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. It won’t detect a target much deeper than around 8″ which is the same as the MTXE but due to the slower recovery speed, there is a chance that many targets would be missed. 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 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. However, this should always come with the caveat that you will most certainly miss some good targets if you notch out bottle caps, no matter what target id they fall under. 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. If they take to it, then I can move them up to a better detector as they get more involved in detecting.Versatility The Dr Otek MT XR is a versatile metal detector that can be used in a variety of settings. 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. There is a lot of hard plastic of course but the display is big and bright, and the stem is adjustable and can be set for children or tall adults. 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. It seemed to do everything I'd want: detect different metal types, provide a percentage likelihood of identification, and spot unwanted metals to avoid digging them up. Especially as you get close to the pier and start hitting all those bits of iron, rusty nails and melted aluminium cans from countless barbecues and bonfires. With so many different models and brands to choose from, it can be difficult to know where to begin.

Single-frequency detectors can suffer a severe performance hit when confronted with the heavily mineralised ground of wet salt sand. With this pouch you can hold the digger tool and pin pointer on the outside as there are holder slots. The MT-XR is not a bad machine but it is much older than the MT-XE and the recovery speed is even slower. 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. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliate or endorsement of DealsOfAmerica.

It comes with our TurboD double D coil for best performance to handle high mineralized soil or beach hunting. This is the time a machine takes to register a target and then drop that target before picking up the next one. 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.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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.