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Harold,ILL.
What about the single freq XL -PRO and it's 'dead nuts' meter?

The 6000 Pro XL, renamed the XL Pro, was also one of my all-time favorite detectors from White's. It has an excellent needle meter display, and with a well engineered circuitry it was one of the more accurate TID detectors I ever used.

I found our US Nickels and other low-conductive targets with it, such as gold jewelry, but thanks to that 6.6 kHz operating frequency it was hot on higher-conductive targets such as Copper Pennies and the Clad and Silver Dimes, Quarters, Halves and other high-conductive desired keepers.

As I replied to j.t., some SMF behavior can be helpful or useful, such as sometimes doing well with a salt water beach. However, I have used SMF's and hunted with others using them, and been able to outperform them using a Single-Frequency model. There is good reason why a manufacturer incorporates Single-Frequency selection with models such as the Minelab Equinox, Garrett Apex, and the coming XP Deus II and The Legend from Nokta/Makro.

No 'perfect' detector made. We simply find one or more detectors that seem to work well for our needs and satisfy us, then we get out hunting to make dreams come true.

Monte

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