coinstrike opinions

[kasparov747]

hi all i just finished a deal for a coinstrike with a cs-1 probe. it should be here the middle of next week. never had a fisher before but have heard good things about them. just wanted to know what you guys think about them. i mainly coin hunt around old home sites and old schools. the ground here isnt very mineralized either. have used an explorer2 for quite a while. is the coinstrike decent on depth? how does it handle iron? the unit comes with an 8 inch and a 10 inch spider type coil. would anyone recommend me buying another coil to go with this machine? any thoughts would be appreciated. thanks all and happy hunting.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

The C$ is an interesting machine. If you want to hunt old home sites with iron, I'd recommend getting the small coil. IMHO as long as the ground isn't highly mineralized, and there's no EMI, it's a decent machine once you learn it. It loves round things (be they good or bad targets). Start hunting in Bill Ladd's recommended 525 mode, it tends to be the most stable setting until you figure the machine out (the factory preset mode is way too hot). The 10.5" coil is heavy, but for a non-trashy area it does well, gives you an extra inch or so in depth, and loves coins on edge.

hh,
Brian

 

[Mike Hillis]

Hi Brian,

I found your statement, "IMHO as long as the ground isn't highly mineralized", interesting.

In my opinion the Coinstrike is one of the better units in high mineralization and one of the few units that will really get any depth in my ground. It may be that our minerals are different. My deepest dime in one of my hottest sites was a 8" deep dime found with the CS. Id number locked onto a 42 with a nice tone. Dimes are susposed to be 28. The minerals kicked the id number up. Most of the detectors I've used wouldn't find a dime 4" deep in that stuff. My F5 can't tell me a dime is there past 3". Deepest hole I've ever dug for a target was with the CS and I'm afraid to tell how deep that was online. I'll just say it was in feet.

HH

Mike

 

[therover]

I know one thing...I have dug several brass targets with my C$ that were at least 14 inches down. The numbers were a bit jumpy, but the tone was solid and the same strong signal at different angles.

I do like mine a lot. Now that I have several hours on it, it's a very easy machine to use and I don't have to mess with many adjustments to get the stability and depth I need.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Hi Brian,

I found your statement, "IMHO as long as the ground isn't highly mineralized", interesting.

In my opinion the Coinstrike is one of the better units in high mineralization and one of the few units that will really get any depth in my ground. It may be that our minerals are different. My deepest dime in one of my hottest sites was a 8" deep dime found with the CS. Id number locked onto a 42 with a nice tone. Dimes are susposed to be 28. The minerals kicked the id number up. Most of the detectors I've used wouldn't find a dime 4" deep in that stuff. My F5 can't tell me a dime is there past 3". Deepest hole I've ever dug for a target was with the CS and I'm afraid to tell how deep that was online. I'll just say it was in feet.

HH

Mike

Hi Mike,

I saw a lot of falsing in mineralized ground, even when turning the sens down to like 2. I dug a lot of holes that seemed to lead to nothing.

I dug one hole that was locking onto "something" and I dug down a good 15" and the C$ was still giving a sweet coin reading, but the ground was too hard to dig anymore....one of these days I'm going to go back with a shovel and see what was in that hole - LOL! I did find some deep targets, deeper then I've dug with my F70 so far.

I still have my C$, although selling it's been on my to do list for a while. Maybe I should take it out one weekend before I sell it to see if I'd miss it.

Brian

 

[Mr.Bill]

Brian, Not hunting where you are, makes it tough to intelligently answer your falsing statement. I have never noticed problems with mineralized soil. A few things come to mind.

Threshold setting

Did you have it in auto track ? When in troubled ground, auto may be the function to use ???

There's always the possibility of a bum coil.

Have a nice day

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Hey Mr. Bill,

I understand what your saying. I put a LOT of hours in on my C$, in a lot of different environments, I know the machine fairly well, and when it was on, it was on, but when it was in a "challenged" area, it was just that. I found a lot of good stuff with the C$, when it's dialed in right and there aren't elements beyond your control, it's a hot machine.

hh,
Brian

 

[Jackpine Savage]

K,

You are going to find that the C$ is very different from the Explorer. It needs a moderately fast sweep to get depth yet, it will still pick out iron co-located targets with ease. You can also also hunt heavy iron with a slower sweep when depth is not needed.

