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Minelab's Quattro finds coins at great depths!

Although there was a lot of wind and tide action the last couple of days, it didn't seem to do too much good. There were a fair amount of targets if you found a hot spot, but not much overall, few and far between.

One thing of note though, in one of my earliest outings with the Quattro, I related how a friend and myself went to the beach and I got a signal on a quarter that was so deep that his Fisher CZ-7a Pro got NO signal at all. Darn if I didn't dig up a quarter that was almost 2 feet deep! Well some questions on the forum followed and it was noted that although I DID step back about 15 feet from him and turn my coil away and out to sea, I had not TURNED OFF my machine. So it was surmised that perhaps the Minelab had masked the Fisher. Entirely possible. So I tweeked up THAT head-to-head comparison.

Well today, it happened again. And this time I had not one, but two Fisher CZ-7a Pro buddies with me. One with the 8" and the other with the 10.5" coil. I had the 12.5 Kellyco coil. (Let me add at this point that I have a CZ-70 and love it. I'm a big Fisher fan and have dug some amazing stuff with mine.) So, that said, I was running the Quattro in manual sensitivity at 18, Coin & Jewelry mode. I got a signal in the wet sand that was showing 38. It wasn't a GREAT signal, but it was repeatedly hitting 38 and would drop down in the low 30's, depending on how I swept it. But it was hitting 38 enough that I was pretty sure it was a quarter. My buddy Jack asked me what I had. I said it may be a quarter, but it's real deep. The depth meter was showing at max, so 12" or MORE. He came over to check it with his 10.5" coil. I promptly shut off my Quattro. He got nothing. Cranked it all the way up too, nothing notched out. Still got no signal. Not even in pinpoint. So then, Harry brings his CZ with 8" to bear and tries the same. Nothing. I then pulled my headphone jack and fired up the Quattro and showed them my sweep and signal. And started to dig. And dig. And dig. It was still there, dead center. I finally got down far enough to get the target. I swear it was over a foot and a half deep! There was an echo in that hole. And out came a quarter. We were all pretty shocked. I didn't get any others QUITE that deep again, but had several at a foot or better. I tried to take a picture of the first one but my digicam batteries were dead. Then I realized later that I had another set in my bag, so I took a picture of the ND deep hole I dug. It was a quarter too. And I had numerous deep dimes and a couple of nickels that all ID'd outstandingly. I was accurately calling my targets again and again. So the Quattro was in fine form out there today. Unfortunately, I only found clad. The one good thing, other than change, was found by Jack who pulled a nice silver ring with some kind of birthstone in it, with his CZ. So depth isn't EVERYTHING. But I know that if my coil went over it, I found it. And if there was anything out there any deeper than what I was digging, I didn't want it.

So the moral of the story is: The Quattro DOES INDEED go deep and ID very well at depth. And I believe it goes deeper than MANY of the other machines out there. In fact, let me also add that on a previous outing where my buddy Jack used my Quattro and I used my Excalibur, he got some things that the Excalibur couldn't detect like a deep dime and small piece of wire. Not even a "null" from the Excalibur So this isn't just a Minelab vs. Fisher thing. They even outdid their own beach demon. The Quattro is NO JOKE at the beach. Of course, it's also not waterproof. So the Excalibur WILL beat it at being dropped in the water. But anyway, I wanted to share that. We were all pretty amazed at the depth it demonstrated today.

Mike, Virginia Beach, VA