staying out of the deep end with compadre:detecting:

[cladcanada]

I have noticed that "sometimes" one of the first things people comment about is the depth ability of a machine and they would follow up with something like too bad your little compadre is not a deep machine (but not on this great forum).

So i guess i am wondering am i the only one that hunts clad and jewellery and not the deep stuff ???.

I really don,t have any desire to find deep silvers or relics at 12 inches+ ,old coins are great but I'm not looking to dig deep holes searching for em .I don't feel at all at a disadvantage using a compadre ,if anything sometimes just the opposite . That really messes up some folks they just don't "get "Tesoros" then they try and sell me what there using . No thanks I'm really happy with what i am using i tell them .

So for me I'm stayin out of the deep end and that's ok , i am really happy with what i use .




Thanks Tesoro for building such a great machine for what " I " need

 

[foreign object]

You know being happy is all that matters.
The heck with what others think.

Have fun.
FO

 

[tabman]

Most of the silver coins that I find aren't all that deep. The Barber Dime that I just recently found was only around 3 inches deep. The Walking Liberty Half that I just recently found was only around 5 inches deep. A Compadre in the hands of someone who knows how to use it, kicks butts. I like having the ability to hit the occasional deep coin that I might run across, but those deep coins where I detect or far and few between. I was just thinking the other day that all these silver coins and gold rings that I have been finding here lately could have been found with my Compadre.

The key to finding silver coins and gold jewelry is knowing where to look.

tabman

 

[Southwind]

Sure I would prefer not to have to recover below 5" but that is just not realistic where I live. I have tot lots with as much as 12" of wood chips or sand and coins in our city park as deep as 24". For many years I used detectors that only got about 6" deep and found lot s of great stuff but that stuff is gone. I've got to play in the "deep end" if I hope to come home with anything worthwhile unless I just get luck. Which also happens.

 

[kaolinwasher]

when you get into a trash y spot for get the deep coins until you have cleaned up that 1st 6" and for most of the hunting in sports fields and the like I do need that kind of depth take a deep machine and try to get close to metal fence lines NOT so the compadre fits into a role that only it can fill

 

[REVIER]

mudpuppy does very well and rarely digs or even looks for anything below the upper strata.
I have found way more than my share of coins, some back to the mid 1800's, jewelry of all kinds both silver and gold and all kinds of other great things with all of my detectors.
99.9% of the good stuff has been at 6" or less...mostly less, so I never worry about depth so much.
My 7" coil Compadre goes plenty deep enough and when I use it I have full confidence that if the goodies are there, it can find them.

 

[zeekeys]

Wow a guy like me. I hunt the city parks and the tot lots here have a mat under the wood chips or sand about 6" down. I am a guest in the parks. I don't think I should be digging holes 10" deep. Most of my finds are in 2"-4" range. I find that the Compadre runs a little too deep for me. The ground is very wet so maybe that is why I am getting these 6" or better targets. I was thinking the Compadre would get around 4" range. That is good for me. Some of the tot lots are being dug up past the mats and the mats are now showing on top of the ground. Not good for us. Why hunt 100% of the time for less than 5% of the finds? Thanks for your post.....Z

 

[Mega]

I guess it all depends on the type of detecting you do and also the location as well,if you hunt in towns and cities or what ever in parks or tots lots then you dont require the depth as i would have thought that most finds would have been in the top 4-6''.But over here in the UK we require deeper detectors as targets over time of say 1000+ years then they would have sunk deeper than 6'',so i would say you adapt to the detecting environment in your location.

In Aussie land if you are hunting for nuggets in a worked out area then a compadre would be no good what so ever,but also saying that you would not use a big Pulse machine with a large coil hunting in a tots lot would you.

This is why in theory no one detector does it all,i always carry and use 4 detectors when i go out and these are all setup for different ground conditions etc with various size coils on.

Its all about enjoying detecting and not what other folks think,and of course your health if you are of a frail type then of course it makes no odds how deep your finds are,you dig as deep as what you are capable of.

Enjoyment is the No1 thing in my mind with detecting,even after many years detecting my passion for it is still as strong as it ever has been.

 

[slingshot]

Then why the heck am I finding tabs at 7'' with mine?

 

[BarberBill]

Depth alone does not make an ideal machine IMHO.
BB

 

[mudpuppy]

The cool thing about this sport is a guy can attempt to master all the subsets it offers...Like relics, beach, water, old silver, clad, meteorites, nuggets, etc...the good thing about starting off hunting clad/jewelry, is it gives a fellow immediate reward, teaches us about the language of the machine, travel patterns of people, timing, reading a site, how to use a screwdriver, etc...all those skills are very important when a guy wants to move onto to something else.....there is no one subset that is 'better' than the other, they all take a tremendous amount of time, focus, and effort to master, and that is something to appreciate.....sort of like going to the symphony, the piccolo player and the fiddle player are both master musicians, and both can be appreciated for their chosen mastery of an instrument.

When a fellow finds a certain subset of the sport he really enjoys and his particular hunting area affords, no problem staying at it for years if its paying off and keeps it FUN...it could be a personality thing...some like to run and gun, and some like to take their time and work and area to its uttermost depth...The cool thing about this Forum, is it gives us the combined knowledge of its members to get better faster on any chosen method...this is a big Planet, these coils are so small, time is short...its good to try to master as many subsets as possible, just in case the opportunity comes along to employ it successfully...I try to mimic the styles/pattern of the Forum members that are really good at their chosen subset, or at least read all of their posts just in case someday I may need it....great topic for a post!
Mud.

