Posted by JB(MS) on 11/9/2008, 9:58 am, in reply to "Discovery Barons & Manufacturing Suggestions"
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Good post Mr Bill. You were dead on about why a lot of people didn't buy a Cointrax, or bought one but gave up on it and sold it. They are complex, but the features and performance are well worth the effort required to learn them. Over the years I've exchanged emails with several people who had bought a Cointrax, were having trouble learning how to make adjustments to them, that gave up and sold them. I can understand the reluctance to buy a detector as complicated as the Cointrax, but the other models are simple to use and have outstanding performance.
A couple of years ago Kevin suggested that a base Baron with external ground balance and threshold adjustments and marketed as a relic detector would sell a bunch. Having used most of the "best" relic detectors, and hunted alongside the few I haven't used, I think he could very well have been right. The Cobra II/A&S have the best notch setup for coin hunting of any detector I've used; in addition to being a nugget detector and a great all around detector for coins and relics, the Goldtrax is an awesome jewelry hunter for anyone willing to take the time to learn the variances in the all metal mode, and the SST is a super coin/jewelry hunter that is just plain fun to use.
I've posted before, on most of the forums, that I added buying and selling used detectors to a sideline used camera equipment business I had from about 1990 until four or five years ago and how it resulted in me using the Barons - http://jb-ms.com/Carlsforum/June12-2005/22573.html -. I got to try a lot more detectors than most will ever have the opportunity to try, from old, basically useless BFO and TR models to the supposedly best out there. Some of them I really liked, the Fisher CZ's, a couple of Garrett models, Shadow X5 (even though Troy and I had a knockdown, dragout about it on the Findmall forum before it was taken down) and some others, but none of them did as well for me as the Barons. I hate to see them out of production again, and I'm afraid this time it's for good
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