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Here is my 2 cents.....
- Thread starter Goes4ever
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Rainyday101
New member
Great job. I have yet to find one of them elusive Indians.
kaolinwasher
Well-known member
Nice -- great finds in my world
joe dirt_1
Active member
Goes4ever, what size coil do you have on your Compadre ? I just got an 8 inch version today but can't get out because of the rain...nice finds !
Roger
Roger
Rainyday101
New member
Tabman I have yet to hit any woods yet. Unfortunately for me the dam ground is now frozen. I should be able to suit up, grab the Tiger Shark, and get a couple of times in the bay of Green Bay before that freezes to ice. Smaller inland lakes are already starting to freeze over. I really envy you Southern boys!
How can you find that many Indians with a Compadre? What do you set the sense at? Do you ground balance slightly negative? Do you notch out pull tabs? Do you run in 4 tones? What value do get on the display for them Indians? I mean come on, that thing only has one knob, at least mine has two! The more I read about that $160 wonder, the more amazed I am! Congrats on a great Indian season!
How can you find that many Indians with a Compadre? What do you set the sense at? Do you ground balance slightly negative? Do you notch out pull tabs? Do you run in 4 tones? What value do get on the display for them Indians? I mean come on, that thing only has one knob, at least mine has two! The more I read about that $160 wonder, the more amazed I am! Congrats on a great Indian season!
Rainyday101 said:
you misunderstood me, I have 109 indians for all of 2013 but not with the compadre. I mainly use the etrac and hunt 100+ yr old houses most of the yr. In the fall I hit farm fields once crops are harvested. I bought the compadre to hit the real super heavy iron part of the sites I am hunting. I normally hit the site once over with etrac and if it gave up coins, I go back over the "iron patch" with the compadre because it is so fast in the iron and always seems to sniff out some keepers.
I just started using the compadre this fall and think I have 6 indians from the fields with it, the rest of the indians were found with the etrac. My compadre is the new model, 8" coil, one knob, I set my disc on the "N" of iron and dig everything above that.
Well that's kinda odd because the one I found was no more deeper than that and it was laying in the hole pretty flat.Now I was using my Silver Sabre II,maybe that might be why,not sure and I have been trying to get this figured out but I know the Compadre is ED 180 and have read different posts about the Silver Sabre II being ED 120 but than again some folks say they are ED180?Called Tesoro one time on it and got the answer "Does it really matter?'' Was a little upset with that response and just left it alone at that.Sorry for getting off topic.
Terry, the ED of ED-180 stands for Expanded Discrimination
Your Compadre has the ED-180 discrimination, which means at the lowest disc. setting (all-metal) it will signal on all metals into the iron range. The new Outlaw has ED-120 discrimination which means it has some discrimination built in at minimun disc. usually rejecting small nails. When you set your disc. at the "N" of IRON on the dial with your Compadre you are basically setting it up like the Outlaw at minimum discrimination. I like to set mine up with a real nail laying on the ground before I start hunting.
....The old Tesoros built prior to 1990 had something on the order of D 90, they would completely disc.out small nails and really small foil at minimum disc.. Those models would include the Inca, Royal Sabre, Silver Sabre, Golden Sabre and maybe a few others that I forgot without looking up.
....In 1990, Tesoro came out with two new models with the new ED-120 discrimination, the Bandido and Pantera. These two detectors opened up a lot of iron infested but good hunting areas because they would solve the problem of iron masking. These two detectors are still in popular demand for those folks that know what they can accomplish in the nasty iron plagued historical sites.
Your Compadre has the ED-180 discrimination, which means at the lowest disc. setting (all-metal) it will signal on all metals into the iron range. The new Outlaw has ED-120 discrimination which means it has some discrimination built in at minimun disc. usually rejecting small nails. When you set your disc. at the "N" of IRON on the dial with your Compadre you are basically setting it up like the Outlaw at minimum discrimination. I like to set mine up with a real nail laying on the ground before I start hunting.
....The old Tesoros built prior to 1990 had something on the order of D 90, they would completely disc.out small nails and really small foil at minimum disc.. Those models would include the Inca, Royal Sabre, Silver Sabre, Golden Sabre and maybe a few others that I forgot without looking up.
....In 1990, Tesoro came out with two new models with the new ED-120 discrimination, the Bandido and Pantera. These two detectors opened up a lot of iron infested but good hunting areas because they would solve the problem of iron masking. These two detectors are still in popular demand for those folks that know what they can accomplish in the nasty iron plagued historical sites.