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Out of all the CZ's...which do you fellers' think is the deadliest on nickels?:thumbup:

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Hotcz70

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I have some sites that still have a few lower conductor hits left after pounding them with my Explorers.

I'm looking to add another CZ to my stable for nickel hits only.

What's your honest favorite for this out of the CZ's.

I have had and used them all except for the 3-D...and remember doing well with nickels...but I want to know your favorite.
 
Hey Bryce, here's nickel CZ experiences of note:

Sidewalk work, clay base, '83 shield at 6" on edge in thick clay Read round tab with my CZ-20 8" coil. Turned the disc up a notch and it became a very infrequent foil or square tab signal.

Buff in the river, under 8" of goose muck and soft sediments but it still had great finish on it most likely from lack of oxygen. Read clear, solid nickel on my CZ-7 with the 10" coil.

'23 Buff at 8" in trashy park with same machine, 8" coil again clear nickel signal and a highly detailed coin.

Too many buffs to count with my CZ5 but almost all read foil consistently. All the shields and V's I've dug have been clear nickel signals with the exception of a few slanted or on edge for all the CZ's. Been lucky to find those places in the park where the others ignored that target range in the past.

War nickels are all clear nickel reads in my experience also with all three CZ models I've had/have.

Since I hit a lot of sidewalk/parkway construction sites it seems their signal gets dumbed down by the matrix. So you gotta dig the low tones in those areas.

So in that park ground, look for those foil signals that pinpoint sizing and depth closely resemble coin-sized targets and you can't go wrong. Whichever one of your CZ's get you the best info with that method is the one to use. I believe my CZ5's with the 8" coils have been best at that.
 
I've owned them all and currently own a CZ-6a. The absolute best on nickels was the CZ-7a pro. Almost 95 % of the time it read a nickel sure enough that is what I recovered. My current CZ-6a does the nickel foil bounce on deep nickels The extra tone on the CZ-70 Pro just made things more confusing and the same with the 3D. If you want those nickels use the 7a Pro because even at depth it was highly accurate.


Shane
 
As CZ3D is set up to catch the lower reading older nickles in the enhanced mode( Buffalo-Shield-V-) and deep Jefferson which will read lower if your after older nickles the CZ3D excells.
Conventional CZ will read some of these but many are a foil to nickle bounce.
If your after current Jefferson nickles never saw much difference and used every CZ model ever made.
I feel the problem is the area your hunting and the trash it contains that mimics nickles as some areas 9 out of 10 times its a nickle and move to another trashier location and the odds drop dramatically. Do remember if you get that foil to nickle bounce dig as just might be the nicest diamond ring you ever found with a conventional CZ..
 
CZ7aPro. My 7 was the quicksilver that took all the double A batteries.

I sold it...then went to the cz70pro...but really got no use from the 4th tone.

If anyone knows of a nice 7aPro for $300 to $350...please slip me a line.
 
Any CZ is an excellent unit...As far as the CZ7A pro same as the CZ70 Pro without the extra tone..

Have to say never could get the 70 much above 4 sens. wise and the 7A from 6-8 sens. wise so imagine sens. parameters were changed in the CZ70 pro...but either are deep hunting with a sens. that keeps unit stable...so the CZ7A pro is in reallity no deeper in 6-8 sens. than a stable 4 on the CZ70 pro...If this sounds like Greek I don't make em just use em....
 
I must agree.... After most of the units out there... CZ 5, CZ6a, CZ7a, CZ7aPro, CZ3D,and CZ water units... etc.. The CZ7a pro is my favorite!... Have the 8" and sold the 10" in favor of the F12 Sunray! DEEP!..You bet! Nickles.. always!.Grab one on sale!!! Great wader too!
 
I think I want to give the 7A Pro a shot if I can find one at a decent price. Should be lighter than my cz7 with all the double A's:biggrin:

The fourth tone on the 70 did nothing for me...but I must say I was always able to run the sensitivity at 8 on it...the CZ5...and the cz7.

