Oldie but goodie...any thoughts..

[Dan-Pa.]

Freedom 3 coin commander over 20 years old has many of the ideas of new units....any thoughts on this unit...

 

[Uncle Willy]

It's still a good machine and will hold its own with the current stuff out there.

Bill

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Do remember older machines on the whole were heavier without the bells and whistles but had excellent (audio variances) whch new units don't have and supply a lot of info relative your target...Next time you hunt a local yard with a new fangled unit...rehunt it with an oldie but goodie and just might surprise the heck out of you.
Certainly can't beat a trained ear and a good set of headphones to get what the other guys miss...

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I'm a sound guy from the old school Don't depend much on all this digital stuff.

Bill

 

[dirt doctor]

Do remember older machines on the whole were heavier without the bells and whistles but had excellent (audio variances) whch new units don't have and supply a lot of info relative your target...Next time you hunt a local yard with a new fangled unit...rehunt it with an oldie but goodie and just might surprise the heck out of you.
Certainly can't beat a trained ear and a good set of headphones to get what the other guys miss...

Dan ,
I recently picked up a Freedom 3 Coin Commander and hit one of my old heavily hunted spots and found a repectable number of targets with it . I was very impressed with the audio variances and how you could fine tune the settings . It is a bit heavy but it has a nice balanced feel to it and is very solidly built . Four knobs , a trigger switch and a bell tone that will get your attention .Personally the older I get the more I am tiring of bells , whistles , hype , falsing , fragile components ,unreliable service departments and an overabundance of " iffy"coin signals that turn out to be very deep rusty nails pretty much ALL of the time . Like the old saying goes ," Many a fine tune has been played on an old fiddle "

 

[Gene]

Used a Freedom 3 years ago when they were still in production.
I remember thinking it was a very good coin machine in the parks
and sports fields I hunted. Had excellent pinpointing too. Ended
up trading it in to get the latest and greatest at the time. Can't even
remember what I traded for now. Sure remember the Freedom 3 though.
That should tell you something. Good detector with solid performance.
Good hunting to you Dan !

 

[slingshot]

I have one-it looks like a hatchet whacked a few places out of it. I won the club speed hunt with it-still have the first place trophy and it is a prize possession of mine. I learned to pinpoint by the "magic eye" method in motion and was so fast with it I could usually pinpoint on the return sweep. I found out that the best setting was to set it where the pulltabs weren't completely rejected but would kinda give a "thunk" sound. It would hit silver at great depths set this way. The competition hunt was set up this way: We hunted three fields-each field having different colored pennies. You had to get a certain combination of colors in each field and then move on to the next field. I was so fast I was in the third field while everyone else were STILL in the first field. I finished BEFORE anyone got out of the first field! I sat in the winner's circle for 30 minutes before it was over! Yeah-I definitely STILL have mine. It is not as deep as the Ace on nickels and the lower foil-nickel range- but SMOKES the coins in the high coin area. Oh yeah, Dan-I got one.