Jaw dropping Compadre find....

[REVIER]

Not because of what it it but because of the size of this thing.
A super solid clear and loud signal with the knob at 3:00 and exactly the same as just about every zincoln I have ever dug.
I really did expect a shallow zincoln....when this tiny thing popped up from about 1-2" deep instead I was dumbfounded.

I dropped it on my scale and it is so lightweight the scale couldn't even deal with it.
After a few seconds a reading finally pops up.

.3 grams.
Not 3 grams...POINT 3 grams.

I have never dug a ring so small and thin like this ever before junk or good...and this one happens to be silver for sure.

Here is a pic and also a pic of it sitting on a dime.
It is no bigger or thicker than that coin.
Amazing signal I got on something this small, but I have had my Compadre for about 3 years now and my jaw has dropped many times in the past so I guess not so surprising after all.
I should be used to it by this time.

 

[tabman]

That really is a tiny silver ring that you got there. I pays to dig those rotten stinking zinc pennies. Nice going!

tabman

 

[ken ward]

I seen this on the other heading. Like I said before. So many people just laugh at the compadre. They dont know what it can do. It will find some of the smallest gold items. I like that tiny ring... KEN

 

[Dirtdigger33]

Nice looking ring Revier. I don't hesitate to dig anything the Compadre screams at and I have had the privilege of digging many items I would have deemed as trash with a tid detector. I have not had a tid detector for almost 2 years now. I have been detecting for 5 years now and have owned my compadre for 3 years. In its 1st year and a half it paid for itself many times over with what I found. It continues to be my go to detector and is always packed in my car waiting for the next 30 minute to 1 hour hunt. To all of us with sore jaws from grinning so much at this little detectors amazing ability to find the smallest of targets and some if the best finds ever I say hunt on and continue to smile until it hurts with what it can find

 

[REVIER]

Nice looking ring Revier. I don't hesitate to dig anything the Compadre screams at and I have had the privilege of digging many items I would have deemed as trash with a tid detector. I have not had a tid detector for almost 2 years now. I have been detecting for 5 years now and have owned my compadre for 3 years. In its 1st year and a half it paid for itself many times over with what I found. It continues to be my go to detector and is always packed in my car waiting for the next 30 minute to 1 hour hunt. To all of us with sore jaws from grinning so much at this little detectors amazing ability to find the smallest of targets and some if the best finds ever I say hunt on and continue to smile until it hurts with what it can find

I love my Compadre.
Bought it from Skiwhiz used, the older 7" coil which I heard is the "hottest" of all the models and this thing's sense is turned up to the max.
I have been learning the F70 all season so it doesn't get out much, but a guy on another forum bought an 8" model after hemming and hawing for months and posting about a dozen what should I buy threads concerning several detectors driving everyone crazy because he couldn't make a decision.
It was finally down to the F2 or the Compadre and the C. was the one he just ordered and started hunting with.
I wanted to show him he made a good decision, and finding silver was the goal on this hunt.
When jewelry is in my sight I can think of no other detector that I want in my hands for this task, although it is great at finding anything.
Fun is this thing's middle name, too.

 

[tabman]

The Compadre is sprinkled with magic dust before being shipped out. That's why it works so well.

tabman

 

[hatpin]

Another piece for the silver pile.

 

[REVIER]

That really is a tiny silver ring that you got there. I pays to dig those rotten stinking zinc pennies. Nice going!

tabman

Sometimes I think about leaving these things in the ground till next time, but they are coins and they do add up over time so I rarely leave one undug.
Low end zinc can be big gold class rings, but they come in at about that same 3:00 area on my Tesoros as zinc cents do.
Once you get some time in I found these large gold rings have a special sound that is like no other on Tesoros and that is the one sound I hope to hear every time I hunt with them.

There is anotherr reason I find I must dig these stupid zinccolns no matter what.
2 targets came in at a zinc signal for me in the past that I found using the F2 with VDI numbers available...and those numbers were very close to exactly the same as a common zinc cent but they were not coins.
One was a thick and beautiful men's Figaro silver bracelet and that was a 61 on the F2...a dead on zinc cent signal.
That was a surprise.
The second came in a bit higher at about a 64 but still in the zinc range and I figured it was going to be either a large piece of can slaw or maybe a token or a key.
I was correct on one of those guesses, it was a token but no ordinary one.
It happened to be a very old and rare merchants token...only 5 or less are known to exist, I guess I dug up a 6th one.
This is still one of my most treasured finds of all time.

I am the hunter I am today because of all my experiences I have had since I started.
Because of these 2 non zincoln finds I find I must dig all zinc signals nowadays or the what ifs might kill me.
Thanks to thinking like that I was willing to dig this tiny silver ring and not pass it by so I never have regrets digging zincolns to this day and never will.

