Thanks to everyone's posts on tips and tricks with the coinstrike,I had a good first outing. I started with a sens of 4,neg 25 threshold,99 iron reject, nothing notched. The machine was very stable,and eventually I went with a sens of 5,and a neg 10 threshold. The first thing I noticed,was the machine was very sensitive to low conductivity non ferrous targets.(a good thing at this spot). The next thing I noticed,is that it does like a slightly faster(than cz) sweep speed. The audio sounded "mushy" untill I got the volume of the machine/headphones just right.The tone id isn't as clear as the cz,but it isn't bad. From a spot that I had almost given up on,I pulled three wheaties.(1925,1927,1930) This is a vacant lot I have been pounding with a cz70,f2,f4 for three years. I experienced alot of what I read about theC$. It really does like "round" objects.I pulled a aluminum washer,and a very deep/heavy brass furniture pull,that were missed by the other machines. I was also ready when I got the infamous"51" reading(usuall large/ deep iron). Something I learned today is not only can you check "suspect" targets from 90 degrees,but you can just hit the all metal button and watch/listen to the readout for a better idea of what the target may be. I also tried dropping iron disc to 50,and it was a little to noisy for me. I was getting a jumpy nickel/tab reading,that turned out to be a modern nickel at 4" tilted at 45 degrees.Once again missed by my other machines. I then tried the all metal mode,at a beach volleyball court,and it worked fine (no gold today). I mostly concentrated on sound,if it sounded good and the numbers are more posiyive than neg I dug.I am going to have to learn the different vdi numbers.I am looking forward to seeing what this machine can do. It is a good coin hunter,It has salt mode for the beach(most of my hunting now),and will id targets in all metal mode.(good for my yearly VA civil war relic hunts) Thanks again for everyones tips.
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First time out with new(to me) coinstrike
- Thread starter tmattei
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michael NY
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Good job i own the Coinstrike in my arsenal as well just recently purchased a new 10" coil for it. I have yet to find gold with the CS but i can personally say the machine is hot on silver coins, happy hunting.
I like my C$, it's my main detector. It's easy to use, I just set the Sensitivity (usually 9 or 10) and the Threshold (usually 0). Thats it, no confusion with a lengthy menu, wondering if I have it set up right for todays hunt. This really is a good detector and it goes deep too. You can check the soil mineralization too. Just place the coil on the ground and press the night light button and the ground balance button at the same time. A reading will appear on the screen in the empty space in the middle. A lower reading means higher mineralization. I heard its there only to set up the detector at the factory and is not meant for the user. It is not mentioned in the manual. The Goldstrike shows it displayed all the time on the screen.
Mike, air test some gold rings and jot down the meter number for each ring. I air tested 9 ladies gold rings, a gold class ring, and 2 mens gold rings. The ladies showed as low as #7 to as high as #12. The class ring and mens rings showed as high as #17. So if I want to search for gold rings I dig the targets in that number range. The C$ frequency is 7 khz and my Golden uMax frequency is 10 khz. They both detected the rings at the same distance in air tests.
The Coinstrike has been my main detector since it was first released. I've found a fair amount of gold with it including two rings for infants. I do not consider the CS to especially effective on gold - middle of the road, really.
The Coinstrike loves round targets. I have dug gobs of iron rings, washers, steel bottle caps, and all the stuff peeps whined about when it was released. As you gain experience, the bulk of it can be avoided, but some of it is gonna fool you.you.
I ran with iron discrimination at 65 or so. It helped me know where I needed to really slow it down and pay attention - the CS excels at finding masked coins and has a very fast recovery time. So being aware that I was in a cluster of iron allowed me to shift gears a little but and really work that coil.
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The Coinstrike loves round targets. I have dug gobs of iron rings, washers, steel bottle caps, and all the stuff peeps whined about when it was released. As you gain experience, the bulk of it can be avoided, but some of it is gonna fool you.you.
I ran with iron discrimination at 65 or so. It helped me know where I needed to really slow it down and pay attention - the CS excels at finding masked coins and has a very fast recovery time. So being aware that I was in a cluster of iron allowed me to shift gears a little but and really work that coil.
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Topdecker,thanks for the 65 iron disc tip.I will give that a try. That first place I took it to,was a good learning experience(not many signals).Today I took it to" real world" spots(junk infested),and learned even more .I'm still getting the moderate sweep speed down.It seems to be able to hit hard on high coins at a fast sweep,but preferrs a slightly slower sweep for foil,nickles,tabs.It dosen't hit as hard on nickles as my CZ,but then again no other machine has either! A few days ago,I did some night hunting using the backlight feature.I was on a saltwater beach,and using the" salt on" feature the machine was stable even on the wet sand and shallow water. I did have to decrease threshold at one section,from neg five to neg twenty five.(emi?) I am a huge fan of smaller coils,and have a bid on a 6" one. Anyone have good luck using the smaller coil on this machine? Thanks for all of the previous replys.
MarkCZ
Well-known member
tmattei said:
The C$ works very well with the little coil, I have the Sun-Ray CS-5 and what I've found is with the smaller coil I can almost always run MAX sensitivity which helps make up for the little depth loss of the smaller coil.
The little coil is lighter, that helps,
Its a little more stable, that helps.
And the little thing is pretty darn deep as well.
It also ID's at lest as good as the stock 8".
I have two VERY nice C$'s which I'm thinking about selling one of them sometime in the near future. I was out of metal detecting for awhile when my next oldest brother retired and so I loaned him my C$ so he could go metal detecting with our oldest brother (WV62) Then I got interested in getting back into detecting and I didn't want to "Un-loan" the detector and I had really taken a liken to the C$ so I went shopping for another one and I landed a deal on a NEW one with warranty. Then through a chain of events,my brother ended up finding a deal on his own detector and I got the loaner back, now I have two C$'s. With all the other detectors I've collected sense then and money as short as it is now, I'm sure I could get more use out of the money then I can out of a second C$. Heck, I may also put my XLT up for sell, I've never had it detecting the first time sense I got it from Dan_Pa.
If I sold them I would still have more detectors than I can use, A
Coinstrike,
ID Edge,
Omega,
1266x
My two "go To" detectors is the C$ and the Omega.
I've never really learned the XLT enough to take it hunting.
And just to note!
I got the first C$ as an upgrade to a CZ-7a Pro I had, I wanted a CZ like detector with more meter information than just Blocks or zones. I wouldn't go back to a CZ, some say the CZ's were great on nickels, but all the ones I've been around hit way less than 10% nickels and 90% tabs! Tabs in the ground almost all the time fell into nickel zone (except air testing)
The best machines I've had for nickels so far have been (in order)
Teknetics 9000/B
Whites 5900 DI Pro-sl
and now the Teknetics Omega with the 11" DD (at lest it likes them down to around 3" or so)
When I say best for nickels, I mean ID'in them.
Mark
Mark, I had a CZ7aPro too, sold it and bought an ID Edge. A little later I bought a Coinstrike and couldn't be happier. As you said, the CZ has only 5 zones for all targets, while the Coinstrike has more than 32 numbers that all non-ferrous targets fall into, thats a much bigger spread for target ID info.