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Favorite Clad/stab Detector ?

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HaroldILL.

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I was wondering what everyones favorite detector to use when out clad stabin'/ jewelry hunting newer parks and athletic feilds ? Not deep silver,But just stabin for fun ? I like goin' old school with the Whites XL-PRO and the Bigfoot coil. The fact it is a 4 filter analog which requires a faster sweep and work best in open areas is perfect for a soccer/athletic field. Then team it with the Bigfoot coil it is a match made in heaven. I hit just 2 fields the other day and picked up about 50 Quarters and a handful of nickels and pulltabs lookin' for gold,But not to be on that day. It was still fun as a long time old coin hunter I use to bypass these areas,But now thay are my few close by spots left so can be hunted at the drop of a hat.
 
I like my old whites 5900 with meter while using 5.3in coil....decent depth ,good separation, and pretty acurate meter...
 
Only owned 3 different tectors in 23-24 yrs (Tejon, Golden Sabre II, and Etrac).... I really think NOTHING could beat that old GSII for shallow clad between the notch, fast recovery, and fast ease of PPing....jmo
 
I guess I will say that the compadre has my vote... KEN. Ind.
 
Hmm...... surprised mudpuppy hasn't found this yet. This is right up his alley.

I think my AT Pro does a pretty good job hunting clad at newer locations.
 
My vote would go for the T2 and SharpShooter,DFX and SEF8x6 or the Deus with the 9'' coil,the T2 would be the No1 choice though.
 
Golden umax with clean sweep coil. pinpoint is on the mark every time.
 
Ha! Yeah Seth! I love clad! Its fun and immediately rewarding! You can spend your days finds on the way home, or save them and go buy silver at the coinstore...!

I've seen some huge clad numbers come in from a lot of rigs which is a puzzlement sometimes...A couple guys use the Pro and really knock it down, I dont see how they do it with the limited tones the Pro has..I have one, but would never use it to speed hunt clad unless its on the beach...

I run full tones on the F70 and for me, thats the only way I can really fast hunt clad...a rig has to be fast, light, and accurate, Able to tell you whats under the coil and how deep just by the initial tone...then zero in quickly and retrieve quickly and on to the next...it becomes an issue of too much clad, not enough time, so a guy has to be fast!.

The operator has to be very fast and spry enough to do century days in a few hours just to get warmed up...totlots, fields, parks, right after festival teardowns, anywhere...only a very few days out of the year a guy can get into those heavy clad bearing areas on account of they are generally out in the Public domain...and even then a guy cant stay long...today is one of those days for hunting schools! Holiday, and bad weather!:thumbup: Off I go!
Mud
 
Tesoros make excellent clad machines and can clean them up pretty fast with a concentric coil, precise pinpointing.
 
You could just about have a sub Forum here for clad/jewelry/eyetreasure hunters for the reasons Harold mentioned....In fact I bet in the not too distant Future they do!....In certain places, thats all a guy has left is 'clad' hunting...and even then, it only takes a short time to wipe out a clad heavy area and its not getting replenished as fast as you might think...Clad/jewelry hunting could very well be the last frontier for a lot of us..some of the older guys that hunted silver are crossing over, and MOST of the new guys are doing it! Good thing is, they are both too slow, easily discouraged, and use a trowel!:rofl:.

There are key skills to be gained hunting clad/jewelry/eyetreasures that will serve anybody very well for the other genres of the Sport too...Just leaving a 'tell penny' is a great trick! I go out for Clad and Jewelry, thats my motivation, but the eyefinds while hunting or driving along really pay the bills..we have a 10c deposit here on empty cans/bottles...so those count, and I pick them up!...I guess its more of a daily scavenger hunt for anything of value than a dedicated detecting run.

One thing, a guy sure learns how to read an area in a hurry, and find the pay dirt streaks in it...ever think about a totlot's 'hotzones' much? They are there in every one of them, certain totlot equipment precipitates drops, so a guy knows right away what the odds are for a nice haul by the amount of clad in those hotspots, how hard its been hunted, and how frequently and well by the small trash left behind, and the depth, amount, and discoloration of the finds.....

Even swingsets have a pattern to them...a guy has to look and see which way the swingers generally face, and hunt how the pocket dump happens, or the jump off and roll zone...one side of the swings is always hotter than the other for sure.....Anyway, theres a lot more to successful clad hunting....it that takes some alternate skills besides the detector...a screwdriver for one, and a crappy car that gets good mileage!...:thumbup:

Also, a cladder should know the schedule of all the sporting events in his territory and be the first on site...like I said, lots more to it besides the detector...
Mud
 
Well, I may get kicked out of the F70 He-Man Club for saying so, but between my F70 and my Eurotek Pro, I would pick the Eurotek Pro for purely shallow clad. The F70 does a great job too, but the Eurotek is a touch faster processing signals, and the iron volume adjustment is a great feature for cherry picking. So for clad stabbing, a Eurotek Pro with a five inch coil gets my vote. For deeper searches, however, I will take the F70.
 