 

[hatpin]

I love tokens , medals.... When you find one you have something hardly anyone else has .

 

[Hombre]

Nice little silver ring...

You will find that with more time digging zinc penny range targets, they are not the only targets in that range of conductivity. Sure, you will find a lot of aluminum screw on Pepsi bottle caps and rotten zincs. But every now and then you will find an Indian head penny, a small silver ring like you did or find a rare Allis Chalmers antique watch fob like I did.

.. Many years ago I was hunting a vacant lot that had an old house removed, I was using my old Tesoro Toltec ll and it was handling the square nails really well and I was finding some good stuff. I came upon a 'loud' shallow zinc penny range target that the the depth meter said was 4 inches deep, I dug down to about six inches and the signal was getting louder, I thought it was junk and covered it back up. Then, not ten feet away, I dig a Barber dime at around 6 inches deep, I thought darn what did I just leave behind. So I went back to the 'loud' zinc penny target and dug down to about 8 or 9 inches and came up with the Allis Chalmers tractor watch fob, about a $100 find.

 

[kaolinwasher]

this is an easy thing for Cpdry. Glad to see you like it

 

[machineman]

The last target I dug that said pulltab/zinc turned out to be a heavy 925 chain, balled up 2" down. I almost passed it up with my gold bug pro. When i got home I tried my compadre on it. I have no doubt that I would have dug it with the compadre.

 

[slingshot]

He He! Looks like we're gonna start another cult thread here! Am I still the music director?

 

[REVIER]

He He! Looks like we're gonna start another cult thread here! Am I still the music director?

Sure!
Directing only...no singing, please.

 

[ken ward]

I wish they would have started the CHURCH OF THE COMPADRE here. This is "THE TESORO FORUM" I just wonder how many people never read it??? KEN

 

[REVIER]

I wish they would have started the CHURCH OF THE COMPADRE here. This is "THE TESORO FORUM" I just wonder how many people never read it??? KEN

After I bought mine I was super impressed, but I started that thread soon after one day as a joke one day when I was bored...kinda took on a life of its own after that.
The sentiment was totally real and 3 years later that has not changed...I believe in this thing even more than ever as a matter of fact.
Many seem to know about it, I see new hunters using the exact words "joining the church" on many different forums all over the web when they decide to buy one.

70,720 views, 756 fun replies in this thing so I think it is a good read when you have nothing better to do.

Can't link to other forums here, but here is my original post that started it all for those that missed it...




CHURCH OF THE COMPADRE




What is with all you guys?
Ahh...I get it, now!

For a long time this has been considered close to a toy, not a real detector like the big boys on the block.
Something you buy if you only have enough money for a beginners unit, or for a child.

Sure, a few had them, and tried to tell the world that they were more valuable than it's price would lead people to believe, but it mostly stayed a little secret that only it's owners really ever truly knew.
The secret that it would find things, valuable things that the other machines with more knobs and buttons and glorious screens could mostly only dream about...and it would find them easily.

Not all of the owners knew this secret, either.
Some bought them, found a few coins and maybe a couple of nice things, but never really got to know the Compadre as a friend and a partner, or understood the true nature of this meek and mild Clark Kent of a detector, never realizing the Superman like senses it really possessed.
So into the closet it went, replaced by a newer and shinier replacement that held the promise of riches and coins and the most valuable of metals...and it was forgotten.

Now, a resurgence, an awakening, and far and wide the word is finally out, a secret no more.
Rejoice!
Longtime closet dwellers are again seeing the light of day, new machines are being ordered, and this time, thanks to an enlightened few disciples like Slingshot and Skiwhiz, and Tabdog, the Way of the Compadre, a new religion is being born before our eyes.

Spread the word, brothers and sisters, use your Minelabs and Fishers and Whites and Garretts, but unless you also have a Compadre in the arsenal you might never truly know of the riches that lie beneath our feet!

 

[slingshot]

As soon as my cam is working again, I'm gonna send a pic of a TINY gold earring I EYEBALLED while using another brand. It would not pick it up and the
Compadre had to be set at the "i" in iron to get it in mineralized ground. On regular mineralization, it gave a smooth signal, in the bad ground, it broke up slightly. BUT it did pick it up!

 

[bowser]

I joined the church a couple of months ago, I love mine it always finds something, you never go home empty handed.

 

[Lakota]

Tab.. Rev knows all about those rotten zinc signals.. Do believe I have drooled over more than one of his fat gold ring finds that rung up in the zinc range.

And let's not forget those pesky Indian head pennies.

Congrats or Uber chunky ring Rev,

Lakota