Some new vids testing the 8" coil Compadre...

[REVIER]

Someone on another forum noticed I was curious about this new one compared to my 7" coil model and when he ordered a new one for himself he had it sent to me first so I could do some hunting and testing for a few weeks.
This guy doesn't know me, but he still trusted me enough to do this which blows my mind.
The people in this hobby are just some of the most amazing, giving people I have ever come across.

I will write up a review on my experiences with this new unit, but in the meantime I did get some video of some hunts and yesterday I did some air testing on some jewelry and a few other things.

This testing was done inside my home, my wifi was turned off but 5 other neighbors wifi was not, and I have learned the depth you get with air testing can be totally different than what you actually can experience in the field.
When you add in all the EMI problems inside of our homes the depth can actually be cut back quite a bit which is what I believe happened here.
Still, I was pretty impressed with the depth I got on a few items, and as a jewelry hunter and knowing most everything great I have ever found has usually been 4" or less in depth, that depth was not the important thing to me in those tests...the ability to get a solid "dig me" signal, was.
This is stock right out of the factory.
If I owned it I would definitely get inside the thing and turn that sense up to just below the chatter point so I believe that would add another inch or two to the depth of this fine unit, and I probably would have gotten more depth if I did this same testing outdoors in an area with no EMI.

Be that as it may, here are a few vids on my air testing, and one about it's ability to double beep and find targets right next to big iron in tot lots and fence poles.
My 7" Compadre is great at this too, I have found many targets next to big metal in tot lots in my area at sites where someone has cleaned out the rest of these lots...but they couldn't get near the big metal because they evidently were not using Compadres.
Good to know even with this large coil this new Compadre can do this too...if you swing at exactly the right speed.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIl2qCjsE8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYmVdgcybUQ[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vh2gz_7jeg[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWzTo4GCak[/video]

 

[GunnarMN]

On the indoor tests it looks like you where not in the center of the coil when passing the targets, but it may have hust been the camera, on the post i usally swing right at the pole to get the dubble beep , will have to try your way as well , thanks for the videos,

 

[REVIER]

On the indoor tests it looks like you where not in the center of the coil when passing the targets, but it may have hust been the camera, on the post i usally swing right at the pole to get the dubble beep , will have to try your way as well , thanks for the videos,

You are exactly right.
I was down near the ruler and the bottom of the coil.
If this was all done in the center I probably would have had a bit more depth.
Like I said, this was more about getting a solid tone than pure depth, anyway.
There are a couple of new owners of this unit that have posted they are going to do a much more scientific depth test on this thing very soon.

 

[tabman]

Yep! Not having the targets centered on the coil was really bugging me.

Nice videos. Thanks for sharing.

tabman

 

[mojotrout]

Thanks Revier, very informative. I have a 7" Compadre I got for my daughter. Im starting to think I should be using it more in those tot lots instead of my other options...

 

[GunnarMN]

its a lot deeper for shure i would say it would have hit at 8" no problem

 

[REVIER]

Thanks Revier, very informative. I have a 7" Compadre I got for my daughter. Im starting to think I should be using it more in those tot lots instead of my other options...

I have the 7" coil model and I love it!
Got it used from Skiwhiz and I am at least the third owner because he bought it used, too.
Cost me $130 and it has found me close to $1000 in clad and jewelry in the 21 months I have used it, and I don't use it all the time because I have others in the arsenal.
For tot lots there is nothing better, but honestly I have found way more and much greater targets out in the grass areas of my parks and other sites than all the tot lots I have ever hunted put together.
Also, not only does it cover a decent area pretty efficiently in wide open areas, (or at least it "feels" less frustrating to hunt these then if I would be using the smaller sniper coils), but in real trashy sites I love to hunt the most like around picnic pavilions and basketball courts, this 7" coil is just excellent at threading between the trash just like a sniper would be.
The 8" unit was used at a pretty trashy site a few times and that one seems just about as good at doing this as my 7" and I assume the 5.75" coil unit.

Below are just a few of my better Compadre finds.
Not one of them was found anywhere near a tot lot, either.

 

[mojotrout]

Thanks Revier, very informative. I have a 7" Compadre I got for my daughter. Im starting to think I should be using it more in those tot lots instead of my other options...

I have the 7" coil model and I love it!
Got it used from Skiwhiz and I am at least the third owner because he bought it used, too.
Cost me $130 and it has found me close to $1000 in clad and jewelry in the 21 months I have used it, and I don't use it all the time because I have others in the arsenal.
For tot lots there is nothing better, but honestly I have found way more and much greater targets out in the grass areas of my parks and other sites than all the tot lots I have ever hunted put together.
Also, not only does it cover a decent area pretty efficiently in wide open areas, (or at least it "feels" less frustrating to hunt these then if I would be using the smaller sniper coils), but in real trashy sites I love to hunt the most like around picnic pavilions and basketball courts, this 7" coil is just excellent at threading between the trash just like a sniper would be.
The 8" unit was used at a pretty trashy site a few times and that one seems almost as good at doing this as my 7" and I assume the 5.75" coil unit.

Below are just a few of my better Compadre finds.
Not one of them was anywhere near a tot lot, either.

that pocket watch is cool! I must admit, although I do hunt the tot lots found in bigger parks, they are never the primary reason I am there. I have only found clad, junk jewelry, toys, and one silver pennant in them. I do spend some time in them though, as they are too easy to hunt to pass up and Im always seeing moms putting sunscreen on their kids and pushing them on the swings and catching them as they come down the slides...they gotta lose jewelry at some point, right?....

 

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that pocket watch is cool! I must admit, although I do hunt the tot lots found in bigger parks, they are never the primary reason I am there. I have only found clad, junk jewelry, toys, and one silver pennant in them. I do spend some time in them though, as they are too easy to hunt to pass up and Im always seeing moms putting sunscreen on their kids and pushing them on the swings and catching them as they come down the slides...they gotta lose jewelry at some point, right?....

Love that watch...I knew it was silver the second I pulled it out of the ground.
The Elgin movement was dated to 1909 when you trace back the numbers you can still see, but this case could be much older because they would outlast the movements and jewelers used to replace the movements when they wore out or broke in the days before disposable wristwatches.
Man, did I search for the rest of this case hard when I found this thing in a park, but never did find anything else in the area.

Here is some info to date these Elgin movements in case anyone ever finds one.
http://elginwatches.org/help/serial_number_info.html#unrelated

I have found plenty of clad in tot lots, some other cool stuff too like foreign coins and once even a Canadian Loony right next to a huge piece of iron and 4" deep in the chips that every other hunter missed every time, but I have found only found one really great thing in these lots.
That was my first 14k gold ring with some CZ's.
It was crushed and missing some stones but I found it with the Vaquero just behind a baby swing where some mother was probably pushing their kid and lost the thing and never noticed.
I still search all tot lots I come across to this day because you never know when lightning will strike twice, and in tot lots the Compadre is the best lightning rod for this application that I have ever used.