44 of 49 people found this review helpful:

Review by: Buddy Smith

User Experience: 6 months to 2 years

Submitted on: Nov 14, 2008

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I have used my new MP5 for a few days now. I can't say I'm any sort of expert but I can say that this metal detector does what it says it will. I asked around from some guys using their metal detectors in the park before I bought it. They let me try it and I liked it very much. I went up to the store the next day and been using it right along. It is nice and light, easy to swing, and it sounds right off when it finds metal. I tuned out the trash as everywhere there is tons of trash metal but this MP5 only finds good things so far. I had a heavier detector before and it was good but this one is even better. I let my wife use it and she found a bunch of coins right off including a large half dollar real deep. I like to just relax when I go out with the machine. I can’t believe people lose so much money. I'm finding stuff all over. It even came with a headset so I can hear the deeper stuff. I recommend this MPX very highly. It is easy to put together and use.

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46 of 65 people found this review helpful:

Review by: Robert L.

User Experience: Newbie

Submitted on: Jul 18, 2008

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Here are the pictures I promised you. My son and I were detecting near what we thought was the foundation of an old house people in the neighborhood said burned down 20 years ago. The roof was evidently nailed together with 10,000 nails and because of the fire they were all over the place.

My son uses the MP3 Pro and I now use the MP5. I am so happy we bought these models as we could never detect this place if we didn't have the great discriminators on MP's. We tuned out all the nails and other junk and started finding lots of pennies, mostly close to the surface. We later moved around to what was the back of the house and the first silver coin found was a 1940 mercury dime followed by a 1045 merc. Then both my son and I got a "HIT" within a few feet of each other. He yelled "Got a silver dollar Dad!” I put my detector down to take a look at what turned out to be 1 Troy Oz. American coin. I started to dig my signal and soon came up with another different 1 Troy Oz. 999 Fine Silver Coin. Both were tarnished but looked really great to us!

We hunted the area more carefully and found many more coins including a 1965 Eastern Caribbean Territories Coin, looks like silver, not sure it is. A final stroke of good luck was a bright American Gold Dollar near the car as we were packing up to go home.

Our MP's have more then paid for themselves in finds and fun and I didn’t have to spend thousand dollars to do it.

Robert L.
North Florida

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42 of 76 people found this review helpful:

Review by: Andrew Kerr

User Experience: 2-4 years

Submitted on: Aug 28, 2008

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I bought this for my grandson to learn metal detecting. It is so easy to tune but it weighs a ton. It was advertised as ultralight weight. Eagle Spectrum is about 1/2 the weigh and it is heavy. If you want to hunt with a machine that feels like swinging a bag of bricks, then buy this one. Otherwise, do not waste your money.

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