Vanquish 340 field test with the metal detecting channel  

I love my Vanquish and I'm sure you will too. Awesome choice for first detector. Happy hunting:-)

I did too for my 50th,lol That's all I asked for. Happy birthday!

Woohoo happy birthday 🎂 and you will love the vanquish matey 😀

:-) hahaha glad you got them guys and i love that little stamp :-)

Awesome, im sure you will love it 😀 happy hunting

Hey William :-) awesome hobby pal. We have a good few more videos on the Vanquish intact a few months ago I found a bronze age gold ring with the vanquish! Seriously its an amazing machine for the money 💰 :-) happy hunting 😀

Thank you Cynthia I'm happy you stopped by :-)

yeah its defo a great machine, ill be defo keeping it as my back up! thanks for stopping by

Happy hunting mate

Thanks matey. was a good day out with the Vanquish :-)

And what a bug to get :-) best hobby ever! :-) happy hunting mate

Hey matey, in my opinion the vanquish is an amazing machine 😀.. warning ⚠️ this hobby will become an addiction 😀

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Well then I made the right choice. My 14 yo son and I have been looking for a new hobby addiction to dig into! 😉 Cheers!

Hey guys. Yeah were thinking the same now you mention it about the silver:-) I'm loving the coil shape so nice to swing:-) thanks for watching guys

Hey guys :-) thanks for watching.. yeah I'm loving the vanquish its surprisingly good for the money 💰

Hahaha thank matey for watching:-)

Thanks for stopping by Kevin. Its a pretty good little machine :-)

Lol beaver tail 🤣 thank you for coming over and watching matey:-)

i think so too, for £230 new its defo great value for the money

Thanks matey

Thanks Mike, were getting up super early sunday morning to take them to the beach! sould be a great day out if the weather is good:-)

Yeah its really good value for the money.. were taking them to the beach soon but have no doubt that they will do amazingly well 😉 thanks for watching matey

Yeah this is proving to be a very capable machine even this bottom spec version. Thanks for watching :-)

Yes its super easy to use and works perfectly, I really love the vanquish:-)

Its defo looking that way. Next test will be the wet sand:-)

Thanks for watching matey.. :-)

A few people have said it looks like a toy and to be fair I sort of agree but it feels solid and works amazingly. Were taking them to the beach soon! :-) thanks for watching

Arghh nothing better hmm well we could get that sun some times hahaha. Thanks for watching matey

ooooooooooowww not far , Huddersfield here :-)

Cheers Ian:-) thank you for your support its greatly appreciated matey

Arhhhh too hot that for us guys hahaha 😆

Yolo hello, no worrys :-) glad you came and checked it out thought. Take care

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Thank you matey. We really appreciate your support 👍

Cheers Gary :-)

Thank you we appreciate your support.

Hey Robin 👋 we really appreciate you watching our videos and yep shaun is a real legend but due to some private matters he has decided to take a step back from filming and this is the reason you don't see him much in our newer videos. Hope you keep enjoying the channel and thanks again for the support 😀

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel oh dear I didn't know that I've been mainly watching all the videos with the vanquish 340 as that's what I've brought ,glad to see you rate it as a beginners machine , thanks for the reply and hope to see Shaun again soon ,best wishes to you all .

I love my vanquish 340! If the vanquish range was out before I bought my equinox then I would have defo bought a vanquish:-) easy to use and work beautifully

you are always welcome matey!

thanks man

Thank you matey

So far so good! I'm loving it so far..

Yeah I think you are right mate, I enjoy re watching some of our older videos and being able to ID thing now that when we did the video had no idea

This is true Tom. I've had many of a signal that's been a nice coin that I've thought wow I nearly missed that..

great little machine matey! cheers for stopping by

I will buy it, too. After some weeks of checking and thinking which detector to pick... I think you are right, it seems like good machine with more than enough features :-) Thanks!

:-) looking forwards to seeing you

For the price I would take this any day. Love my vanquish. Thanks for watching

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel I was going to ask for some advice .... I only started last April .. (40th present) haha 😆 and have the ace 250 ... and it loves sea coal on the beach and I know the vanquish won’t pick them up and I want one ☝️ haha so you reckon this would do the job ...? Seen 340 pack and my birthday soon haha 😆 cheers lads ! Still to clean my silver three pence ... nervous as already destroyed my military buttons and old one penny 1880 🥲.... any tips lol 😂

Any of the vanquish range will work 100% amazing on the beach, you will defo be happy with the 440 that is fore sure! Happy birthday :-) it was Shauns last friday( 40 also) you old buggers hahaha. When it comes.to cleaning coins I tend to just wash them in a little warm soapy water with a toothbrush 🪥 then leave them as they are. Cheers for watching matey 👍

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel thanks for the tips Mike 😊😊 ..... very excited to be getting one ☝️.... sounds like I won’t be digging a million holes for nothingness haha 😆 250 was a good starter ... my friend got the 540 then nox 600 lol 😂 I’m drooling at his finds so seriously need an upgrade for sure hahaha 🤣 love it 🥰 Old Buggers .... but we are young at heart ❤️ lol 😂! Thanks Mike enjoy your day is out and about !! I only do beach detecting .... in lovely south Queensferry (beside the forth bridge ... my fav one ☝️) happy days xx

