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Forget Brand! Of The Best Coin Machines, Which Is The Best At Finding Nickles?

MarkCZ

MarkCZ

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I guess this is more of a poll than anything.
I know they are a lot of good coin machines but I know that they are a good number of them that's not that great at nickles.
So no bashing,
Give it to me straight!
Forget what's in my list!

Post your favorite altime "Nickle Get'er" and lets see if we can get enough replies that we see a model or two get multiple hits.

Well, if we can lets try to keep within the last twenty years if we can.

Thanks

Mark
 
My Minelab Explorer SE has pretty consistant numbers when it hits on nickels. And it also has it's own unique tone that my brain can relate to.
 
The Minelab XT-70 (705) with a HF coil is very good at finding nickels, especially the 6" HF coil which is also good on gold.
 
I've dug a good number of nickels using the MXT. Any target giving a number from 14 to 18 and sometimes 20 is nearly always a nickel.
BB
 
I should have said the Omega is 'good' at finding nickles...........but I am sure its not the best. And yes, certain White's units hit nickles pretty hard with a very accurate ID. Never played with the Minelabs....but most of them are pretty awesome.......my hunting buddy use's the E-Trac.......and definitely scores the small silver...he's not a nickel searcher though.
 
The Fisher CZ'S are one of the best nickel detectors made. My next choice would be a Tesoro Vaquero....very good on nickels also.
 
Obviously the user has a lot to do with it.... but most machines tunes to pick up low tones for gold jewelry work well. I think the problem is nickels are worth much and people tend to dig to many high tones and dont concentrate in this area. I did well with the DFX and yes the ML SE does have consistent TID for shallow nickels. Add a little depth and many machines have a problem with nickels.

Dew
 
All of mine do well and all always have as far as I can remember. nickels are a fairly thick round coin, what detector would have a problem with that? why would any detector be a nickel specialist:yikes:
 
Cz detectors always nailed many nickles. In fact they were set up that the nickle area had it's own notch and was set higher up on the meter scale.
The theory behind this set up was "You will find more rings"........ They were right ..Many nickles and rings if they were there.
 
My nickle count has gone way up since getting the At Pro. Before I got it, a good day was finding 4 or 5 nickles. With the At Pro that is a ho hum day. One day I found 18 nickles and the very next I found 17. I am sure there are other machines that will find as many but I have not used any so cannot comment.

Jerry
 
Tesoro Vaquero & Tejon ! The best I've owned:thumbup:
 
Neil said:
All of mine do well and all always have as far as I can remember. nickels are a fairly thick round coin, what detector would have a problem with that? why would any detector be a nickel specialist:yikes:
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Well I know what your saying, if I hunt in all metal or foil up and dig everything then I'll get nickles also, but like this weekend, I would have spent the six hours cleaning out a ten foot square area.
Being a good "Nickle Get'er" I meant picking out nickles from the tabs, can slaw, ect.....
I have a CZ-7a Pro and I've never done very well with it and nickles, those pull & Toss tabs will almost always hit the nickle zone?

I can set my 1266x up to hit the nickle range and up, but man in many area's I feel more like a garbage collector. I dug 16 coins this weekend (no nickles) but I bet I dug 40 peices of junk (trash),
Can slaw,
One shell case,
Two bullets,
Two belt buckles,
One key,
One aluminium pipe and 6" long,
One good size piece of iron,
three or four pull & Toss tabs, (beaver tail rings)
A couple of sta-tabs,
pop cans. or section of them,
Pencil eraser ends, (the metal part)
ect... ect........
No Nickles!

In the old days of coin hunting getting nickles meant digging a couple hundred pull rings to every nickle, so the coin hunters ran the disc up past nickles to keep from digging those tabs. Old habits are hard to break!

So, for calling out nickles and not digging all metal what detector gets the most votes for being a "Nickle Get'er" ??

Mark
 
use a nickle to set disc, bury one and make adjustments till its solid hit. what i do. use my wedding band to! so i dont miss so many goodies.
 
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