looking at a CZ

[dewcon4414]

Im looking at getting a new detector. From what ive been reading, the CZ's work like the whites DFX... am i wrong? How well does the CZs do on the beach? With the high kHz, can they be used to locate gold? How do they compare with the Minelab Sov GT?

 

[peg leg red]

Have a fellow hunter in our club that sold his cz20 because of parts and the danger of no parts for getting it repaired,, He went with the minelab GT and has found a lot of stuff on beach.. I am using a 1280x and am thinking about buying another but not getting rid of my old machine,, Its great in dry and med. wet sand but chattery in suds.. wish I knew a solution because i love this beeper.. ( any solution Vlad ??) .. I am looking at the GT because its geting good reports from some of my beach hunting buddies...
..........Peg Leg Red

 

[dewcon4414]

Also read the reviews that said the CZ3D wouldnt dis Zinc and was very difficult to pickup nickels. If the CZ pickup gold, and i assume it does because of the 15 kHz, then it sounds like a good all around machine like the MXT.

 

[Ron Lord]

Ok, I have a CZ-20 and a CZ3D. I call Fisher about my CZ-20 and they said they have plunty of parts .Withmy cz-20 last year I found over 90 pices of Gold and for my cz3d the only problem I have with it is ,you have to bring a big shovel with you because it go's very deep.

 

[Anonymous]

The 3D won't dis' out Zincs, as it moves Zinc cents (and IH cents) up to the High Coin slot. Also, newer, modern Nickels that haven't been in the ground very long will register as a pulltab. Old Nickels will register as Nickel.

In Salt mode, the detector acts exactly like a CZ-5 in Salt mode. You can Disc' out Zincs, and modern Nickels come in at Nickel, and the older Nickels start to fall down to Foil.

Airtesting doesn't really work with the 3D, as it's designed to search for signals in a dirt matrix, and doing an airtest changes the resulting conductivity a bit.

HH from Allen in MI

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Dewcon,I only hunt on land.The group that I search with have a couple of guys with DFX'S and the CZ3D holds it own or surpasses these units in the field.The Sovereign's are heavy unbalanced more difficult to pinpoint with,their id meters add more weight and are primitive.I haven't used the Sovereign on the beach,but I have heard this is where the Minelab works best.On land I think the CZ3D works better than the Sovereign's. HH Ron

 

[jim tn]

I've been running the cz3d for 2 year's now and I'm finding plenty of nickels and have recovered 27 gold items, all from ground. Fresh water beaches, it works great. In my opinion, it is a great detector.

HH