Picked up a great used Compadre from Skiwhiz this week and I did a small review on another forum.
Very interesting so I thought I would repost over here.
I bought this as a hyper sensitive unit to find all those tiny small pieces that my other detectors might miss, and I was not disappointed!
One short and sweet hunt...one great first impression below.
Got my Compadre from Skiwhiz today.
Thanks Steve...a pleasure to do business with you and hope to do it again sometime!
He has had them before, and even though this one is the older style with the 7 inch coil, Steve said this one seems to be just as sensitive to very small items as the smaller coil units, it just seems to go a little further.
I say great!
I bought this because I think everyone should have one of these as a specialty unit for tot-lots to find those hard to scan tiny studs, fine gold chains and many other situations and sites.
Also my fiance says the F2 was too heavy with her bum shoulder, so maybe this might work for her.
She wants to try, anyway.
I took it next door to a park that I have hit a bazillion times, but it does have a tot-lot and a few other areas that I hunt from time to time when I don't feel like going far and don't have a lot of time.
I started at a grassy area that I have drained of clad, but there is always more to find because no site is ever truly hunted out.
This area was a good place to test the accuracy of the discriminator.
I got a few signals and thumbed that disc trying to figure out the targets.
One disced out right at the tab mark.
Dug it and it was a tab.
Another was a quarter and this thing hit hard.
I ran out of the house so fast to test my new purchase, I forgot my headphones.
I like the fact that this is not a super loud speaker, and I also think the low tone on this Tesoro does seem sort of pleasant.
In honesty, I do prefer the high tone of my Vaquero.
Not because I can tell a difference in whisper signals or anything like that, yet, I just think it sounds a little nicer, or maybe I am just used to it.
Because I was not using the phones, the strong tones on this detector made the unit vibrate a littlein my hand.
I was surprised by this, it was sort of like using my Propointer.
I could not disc this signal out, I raised the coil to figure the depth and surmised this might be a quarter and shallow and checked it with my Propointer and dug a quarter 1 1/2 inch deep.
Nice.
Though out this short hunt I really liked the fact that the few coins I found and all the trash seemed to really seem spot on on the disc settings, I have experience with my Vaq, but this one seemed a little tighter, a little more precise.
Almost like a fine tuner.
Maybe it's the smaller coil, or the true 180 ED disc rage vs the 160 on the Vaq,(160 ED in reality according to Monty and other guru's), or just the way this unit works with the different circuitry vs my Vaq.
All I know is this seems to be the perfect weapon in those areas where surgical precision is required instead of the big guns,(coils).
I think I can get the hang of this thing pretty quick, and I can't wait to get good with it.
Pinpointing was similar to my Vaq, but took me a bit to get the sweet spot down.
This is a solid coil and I never used this kind before.
The old eye-ear coordinaton took a little time to adjust, but I finally started hitting target center after awhile.
Just another thing to learn, and learning new things is great fun in this hobby.
One thing I noticed is that I had to supertune my propointer a lot more on this hunt than usual, and this ground was very dry and rock hard in some areas.
That was unusual...I was digging targets a little deeper than usual, and in my very difficult soil in bone dry ground I was surprised.
I will have to bring out all the detectors and give them all the same signal depth test one day, but I was getting to like this thing more and more as the targets were acquired and dug.
Even the trash.
Hit a few other areas getting more experience and playing with the disc knob and eventually I moved to the tot lot that I clean regularly.
Dug a few shallow coins and some pretty deep trash.
I noticed I could not get real close to the big metal stuff at all.
The sensitivity on this thing seems to be maxed and I know I can get a bit closer with my Vaq and F2 no matter how big of a coil I have on them.
Plus those units have a sensitivity adjustment, this one doesn't.
I wanted high sensitivity on this thing and I seemed to have gotten it.
I will gladly give up the getting-close-to big metal thing for a chance to find that small gold stud or fine chain, one day.
Then, something happened to cause me to fall in love with my new baby.
I was set below iron but not all the way to all metal, and I got a solid tone.
It repeated...kept repeating and disced out just a little higher on the disc knob.
I got down and dug and had real trouble finding the target.
It was not deep, and my propointer would sound off and on as I moved it around in those chips, but this was one of those tiny things that I can hardly even see let alone find unless the propointer is actually touching it.
I finally found it and I was floored.
It is in this picture of the clad I found tonight below...
Did you miss it?
Check out the closeup.
That's right, one lone bead from a small chain, and after further testing at home, my other two detectors won't pick this up at all with their present larger coils.
Every time I run over this here at home I still get that same solid tone.
Not like the quarter hit, but I would dig this solid signal every time.
Sllingshot, who is very good with this, says he has picked up the ball in ball point pens with his, and I believe it!
If you remember, I stated even the propointer needed to touch this thing to sound off.
Now I am very impressed!
I will continue to hunt and test an learn with my wonderful new detector, and I would like to say that for those of you that think this is a toy or just good as only a starter detector, I think I would have to disagree.
This thing is a power packed brain coupled with a tiny little body.
Looks can be deceiving.
I am going to use this on my next few hunts and see where it leads.
Some precious metals I hope...big or small size doesn't seem to matter to this thing.
