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Coin hunting detector
- Thread starter D&P-OR
- Start date
dewcon4414
Well-known member
If you are clad hunting there really aint a bad machine out there once you learn it. Im seeing some pretty inexpensive machines getting good depth. Older coins ... well sometimes you just need some depth. Freq, coil, or detector presets seem to make a difference. I still like my SE.
Dew
Dew
Howdy Del
Are you in the market for another toy? I'm of no help to your survey if looking for a modern digital detector, all of mine are analog and rather old hat and boring old technology. I still use my first Tesoro analog metered Toltec ll (1994), it's a favorite of mine. The meter on this detector gives you a hint at what's in the ground and it has found me some unique and historic finds, and several were complete surprises like my cavalry crossed sabre hat pin that showed as pull tab on the meter.
The Mr. Bill modified IDX Pro is another two filter detector that is a favorite of mine, also out of production (2005) and has better depth than the Toltec ll. The IDX Pro is almost as good in the iron as the Toltec ll and has a more accurate meter, but we all know NOT to trust a meter. Then again, a good non-metered detector would suffice if you were in a good, OLD and productive site. I believe that if a person knows his/her detector well, location is the KEY for more finding older and interesting coins and relics. I am working on, and researching a turn of the century girl scout camp and looking up the current owner of this property, hopefully this will pan out for me and a select few hunting buddies. Take care Del.
Are you in the market for another toy? I'm of no help to your survey if looking for a modern digital detector, all of mine are analog and rather old hat and boring old technology. I still use my first Tesoro analog metered Toltec ll (1994), it's a favorite of mine. The meter on this detector gives you a hint at what's in the ground and it has found me some unique and historic finds, and several were complete surprises like my cavalry crossed sabre hat pin that showed as pull tab on the meter.
The Mr. Bill modified IDX Pro is another two filter detector that is a favorite of mine, also out of production (2005) and has better depth than the Toltec ll. The IDX Pro is almost as good in the iron as the Toltec ll and has a more accurate meter, but we all know NOT to trust a meter. Then again, a good non-metered detector would suffice if you were in a good, OLD and productive site. I believe that if a person knows his/her detector well, location is the KEY for more finding older and interesting coins and relics. I am working on, and researching a turn of the century girl scout camp and looking up the current owner of this property, hopefully this will pan out for me and a select few hunting buddies. Take care Del.
MNCoinhunter
Active member
Ace 250 w/stock coil does a good job....have'nt had a chance to try my Explorer yet.
I would concur with Dew, but I'm new to this too so bear that in mind...This F70 is really great at any coin within 6".. you can notch out, or discrim out everything except coins, you can set tones for coin signals, its very fast, light, and the 4 AA batterys last @ 40 hours...the pinpoint is dead on, (nickles a little off center and high on mine) it does really well in totlots even tight up to the metal poles with the 11DD you can still hear a peep. It also has that HZ shift function if you get some EMI going on..One of my first trips out with it at a park, couldn't find nothing up by the playground equipment, but I hit some signals walking back to the truck, it was in a low area that had 3 sewer drains in the grass, for some reason, there must have been a penny toss game set up between these drains at one time, because I came outta there with 287 pennys and dimes all at 1" to 3" in a tight thatch sod 30' diameter circle... I figured this was a "normal" day! Theres not a lot of info on this machine so you sort of gotta learn on your own, or from the many fine posters on this site. I've only found 5 silver dimes, one war nickle, some buffs,no silver quarters yet...but heres a picture of a stack of quarters from the same hole and a gold plated half doller I got last summer...so if a fellow is clad shooting, the F70 can rack up a lot of change in a hurry!
MNCoinhunter
Active member
mudpuppy, your heart must have skipped a beat when you saw that gold in the hole !!
Jim West Pa
New member
n/t
I forgot to thank everybody for their responses to this post so wanted to do that now.-----I'm sure all the detectors mentioned on this thread are good/effective coin hunters.-----Any one of these mentioned detectors should get us out finding coins, getting excersise & HAVING FUN---and that's what it's all about---right? 
-----I'll add another detector to the list---the Teknetics G2.----I've been using it for coin hunting and it's really a nice/effective coin hunter.---It might not be the deepest detector in the wild west but it has a lot going for it.--------Del
-----I'll add another detector to the list---the Teknetics G2.----I've been using it for coin hunting and it's really a nice/effective coin hunter.---It might not be the deepest detector in the wild west but it has a lot going for it.--------Del
Neil
Well-known member
D&P-OR said:I forgot to thank everybody for their responses to this post so wanted to do that now.-----I'm sure all the detectors mentioned on this thread are good/effective coin hunters.-----Any one of these mentioned detectors should get us out finding coins, getting excersise & HAVING FUN---and that's what it's all about---right?
Del my G2 should be coming by weeks end. Finally pulled the trigger. Cant really comment to much on the coin hunters as I mostly beach hunt, but when I do hunt in the woods I like an Explorer or Etrac with a wide open screen
jmaryt----The deepest coin I have dug to date with the G2 was a copper penny at 7 inches, I think it would have gone a little deeper on that coin as the tone was still a good hit.----I feel it gets adequate depth for most coins and when I really want to deep coin hunt, I go back in a site with the Etrac (after initially hunting it with the G2).------IMO, the strongest point with the G2 is it's excellent trash seperation ability.----It's just "something else" in that regard.jmaryt said:
----------Del
--------Delthanks!..dell!..i'm wondering if i can "get away" with just using the g-2 here,as "most" finds over the years
have been pulled from the 6-7" range to include even early 1700's coins,and "most" if not all silver too!..still believe a 'ton" of stuff
has been walked over due to "masking",and really believe the good stuff isn't all that deep!..just sayin!
(h.h.!)
j.t.
have been pulled from the 6-7" range to include even early 1700's coins,and "most" if not all silver too!..still believe a 'ton" of stuff
has been walked over due to "masking",and really believe the good stuff isn't all that deep!..just sayin!
(h.h.!)
j.t.
May favorite coin hunting detector for parks and similar areas is the Tesoro Compadre. Its light weight and really easy to use. It will bang on coins and jewlery to about 5-6", which is where most finds are anyway and the Compadre is really under-priced.
If I were at the beach or searching a large area with low trash I would use a different detector, but for 80% of my detecting needs, the Cpmadre just can't be beat in my book.
If I were at the beach or searching a large area with low trash I would use a different detector, but for 80% of my detecting needs, the Cpmadre just can't be beat in my book.