Hey Old Timers! How do you work a old Campass...

[Dang]

Judge 2 for hunting? I'm hoping anyone who owned and used one is still alive and can
tell me the steps to setting this old classic up for a hunt, cause this ain't no turn-on-and-go machine.
Thank you.
Dang

 

[silversmith]

I bought a Judge 2 when they first came out. One of the first and one of the best discriminators. Are you the technical type? If you'll notice, the auto mode is worthless. it zeros way to slow. It just goes boing, boing boing! Have you noticed, there's a switch that when engaged, zeros for the manual mode? Next time you're detecting, hold that switch in that position and detect that way. You may need to sweep a little faster, but you'll find that's the speed the auto position should be. I rewired the detector, bought a small toggle switch to take advantage of this feature and remoted it to the front of the handle grip. If you wire it right, toggle down will be discriminate, middle will be the new auto, and up will be all metals non-auto for pin pointing. My kid still uses it today. Enjoy your Judge2.......Oh, if I remember right, if you only use headphones (you should anyway) you can eliminate one of those heavy battery packs. You'll have to experiment so see which one!

Hey Dude, use this info at your own risk (attorneys cost to much these days)

 

[Rick(ND)]

I used to use one and did great with it. The one I had was one of the first ones before they had the auto tune on them, so we had to push that button on the handle a lot to re tune it. I still have one my late Dad had and his was one of the hip mountable ones with the auto tune on it. Being it is over 30 years old it still works, but not the best as I am sure many of the capacitor are dried up. If yours is working correctly they will not reject a pull tab if i remember right. When you turned them on you have to hold the black button on the hand grip in and adjust the tuner knob so you have a slight threshold then release the button. Now that it is tuned you would have a starting point so when you lowered the detector to the ground to the height you would detect you would push the button and released it and have the slight hum and start swinging away and not bringing the coil up or the threshold would raise too. Threshold would drift a lot so you would be always pushing the button to re tune it. When the auto ones came out it made it so much nicer as it would adjust the threshold if you raised or lowered the coil, but it was slow in doing so and we still would use the button to help it re tune faster. Back in those day these were no motion detectors, but with auto tune you had to keep the coil moving or shut off the auto tune.
My Judge 2 and my Relic Mag pro and Relic mag 7 got me a lot of nice silver.

 

[Dang]

This kind reminds me of when i first started to learn to drive a car with a clutch.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Dang,they were a great detector for their time.The Compass had that sweet spot and noise for those deep silver coins(3-4 inches usually).Someone probably has an old manual somewhere?My brother wanted to know if I wanted dads old Judge ll when I was in Virginia for a visit, I probably should have took it.LOL my brother found four Seated Dimes when that unit when it was almost new. Good Luck Ron