What nobody ever mentions about the Chinese GC1023 is that no one will touch them with a barge pole if they go wrong,and try getting your money back from who ever imports them.I can only conclude is give them a wide berth and stick to buying detectors from reputable dealers who will give you a guarantee to fall back on in case anything goes wrong ..
A little Garrett Ace150 would be an Ideal starter for a 10 year old .
Recently Quoted " I'm just concerned that a 10 year old little girl would find an Ace 150 heavy and cumbersome "
Weight of Garrett 150 ...........1.2 kilo.
Weight of GC1023 ................2.0 kilo.
I had already doffed my cap Peter but I will do it once more. After sales service is indeed very important and despite how it looks I had no idea the GC 1023 was so heavy. Excellent comments mate.
Far from trying to humiliate you Keith which would
never be my intention , I would take some of what you see on the youtube with a pinch of salt, as what many people don`t realise is about the Youtube that a large proportion of video`s are done by people that have little experience about what they are actually filming ,and often use bull$hit and blag in with their videos, but I`m also aware knowing who truly knows what their talking about and sifting them out, can sometimes present a problem to some .
Doing flat board nail and coin demonstrations are one thing, but detecting in the real world out in the field is another as far as results are concerned.The person you saw doing the GC1023 videos, IF ,its who I think it is , is one such person and continually portrays himself as knowledgeable when in fact is an out & out blagger, especially when he says he gets coins at 18" with his GC1023.
For starters ,having a fast recovery speed will lean towards less depth ability ,unless you have the ability on the detector to then change the settings to enable other settings , to put it in a slower recovery speed ,and then that will help attain enabling more depth detection.
When a coin goes deeper and deeper past ,shall we say for arguments sake ,10 ", the signal also depreciates weaker and weaker the deeper down it falls,so the smaller the coin, the less likelihood you are to detect that coin .This is one of the reasons why most coins are only found within the first 10" and after that it is often assumed the coins have run dry,but that may not always be the case. It could be just the smaller DEEPER coins are often being missed because of ......
1) the detector cannot detect them,
2) the settings are not correct to enable detection,
3) the detectorist is sweeping much too fast,
4) the detectorist misses ,or doesn`ty recognise its a diggable signal.
So it would more or less have to be a largish coin, and lying pretty much horizontal ,to be detected at depths past 10" to have
any chance of a possibility of hitting it, and even then you would have had to be sweeping at a very slow sweep speed to hear and recognise it.
So beware of some of the You Tube Blaggers as they actually can instruct people wrongly.
If we observe carefully ,we can see by the quality of the instructional content and, often your own in built gut feeling,you can see the people who are genuine and who are the blaggers.
