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Merger of the Hobby Detecting blog and the search and history club “Starets” (News!)
Friends and readers of our blog! It’s been a long time since we wrote any news about our project, and we’ve been around for a year and a half. We will celebrate our two-year birthday on a grand scale and with prizes — get ready for…
White’s MX Maxxx (first photo & video!). NEW 2018
You know what’s a BFO metal detector? How about a new product 2018: a machine weighing around 4 kg, powered by 4 thick batteries but having a $200 higher price that an old one? Let me guess… White’s really hit the spot – it’s the very metal…
MarsMD coils for Nokta Impact. NEW 2017
MarsMD has released its coils for the Nokta Impact metal detector. The model line-up includes the DD elliptical 10?6 Sniper and 13?10 Tiger coils, as well as the large round DD 13 Discovery and 15 Goliath ones. All of the machine’s three…
Minelab Equinox – Minelab announces sensation! NEW 2017
A new metal detecting product 2017 is coming soon. Minelab has announced its new machine’s release date: September 16, 2017. No less important in this announcement is the place of the product’s release – the UK. There is a big…
The last journey of treasure hunter and millionaire Stu Auerbach
It was in 1955 when a young man with an ordinary army mine detector appeared in Miami Beach and started picking up handfuls of rings, earrings, chains, keys and many other things sounding like consistent beep, beep, beep… Signal after…
Fake Bounty Hunter TID from China. It’s all bad
China’s counterfeit metal detectors have been taken to a whole new level – fakes come less than a year after originals first saw the light. By comparison, the Chinese Garrett ACE 250 went on sale 7 years after the original was released.…
The trial of Minelab and XP Detectors – what news? Looks like someone is having a hard time!…
It seems that someone is having a very hard time in the new season. Minelab is slowly suing XP Detectors and it seems that they are having some success in this matter. I recently found a document in which a judge of one of the American…
INTERNATIONAL SEARCH ENGINE MASTER CONVENTION SEPTEMBER 9, 2017
9 September, not far from Moscow in the southern direction, an international master meeting of search engines will take place with the participation of representatives of the companies AKA, Golden Mask, Nokta/Makro and NEL. Come! Event…
Loud upgrade for Garrett AT MAX (competitors are appalled)
Garrett has learned to connect to detectorists’ brains via its metal detectors. The manufacturer can really read minds! There isn’t any other explanation to this event. How? How could they guess it’s the VERY thing treasure hunters…
Metal detector of the future (XP Deus). NEW 2020?
How can the XP Deus released in 2009 be called today’s most modern machine? By metal detector history standards, this device is a real oldster that will not live longer than a year or two actually… But no such luck. While imagining the…
Unusual abilities of a homemade detector
There is a homebrew machine possessing unusual abilities. Just imagine: you sweep the coil over the ground and see, in real time, the location and size of the incoming target… And it’s not a metal detector from the future. Look how it…
A coil for Nokta Impact & Makro Racer 1/2. NEW 2017
Here are the new products 2017: a Makro 7 Concentric (RC18C) mono coil for the Makro Racer and Makro Racer 2 metal detectors. Plus, a Nokta 7 Concentric (IM18C) mono coil for the Nokta Impact detector. Actually, these are the first not DD…
Quest Q20 & Quest Q40 & Quest PRO (+ prices, video). NEW 2017
Quest Metal Detectors, a new manufacturer, has rolled out its new products – the Quest Q20, Quest Q40, and Quest PRO machines… Take a look at these novelties 2017. Does it seem Fisher/Teknetics weren’t enough for the Chinese, and now they…
What Minelab will show in September 2017 in the UK? (New MD, new 2018!)
In September there will be a big rally in the UK, and in our opinion «rally» diggers from all over Foggy Albion. For sellers, this is a great chance to show themselves and promote their store; for diggers — have a nice time…
Homemade detector as a brand? NEW 2017
How do celebrities agree to take selfies with strangers? They may regret such a photo in the future. The metal detecting world has its own celebrities, too. For instance, KG treasure hunters, the very ones who represent Garrett at shows and…
Deteknix is gone! Just got sued by its competitor
The war between MD manufacturers is running its course. First Texas, the American corporation producing Fisher / Bounty Hunter / Teknetics metal detectors, has sued Deteknix, the American-Chinese manufacturer. The latter has announced its…