with the ID's the DFX was 85% dead on in that department as it had 4 points of ID the audio tone, a digital ID, the signagraph bar which like today's Legend's Ferro check but it's best feature IMO was the DC Phase shift reading which distinguished a nickel from aluminum with an identical ID number being it read using a higher frequency then what the ID system operates at so it separated the high/low conductivity and allowed for easy cross reference which is so damn accurate. I don't know why these modern detector companies don't use this DC Phase feature. I think if people saw it in action how well it works people would request it incorporated in the detector. It's activated in the pinpoint mode. Modern tech tries to avoid the need for these extra features but so far I haven't seen a detector that's been able to accurately ID a target with a nail next to it like the DC Phase pinpointing can. It can tell you there's a nail to the left and a penny signal on the right regardless to the smeared audio signal. We might see a hybrid in the future with the speed of calculations of the high tech in iron and ground filters with the reliability of the analog nailing the targets. Come to think of it I don't ever remember hearing EMI in those older machines like we hear in these detectors of today

Wonderful explanation. I have many "fancy" detectors but I live my tesoros Also simple to work on. Solid state machines like tesoro are easy to fix with mild soldering skills. And they're so fun. And the disc circuit is so easy.

I couldn't agree more with what you're saying Jeremy

Very informative video. You really have me thinking now. Keep them coming.

You are great. Trust me, even here many detectorists will greet you and ask to shake your hand on first sight🤩

Sadly bought a manticore my old whites didn't leave much behind for it.

Love your videos like this, Your full of knowledge and it’s great to listen to when I am working. Thanks for all the great content.

I always appreciate your opinion on detecting Jeremy, thank you

Great talk, I am following you on this. There is a time and place. Keep up the great job.

You know Paystreak I think the boot of Cortez was found with a bounty hunter back in the day and I believe that was the largest single piece of gold ever found in the lower 48

I love analog detectors will never get rid of them!

Words of wisdom right there yall

I have an old Fishers CZ6a and its fun to get out with but it hits hard on deep iron. The Tesoro's were great as well but also like deep iron. To me that's a big advantage to the Multi is the stable VDI and what you don't have to dig. The Compadre in a Tot-lot is a beast! I've also had some success with Deeptech as an alternative to Tesoro. Just started my journey with the Legend and I'm not sure I could go back to the old machines.

Nice topic! Thanks. That inspires me to buy a fisher 6a pro again. It's an analog pulse induction. I had one on a replacement loan wile my fisher7a pro was in for repair from Paul's detectors in Mundelein Illinios. His 6a was hot rodded by a fisher technician. I frigging killed it with the 6a pro. I had to give it back when my 7a came back. You are a great teacher.

The FCC has suppressed the possibility of newer machines being able to surpass the old technology. That’s why target separation has become so important.

I know a guy who still uses pendulums and an electronic dowser device.

This has been my question to several people on youtube with no answers. If as I have heard we have to dig all targets to find the good stuff, then my question is why should anyone spend big money on a fancy detector that tells me to skip a target that I have to dig anyway ? It seems a simple buzz box that has depth and sensitivity should be all we need.

Nice subject to discuss, Paystreak. The Simplex stands out among the newer single frequency detectors, don't you think? I will say that a lot of the older detectors are still fun to use and will give up good finds, though target separation can suffer. Not to mention relearning how to hunt with concentric coils. I do hope you bring out one of your Tesoros. It would be fun to see you run one. Bill

My Compass Challenger X100 with the 12' search head in the all metal mode goes as deep as my Nokta Legend with the LG28. But in the discriminate mode (F) the Legend is deeper.In iron infested sites,the Legend is better too, because it works with 10 level of reactivity.But I love my old X100, you can detect slowly with it, hearing for deep signals...Thank you for your video and best regards from France.

About the 9 volts batteries being expensive...look up for rechargable lithium ones...you won'be disappointed. And on top of that they provide a more consistent performance... meaning no depolarization and sudden drop of power... You charge them just like a phone!

Good video. Totally agree with your story on multi frequency machines. You need to do a lot of thinking. And by the way if you were to detect in a small place in Australia you'd probably get recognized fairly quickly here too. I hope you were ok in the tornadoes there.

I like the new machines for their weight, ergonomics and rechargeability. That's it.

old machines are not restricted like the newer stuff i bet thers a few old machines that pump some serious power out the coil to a dangerous level but back then there wasent any legal limits on radiation etc etc

Crazy as it sounds , I ha e walked on the beach behind a guy with a aoverign gt and found quarters at 12 and 15inches in the dry sand with a tesoro vaquero. I was impressed

about the anolog detectors i think alot of them had concentric coils to and there is something about hunting parks with concentric coils i wish the new detectors made a option i know my last detector that offerd it was the anfibio and i had it and did very good in parks i got 19 rings my first month way back when i had it

PI MACHINES STILL DO GREAT EVEN AT BEACH. I have even found bits from gold mines over 2 ft down. Now living around a lot of rivers use high freq water proof machines where people raft. 😂

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The one analog machine I've kicked myself for selling was a tesoro Golden umax that thing was a ring magnet, stupid of me to sell it.

Do have a whites idx pro 6 battery pack gets heavy

I like that you seem to never sit still even on crappy days. Get the most out of life. It’s a good thing. I have a old whites TDI that Eric foster had his hands in. Great machine. Right there with minelab. All I dig is bullets. Good thing when looking for gold. Cheers

100% agree after hunting 50 years.

I wish that the Manticore had a single frequency 2D Target Trace. Why only the multi frequency has it, baffles me. Single frequency 2D Target Trace is at the top of my wish list of changes to the Manticore. Yes I have a lengthy Manticore wish list of changes that I would like to see implemented. I hope the rumored Minelab "THE ULTIMATE" has a single frequency 2D Target Trace. If "THE ULTIMATE" has single frequency 2D Target Trace, take my money! The Manticore is not for your style of detecting PSSF. The balance awful and it's too heavy. I'm going to add an extension and use batteries as a counter weight to fix what shouldn't needed fixing. I also explored flipping and rotating the handle below the shaft, a much improved balance was achieved! But the coil cable hits my wrist and the display is facing away from me. Last night I was wondering if I could cut the handle in half and separate the battery from the display and relocate the components. There goes the warranty and resale value :) Most poor designs occur because the product design was outsourced to a contemporary stylist/design company, dictated by either the marketing and/or sales department or the worse of them all by a MBA. Tks & HH 👨‍🦯

I have a new deeptech vista X Is like the tesoro tejon i love It. Also i have a nautilus DMC ii B Amazing machine but very hard to use.

Tesoro DeLeon here. Does well for me.

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Is it posible to detect gold coin 32 gr burrier 60 cm?

I own old ones they still work

Try a nexus metal detector

Now you have let the single frequency cat out of the bag ,dam🤨🤫

I like my Tesoro👍

Had a friend that bought a $1400 machine , he said he wanted to find more than me and that the more expensive machine would give him the upper hand. I was using the AT Pro Finding 8 -9 inch silver coins in heavy EMI ..He quickly found out that his fancy multi frequency really expensive machine didn’t play well in EMI lol..I found so much awesome stuff that day and he didn’t find anything interesting .I honestly felt kind of bad And was rather perplexed by the whole thing. I’m still using the Garrett AT PRO 10 years later 😮 lol Also really enjoyed my Symplex and take my go find 44 on the long hikes

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