Just bought a used Coinstrike-Hope it is a good partner to my F70

[gates21]

Got a good price on it from Richard at Backwoods detectors.
for that price, can't go wrong...and if I don't like it i'll sell it

 

[cdog46]

Gates11-
I'm in the same boat. I bought a very nice coin strike from some one on this forum. I have had MANY detectors over the last forty years off and on. Sov, EX. CZ7, CZ6 Garrett-argh-. I have only had the Coin Strike out once & used the factory presets on a saltwater beach which would not be ideal conditions for those settings.

However-I really know this beach-it's a giant test garden I have worked it so many times in 25 years. As I just got saying in another post. The coinstrike gives many hints about what it seeing in the sand. So.........when I heard a particular tone and a number-I immediately knew the machine was falsing.

How did I know? Well I am familiar with detectors but this one precisely-NO! But what do I know? The ground over which I am using the detector. I am therefore in an easy position to learn what the Coin Strike is telling me. Part of what it was telling me the other day was- +12 in damp salt sand meant the machine need to be readjusted.

My take on this machine based on little time used. Excellent capabilities just waiting to be milked by the person willing to learn what this machine will tell you. And it speaks to you in many tangible and subtle ways.

A detector is an aid-a tool. This detector is an excellent tool and while this is a guess on my part-for me it will be as good as aCZ6 and they are very good. So its about the operator-NOT the machine.

 

[Bill Ladd]

It's a very complex & quirky unit that needs several hours in the field before thoughts of selling. Chock full of great features for the current prices they go for (a steal) & should be the perfect compliment to the F70. You have the f70 at around 13khz & great on mid-tone relics like buttons & bullets & also gold. Then you have a C$ that's 7 khz & designed to find what it was named for....coins. It loves round, high conductive items & was enginered to find them. In fact, you will see very quickly that it "locks" onto coins very well & usually a coin will not jump around in number like it does with say your F70 & others even sweeping from all angles.
I went coinshooting with mine the other day with the 5" coil & had a blast. Dug everything that "stuck" over +20. Only 1 target I dug was NOT a coin.....but it was a nice conductive brass ring. The C$ is powerful & great fun once you take the time to learn it all.....
HH,
Bill