Coinstrike question

[alton]

I was reading the review on the Fisher website (I know) about how well the Coinstrike worked through iron. For those of you who have used the Coinstrike I would like to know your opinion about this.

I have a CZ3D. While I haven't spent the majority of my detecting time using it, I still go back over many spots with it to see if it will pick up what other have missed. It gives acceptable results.

However, it gives me more problems in iron than other brands I have used (Whites, Minelab, Nautilus). I also have a difficult time keeping it ground balanced. The latter is probably just me.

Is the falsing on iron just something about the 3D? Would that be a problem with the Coinstrike?

That is about my only concern about getting one, and I would like to hear from others before I decide to buy.

TIA

HH Alton

 

[Tony (NC)]

The C$ is excellent in iron. What is really good about the C$ is the Numeric ID. A negative number 99.9% of the time is iron. A bent nail will often times sound off like a coin on many machines. But with the C$ if you sweep the taget from a different angle the numbers will tell the story and flash a negative number. That's the beauty of the C$. Of course you can always set the machine up so that you never even hear the iron tones. The numbers will keep flashing negative but you won't get the tone. I really like that. You will still get an occasional high tone that is iron flasing, but you will know what it is and pass it up if you choose to. I can't speak for the CZ3D as I have never used one. But I know the C$ is excellent in iron. I pulled an 1899 IH penny out of a hole with 2 bent nails a couple weeks ago. And I once got a silver dime out of a hole with an axe head in it. I had witnesses both times!

Good luck with the C$ if you get one. It's a great machine!

 

[Mike Hillis]

I think everyone will agree that the CS does a fine job in iron. Like Tony said, some iron may give a good reading on one sweep but a quarter turn around the target will show that negative number and you know its iron. It also does really well next to big iron. I've been able to hunt right next to chainlink fences with the CS. Others have stated they could hunt right next to the railroad track rails.

It also does really good in bad ground. I've got some that nothing else hunts very well in but the CS hunts through it like its not there. I keep forgeting that until I try to hunt those places with another detector. I have a DFX that I'm liking ok, but even with all the added controls I can't seem to get good visual id's in this dirt. The CS not only gives good ids, it locks on.

Sure glad I never sold it. I keep forgetting about this dirt until I want to hunt in it.

Good luck.

Mike