Mom wants a metal detector?

[Reed Lukens]

A number of you guys met her at the 2015 Tnet members outting, she's 81 now, going strong, lives in Florence, Oregon and wants a good all around detector for beach, parks, streams, desert... looking for coins, relics, jewlery on the beach mostly. I've been out of the loop living happily with my minelabs, so...
What would be a good all around multi-use detector for her?
Both on land and or partially in the water?

 

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[russau]

Reed that would have been a good one to go to ! UNFOURTUNATLY for me I was tooooo beat up to attend it by then! It looked like everyone had a good time !

 

[eman1000]

I go with a Minelab Vanquish. Won't break the bank and the VDI numbers are larger than what you would get on a Simplex. At 2.5lbs it is also one of the lighter machines

 

[McKinney_5900]

A long time veteran detector friend of mine now uses the Vanquish today, and he had used most every metal detector over decades. The Vanquish must be ideal.

 

[Reed Lukens]

Minelab Vanquish sounds good
Thanks

 

[N-Lionberger]

My mom wants an excavator but we can’t afford it right now, maybe in the fall.

 

[Goldwasher]

A number of you guys met her at the 2015 Tnet members outting, she's 81 now, going strong, lives in Florence, Oregon and wants a good all around detector for beach, parks, streams, desert... looking for coins, relics, jewlery on the beach mostly. I've been out of the loop living happily with my minelabs, so...
What would be a good all around multi-use detector for her?
Both on land and or partially in the water?

that was a good time. the camp pizza was great.

equinox 800 is on my wishlist

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

A number of you guys met her at the 2015 Tnet members outting, she's 81 now, going strong, lives in Florence, Oregon and wants a good all around detector for beach, parks, streams, desert... looking for coins, relics, jewlery on the beach mostly. I've been out of the loop living happily with my minelabs, so...
What would be a good all around multi-use detector for her?
Both on land and or partially in the water?

Hello, tell your mom high 5 and good luck. Dig her targets for her if need be or recruit a kid so she can pass the suspense on to the next generation.

 

[Richard Guy]

Nokta Simplex, water proof to 10 feet submerged. Great value

 

[Lanny in AB]

I love my Equinox 800, finds gold nuggets, finds lots of coins and jewelry, fully submersible, has nice wireless headphones that come with it (no signal lag), has a bit of a learning curve, but well worth the trouble to learn the machine for how it produces.

All the best Reed,

Lanny