 

[Johnp3]

The cool thing about this sport is a guy can attempt to master all the subsets it offers...Like relics, beach, water, old silver, clad, meteorites, nuggets, etc...the good thing about starting off hunting clad/jewelry, is it gives a fellow immediate reward, teaches us about the language of the machine, travel patterns of people, timing, reading a site, how to use a screwdriver, etc...all those skills are very important when a guy wants to move onto to something else.....there is no one subset that is 'better' than the other, they all take a tremendous amount of time, focus, and effort to master, and that is something to appreciate.....sort of like going to the symphony, the piccolo player and the fiddle player are both master musicians, and both can be appreciated for their chosen mastery of an instrument.

When a fellow finds a certain subset of the sport he really enjoys and his particular hunting area affords, no problem staying at it for years if its paying off and keeps it FUN...it could be a personality thing...some like to run and gun, and some like to take their time and work and area to its uttermost depth...The cool thing about this Forum, is it gives us the combined knowledge of its members to get better faster on any chosen method...this is a big Planet, these coils are so small, time is short...its good to try to master as many subsets as possible, just in case the opportunity comes along to employ it successfully...I try to mimic the styles/pattern of the Forum members that are really good at their chosen subset, or at least read all of their posts just in case someday I may need it....great topic for a post!
Mud.

Very well said, thanks for that.

 

[cladcanada]

Then why the heck am I finding tabs at 7'' with mine?

I was wondering that too,I could start a vintage pull tab collection.....

 

[MarkCZ]

Sure I would prefer not to have to recover below 5" but that is just not realistic where I live. I have tot lots with as much as 12" of wood chips or sand and coins in our city park as deep as 24". For many years I used detectors that only got about 6" deep and found lot s of great stuff but that stuff is gone. I've got to play in the "deep end" if I hope to come home with anything worthwhile unless I just get luck. Which also happens.

I really doubt that there is a coin detector out there that will hit on a regular size coin at "Two Feet In Dirt" and I would no way even want to dig 500 two foot deep holes in out city park to only get out of the 500 holes three or four keeper coins! even if you had a detector that would search that deep they're not going to ID them well enough to not be digging a bunch of junk that deep. I mean come on, a 1925 dime at "Two Feet deep In A City Park" you would have use a post hole digger!

Mark

 

[Southwind]

I really doubt that there is a coin detector out there that will hit on a regular size coin at "Two Feet In Dirt" and I would no way even want to dig 500 two foot deep holes in out city park to only get out of the 500 holes three or four keeper coins! even if you had a detector that would search that deep they're not going to ID them well enough to not be digging a bunch of junk that deep. I mean come on, a 1925 dime at "Two Feet deep In A City Park" you would have use a post hole digger!

Mark

LOL no Mark I don't dig them either but I know they are there. Our 131 year old park sits along side the Arkansas river which used to flood on average every 30-40 years leaving 3-6" of mud behind. There is an old rock wall around the park that was built in 1931 and it was level at that time on both the inside and outside. Today the outside is still 24" to the grass while the inside grass is even with the top of the wall. That means the coins that were there from 1883 to 1931 are under 24" of dirt. I'm not saying any detector can reach them I'm just saying I know they are there because I've recovered the coins down to about 12" at the same spot.

Here is a picture of the outside wall showing it at 24" to the ground.

Here is a picture where the floods have deposited mud over the years and the ground inside the wall is now level with the top. You can see in the distance where the ground goes back down lower where less mud was deposited. This area is prime for testing the depth on a detector because the coins are there if your detector can go deep enough.

 

[Steve Keppel]

Amen to that!

 

[cladcanada]

South wind , wow that's a nice park you have , and your determined to hit the silver and "old stuff" my hats off to you!

If you don't mind could you leave the clad in a small pile by the wall ....(just kidding)


What a great hobby this is to have so many people after so many different targets in the same place !

 

[ken ward]

I have noticed that "sometimes" one of the first things people comment about is the depth ability of a machine and they would follow up with something like too bad your little compadre is not a deep machine (but not on this great forum).

So i guess i am wondering am i the only one that hunts clad and jewellery and not the deep stuff ???.

I really don,t have any desire to find deep silvers or relics at 12 inches+ ,old coins are great but I'm not looking to dig deep holes searching for em .I don't feel at all at a disadvantage using a compadre ,if anything sometimes just the opposite . That really messes up some folks they just don't "get "Tesoros" then they try and sell me what there using . No thanks I'm really happy with what i am using i tell them .

So for me I'm stayin out of the deep end and that's ok , i am really happy with what i use .
I totaly agree with what you are talking about. I am an old fart. I dont like digging deep holes either. The compadre goes deep enough. I have found many old coins with it. I dont want one of them deep detectors. I am afraid if I dig a deep hole, one of them slant eyed people might get mad at me... KEN. Ind




Thanks Tesoro for building such a great machine for what " I " need

 

[cladcanada]

Yes if anything I find the compadre a bit too deep for where I hunt