Fisher 1280x......Looking for direction

[stilpony]

I sure hope I get better results here than I did on the Fisher Classic forum! Everybody in that forum READS posts, but nobody responds. Lesson learned. Normally I'm hanging out in the Fisher F Series forum, so maybe I got spoiled; those guys all respond well in there.

Anyway, I'm hoping some of you can point me in right direction. I just bought this machine from my friend (used), and it came with the blue headphones and the harness for chest/hip mounting the control box, all for $300. I'm sure there are a million posts on here about the 1280x, or maybe not, but I was wondering if we have a forum guru on the machine that can offer up some good advice when using it. Also looking for just general tips on water/beach hunting, or maybe just some links that will lead me to previously written articles.

I'll continue to search the forums on this unit, but if anybody can offer some direction, that would be awesome, and greatly appreciated!

Thanks, and happy hunting!

Pony

 

[mudpuppy]

Will somebody help poor Stilpony out before he busts a spring? Just turn the thing on and get in the water why dontcha?
Mud

 

[Merlin cadogan]

Yeah just get a long handled sand scoop and get in there! Learn the tones at home first with some gold, coins, ring pulls, bottle tops, when you know what sounds like what you're all set bud! Go and get the gold

 

[stilpony]

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, but I was hoping you guys would do it for me, the water is kinda cold.

Ok, I'll just go for it. I was hoping there were some good videos on it, aside from Treasurebones, I've seen those already.

I have all the gear, but I should air test first, THAT I have not done yet.

Thanks guys!

Jake

 

[gobble-gobble]

The 1280 is a good detector for fresh water, it can be used in salt.Using it in salt water talks back abit , there is one tone htz 2.5 very hot on silver. I had one yrs ago & found lots of gold in the salt & fresh water .
Good luck & enjoy the new detector

 

[jyt2017]

Number one. Set that discrimination knob as low as possible.

Number two. Iron has a serious blip...move on.

I don't know about your model, but 300 bucks for a los banos original is a good deal, to find out just call fisher. They will look your serial number up.

It is a really really good beginners machine. Does really well in fresh water. Has an affinity for silver.

I cleared a pond out, 14 in quarters alone. Yet. No gold ring. Something was up. Had disc at 4. Lowered to 1. Crept area for another good 4 hours. 3 bucks more in clad and a nice 10k class ring.

I strongly suggest setting out a hunk of iron, a bobby pin, a penny, a nickle, dime, quarter in clad and some silver an gold items and just get used to how they sound. You can easily tell bobby pins an iron. And pennys.

Sensitivity. Run hot, back off until machine stops falsing. Some falsing is ok.

 

[birdman]

Very noisy in salt water but built like a tank and works well in dry sand or fresh water. Deep machine.

 

[stilpony]

Thanks so much for the good points, those are exactly the types of comments I was looking for!!!!

I'm so fired up to get in the water and try it out, it really does sound like a lot of fun, and it's a whole new world compared to dirt fishing, and I LOVE dirt fishing!

I hope to get more input on the machine so that I can learn all that I can.

HH

Pony

 

[HaroldILL.]

I know what you mean as I have hunted land for 15 years and just got my first water detector a CZ-20 used on the bay for 375.00. It's not a closet queen ,But works good on the land found a 10'' wheat penny with it. I already know CZ's so waiting for my scoop to get here and in the water I will go! One thing about gold jewelry is it get's replenished where silver coins don't.

 

[Carl-d-Frogg]

I had one of those machines years ago! It worked great in fresh water, not so much in salt. It talked way to much. I had to back off on the sensitivity way down. It caused depth loss big time. I fixed that problem after getting the
Excalibur from Minelab. It was night and day!

 

[Songdog]

And I am assuming you knew that you could download the owner's manual from Fisher's web site.