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel he was Barry the bomb as he found hand grandade .... couple weeks ago as out beach was a firing range in ww1 and now he is Barry the hoover haha 😆

Thank you for coming 😀😃

Good morning matey:-) thanks for stopping by:-)

Its looking like its s great machine. Still prefer my nox 800 like but this is defo my got to back up :-)

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Congratulations matey, you going to love it :-)

Hello Pete 👋 that's just the standard coil that comes with the machine, we use the Minelab 15 and coiltek 15 on the Equinox machines. Great machine is the vanquish 340 :-)

;-) thanks matey

They are great, we have had some good 10 to 11 inch deep targets, I guess a lot depends on the ground conditions as well though but 100% great machine.

Haha sorry to hear about your dead detector:-( these are awesome bits of kit mate. I'm falling love with it.

:-) thanks for the support. Cya there

Thank you for the sub my friend unfortunately I'm not 100% sure how the vanquish will work in search for gold as this is somthing we don't have much of in England -)

Good choice matey, in some of my newer videos you can see me fins a bronze age gold ring with the Vanquish:-) we know it was silver because you can see some small hallmarks on it plus most thimbles that colour were silver, turns out this was walking cain silver so it's a fairly common find :-) happy hunting and welcome to the greatest hobby ever

Thank you :-)

Thanks matey, cya in you lives soon mate, had a few early nights just lately so miss a lot of lives from over the pond

I love the vanquish range, such great detectors

Very fortunate to find out about minelab the cost and efficiency is beyond knowledge in fact I usually use my 340 cuz my lack of knowledge with the 540 makes me make mistakes with the settings

Thank you 😊

Your welcome and thank you matey, yes we had sensitivity up full and it was on the coin mode! :-) we have just been out with it today, love it, such a great machine.

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Ahh thank you guys!! I just received this model yesterday for my bday, so you really helped me :-) cheers!!!

@@bennylop4709 we love it! I'm sure you will too 🙂

Hello Ed, I love the vanquish 340! 100% an amazing machine. Very simple to use yet very powerful, works amazing on beach and if you watch a few of my other videos with it you will see how deep it fonds some targets! Intact a few weeks back I posted a vanquish video and I find a bronze age gold ring with it.

Hey thank you guys! Thank you for watching:-)

Hey Oscar 👋 I've heard this before! I think it must be a dodgy machine, have you updated the software on the machine? If not then have a look back on our video and there is a video on how to update it:-) if that still.dont work I'd get it exchanged from the shop you bought it from.

You and costa in my shoutout mate its on tomorrow morn

Thanks matey :-)

@@SouthernCrossGO I,ll be in the house👍🏻🤣😂

In my opinion you done need a pinpoint function, I have one on my nox 800 and I use it some times but if you go over the target in a cross direction you can pretty much pinpoint the location anyways.. i think the 340 is a beast of a machine! Thanks for watching :-)

I think its a great machine, taking it to the beach this weekend so fingers crossed its as good on the wet sand as it is on land. thanks for stopping by and watching:-)

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel yeh nobrainer for the money, I have tried it on the beach, stable as feck, good luck!

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Yeah rechargeable battery's would make it a beast. Seriously love my vanquish

100%, I have the Minelab Equinox 800 but i always keep the Vanquish 340 in the car as a back up, if you can stretch to the vanquish 440 then you will get more features but if you want a top machine for around the £230 mark then the Vanquish 340 is the one, it uses the same tech as the equinox with its mult frequncy and works a dream on the wet sands. The only down side is it is not waterproof (the coil is) so you will have to buy a cheap cover for the control box. Happy hunting matey

I'd always say get the best that you can afford but I would 100% say get the better pinpointer. So for me if it was a choice of 340 and pointer or 440 no pointer I'd definitely go 340 :-) have you seen our most resent 340 field test, I find some bronze age gold with it so its a very capable machine.

In my opinion i would say if you can afford the extra £50 then it is worth it, the pinpointer function is always good to have if you are trying to locate in a trashy area I think the question you need to think about is are you they type of person that likes to custom your settings and paly about with it or are you the type of person that likes to just turn on and go. I would by the 440 over the 340 but i use my 340 as my back up and its more than capable machine.. Thank you for watching

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Thank you for the answer, I bought the 440 for 50 more with a free bundled in handheld profind20 pinpointer as I see you guys are using your ones a lot to avoid destroying the soil plug. I really like your videos, especially the accents and humour! :-D Keep it up!

@@Kolvorok congratulations 👏 you will love your vanquish:-) yes a handheld pin pointer makes short work of locating the item. Thank you mate for watching:-) we appreciate your support

Hahahahahaha matey I think its time I get somthing a little bigger :-) thanks for watching lol

Indeed hurts your back

I agree

My main detector is the equinox 800 and it sounds the same as that too so dead easy to get used to. Thanks for watching matey:-)

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel watching your video again looks like its alot faster signal processing than the go find 60 that I have, defo interested now. 👍

I always find having it on coin mode and adjusting the sensitivity works great.. great choice in detector:-)

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Thank you!

