Compadre for saltwater beaches

[JDknight34]

Folks, I am considering adding the compadre to my arsenal. I currently use the SS for the beaches and the Lobo for the desert (San Diego area). I bought a compadre for my dad (in New Mexico) a while back and find it to be excellent. My question is this: Have any of you compadre owners used it at a saltwater beach (dry sand areas)? If so, how does it perform? I have some beaches that I like to hunt that are high in black sand and very trashy and I was wondering how the compadre with its small coil would perform. My Sand Shark does very well, but multiple targets sometimes does me in.

Thanks
Darren

 

[Smudge]

Honestly, the beach is the one place I would not take the Compadre. The coil is simply too small and the depth isn't the best for the beach, where targets can sink deeply pretty fast.

In my opinion, you'd probably be better off with a Vaquero or a Silver uMax with the 10x12 coil on it. Those would be a killer on the dry sand of the beach.

I'd stick to wet sand/surf with the Sand Shark, unless the dry sand in your area is unusually trash free.

 

[JDknight34]

Yea, that is what I suspected, Thanks!

 

[hardrockminer]

Folks, I am considering adding the compadre to my arsenal. I currently use the SS for the beaches and the Lobo for the desert (San Diego area). I bought a compadre for my dad (in New Mexico) a while back and find it to be excellent. My question is this: Have any of you compadre owners used it at a saltwater beach (dry sand areas)? If so, how does it perform? I have some beaches that I like to hunt that are high in black sand and very trashy and I was wondering how the compadre with its small coil would perform. My Sand Shark does very well, but multiple targets sometimes does me in.

Thanks
Darren

Darren,

You got a Lobo already, if you feel you need more depth just get a bigger coil. I've hunted at my cousins place at Laguna Beach, Kalifornia. with one. Coils are cheaper the metal detectors.

HaRM

 

[slingshot]

Folks, I am considering adding the compadre to my arsenal. I currently use the SS for the beaches and the Lobo for the desert (San Diego area). I bought a compadre for my dad (in New Mexico) a while back and find it to be excellent. My question is this: Have any of you compadre owners used it at a saltwater beach (dry sand areas)? If so, how does it perform? I have some beaches that I like to hunt that are high in black sand and very trashy and I was wondering how the compadre with its small coil would perform. My Sand Shark does very well, but multiple targets sometimes does me in.

Thanks
Darren

Darren,

You got a Lobo already, if you feel you need more depth just get a bigger coil. I've hunted at my cousins place at Laguna Beach, Kalifornia. with one. Coils are cheaper the metal detectors.

HaRM

Not much. The Cleansweep coil costs MORE than a Compadre.

 

[hardrockminer]

Folks, I am considering adding the compadre to my arsenal. I currently use the SS for the beaches and the Lobo for the desert (San Diego area). I bought a compadre for my dad (in New Mexico) a while back and find it to be excellent. My question is this: Have any of you compadre owners used it at a saltwater beach (dry sand areas)? If so, how does it perform? I have some beaches that I like to hunt that are high in black sand and very trashy and I was wondering how the compadre with its small coil would perform. My Sand Shark does very well, but multiple targets sometimes does me in.

Thanks
Darren

Darren,

You got a Lobo already, if you feel you need more depth just get a bigger coil. I've hunted at my cousins place at Laguna Beach, Kalifornia. with one. Coils are cheaper the metal detectors.

HaRM

Not much. The Cleansweep coil costs MORE than a Compadre.

slingshot,

Yes by $10, depth is the issue.....the coil on the Compadre & a CS coil probley gets the same depth (even though the CS covers an area faster)..........if you want better depth on dry sand with a MDer you already own, you go with a bigger coil than the stock coil & not a CS. The + is also he would have gained a coil in his arsonal for the Lobo when he was prospecting to gain depth & maybe snag that elusive gold nugget that the stock coil missed.

HaRM

 

[Marcus Detectus]

Folks, I am considering adding the compadre to my arsenal. I currently use the SS for the beaches and the Lobo for the desert (San Diego area). I bought a compadre for my dad (in New Mexico) a while back and find it to be excellent. My question is this: Have any of you compadre owners used it at a saltwater beach (dry sand areas)? If so, how does it perform? I have some beaches that I like to hunt that are high in black sand and very trashy and I was wondering how the compadre with its small coil would perform. My Sand Shark does very well, but multiple targets sometimes does me in.

Thanks
Darren

The Compadre is not the one to use at the beach. Beach mineralization can't be controlled with that detector. The only exception I would mention is in an area around parking lots or roads where people park next to the sand and can "donate" to the cause when changing clothes by their cars and lathering up the kids with sunscreen. The sand won't be so deep and 2 inches of it can hide a prize.

 

[pkrska]

I was told Compadre and Salt Beach Sand is not good. But then again there are no salt water beaches around my area.

I did try it on a normal fresh water beach and it was working great. Silent search till you hear the beep. Amazing.

Some holes were 10 inch holes find all kinds of garbage. Did find a couple of pennies and some mystery objects.

I was so busy with one part of the beach since I did not want to discrim out any gold rings, went with iron discrim, that I never got to the middle of the beach yet. Digging all targets. It's a long beach!. Will return when the weather gets better.