My first outing with my :fisher:CZ5

[Aces High 333]

Today was more of a getting to know the CZ5 away from my test garden. I wanted to do a wet sand hunt but the tide was high so I settled for the regular dry sand beach. GB was not a problem. I did start out in salt mode and did very well. I was getting fooled by rusted bottle caps as 5c indication. But switching to normal mode the square pull tabs would ring as 5c. So I'm going to try that when I get a 5c indication switch modes and see if the id changes or stays at 5c. Over all a good experience today. I ran mostly Disc=0, and Sense=5. Got great depth, can't wait to try it on wet sand. The 5" coil is on my radar right now.

How many of you guys have the CZ5 as your main detector???

I am going to have to sell one detector. If I can get down to one that would be nice but keeping a back up would be good. I imagine I would have to get the other two coils to be versatile.

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[ElginTim]

Dig them tabs man! Found my best gold in the foil/tab cats with my CZ's. When I was had my CZ5 and CZ7, both read most buffalo nickels as in the foil cat.
The rare exception was the deep (8" plus) excellent condition buffs and the very near surface (2" or less) buffs. I would often get a foil/nick cat bounce on shallower buffs also.

These days my main detector(s) are my CZ-20 and my F70. Here's a pic of what they got for me this week. Doing some sidewalk tearups, I start with the CZ-20 (8" coil) and score the easy kills with it, then go back through with the F70 (5" DD coil) for the slim pickings like the two IH's yesterday (1868 and 1893) and the 1889 seated dime.

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

The CZ 7apro use to be my main beach detector. Any CZ is a killer machine on wet sand beaches. Pick up the 10.5" coil and you've got a great combo going for you. You're in for some fun this summer.

Good Luck and my your scoop always be filled with gold

 

[Aces High 333]

I dig everything on wet sand but mainly I was seeing how the discriminate works and different readings between the different modes. I went through the forum and someone did say I'll take about 10 hours to get a good understanding of the unit.
You had a good haul. How long did you hunt?? Finds cleaned up........ Heyyyy there's a bird in the bottom right picture. Did he help???
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[ElginTim]

The bird was sitting on top of the spot where I found those two IH's together. Right between them in fact. Spent an hour or two each day this week hitting the sidewalk work as it opened up but also got a little totlot clad in there.

I'd argue that you can't learn all the nuances of the machine in 10 hours. All three of my CZ's have picked up silver dimes on edge and read them as foil, old military buttons as zinc or tabs also. IH's can read from foil to high coin. Multi-coin spills, anyone's guess on how they're gonna ring up, let alone a pile of coins. Found a few rolls of mems once in one spot. Sounded like high-coin trash and might as well have been, as long as it took me to recover all of them.

That's why learning to size the target, once you're fairly sure of the depth, is so important and that is done in pinpoint mode very easily.

Dig 100 targets from each category and you'll be in good shape to start calling them as they beep. Keep a wheelbook or log of what and why you decided to dig or not dig for targets, then dig those targets you left behind. I do argue against leaving iron disc'ed in, you can always flip down to it and see where the target is reacting with the other categories and the iron cat when undecided.

Lastly, sometimes lifting the coil can reduce the field in the depth range of a given target and thereby increase your target separation ability. So what you read as a bent nail, which is a hard target to beat, can be distinguished from the barber dime co-located with it using all metal or pinpoint modes.

 

[Aces High 333]

I agree, can't learn all nuances in 10 hours but a good basic understanding would be nice. I'm eager to get back out again. Will check tides this weekend and see if I can get into the wet sand. If not I'll may try the blanket area or a local park. I'm really not wanting to hit high trash areas yet. I did do a volley ball area and did miss using the smaller coil like I have on the 3300.

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