Digger Welt recently sent his vision of working with the Makro Racer 2 metal detector. I remind you that each of you can send your feedback or review of this or that review along with photos of finds and thoughts on what to improve or improve in the device change. Or why he’s bad. Or why he is the best. I am for many opinions, and other diggers will be very interested to know! So, let’s go:
I want to share my opinion about the Turkish detector Makro Racer 2, then simply «racer». This is the second professional level device that I have tested — the first was Minelab Safari, which I did not develop a friendship with because of its slow work; I prefer dynamic search. Let me remind you that I myself use a Fisher F44 metal detector as my main one.
I will not describe the technical parameters, I will only say that this is a high-frequency device operating at 13 Hz. It is powered by 4 AA batteries, which are enough when working with headphones for about 7-8 full trips on average, each of which was 4-5 hours of continuous digging. The first impression of the device was that it was well made and had a pleasant balance of weight; you can walk with it for a very long time and your hand will not get tired. The display is large, with adjustable backlight, the VDI numbers are very clearly visible. The racer has a trigger, and this turned out to be a very convenient thing: you press the trigger towards yourself and the racer is in pinpointer mode, by the way, very accurate, and if you push it away, automatic ground balance will be performed. After balancing, the device will notify you with a squeak that the balance has been completed, and this is also convenient for those who dig at night and do not use backlighting. By the way, as I understand it, one of the concepts of the racer is precisely convenience for a night cop: it has a built-in flashlight, the handle of the rod vibrates when a target is detected, the backlight turns on if a target comes under the coil. There are quite a lot of modes and functions useful for a night cop!
Now let’s move from theory to practice. I borrowed the device from a friend for three months to feel the difference between an average level device (Fisher F44) and a professional one. Having received the device, I did not delve into the intuitively incomprehensible menu or read the manual, but immediately went to the dig. For the first test, an ancient forest path was chosen, which, as it later turned out, was very littered with modern garbage. Something was ringing in the headphones, the VDI also showed colored targets, but only cans and other colored garbage were dug up. A friend with my Fischer picked up a couple of coins from there. Since this is not the first day I’ve been digging, there was no disappointment in the racer, just bad luck that day, and you still need to figure out the settings too, fortunately the device is of a different level than my Fisher, and accordingly it also has more important settings. After studying the manual and watching YouTube, I set up the device as shown in the video. The racer implements memory settings in each mode, and there are five of them: all metals, two tones, three tones, beach and deep mode, and each mode is truly unique, and not just limited by discrimination and selected for a specific search location.< /p>
After studying the device and setting it up, I chose the beach as the next place for testing in order to understand the rider in calm and comfortable conditions. The result was not long in coming — I have never picked up so many coins at a time on our beaches with any device, maybe, of course, the beach is not very broken, but I was surprised that the coins were lifted from a very good depth and the rider caught such small particles of non-ferrous metal that were only practically My Garrett carrot saw it point blank. Of course, I walked with a racer and through the fields, the results were always pleasing: the detector worked very stably, fast response to targets, decent depth, excellent separation of nearby targets and very good discrimination.
Now about what I didn’t like, or maybe what I didn’t understand or wasn’t used to. I didn’t like the voice acting of the device. The racer is a talking device, and when you walk in the two-tone mode recommended by the racer users, then in this mode he sees deeper, but you quickly get tired of all these sounds and every time you have to look at the VDI number, and since I often practice night coping, and this when all targets are determined only by ear, then in two tones you, it turns out, are simply digging all the color signals! In the three-tone mode it is comfortable to walk, but the depth is somewhat lower, and in our times depth is the most important search factor. Deep mode requires slow retrieval and thoughtful searching.
Let me summarize my impression of the racer. The device is worthy for both beginners and professionals, it is suitable for searching for various targets, it perfectly sees small silver coins and royal copper at a decent depth. It will be easy for a person more or less familiar with metal detectors to understand it, since the menu for a professional device is not at all complicated, I will say this — there is nothing superfluous in it, once you set the basic parameters and on the spot all you have to do is turn it on and rebuild from the ground, and there will be finds even in heavily knocked out places.
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