Compadre as my first detector

[teresa056]

Hi all,

I did a lot of research on which detector to get for my first detector. I had settled on the Compare as my first choice then at the advice of others on another forum went with an F2 instead. Yesterday, I decided to go back to my first choice and go with the Compare. I feel it will better suit me than the F2 will. I feel that not having some bells and whistles I can learn to hunt better, and over all I feel the Compare and other Tesoro products are better machines.
Have I made the right choice ?

PS
I'm the type of person that usually ends up disliking products others like so more than likely I would have disliked the F2. So that's the main reason why I went with my original decision, the Compare.

 

[dan b]

Yes, I believe you made the right choice. You need to appreciate the audio of any machine you get, but that's tough when you have a screen talking you out of digging because it is "guessing" at the target. Your eyes are the best discrimination available, so you need to dig. One day you may opt for a machine with a display, but starting with a Tesoro will make you better at it,IMHO. I struggle to understand why people get into this hobby then do everything they can, and spend a lot of money, to avoid digging. Maybe they should collect stamps instead.

By the way, my Compadre paid for itself twice over within the first week!

Dan

 

[tabman]

Welcome abroad the Tesoro Forum.

My first detector was a Compadre. It's one detector that you will always keep.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

yes you made the right choice , and it will soon pay for itself, then you can try another brand , it maylook like a joke but you seen the little girl who just found a big fat mens ring , and thats aint no joke , trusing it next to the metal poles in the tot lots and along metal fences and sidewalks , you may also want to scrape out the chips under the slides ect, WTG

 

[dan b]

Yeah, that was my 9 year old daughter who found that big ring.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1968633

Dan

 

[BarberBill]

Absolutely! Once your ear learns to pick up on the slight nuances in the sound over dfferent targets you'll be well on your way. This skill is just as helpful using TID machines as another tool to determine whether to dig or not, but you'll learn more quickly on a non-metered detector IMHO. However, don't get discouraged, you have to put in a good number of hours on the detector before you begin hearing what we are talking about. I thought the comments on the differences in the single tone were bogus until I reached the point where I began to recognize them myself. Hard to describe for someone to immediately understand, but it'll come with detector hours.
BB

 

[Hank68]

You got a solid performer, congrats

 

[Idxpro]

Don't own one but will give my thoughts on it. I do own the F2 and the Outlaw. F2 is a genuine perfomer with alot of bang for your buck. Lots of coil choices, tone disc, notch disc, nice big ole display, vdi, batt indicator, depth indicator, and comes std with a sniper coil and 8" concentric. For coins, the thing is a beast. Silver is a very nice distinct tone and hits hard. My most memorable time out with it was hunting a ww11 camp near my home. I brought the outlaw and the F2. There are these old tent tie down blocks scattered throught the woods where the military had settup their temp stations during the war. Just an Fyi, this is the famous Myles Standish ww11 camp just behind my home and was a station for pow's too, google it, very cool. Anyway, running the outlaw and iron was rough using the 8" coil so I had to run a disc of maybe 2o. In one area specificly which looked like a tower lookout, the outlaw was chirping and sputtering everwhere, but nothing good sounding. I hunted all around this "lookout" religiously and every dig was rusty iron. Took a break and figured the f2 with notch maybe worth a try. Guess what was right there where I had dug maybe 6 or 7 holes within 3' x 3' area? Six ww11 brass pins and a brass zipper pull. Two had U.S. On them complete with screw backings intact, and four were props with wings with screw backs. Research tells me this was a uniform which has long decomposed and left these gems behind. Moral of my story? The F2 with everything notched but copper/brass/silver range, heard these loud and clear with laser pinpoint precision. The Outlaw just couldnt see them. I was very, very, impressed by this. It's a great machine with some super features for the money. Knowing what I know now about beep dig machines, the F2 all day long...

 

[teresa056]

Well thats where I would have listened more closely to those pops and chirps and tried to tell me what the Tesoro was saying.

 

[Idxpro]

My response to that is why would one want to listen to "pops and clicks" on a $600 machine when the $200 machine saw them clearly. You just reinforced my feeling on the Outlaw in the iron, not the best machine, not for the price range. They should have called it the Compadre 11. Compadre with ground balance. That would have been more appropriate. "Outlaw" makes one think it can do well in any circumstance and that is not the case. Wonderful gold/nickel machine for sure. I have learned since then that the 10x12 is very decent in the iron and had I known this then believe it would have found them. Very sharp coil. unfortunately, I was swinging the 8".

 

[REVIER]

Don't own one but will give my thoughts on it. I do own the F2 and the Outlaw. F2 is a genuine perfomer with alot of bang for your buck. Lots of coil choices, tone disc, notch disc, nice big ole display, vdi, batt indicator, depth indicator, and comes std with a sniper coil and 8" concentric. For coins, the thing is a beast. Silver is a very nice distinct tone and hits hard. My most memorable time out with it was hunting a ww11 camp near my home. I brought the outlaw and the F2. There are these old tent tie down blocks scattered throught the woods where the military had settup their temp stations during the war. Just an Fyi, this is the famous Myles Standish ww11 camp just behind my home and was a station for pow's too, google it, very cool. Anyway, running the outlaw and iron was rough using the 8" coil so I had to run a disc of maybe 2o. In one area specificly which looked like a tower lookout, the outlaw was chirping and sputtering everwhere, but nothing good sounding. I hunted all around this "lookout" religiously and every dig was rusty iron. Took a break and figured the f2 with notch maybe worth a try. Guess what was right there where I had dug maybe 6 or 7 holes within 3' x 3' area? Six ww11 brass pins and a brass zipper pull. Two had U.S. On them complete with screw backings intact, and four were props with wings with screw backs. Research tells me this was a uniform which has long decomposed and left these gems behind. Moral of my story? The F2 with everything notched but copper/brass/silver range, heard these loud and clear with laser pinpoint precision. The Outlaw just couldnt see them. I was very, very, impressed by this. It's a great machine with some super features for the money. Knowing what I know now about beep dig machines, the F2 all day long...

She has been told this...also that the F2 will be a much easier model to learn the basics with before she gets into a Compadre which she will be able to buy fairly quickly with just the clad she could find with the F2.
She has never swung a machine in her life, is one of those kind of people that finds it hard to make up her mind and is buying a detector on time from a dealer so she can't get one of any kind right now.
She actually was deciding between an F2 and a Delta first, settled on the F2 for the last few months and had no thoughts or questions about the Compadre till just recently when she read some "glowing reviews" and that is when she began to consider the Compadre so this was not her first choice...the F2 was.
That pops and clicks reply is funny, considering she knows nothing about hunting with any detector of any kind, and has no idea how anything about or how much different the language is between these 2 types of machines.
The "other forum" members pretty much all recommended the F2 and the 3 coil package that she already has on order first, then the Compadre, but now she has moved back to the Compadre.
I expect her to read a bunch more and then change her mind a few more times before she finally gets some kind of detector in her hands...whatever that will be.

 

[Idxpro]

I know you have done quite well Revier with that f2 finding gold. I learned alot from your posts on the other forum. Keep up the good work, always honest...