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Compadre woes for me
- Thread starter teresa056
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kaolinwasher
Well-known member
1st we need some info - have you turned the gain up on it ? and where do you run the disc at when hunting -? when i had the compadre i noted that thing can find really small things and they can be very hard to find , so a pinpointed would be helpful and it may be your spot is just very loaded with junk targets. best thing to do with pinpointing is take a hole bunch of things and practice on them i usaly use some 2x4s and set a foil and practice on that then a coin then nails and things just practice use three 2x4s set two at 3" and practice with your targets then stack three , and it may help to keep the disc just at foil hope this helps , by the way if your sensitivity is to high its going to false alot
What discrimination setting are you using? You might want to raise it some until you get used to the Compadre. It can find really tiny targets that are hard to locate.
Also throw some coins on the ground and practice your pinpointing. A Garrett ProPointer is a must have for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mha-7Vkn4DM
tabman
Also throw some coins on the ground and practice your pinpointing. A Garrett ProPointer is a must have for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mha-7Vkn4DM
tabman
deliveryboy
New member
I agree a propointer is a must it has sped up my recovery time immensely. even a cheaper pinpointer will help but eventually get you the propointer. I run on the "i" in iron and dig lots of trash but it also increases my finds good luck
deliveryboy
New member
yeah most of the rings are gone now but I wished I would have tested them to learn more about that. 
@Teresa056 thats a decent discrimination setting, it may be just where you are hunting has little to offer. Just count on digging trash as it is inevitable, but eventually you will start finding better goods. Make sure to swing low and slow and overlap your swings with the coil, I noticed with the 5.75" that i use, that it is very easy to miss targets unless you are thorough. I used to walk and swing fast, then I disciplined myself to slow down and started finding more.
@Teresa056 thats a decent discrimination setting, it may be just where you are hunting has little to offer. Just count on digging trash as it is inevitable, but eventually you will start finding better goods. Make sure to swing low and slow and overlap your swings with the coil, I noticed with the 5.75" that i use, that it is very easy to miss targets unless you are thorough. I used to walk and swing fast, then I disciplined myself to slow down and started finding more.
cladcanada
Member
Where are you hunting ?
I'm very new to the machine myself, actually one week tomorrow, But have a long time with other simple units. So far it's been a coin magnet for me I leave the setting just past pull tab since I'm in such a trash filled area. So far it's been a joy to use and pinpoints right on, I do have the Garrett Pro Pointer but if it's on the Tesoro refuses to work properly. So long as I remember to turn the pointer off while scanning with the Compadre everything is fine. Mine has the 8 inch donut coil I overlap my search sweeps and work an area as completely as possible before moving on.
I agree with tabman about doing some practicing with coins. Since I don't know what you have tried already and how you sweep the soil I'll put some more words to it.
Take some coins out to a clear area of dirt and do some tests. Put a coin on the ground where you can see it and sweep the coil over it. Don't sweep too fast. Count one thousand one as the coil goes from one end of the sweep to the other and one thousand two as it sweeps back ... and don't rush the words. Visualize where the coil is when it beeps. Narrow the sweep to just wider than what it takes to get a beep in each direction and walk round the coin as you sweep and work on finding center of the beep. If you have a small coil, the 5.75 inch coil you can place the coil down over the target when you have found the center of the beep from all directions that hit while walking a circle around the coin and you should have the coin in the center of the coil. If you have a large coil, the 8 inch, you can raise the coil until you get a faint beep on the coin as you sweep across it. With the coil raised you are only detecting the coin when it is near a narrow spot near the center of the coil. With the coil raised, walk around the coin while sweeping the coil and see where the center is. Visualize where the coin hits the coil center as you sweep. If you have the 8 inch coil you should be able to see the coin through the center hole as you sweep across it. That helps you find center.
When you are confident that you can find center on a coin you can see laying on the ground, use the same technique of sweeping slow and narrow when right over a target you find in the ground. See if that helps some. A pin pointer can help recover targets in the hole too.
Most of the time false signals do not repeat well as you sweep over them several times. If you get a good tone in what seems like the same spot when you have swept the coil over the spot 4 or more times, I think you will dig a piece of metal out of the ground if you can find center for the beep.
Some areas do not have a lot of targets, some do. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to cover the cost of batteries with found coins.
If there is a metal detecting club near you, or a detector dealer near you, see if you can get some tips or some demonstrations of detecting with someone else finding a target, then you checking it, locating it and recovering it. Sometimes watching someone else go through the process can be worth many thousand words.
Keep us posted on how you are doing.
Cheers,
tvr
Take some coins out to a clear area of dirt and do some tests. Put a coin on the ground where you can see it and sweep the coil over it. Don't sweep too fast. Count one thousand one as the coil goes from one end of the sweep to the other and one thousand two as it sweeps back ... and don't rush the words. Visualize where the coil is when it beeps. Narrow the sweep to just wider than what it takes to get a beep in each direction and walk round the coin as you sweep and work on finding center of the beep. If you have a small coil, the 5.75 inch coil you can place the coil down over the target when you have found the center of the beep from all directions that hit while walking a circle around the coin and you should have the coin in the center of the coil. If you have a large coil, the 8 inch, you can raise the coil until you get a faint beep on the coin as you sweep across it. With the coil raised you are only detecting the coin when it is near a narrow spot near the center of the coil. With the coil raised, walk around the coin while sweeping the coil and see where the center is. Visualize where the coin hits the coil center as you sweep. If you have the 8 inch coil you should be able to see the coin through the center hole as you sweep across it. That helps you find center.
When you are confident that you can find center on a coin you can see laying on the ground, use the same technique of sweeping slow and narrow when right over a target you find in the ground. See if that helps some. A pin pointer can help recover targets in the hole too.
Most of the time false signals do not repeat well as you sweep over them several times. If you get a good tone in what seems like the same spot when you have swept the coil over the spot 4 or more times, I think you will dig a piece of metal out of the ground if you can find center for the beep.
Some areas do not have a lot of targets, some do. Sometimes it takes a lot of work to cover the cost of batteries with found coins.
If there is a metal detecting club near you, or a detector dealer near you, see if you can get some tips or some demonstrations of detecting with someone else finding a target, then you checking it, locating it and recovering it. Sometimes watching someone else go through the process can be worth many thousand words.
Keep us posted on how you are doing.
Cheers,
tvr
Nothing substitutes for "stick" time and all detectors have a learning curve. tvr has good advice about practicing with a coin on top of the ground. Also make sure that the coil is as parallel to the ground as possible. Just remember to not get discouraged, take your time, and have fun. After all isn't that what a hobby is supposed to be? The good stuff will come, it just takes a little practice.
Jeff
Jeff