Coinstrike?

[Jackpine Savage]

but only used all metal a few times. All I remember is that it seemed to have a very broad response.on shallow stuff(?) The fast response and fast sweep sure was a departure from the CZ5 I had been using. Amazing what it would get that the CZ's with same size coils miss. A great bit of engineering but like you said the interface sure could have been better.

The ID Edge is more user friendly and has some good characteristics of its own. One of the better detectors for iron and plowed fields out at the time. The ID accuracy on co-located targets is great perhaps even better than the C$ and give the T2 a run for the money IMO.

Too bad FTP was saddled with some extra costs involved in the Edge. With some updates that would still be a strong contender in the marketplace.

Tom

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I will say that the C$ probably had the best pinpoint of any detector I've used, it was surgically accurate, you could easily trace a target in ground to determine what it was.

Also the depth readout, although odd at first, was actually pretty good once you understood it.

It don't have a depth readout!
In the pinpoint mode It has a signal intensity numeric readout. Yes, you can convert the numbers somewhat because the deeper the target is the lower numeric readout will. But this part of the readout is supposed to be used for pinpointing in that when the number is its highest your directly over the target.
But they're isn't any kind of depth scale built into the Coin$trike, nor does the detector have any system of converting the numbers for judging depth.

Mark

True it didn't read out depth in inches, but after using it for a while, you pretty much could equate it's numbering system into inches. I put a LOT of hours on my C$, and it's true it loved round targets, and could go very deep. Hunting in the SF Bay Area it frequently got zonked out by EMI (even with low sens settings). I remember one time hunting with a friend in Monterey at a sidewalk tearout in the old part of town. Even with the sens on 1 or 2, the thing was picking up some kind of EMI with numbers streaming across the screen like crazy, didn't matter if the coil was on the dirt or in the air, same results. My buddies Explorer 2 had no issues, so I got to watch him hunt the sidwalk tearout (the ML wasn't the source of the EMI either). Seen this kind of behavior more then once.

Unfortunately it never had any WOW factor for me. Units I picked up later did far better, like the CZ-70, F75 LTD, heck even the Omega. I also picked up a new ID Edge, and I thought it was a lot more polished machine. Also liked that they were able to fit it into a lightweight, small form factor case (it's still one of the lightest Fisher/FT machines ever made). Oddly I didn't have the problems with EMI with it that I had with the C$. When I traded my C$ I kept the Sunray probe and the 10.5 & 6 inch coils for the ID Edge.

For some folks the C$ was great, but between the EMI and California mineralization it just didn't do well out here for the most part (including for far more experienced detectorists then myself out here).

Brian