The iron grunt and high tone are very distinctive. With your Explorer experience you should not have any trouble distinguishing the tones. I liked to hear some iron so I set the iron disc to give an occasional grunt on a small nail. That let me know when I was in heavy iron and needed to pay a little more attention to hear the occasional squeak of a non-ferrous target. The 8" coil does very well in iron with a lot of overlap but I would suggest getting one of the 6" (actually 5.75") coils for heavy trash/iron.

The Coinstrike ground balance circuit is based heavily on the Fisher Goldstrike so it does very well in high iron mineralized ground.

Normally I would use the Auto ground circuit to set the inital GB then turn it off. In heavy iron try letting auto GB see some iron before turning it off to lock the setting. Depending on the age and type of iron this can help with the iron see-thru.

Tom

 

[Mr.Bill]

Hi Brian

I'm not trying to be critical with your post, please excuse, it's more for my information. I wasn't there with you at that time, so I certainly couldn't pass judgement as to what you say. I have hunted in quite a few places with the C$, and have yet to have that problem with bad ground. I'm sure there's some out there, I just haven't sweep the coil over it.

My curiosity has the best of me. What unit did you discover would handle the bad ground the Coinstrike had problems with ??

Thank you for your input.

Bill

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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[Cal_Cobra]

Hi Brian

I'm not trying to be critical with your post, please excuse, it's more for my information. I wasn't there with you at that time, so I certainly couldn't pass judgement as to what you say. I have hunted in quite a few places with the C$, and have yet to have that problem with bad ground. I'm sure there's some out there, I just haven't sweep the coil over it.

My curiosity has the best of me. What unit did you discover would handle the bad ground the Coinstrike had problems with ??

Thank you for your input.

Bill

Hi Bill,

I didn't take your post as a critical, by no means do I consider myself an expert and I'm always trying to learn and find the "perfect" detector (which I've come to the conclusion doesn't exist - lol). I've have several Fishers (F4, F5, F70, C$) as well as a Minelab Sovereign. I've found that all the Fishers tend to chatter (except the F4), yet the Sovereign runs like a top in mineralized ground. I'm starting to believe that all single freq VLF machines will chatter in mineralized ground, and that multifreq technology make a big difference. I'm looking to pick up a CZ3D, as I'm mainly hunting for older coins, which I understand the CZ3D is dialed into, and I believe the dual freq will help cancel out the mineralization effects.

hh,
Brian

 

[prospector 55]

I have alot of mineralized ground where I hunt for gold, tons of black sand lots of hot rocks, it really bothers my Minelab Eureka gold, but my C$ runs very smooth in the same ground, it ignores hot rocks that my Eureka hits on and is very quiet away from houses and power lines, this is a very good unit with lots of features!!!

 

[CoinShooter-Craig]

I should be getting my Coin$trike in about two weeks. I know that it has been out for quite a while now , but I'm still hearing good things about it. Richard is giving me a great deal on a like new unit and I couldn't pass it up. That will be detector number three in my arsenal. I also have a X-Terra 705 and a Teknetics T-2 that I got in trade for my E-Trac. Some people rave about the E-Trac , but it just wasn't the right machine for me. Granted I did dig coins with the E-Trac , but I dug enough old rusty nails to build a house with. I just couldn't get rusty nails to stop sounding diggable no matter what I tried. I don't mind digging an old rusty washer because I know that they fool most ( or all ) machines , but it drove me nuts digging 10 to 20 rusty nails every time I went out. Another thing that I didn't like about the E-Trac is that it seemes to null out a long time and you have to swing slow to get depth. There are people who say the E-Trac is the best coinshooter on the market , but it actually took the fun out of detecting for me and I was glad to trade it in for two detectors ( each with extra coils ) that I enjoy using. Just my two cents. I can't wait until I get my Coin$trike and see what it can do. Do they have a long learning curve?? Thanks , CoinShooter-Craig