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CZ5 - What can you say

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chasia

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The biggest difference between my old CZ, the EXPll and the new V3 is the Cost. It certainly isn't performance. That old CZ never ceases to amaze me.
 
What can I say?

I can say that the E-Trac is finding great stuff in areas I pounded for ages with my old CZ-5. I may have gotten all the nickels, but damn, I was missing a lot of silver and deep coins. Typical year of silver with the CZ was maybe 30 coins, with the E-Trac in the same sites I have almost 300. On the other hand, I have few nickels. No doubt the CZ is a damn fine machine, but for me there's no going back.
 
Have you found any gold with your E-Trac ? Wondering since you have not found many nickels with it.
 
Nick you mean to tell me that you went from 30 silvers a year to 300 just by changing to an E-trac ? are you sure that your not going more often or being more meticulous in your search heck that means if i change over I'll get close to a thousand, I mean i will get over a hundred again probably around 120 but 3 to 400 silvers. that is a lot of silver and numbers i have only heard about since the good old days. Not doubting your claims at all because I've seen many post's confirming your statements almost to the T from others that have had the same results it may be time to try one out .
 
Tymstamon said:
Nick you mean to tell me that you went from 30 silvers a year to 300 just by changing to an E-trac ? are you sure that your not going more often or being more meticulous in your search heck that means if i change over I'll get close to a thousand, I mean i will get over a hundred again probably around 120 but 3 to 400 silvers. that is a lot of silver and numbers i have only heard about since the good old days. Not doubting your claims at all because I've seen many post's confirming your statements almost to the T from others that have had the same results it may be time to try one out .
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That is correct, I went from about 30 silver per year to 299 this year (52 last year with an Explorer SE). Not going more often than I have, still going slow as I'm hitting the same parks and schools I have been going to for years. The only thing I changed was my detector.
 
I have not really been hunting gold, as I am in trashier sites and still have plenty of coins to dig. I'm a coinshooter, and I know the ring-obsessed will think that's crazy, but that's what I like to find and mainly go for. I think I got two gold rings this year, which is about average for me (1-2 gold rings), regardless of detector. I have dug way fewer nickels. However, I did some experiments to try to correct that just as the weather started to get colder and I was able to tune my ears a bit better as well, and this increased my nickel finds. I have looked at the White's V3 and wondered if the signagraph function would really help on cherrypicking gold/rings from aluminum scrap/tabs, but have not really heard anyone doing this successfully and I have not laid my hands on one to see what it can do. Gold is just too random... different sizes, shapes, alloys. Better to find a way to knock out the tabs which are more standard shape/size/alloy and then did everything in that range that isn't that.
 
Just so you know, I wasn't asking to be skeptical or demeaning. Just wondering how the E-Trac did on the lower conductive targets. I understand about coin shooting in trashy areas. You have to dig TONS of foil, tabs, etc. it you want a gold ring.

JC
 
Surely a conventional CZ will be my choice for my favorite...Yep those Explorers seem to grab deep silver but to me are sort of weak on nickles and gold items while the CZ seems to excell in both...I speak from experience having used them all and for a user friendly depth demon that don't break your back or arm or kill you with outside interference or just not that deep or need a degree to operate certainly my pick. Just my lowly opinion for my neck of the woods and certainly well learned lots of excellent units out there so take your pick and may the metal detector Gods smile upon you in the new year..
 
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