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Fisher Coinstrike

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silverseeker 2

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Anybody out there still hunting with a Coin strike? I have a Coin strike in
Great Condition and am finally hoping to put it thru some paces this year as the
FEVER has returned. Anyone have some settings to start off with? I have
very mild to mild ground. I know these machines love Roundness but
are tricky to use until some experience under the belt with a Coinstrike.
To those that use or have used one, Is the Coin strike a machine that should be put to Pasture these days? All comments appreciated!!!
silverseeker 2
 
It's a very capable machine and it does like round objects but it has a tendency to love rusty bottle caps and rusty flat washers. It goes pretty deep though and it's great on deep Indian head pennies.
 
silverseeker 2 said:
silverseeker 2 said:
Anybody out there still hunting with a Coin strike? I have a Coin strike in
Great Condition and am finally hoping to put it thru some paces this year as the
FEVER has returned. Anyone have some settings to start off with? I have
very mild to mild ground. I know these machines love Roundness but
are tricky to use until some experience under the belt with a Coinstrike.
To those that use or have used one, Is the Coin strike a machine that should be put to Pasture these days? All comments appreciated!!!
silverseeker 2
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The COINSTRIKE is a great detector have patience with rusted bottle caps, in the right hands and settings its one my favorites. I have made a ton of finds. For me using even the stock coil and going with the famous Bill Ladd 5 12 99 settings & ground ballance the machine a few times is the key to success.
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There is link dedicated to the C$ you can get lots of tips there. If you have intrest in the donut coil I can pass you the info from form member here. I pulled a pair of Standing Liberty Quarters masked by rusty knife with the small coil. if you need any help message me.
Best of luck with it.
silverseeker 2 said:
Anybody out there still hunting with a Coin strike? I have a Coin strike in
Great Condition and am finally hoping to put it thru some paces this year as the
FEVER has returned. Anyone have some settings to start off with? I have
very mild to mild ground. I know these machines love Roundness but
are tricky to use until some experience under the belt with a Coinstrike.
To those that use or have used one, Is the Coin strike a machine that should be put to Pasture these days? All comments appreciated!!!
silverseeker 2
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I have one and it is a great relic machine in all metal mode on pasture away from EMI. Mine hates power lines and there is no adjustments for frequency shifts to get in stable. Lowering sens and threshold is it. It has the best all metal mode that I have seen when you can use it.
 
If you are not hunting around a lot of iron, turn averaging on. If you get into a lot of iron, turn averaging off.
Set your threshold somewhere between -25 and -10, then raise your gain up until it chatters, then back it off a number.
Sweep speed dependent so spend some time and figure out what speed it likes and thats the speed to sweep it. If it beeps and the number locks on good, dig it, no matter what the number is.

Good luck.
Mike
 
I was told by a few people that think the Coinstrike is a multi-frequency detector?
& they detect with it at Daytona in the wet sand.
Fisher says the frequency of the Coinstrike is Proprietary will not answer.
What do you Coinstrike users say?
 
My Coinstrike didn't do good in wet sand here in NC, but on the dryer black sand high up on the beach, it did better than my CZ5 and Sovereign. Is a strange machine.
 
I miss my first one the most. It had a light sabre hum around the edges of the audio. Its a single frequency unit, specifically designed for high mineral ground; specifically high conductors in high minerals. If I was a serious old coin hunter, I would still have one.

It was also excellent around big iron. Ahhh.....Nostalgia !

HH
Mike
 
I used to own 3 C$'s and eventually sold two of them and kept one. I use my C$ at the beach all the time and it works great, but you have to lower sensitivity when you get in the wet sand or else it will false on you. It is still my favorite all around detector. I wound up picking them up from guys who got frustrated with them because of lack of patience. I remember a time when the C$ was one of the most expensive detectors on the market and sold for around $900.00. Hell now you can buy multifrequency machines that can be used in the water up 16 feet for half the cost of what the C$ sold for. What great times we are living in.
 
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