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Date Posted: 13:49:29 12/07/02 Sat
Author: Ralph
Subject: Hi Trapper (and Jeff)
In reply to: trapper 's message, "Ralph Question" on 23:18:25 11/26/02 Tue

Hello Gents,

Sorry for the delay in answering your questions. A major computer crash (no injuries! :) ) has set me back a few weeks and just now getting back up to speed with the new machine, reconfiguring all my files, etc. What a pain !

As for the X5, Troy has a real winner on his hands where this machine is concerned. For gold prospecting work, I would rate it somewhere between the original Gold Bug and the Gold Bug II as far as sensitivity to smaller gold nuggets, with better range than either of the GBs. The X5 was really intended to be an across-the-board "all-purpose" manual machine, and it fits the bill as well as any, and much better than most attempts at a do-it-all detector.

As of yet I have not been able to do any serious gold detecting with mine...... new house project, kids, wife, life in general type stuff. Hopefully a trip to Gold Basin in the early spring of '03. Just depends on the schedule.

I have, however, done alot of testing on the bench and in the ground with known targets that showed very impressive results in comparison to most of the gold machines I've used over the years. A couple may be a little more sensitive to smaller gold (GB-II) and some deeper on the really big stuff (PI types), but as an overall all-purpose machine that does equally well at coin, relic, and nugget hunting, the X5 is hard to beat.

Ralph

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