I don't think I would buy a F70 just to go clad stabbing, I would us what I have a F75 and I would use the new FA processor. I think with the right operator (mud) the F75 in the FA processor will keep up with the best of them.

Ron in WV
 
The secret to clad hunting with an AT Pro is notch disc. I just use the factory preset coins mode and turn iron disc up to forty. This accepts all US coins including zinc pennies and nickels, for some reason I can't cherry pick and ignore these it makes me feel guilty. It's paid off with some nice jewelry though. I disagree about the tones, having a different tone for every number would give me a headache.
 
My answer to the OPers question would be an ATPro, excellent clad and jewelry sniffer. Cost effective, light, easy to use and waterproof to boot.

Having said that, i found enough clad to last a life time and not especially interested in finding anymore.
Got buckets of dug up clad laying around and don't need no more. The thrill of finding a handful of clad, well those days are gone.
I will say every great once in a while when i get the clad urge, i'll give my eTRAC a rest, pick up my ATPro and go hunt a clad site.

For me these days, there's no sense of victory in finding a handful of clad... IMHO a waste of time where i could be working on a whole host of projects and chores..
Jewelry yes, but too dam many pulltabs in the parks around here. I typically dig up the first 10 gold IDs during a hunt, all i've ever come up with are 10 pull tabs.

With my limited detecting time, i concentrate on areas that have been known to have or could have old silver coins. If i find clad, i'll keep it except crusty zincolns.
All the easy park silver around here has been dug up but when i do find a stubborn one thats been walked over for whatever reason, its a rewarding challenge that pays off.

For you all who still enjoy finding clad, more power to you...been there done that.
 
ironsight said:
Having said that, i found enough clad to last a life time and not especially interested in finding anymore.
Got buckets of dug up clad laying around and don't need no more. The thrill of finding a handful of clad, well those days are gone.
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Ditto....!!!! After last season where I dug $253 in clad/zinc (I do dig the coppers and sort/save seperate and don't count) I realized I was wasting very precious time that SHOULD have been spent seeking out the older deepies. I made a decision to not dig as much new stuff this season? Still digging too much new (approx. $50-60 so far) but have really tried to cut back as time is so precious? I'm doing better at passing the crap coins up.

Unfortunately I haven't been out in over 3 weeks due to getting my winters wood put up and mainly due to having to travel so far to have a decent chance at older stuff in the big city (220mi rt). Looks like this season might be somewhat slim for me on the numbers but also very happy with the quality coins I've dug so far this season?

Ironsight.... Last season I dug 3 gold rings and 1 so far this season. Got em all chasing the nickel numbers. I'm a coin guy period and could care less about jewelry. In the future, you might dig ALL the nickel signals and maybe stumble onto some gold like I did (or a V or buffie!!!!)...??????:

You guys that enjoy the clad...have at er and have fun with it while you still enjoy it....!!!!!
 
Thanks for the AtPro set up tips there Seth!:please::clapping: I'll try that out on a really heavy rain day..one of the main reasons I got the Pro to begin with...perfect for hunting a park on account of there will be no people around!
Clad teaches some important detecting lessons/skills in a hurry...it also helps a guy start to 'see' dirt in a different way, old sidewalks, houses, especially construction or tearouts. Helps a guy get to know his area really well and prepared to jump on a street tearout etc...Clad keeps me out there and going on the hunt...its something a guy can do everyday and not ask permission!:rofl: Thinking back, Most of my old silver was found on account of I was out cladding and noticed an area...Maybe someday I'll grow out of it and into a different subset of this sport?...I got beachhunting, wading, inland jewelry, and clad all figured out somewhat...Clads just so easy and fun for me!:beers:
Mud
 
It would be nice if what I'm finding was more than I need but alas I need to find a lot more than I have been finding. I cannot afford to throw bent clad away or chipped zincs...
Just the times aren;t much different for some of us than the depression was for our parents.
 
I have tried many detectors, but always came back to the Tesoro Compadre.

For me, in my soil and my hunt areas, I always had the most success using that little $160 miracle worker.
 
I have found more rings under "nickel" than anything. Must have something to do with size and not just conductivity.

To answer the OP, my Fisher F2 is fast and simple. Finds everything to 6" underground and IDs it properly. On days I don't care to dig another inch or two, I'll use the QDP.
 
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