New member here.
A Whites XLT is really the only detector I've ever used, unless you count the Radio Shack kit machine I had as a child. I swung the XLT for about ten years. But haven't used it hardly at all for the last ten years (life got busy...).
Recently dusted the old machine off and have taken it park hunting a couple of times. Realized I am just rusty as heck in all aspects of detecting. Checked my old coin garden and actually had trouble hitting many of the targets. I don't think it's the detector, I think that the targets have likely just settled a good bit in the more than 15 years since I planted them.
Anyway... You can see where this is going. Flung a craving for a new detector.
Which, brought me here. Where I have been doing a bunch of reading lately.
I registered mainly just so I could post and say THANK YOU! To all the members here who take the time to post so much great, thoughtfully presented information.
Forums in general seem to be dying out. I'm just delighted to find a detecting forum like this that is going strong and has knowledgeable members still willing to share their thoughts.
So, thanks y'all!
- Dave
A Whites XLT is really the only detector I've ever used, unless you count the Radio Shack kit machine I had as a child. I swung the XLT for about ten years. But haven't used it hardly at all for the last ten years (life got busy...).
Recently dusted the old machine off and have taken it park hunting a couple of times. Realized I am just rusty as heck in all aspects of detecting. Checked my old coin garden and actually had trouble hitting many of the targets. I don't think it's the detector, I think that the targets have likely just settled a good bit in the more than 15 years since I planted them.
Anyway... You can see where this is going. Flung a craving for a new detector.
Which, brought me here. Where I have been doing a bunch of reading lately.
I registered mainly just so I could post and say THANK YOU! To all the members here who take the time to post so much great, thoughtfully presented information.
Forums in general seem to be dying out. I'm just delighted to find a detecting forum like this that is going strong and has knowledgeable members still willing to share their thoughts.
So, thanks y'all!
- Dave
Happy hunting! 
Easy to get rusty. I have times where i don't get out for a bit. It is like bowling. May take you a few to get the old memory ticking again. Nox is great. CTX is great but heavy. AT Pro great, etc. In other words you have a tough choice to make or a budget for more than one
