Compadre question

[KennyD]

Hello all,
I am considering buying a Compadre very soon as my backup and coinshooting machine. But, I need your expert advice, and have a couple questions.
Will trash like screwcaps, square tabs, and bottlecaps discriminate out at all? Or do they ring up as coins too?
If I just want to coinshoot, and not dig tons of trash, can I be reasonably confident that most solid beeps will be coins if using a high disc setting?

I really want to join the church of the compadre bad, any and all advice for a coinshooter is appreciated...

 

[BarryL]

will disc out 90% of the time but keep in mind old smashed rusted bottle caps that have been in the ground a while will fool most machines sometimes

 

[cladcanada]

Compadre has Ed 180' That means fantastic target separation! I dig no bobby pins and odd shaped iron anymore. I get double beeps on bobby pins and some foil. I dug way more crap with the ace 250 , not any more

BUT!!!!!

Coins at a slight angle will disc out or sound like junk

If you disc out pull tabs you Will miss some gold

Keep in mind compadres can't change coil so think where you want to use it

Bottom line is compadres are Amazing , fun, cheap, and best of all they freak out guys with high priced machines that miss stuff


If you buy one and hate it you can get all of you money back because Nobody sells the compadre so it will be snapped up

Lifetime warranty

 

[KennyD]

Thanks for your posts guys.
The main reason for my concern was that I can't physically dig the amounts of trash that I see folks digging in the Compadre videos I see on YouTube.
Ken

 

[KennyD]

One more question....
I read on Tesoro's website that the lower pole is ABS - Plastic? Is that true?
If so, is pretty durable?

 

[BarryL]

Compadre has Ed 180' That means fantastic target separation! I dig no bobby pins and odd shaped iron anymore. I get double beeps on bobby pins and some foil. I dug way more crap with the ace 250 , not any more

BUT!!!!!

Coins at a slight angle will disc out or sound like junk

If you disc out pull tabs you Will miss some gold

Keep in mind compadres can't change coil so think where you want to use it

Bottom line is compadres are Amazing , fun, cheap, and best of all they freak out guys with high priced machines that miss stuff


Unless Your a freak like me and Mod it

If you buy one and hate it you can get all of you money back because Nobody sells the compadre so it will be snapped up

Lifetime warranty

 

[cladcanada]

Lower pole seems durable to me

Unless my wife beats me with it because this machine is so dam addicting




BarryL. One day I will mod it ...............kinda like that clean sweep coil

 

[BarryL]

Yep very Durable The compadre is a sweet little detector for the money for sure almost sold mine but that was when I had a loss of mind thoughts

 

[KennyD]

Thanks for your expertise everyone, I'm sold. Ordering my Compadre.... wOot!

 

[Bleaver]

KennyD,

Compadre is a great choice. If you need to avoid most trash I'd suggest you set your discrimination so it just discriminates out a zinc penny. That will leave you mostly with clad, copper, silver, coins and jewerly. Of course there will be an occational whazat? But you will be probably avoiding 80 to 90 percent of things you don't want to make a wasted trip to, and back up from, the ground from.

But Tesoros detectors are amoung the lightest of all machines and made very well. What ever you feel you are able to do that little machine will respond for you.

 

[KennyD]

Thanks for that expert advice Bleaver. Can't wait to get out with it!

 

[Neil]

Compadre has Ed 180' That means fantastic target separation! I dig no bobby pins and odd shaped iron anymore. I get double beeps on bobby pins and some foil. I dug way more crap with the ace 250 , not any more

BUT!!!!!

Coins at a slight angle will disc out or sound like junk

If you disc out pull tabs you Will miss some gold

Keep in mind compadres can't change coil so think where you want to use it

Bottom line is compadres are Amazing , fun, cheap, and best of all they freak out guys with high priced machines that miss stuff


If you buy one and hate it you can get all of you money back because Nobody sells the compadre so it will be snapped up

Lifetime warranty

If you disc out tabs on a detector like the compadre your gonna miss Most gold. If your interested in finding gol jewelry never set the disc that high.

 

[bigelow]

I am confident on my settings for jewelry and coin hunting, just set the discriminate to approx point to the "I" in iron and dig all solid targets. Unfortunately this involves digging quite a bit of trash but most of that trash falls in the range of most gold, so discriminating it out will most likely make you miss stuff I have 13 gold rings in the past year with Compadre alone, it is an awesome machine. Got to work a little unfortunately to find the good stuff. Those who are lazy or rely on TID will most likely find far less goodies..

Welcome to the Compadre family, can't wait to hear and see your finds.

 

[jarid]

Kenny D If you run your Compadre with the disc cranked up like that you are missing the point.The thing that makes it so awesome is the 180ED disc circuit. If you really only want to dig shallow modern coins get an ace 250 or a fisher F2, however if you want to run very low disc and get the real goodies that most machines will miss that is where the compadre shines.

 

[TP63]

When I want to coin shoot or it's toward the end of the day I will run my disc at the f on foil. That is the highest my disc ever goes.

 

[cladcanada]

When I want to coin shoot or it's toward the end of the day I will run my disc at the f on foil. That is the highest my disc ever goes.

Yep me too I set mine to I in iron and thumb the disc . If its solid repeatable tone when turned to foil I dig it . I pinpoint with propointer then pop target with screwdriver , fast clean and easy!,