Relic Hawk

[urge]

Hi
On a recent thred on this site, I was advised that maybe a relic hawk or a PI could be the anwser to searching a site of mine thats heavery minerlised, and as the soil is always wet, all the good targets have gone down deep.

what is the relic hawk like as a detector, is there any newer tecs out there that can do a better job.

many thanks

[Max]

Hi
On a recent thred on this site, I was advised that maybe a relic hawk or a PI could be the anwser to searching a site of mine thats heavery minerlised, and as the soil is always wet, all the good targets have gone down deep.

what is the relic hawk like as a detector, is there any newer tecs out there that can do a better job.

many thanks

Hi,
maybe Nexus or Saxon could compete with RH and are somehow more recent... well... don't expect they are brand new technology... they aren't , but for worse conditions are pretty cool. I saw Saxon during operations but never a Nexus so maybe other people could tell you about, describe pros and cons etc

You need very deep sensitive machine, with enormous signal-to-noise ratio to get stuff from half a meter in hi-mineralized soil.

They can do that for sure, at least if properly operated but remember also that much power of Relic Hawk is based on the large coil it uses... not from special circuitry: sure all these 3 detectors are top of the range VLFs and difficault to beat in such proposed scenario.

Problem is that RH is no longer produced... you can find it but as NOS from some dealer or used-but-working; also all detectors working like Nexus or Saxon's models are really expensive... 2-3 thousands pounds or something... unless 2nd hand stuff etc.

I think you could also consider other stuff like "red-heat XD-17", that seems is good for hi-iron-infested sites but I don't know about it so you'll better ask some dealer and go making some tryout in test-gardens before buy one of those.

Kind regards,
Max