Metal detecting is a hobby of mine, and when I saw this image of Russian mercs in Mali, I was able to immediately identify the detector as a Garrett Ace 150. It's a pretty cheap one for beginners without any real functions. IIRC it doesn't even have depth although don't quote me. I was just surprised to see military using it, I thought they'd be issued their own country's ones or use better ones, considering death is a sngle step away with it. And mercenaries would be able to afford better ones, surely.Anyway thank you for listening to my sped talk.
>>65113543>I was just surprised to see military using itI wasn't, the Russian military is well known for using civilian equipment. Garmin sat navs taped up in their aircraft cockpits, assault ladas, baofeng radios on open freqs, etc
>>65113543they are not searching for a 2 gram silver coin, 20cm below ground with it, so any metal detector would dothey also don't need discrimination, as long as the thing beeps when it hears metalt. metal detecting enthusiast
>>65113543Russia does make metal detectors, AKA have been around for some time. But they're made like complete shit with instructions written by drunks. Whereas the Garrett is what? $150 or so, the AKA is probably 4x the cost and awful
>>65113619>they also don't need discrimination, as long as the thing beeps when it hears metalWouldn't you want to distinguish between a landmine and empty brass?
>>65113643That's what feet are for!
>>65113643You don't need the detector to try and figure that out for you. It's easy to tell a landmine from brass because the landmine is a much larger return. In my experience the discrimination ability of metal detectors is mostly bullshit anyway. If you're demining and you hit a target you're not going to trust your life on the detector thinking it's brass instead of iron, you're doing to dig it up anyway.
Surely mines are made of plastic nowadays
>>65113619>>65113659What you need (unless you're a Russian death cultist) is a durable, reliable machine that produces repeatable results, can deal with mineralization and/or saltwater well, and comes packaged with a calibration target so that you can easily check whether or not the machine is functioning properly, not just powering on and beeping.>>65113643Irrelevant. If you're demining, you want to hit every target if you're going to be sure that the job is done. Some of it will be trash. That's one of the reasons why it takes so long to do properly. Missing a coin in heavy mineralization sucks. Missing a mine in heavy mineralization costs someone a leg.>>65113693Some are. That's why an actual demining detector will hit very small targets, as the only metallic part of the mine may be a spring or primer. Something like a Vallon VMC is designed to do that. A hobbyist machine is not.>t. also metal detecting enthusiast
>>65113714>What you need...Metal detector technology is nowhere near that good.
>>65113543>I was able to immediately identify the detector as a Garrett Ace 150.Wait, are they still sold?Thought they switched to the 200 as the entry model >t. Nokta makro enjoyer
>>65113714>that produces repeatable results, can deal with mineralization and/or saltwater well, and comes packaged with a calibration target so that you can easily check whether or not the machine is functioning properlySo not a 150. :/
>>65113643every sapper has a probe they use to poke at the beepif the probe feels like something that might be a mine, you attempt to demine it
>>65113543Your metal detector will be banned When the war in Ukraine started I was getting into drknes for fun, the. Slowly more and more laws happened because someone duct taped a grenade to it and used it to kill someone in a war conflict Hobbies will errode Some slab is going to duct taped 40 pounds of tannerite to an Xbox and throw it into a trench and the federal government is going to pass legislation on banning Xbox’s for civilian use
>>65114559They haven't banned salads yet, tubby.
>>65114559Why waste tannerite like that when the sheer mass of the thing is going to do more damage than the tannerite could?
>>65114559>state requires permit to metal detect GFP parks>must report all findings>they get first dibs>only piblic areas open are boat launches and beaches>in land locked stateFuck this they cant stop me.
>>65114798This, it's already a gravity weapon of mass destruction, practically a war crime.
>>65114559Shut the fuck up retard.
>>65113717I actually already mentioned a machine that can do all that, but you won't see them on Amazon. There are fundamental differences between hobby machines and mine detecting machines. I'm not shitting on hobby machine manufacturers BTW...they're building to a price point that a hobbyist can afford (rather than a government agency), and a lack of precision, idiosyncratic controls, and drifting calibration points are annoyances but they won't get you killed while coinshooting. Mine detecting machines are necessarily built to much higher standards and are priced accordingly. They also are typically pulse induction, which are a bit niche for hobby use unless you're working beaches.>>65113824No, not a 150. I've never used a 150 (I'm a Tesoro/Minelab/XP guy) but I've heard that they're good for the money. I'm not sure that I'd trust my life with one, but then again I wouldn't trust my life with a Deus either.
>>65115477>I actually already mentioned a machine that can do all thatNot reliably enough to be trusted, as you yourself said in your earlier reply:>, you want to hit every target if you're going to be sure that the job is doneExactly. Even if the discrimination is accurate 99.99% of the time--which is a pipe dream--that's not good enough.
>>65116543>discriminationOkay, now you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. Noted.
>>65113543I have that. It's ok as a dirt cheap super basic belt buckle finder. It's not ok to trust your life to.
>>65113747NiB units exist but direct (and better imho) copies exist. I have the knock off and compared to the original it works better. No new production units older than 200 exist.
>>65116592Trust someone else's life to it, preferably someone you don't particularly like or can do without in the near future
