Compadre for club hunts and beach

[DigDugNY]

Hey guys, because I need a bigger coil I am going to be selling my 5" compadre and getting an 8" Compadre. I still want the lightweight and gold finding capabilities for when i go to the beach once a year and for club hunts. Obviously I don't want to break the bank on a detector I'm only going to be using on a limited basis, so I just want to be sure that my needs will be met. I know the Compadre will probably only succeed on dry sand, but will it go deep enough to be satisfactory? and since there isnt a sensitivity adjustment on it, can it still be successful in competition hunts? Just curious for inputs

 

[Hombre]

Bobby S.....

You might ask Goes4ever on the E-Trac forum, he has an 8" Compadre and does well with it. He has posted on this forum a couple of times, of course he uses it for hunting in the iron in his plowed fields. As far as competition hunts, I went to one of the biggest ones held in Tulsa Oklahoma. This was years back and about all I can remember was that the targets were silver dimes just hidden under the grass. So about all you did was hunt fast and grab the targets, the Compadre with the 8" coil will do good there. I found one painted copper penny token good for an "old timer" pocket knife and a whole hand full of silver dimes. I was using an old Tesoro Toltec ll, heavy sucker for a competition detector. Just make sure to not set the Disc. too high for the targets used at the hunt....

As far as beach work, it depends on the mineral content on whether the Compadre would fare as it has no ground balance. I was hunting on a Pacific coast beach in Oregon one time a couple of years ago while on vacation. The beach at that time had some streaks of black sand and gave my Tesoro Pantera a hard time. The Pantera has a 10 turn ground balance and was very touchy at this beach. I first had to find a spot without metal and then do the GB, I would move the GB knob very little and it would go positive, then just barely move it the other way and it would go null or negative. I finally figured it out and found some coins. Back home in Kansas soil, the Pantera does really well and is quite deep with the 8" coil, so mineralization has to figured in.

 

[BarberBill]

If by club hunts, you mean planted coins and token hunts I can tell you that I've done very well with the Silver Sabre umax, 8" coil, on those. The Compadre should work just as well, in fact, over the years I've seen quite a few using the original Compadre with the 7" coil to good advantage.
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[BarberBill]

If by club hunts, you mean planted coins and token hunts, I can tell you that I've done very well with the Silver Sabre umax, 8" coil, on those. The Compadre should work just as well, in fact, over the years I've seen quite a few using the original Compadre with the 7" coil to good advantage.
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[DigDugNY]

at the club hunts I go to stuff is just tossed on the ground...not buried in any way. And I go to Ocean City Maryland every year for vacation...the sand there isn't too bad, but I know there is some black sand concentration in spots

 

[tabman]

You may want to get a Tesoro detector that has a frequency shift for club hunts. The Silver Sabre

 

[BarberBill]

Tabman has a point. Several of the detectors I use have the frequency shift and I have used it a few times, mainly because I had it. When using a detector without it, I just moved a few feet away from the offending detector when I encountered cross talk.
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[DigDugNY]

yea, the club hunts i go to are just the guys from my local club. Most of the time its not hard to be get away from the crosstalk, if there will be any at all