Anyone on here ever owned a fisher coinstrike?

[travis1460]

Hi,

I have used the minelabs for years and keep going back to them year after year after trying everything else. I have used numerous detectors and brands and heard the bad rap for a learning curve on the coinstrike. I liked the thought of that seeing as how I loved "learning" my xs. I just recently bought the coinstrike last year and didn't use it much to learn it as good as I should. Got a great deal on the explorer xs so I bought it and have been thinking about trading or selling the coinstrike. After reading reveiws on it even from minelab users they say its awesome for finding deep coins in trash that even they didn't find with their xs or explorer II's. I find this hard to beleive, being a minelab user myself digging silver dimes in trashy areas up to 12-13" deep. Just trying to find out if I should give it another try and keep it as a backup or trade or sell it off.


Thanks,
Travis Quinn

 

[born2hunt]

Travis, It's my understanding that Minelab's wait time for repairs can sometimes be quite lengthy. If I had a good back up, I'd hang on to it.

JMHO

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Had an early Coinstrike and just a different animal to learn but it got me some deep silver including a 11-12 inch barber dime which is certainly Explorer depth..My area is loaded with rusty beer caps and it just calls everyone a dime so I sold it...In my estimation if you don't have areas with rusty beer caps certainly well learned will give you CZ or Explorer depth and is a faster unit than both...All in all a nice unit but its downfall is rusty round objects...and never heard of a way to tell them either when they read as a high coin...and as far as sounding mushy am good at audio variances and doesn't work...One answer I got from a prominent well known fellow who did a video on the coinstrike was...we don't have them so its not a problem( rel rusty bottlecaps)...

 

[tmanly]

When it comes to the Coinstrike, and all the CZ units. Bottle caps can be a problem if you only use the display as a reference for targets. Cover the display and listen to the tones. You will start to hear
the difference and will eliminate a lot of the caps. they do not give that crisp high tone. kinda fuzzy to high and then fuzzy . there is so much more information in the tones, if you learn them.
I hardly ever look at the display. Really the only time I do look at it is when I need to determine the depth to prevent damaging the target when in a good area hunting. On the older machines, what you hear is just what the coil is sensing. The newer machines the tones are digital and can sometimes be synthetic and the filters used to clean up the signal often remove the extra bit of information.

Take a good handheld audio or video recorder and record the tones, after you dig the target then record what you found. Listen/watch them on those bad weather days and tune your hearing. Every machine has potential
if you just spend the time learning it.........

Tom in SC