If you are planning on detecting beach as well as on land then Vanquish will not disapoint matey :-)

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel cheers pal! Ordering this week much to the dismay of the other half

@@williamforshaw8918 hahaha mate I know what you mean 🤣

Strange! Mine works amazing, infact if managed to find targets as deep as I find with the equinox some times

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel I'll have to mess around with settings and what not. Sensitivity and source ect. Pretty pumped to get into this as a hobby. Looks very interesting and saving history one bit at a time.

Hey matey, its not as deep as the Equinox but it does go pretty deep. When I'm out detecting with it I dont feel like I'm missing anything :-) thank you for watching 👀

Hey matey thanks for the comment, I think you should give it a chance, although the 340 is very basic it does use Minelabs multi IQ tech thats used in the equinox 600 and 800 so will work a dream on wet sands and mineralised soils better than most, I do agree that the build quality could be better but I guess there has to be a line drawn or it would just become a cheap nox 600? Garrett are a well known and respected brand so if this is somthing you are familiar with then you may enjoy them better :-) 😀 happy hunting matey 😀

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Nah, I've used many detectors, there was something fishy about it the moment I got to the park. Even on the lowest sensitivity everything was the deepest. I dug up like 20 to 30 plugs in 2 hours and even with a pinpointer I could only locate maybe 8 of the targets, the rest would just beep but could never find anything no matter how far down I went. It really annoyed me quick. And I'm sorry, but the new Simplex seems to have it's own problems as well. I'll stick with AT Pro for now. Sorry.

We have used the AT pro great machine 👍

:-) 😀 😃 🙂 🙃

I would think so :-) I mean if its a small piece of gold then it would have to be in say within 8inch depth or so but it will definitely find gold

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel thanks there are a few old Gold Mines up Far North South Australia .

Good luck matey! 👍

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Welcome! We appreciate you watching and being part of our adventures ;-)

yeah i think its would be a hard decition to make if you was looking at a 540 or nox 600 for the money i mean.

Ill message you on fb matey

Cheers but we Don't have anything else but beach or field :-)

Its a difficult one really, untill you get used to the machine it can be hard to gauge if its just a big object thats deep or a small object thats not deep.. Dig them all till you are more confident :-) thank you for watching.

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel thank you man yeah I’m new to this. But eventually I’ll get me a pro

@@bree3718 it just takes time, I still get frustrated sometimes when I doe days without a good find an I feel like all im doing is digging rubbish hahaha 🙃

Yo! :-) thanks for stopping by :-₩

Haha I think it's his accent 😂 wee bugger it's saying it's small and calling it a name lol

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Its amazing on wet and dry sand. The coil is waterproof but the control box is not so dont drop it in the sea :-) but works as good as the nox800 on wet sand

This is the beach test we did with it.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uXv8ibMXQj8.html

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel thanks! Going to the beach in two weeks

Have you used it in the water?

@@crevisb1969 works a dream in salt water! You will have a good day matey :-)

Thanks matey, a few people have said this too and now I look at it it does make sense 😀 my excitement made me think it was a thimble at first lol doh thanks for watching

I guess a lot of the newer machines get a lot of hype and a lot of the older machines get there die hard followers but I cant really comment on the older machines as ive never actually used one.. the oldest I've got is the whites mx sport and thats a 2017 model lol thanks for watching matey, appreciate the comment 👍

I found the most amazing things around cellar holes with a cibola

Hey Bert 👋 here in the UK we don't really come across any gold nuggets but we have found a gold ring with it before:-) i do like that vanquish:-). Thanks for watching matey

Thank you for your support:-)

Obrigado amigo TMJ. Já me inscrevi no seu canal .

I guess they was stuck because if they had made it any better it might have put people off buying their Equinox range. Then again the build quality is not amazing on the Equinox either but like you said great technology.

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel I run a Explorer, awesome depth, but it's been structurely rebuilt, they are the ultimate in performance, cscope build quality minelab technology, that would be the greatest detector built!!

Hey matey, sorry you have had a bad experience with it. We're not part of Minelab in anyway but we really do love the equinox and the vanquish range, what machine did you decide to go with in the end?

:-) well we do appreciate that you made an effort to start and watch our video :-) happy hunting matey

Find yer own fishing hole. Damn bums man!

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@@TheMetalDetectingChannel I just ordered the Minelab Vanquish 340 for 170 used, likely a return, but I need a better detector than what I have now to search an old garden area for deep silver. I guess I can resell it one day. I`m thinking of starting a part time business in the future helping people find lost items. I had an old Whites detector in the 1970s and found a very large 18k gold ring and a lot of silver coins in a garden with it and I bought a Bounty Hunter detector in the 1990s and found three very nice 14k gold rings one day with it on a freshwater beach. I found a lot of gold and coins with it but only one silver coin. I recently found a silver half dollar in my sister`s yard with a cheap Bounty Hunter I received as a gift and got the fever again. It has very poor depth though. Very poor.

@@TheMetalDetectingChannel Your video convinced me to get this detector right away.