Metal Detector for Adults Professional

I purchased several Dr. Ötek products around New Year's Day 2020 with my Christmas stash of Amazon gift cards: an MT-XR detector, an M-6 pinpointer, a digger tool, and a waterproof bag. All of these Dr. Ötek products are of very nice, high quality and even better than I expected after reading many favorable reviews that noted good material and build quality. I would also add good design and obvious thought given to ease of assembly, good ergonomics, and ease of use. Very well done with this MT-XR detector and also the other Dr. Ötek products mentioned. For several years, I have been on the sidelines researching metal detecting as a possible pastime and hobby for leisure and fun in my retirement. Now, I am diving in or digging in with my older brother, also retired and looking for fun activities that get us moving and into the great outdoors more often. This MT-XR detector may not be the Rolls Royce of detectors, but it is truly very good and it will definitely give you many, many hours of cheap and adventurous fun, especially if like me, you want to do some peaceful detecting and digging for that occasional "treasure" find in solitude or with a friend or family partner to comb over an old place for some unexpected finds and adventure that will not cost you a small fortune. Accuracy in this price range and in even higher price ranges is sometimes hit or miss. The MT-XR has taken me to good and clear targets from 2 to 4 inches in the first day when testing it in our backyard. I must stress at this point that the pinpointer function in the detector is truly an excellent feature, and helped me a great deal in deciding whether it might be worth digging on a signal or not. However, combining the detector pinpointer with the great functions of the M-6 pinpointer to examine my holes dug and removed dirt, and alternating with the detector to confirm that I had dug the only buried source of the signal, the digging effort was made twice as fun and my confidence level twice as high. So, I highly recommend that you also get an excellent M-6 pinpointer or another high quality pinpointer to use along with this detector. And while I am at it and plugging or vouching for Dr. Ötek gear, I also recommend that you get an excellent digger tool like the Dr. Ötek, a Lesche, or other good, well-made and sturdy digger. Sincerely, you cannot go wrong with the Dr. Ötek. As a big guy, I would have to use some serious effort to bend or break it, but why would I try to? Sort of like seeing if I can bend my smartphone in half. Common sense dictates that everything has its eventual failure points. I want it to really last, and I think it will, if I take good care of it like any tool. Within the first minute after I started up the new detector on all-metal and maximum sensitivity, in our backyard I found a 1982 penney (copper vs. zinc also in that year) at 2 inches. About 10 minutes later, I found a copper 1971 penney, also at 2 inches. I picked up many more signals (30+) indicating coins and possible silver to depths of 8 inches and deeper (probably 10 inches max). I may go after them later, but did not want to irritate my wife with too many holes and a totally dug up yard. I also ventured to our front yard to test various discrimination settings. Again, many indications of silver coins (quarters and dimes?) deeper than 6 to 8 inches. I dug up shallower items, including a pull tab, a couple of small aluminum curtain brackets, a sawed off threaded 1/4 inch section of a small bolt, and a booger of an iron nail about 3 and 1/2 inches long. So, while I cannot yet prove there are silver coins at least on some of those deeper signals, I am confident that some are there a little deeper, as the MT-XR indicates. Again, metal detecting is sometimes hit or miss, but I believe this MT-XR is capable of getting you to many targets up to 8 or 10 inches that will be fun to dig up to identify and add to your collection. I look forward to finding some buried "treasure" with my brother and grandchildren. Stressing again, this thing can bring a lot of leisurely fun in the great outdoors either solo or with someone else to share the fun, adventurous toil, and nice fresh air. I hope you find this helpful! Cheers!

After purchasing and using the Dr Otek Pinpointer with an old metal detector that I had, I decided to find a new metal detector. Since the Pinpointer worked great I stayed with the Dr Otek brand when looking for the metal detector. I purchased the Dr. Otek Lightweight Metal Detector, model MT-XR. Right out of the box it was easy to assemble, sturdy, full of features that my old metal detector did not have. I had not used the older one for 20 years so my use of metal detectors was rusty, but was easy to learn (after reading the operating manual). The reason I was wanting a new metal detector was for locating my home lot corner markers, which are made of iron. The MT-XR made easy work of finding three of the four corners. The fourth corner was where the development builders dumped all their spare nails, screws, flashing trimmings and other metallic items. So the MT-XR was very active throughout that whole area. Since the metal trash and the corner survey rods are iron, I was not able to use the detector’s discriminator feature very well. The soil in my area consists of red clay due to the high iron content of the soil. I was surprised that the iron in the soil does not seem to effect the sensitivity. The three other corner rods were about 8 inches deep and easy to find. After finally getting a survey company to find my fourth lot marker rod I started to ‘Play’ with the MT-XR. The survey company came with their expensive magnetometers and other special devices but after two hours they still could not find the fourth rod so they used the optics and GPS to find it. And yes, they dug down through the nails, screws and other metal trash and there was the metal corner marker for the lot. So metal pieces in the soil has a lot to do with the success of using metal detector. When treasure hunting I guess that’s a good thing. The MT-XR has a water proof lower unit that will allow you to search in shallow water. I put coins in a bucket with six inches of water and the MT-XR detected them with ease. I put a couple of silver coins on the ground and some regular coins and the MT-XR sounds were very different, for each type of metal. Very useful. The metal discrimination feature has the ability to distinguish between different types of metals and is very useful if you are looking for precious metals (coins, jewelry, etc…). I have not had any time to do that as of yet. I did take it to a local lake and used it in the water along the shore and found fishing hooks, a couple of fishing rod guides from the tips of fishing rods and some metal leader. This was all in a few inches of water. There is no beach at this lake so I did not find any jewelry. I purchased this unit for one job, to find a corner marker. I have now found a new hobby. I will update my review as I get out and find new things to find, with it.

En general funciona (para principiantes), pero terminarás comprando uno mejor. Este suena ante cualquier movimiento, su discriminación no es buena. Pero es más como un juguete.

Gave this to our grandson for Christmas, went for a walk on the local waste area we walked about twenty yards and located 2 coins 2 inches deep with a number range of 65 This unit works perfect and we would recommend to anyone

Very easy to put together and Very Light to hold onto. First time using it on the rocky ocean side beach it went off everywhere finding anything metal. Metal Detector works Great and seems to find everything in its path. Would recommend to everyone

Just in the process of starting to use this. So far the set up was easy and the grandkids used it to find a ring they would hide on each other. I may have to buy another one because they keep using mine. The unit is light weight and comes with a nice carry bag and great digging tool. This afternoon I will be going out to look for my dad's lost wedding ring.

This is super easy to use, and pretty accurate if it beeps...something is close. I use it with the hand held pin pointer by the same company. The digging tool is super sturdy. The only thing I'm not sure I like, the frame is made of plastic tubing. While keeping it light. It's not super strong. I worry a little about using it in colder weather.