Let the games begin!
HH
Very interesting so I thought I would repost over here.
I bought this as a hyper sensitive unit to find all those tiny small pieces that my other detectors might miss, and I was not disappointed!
One short and sweet hunt...one great first impression below.
Got my Compadre from Skiwhiz today.
Thanks Steve...a pleasure to do business with you and hope to do it again sometime!
He has had them before, and even though this one is the older style with the 7 inch coil, Steve said this one seems to be just as sensitive to very small items as the smaller coil units, it just seems to go a little further.
I say great!
I bought this because I think everyone should have one of these as a specialty unit for tot-lots to find those hard to scan tiny studs, fine gold chains and many other situations and sites.
Also my fiance says the F2 was too heavy with her bum shoulder, so maybe this might work for her.
She wants to try, anyway.
I took it next door to a park that I have hit a bazillion times, but it does have a tot-lot and a few other areas that I hunt from time to time when I don't feel like going far and don't have a lot of time.
I started at a grassy area that I have drained of clad, but there is always more to find because no site is ever truly hunted out.
This area was a good place to test the accuracy of the discriminator.
I got a few signals and thumbed that disc trying to figure out the targets.
One disced out right at the tab mark.
Dug it and it was a tab.
Another was a quarter and this thing hit hard.
I ran out of the house so fast to test my new purchase, I forgot my headphones.
I like the fact that this is not a super loud speaker, and I also think the low tone on this Tesoro does seem sort of pleasant.
In honesty, I do prefer the high tone of my Vaquero.
Not because I can tell a difference in whisper signals or anything like that, yet, I just think it sounds a little nicer, or maybe I am just used to it.
Because I was not using the phones, the strong tones on this detector made the unit vibrate a littlein my hand.
I was surprised by this, it was sort of like using my Propointer.
I could not disc this signal out, I raised the coil to figure the depth and surmised this might be a quarter and shallow and checked it with my Propointer and dug a quarter 1 1/2 inch deep.
Nice.
Though out this short hunt I really liked the fact that the few coins I found and all the trash seemed to really seem spot on on the disc settings, I have experience with my Vaq, but this one seemed a little tighter, a little more precise.
Almost like a fine tuner.
Maybe it's the smaller coil, or the true 180 ED disc rage vs the 160 on the Vaq,(160 ED in reality according to Monty and other guru's), or just the way this unit works with the different circuitry vs my Vaq.
All I know is this seems to be the perfect weapon in those areas where surgical precision is required instead of the big guns,(coils).
I think I can get the hang of this thing pretty quick, and I can't wait to get good with it.
Pinpointing was similar to my Vaq, but took me a bit to get the sweet spot down.
This is a solid coil and I never used this kind before.
The old eye-ear coordinaton took a little time to adjust, but I finally started hitting target center after awhile.
Just another thing to learn, and learning new things is great fun in this hobby.
One thing I noticed is that I had to supertune my propointer a lot more on this hunt than usual, and this ground was very dry and rock hard in some areas.
That was unusual...I was digging targets a little deeper than usual, and in my very difficult soil in bone dry ground I was surprised.
I will have to bring out all the detectors and give them all the same signal depth test one day, but I was getting to like this thing more and more as the targets were acquired and dug.
Even the trash.
Hit a few other areas getting more experience and playing with the disc knob and eventually I moved to the tot lot that I clean regularly.
Dug a few shallow coins and some pretty deep trash.
I noticed I could not get real close to the big metal stuff at all.
The sensitivity on this thing seems to be maxed and I know I can get a bit closer with my Vaq and F2 no matter how big of a coil I have on them.
Plus those units have a sensitivity adjustment, this one doesn't.
I wanted high sensitivity on this thing and I seemed to have gotten it.
I will gladly give up the getting-close-to big metal thing for a chance to find that small gold stud or fine chain, one day.
Then, something happened to cause me to fall in love with my new baby.
I was set below iron but not all the way to all metal, and I got a solid tone.
It repeated...kept repeating and disced out just a little higher on the disc knob.
I got down and dug and had real trouble finding the target.
It was not deep, and my propointer would sound off and on as I moved it around in those chips, but this was one of those tiny things that I can hardly even see let alone find unless the propointer is actually touching it.
I finally found it and I was floored.
It is in this picture of the clad I found tonight below...
Did you miss it?
Check out the closeup.
That's right, one lone bead from a small chain, and after further testing at home, my other two detectors won't pick this up at all with their present larger coils.
Every time I run over this here at home I still get that same solid tone.
Not like the quarter hit, but I would dig this solid signal every time.
Sllingshot, who is very good with this, says he has picked up the ball in ball point pens with his, and I believe it!
If you remember, I stated even the propointer needed to touch this thing to sound off.
Now I am very impressed!
I will continue to hunt and test an learn with my wonderful new detector, and I would like to say that for those of you that think this is a toy or just good as only a starter detector, I think I would have to disagree.
This thing is a power packed brain coupled with a tiny little body.
Looks can be deceiving.
I am going to use this on my next few hunts and see where it leads.
Some precious metals I hope...big or small size doesn't seem to matter to this thing.
Let the games begin!
HH