I'm in IL though so our soils might be different. I just never felt I got the depth I needed with the sens at 6 or below. With it at 8 though...wow was it a depth demon.

Thanks for the input...and if you hear of a nice one...please let me know.
 
Surprising as it may seem although the rod mount CZ7-CZ7A was a tad heavier it felt lighter due to better ergonomics..Indeed both of two aforementioned were the best ergonomic CZ's by far but couldn't be hipmounted to use the larger 10.5 coil.. Unfortunately both the CZ7 and CZ7A rodmount just were not populiar and enjoyed just a short run for Fisher replaced by the CZ7A pro.

I know of 4.. CZ70's..3 from other states that became unstable after 4 sens. and the newest CZ3D ran best between 4 and 5...so one wonders is it the soil or different tuning..

Indeed will be the first to let you know if I hear of a nice CZ7A pro as I used several different ones over the years and they served me well..

Of course the CZ7 used batteries in storage and had a slow pinpoint which was corrected by the rod mount CZ7A.

Honestly the extra tone did nothing for me on the CZ 70 pro either so good luck finding a nice CZ7A pro....
 
have to be honest!..the 4th tone on the cz-70 did nothing for me either!
all it did was find "screw caps!"..never found anything "decent" in the 4th tone facet!

(h.h.!)
j.t.
 
Sort of a wake up call in real old areas as many older coins, tokens, buckles, gold coins and even large low Kt. gold rings come in this area. and was later incorporated in the CZ3D. Imagine it was a good idea but in most cases met with limited success...
 
i believe that's true dan!..cz-70 was,and IS a very popular detector,but if memory serves,
never really heard of anyone having a great deal of success with the 4th tone!..fisher posted a list
of all the targets that would "hit" in that facet,and the list was quite impressive,if i recall!
i believe one would would "probably" do just as well,and would be well served with the cz-7a!
just sayin!
 
Just dig square tab......All that was done was square tab was renamed relic and a fourth tone added to this facet..

Perhaps it woke some up with the fourth tone hitting this facet but all in all a marketting ploy...do you realize the CZ and XLT came out at around the same time and the CZ had seven different versions. XLT had a minor change in relic mode 1.1 version and to classify and group their detectors became an E Model before becoming discontinued this year but was always just an XLT.
Seems to be the norm as Minelab has done the same with four or five versions of the Explorer. Perhaps this info not applicable to this forum but just calling it as it is...
 
yeah!..i meant "square tabs" i indicated "screw caps!" my mistake!
in any event,STILL a "crackerjack" coin sniper!..bit on the heavy side if you hunted with the control box on the stem!
i "always" hip mounted mine,and a world of difference in weight,AND balance!

(h.h.!)
j.t.
 
Just hunt in discriminate mode 0 and dig all repeatable high and mid tones...and the low tone/mid tone bounces if you want to not miss any gold.

I don't ever look at my meter...hence no need for a 4th tone ( I don't have a 4 tone CZ anyway since I have the 6a's). If I really just want to coin hunt, all I do is dig the repeatable high tones only.

JC
 
"classic" way to hunt,and by the looks of it,a very well balanced unit!
when i had my 70,i pretty much hunted the same way,paying careful attention to
the nickle/foil "bounces,and,of course diggin' all "high" tones!..great shooter,and
extremely well built!

(h.h.!)
j.t.
 
I am with you on just digging the high tones especially if your looking for deep silver...Any ideas on modding the pinpoint button to the top as to me pinpointing with VCO uses a lot of battery power but tells me a lot before I dig....anyone else care to chime in?
 
I am not that electronically or technically savy to do a pin point mod like that, but I hear what you are saying. Some kind of trigger pin point would be cool.

This is mainly my beach set up, so I don't use the pin point and just dig all the mid and high tones.

I am always on the look out for a nice, low price CZ to try a mod like that.
 
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