I bought it.

[lazal]

Yup,got myself a Cibola and with no regrets.Took it to the beach where my Cortes just wanted to chatter and it was so quiet you could hear the sand flies hopping.A really nice piece of work,maybe a little bottom heavy but quite forgivable and I really do Like the super-tune setting.

Battery life seems fine,kind of concerned that running it in the orange with super-tune will greatly shorten the battery life,I always use headphones when searching so hopefully this will reduce the energy drain some,always carry a spare with me anyway,just in case.

My friend has a DeLeon,she loves it to death and it seems that I need to take a lesson from her as she searches so methodically I swear she'd find a needle in a haystack with it.I need to slow down the sweep some with the Cibola and perhaps fasten one of my legs to a ball and chain also for good measure?

Would like to hear how any other new users of the Cibola are getting on,I'm still new at this myself so any pointers would be much appreciated folks.

 

[birdman]

Congrats! I just got mine also. So far ,I really like it.I have about 3 hours of hunting under my belt so far .The pin point is taking me a little getting used to but for the price I think it is a hit. It is lite as a feather and has good iron rejection and good depth.What else can a man ask for? I am finding out that this machine will find very small pieces of metal(bb size).Today I dug several very small pieces of lead. It is nice not digging rusty nails !!! Good luck and HH

 

[wolfchief@direcway.com]

Really like my Cibola..have about 4 hours on it and 18 minie balls and musket balls, 3 carved lead, three hospital bullets, friction primer, 3 fired minies from a 150'x150' sight in Corinth, MS. Hits .22 rifle bullets at 8"+. A hunting buddy dug a Federal cuff I button with his Cibola after his buddy passed over it with a F-----66 saying it was trash.

 

[lazal]

Irish weather being what it is I haven't had much time out with it yet,looking forward to warmer\drier days and many good finds.

 

[gregl01]

I got out with mine for the first time this weekend. I'm having a hard time with signals, but definitely am impressed!! Didn't find much out in the woods but hit a woodchip playground for some clad. It sure works good on shallow coins!!!
HH
Greg

 

[wolfchief@direcway.com]

You'll go much deeper than shallow coins..like, you'll get silver beyond 14". I primarily hunt Civil WAr relics and dug .69 caliber round musket balls yesterday at 6" to 15" with very sharp signals and in Mississippi clay..got the small buckshot hits with great clarity at 8". Dug a cannon brass friction primer at 10". All this in a horse pasture. I also have the other two brothers V and T but am using the C most.

 

[lazal]

Quite a while back I buried an old English silver two shillings coin at 10" in my garden,both my friend's DeLeon and my Cortes picked it up easily.Tried it with the Cibola and it got it fine with the sen's at 10 with normal threshold setting.

I have noticed with my Cibola that a slower sweep speed works best for that solid two-way hit,when I then turned the threshold 3/4 ways up and still keeping the sen's at 10 it was still registering loud and clear with the coil now held a good 5-6 inches above the ground.

Hope this helps?

HH

 

[jsamsky]

The Cibola is a great machine but if you really want to max. the depth, turn the sensitivity up as high as you can, along with the threshold. I've never found it to be slow. I swing it pretty fast, but I could be missing stuff I guess. It's a great machine, and the battery life is good. A 9 volt in a six pack at Home Depot costs $10. That's about 7 cents an hour. Pretty good.

 

[froggy38383]

I upgraded to a Cibola in the fall. In comparison to the 1266x I had it is a fine detector. I have not used it a whole lot but I have made good finds with it already.

I think you will like it.

 

[christian_99]

As mentioned earlier to someone else, by no means am I an expert on this machine- however my finds in the last eight months with both the C and V have tripled as compared to ANY other machine I have owned in my life- the best settings depend on where you are digging. If you are hunting house sites, keep the disc low just below iron. DIG- and I repeat DIG some of the broken signals as what this might be is in that soil, the lower conductive materials are being discriminated out because of the bad soil. If it were GREAT soil, then no problem, but in certain area's the ground will cause the signal to be disc'ed out. So this means, at just below the tick mark IRON- dig those signals. Now if you are in a dump, or in the park- set the disc at just above iron and below nickle. Dig the "clean" sounds and you will dig some trash, but with every five pieces of trash you dig, depending upon where you are, you will also be digging up some good stuff. Now, if you KNOW there are old coins in an area, then lower the disc and just dig the clean sounds. Since you have done the field test that the instruction manual asks you to do, you will know that "clean" sound. Be patient- and give the machine time. Fortunately, someone pointed out this lesson to me and needless to say, I was humbled as I wrote up an initial field test on the C that gave it two thumbs down. Now eight months later- I would trade this or the V for any "bells and whistles" machine on the market. Give it time and it will repay you 1000%. Hope this helps!

 

[lazal]

Thanks for the info,noticed that my own finds have increased with the Cib,liking it more with each outing too.

Good luck and HH

 

[Mikel]

you can get 9.6v rechargeable batteries from Thomas Distributing. They are NiMh batteries ands work great with a long run time.