that little compadre :detecting: wow

[wltdwiz]

went out hunting yesterday with my son & a friend & let him use my compadre i used my golden umax & she used her golden umax we both had clean sweep coils on
he said the coils to small on this it dont cover any ground i cant get used to this its a toy lol
well did he eat his words
he smoked us bad
he found one 14 k gold ring one sterling ring, one junk ring & a bunch of assorted jewelry items
now he thinks its a dam hot little detector..
the compadre rocks
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[Hombre]

Yup, the Compadre is one fine detector, if you swing it's coil over treasure, and you dig it, you will find it ! I use mine in the iron nail infested old house tear downs, if it beeps, it is something non-ferous.
If the goodies are around you will find them, just the other day I let a home owner use my Compadre around his place and he found as much stuff as I did with a top name brand detector. this is a good way to get in hunting grounds that would otherwise be off-limits, the Compadre is newbie friendly !

 

[slingshot]

I'm afraid NOT to use mine.

 

[tabman]

The Compadre should be everyone's first detector.

 

[Smudge]

Yup. Folks just keep doubting the Compadre and Compadre users just keep on cleaning up.

 

[John (Ma)]

Very cool, that little coil isolates the targets better in most situations. It takes longer to cover ground, but less likely to cover several targets to throw off the signal!

 

[Hombre]

John...

The Compadre I bought recently is an older first model with the 7 inch concentric coil which is an ideal size for this detector in my opinion. I tested it for depth against my original Bandido and Pantera outfitted with the same 7 inch coil and the Compadre ain't no slouch in the depth department, and covers ground about as good as the 8 inch coil. I just love it, and so does everybody that has tried it out. Simple detector that does the job for both newbies and seasoned detectorists alike!

 

[hardrockminer]

Yup, the Compadre is one fine detector, if you swing it's coil over treasure, and you dig it, you will find it ! I use mine in the iron nail infested old house tear downs, if it beeps, it is something non-ferous.
If the goodies are around you will find them, just the other day I let a home owner use my Compadre around his place and he found as much stuff as I did with a top name brand detector. this is a good way to get in hunting grounds that would otherwise be off-limits, the Compadre is newbie friendly !

Hombre,

Where do you have the setting on the Compadre for the house tear downs ?

HaRM

 

[Hombre]

HRM

Around old house sites and building tear/burn downs I use just enough disc.. to knock out small to medium size nails. On my Compadre this setting is right on the "iron"....or between "iron" and "foil".The Compadre with it's ED 180 disc. circuit will signal on everything in it's "all metal" setting. But you can fine tune it to reject just enough problem trash at these type of places. The cellar hole sites around my part of the country date back to the 1870's and later, and I find enough neat relics and old coins to keep me interested in searching them. I just wish that I could search some old colonial cellar holes back east, the Compadre would be my only detector for those kind of places.

 

[SkiWhiz]

The Compadre is so good that I just bought one to replace the one I sold. It will be my one & only detector. There is not a better jewelry detector than the Compadre in my opinion. Steve.

 

[wltdwiz]

steve
if i wasn't into my golden so much the compadre
would be my only detector to
well not really i have 2 compadres
1 for land & 1 for water
light/fast/deep/ just snappy

 

[pelanj]

I have 2 compadres
1 for land & 1 for water
light/fast/deep/ just snappy

Please let me ask you about your Compadre for water. Is that a waterproofed (and retuned?) Compadre, or a completely different detector. Which kind of water?

Thanks!

 

[wltdwiz]

check this link
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1262613,1262613#msg-1262613
thats how i waterproofed my compadre

 

[pelanj]

Great, thanks!

 

[larryk56]

Oh Gee .....it sounds like I need to get a Compadre.

Even though I love my other new detector.

Obviously by all the rave reviews there must be something special
in the circutry that makes it such a great machine.

 

[Hombre]

larry56

The Compadre is a great non-ferrous target finder in the ferrous trash, truely nasty small iron objects like nails, old twist off steel bottle caps, a carpet of roofing nails near old house foundations and the like. I like mine for hunting around old celler holes and foundations of long gone houses from the 1800's. I set my disc. on "iron" and dig every good sounding target. Ya never know what you might find. The Compadre has no adjustment for sensitivity, threshold, ground balance or a threshold based all-metal circuit...... just x the spot with the coil.. I have not tweeked mine as it runs perfect in my ground, your results may vary in yours.

 

[larryk56]

That is really amazing! I never heard anything bad
about the Compadre. Always great reviews.

I'll need to get one soon!

 

[finnfoto]

Talk about a welth of knowledge on a really sweeet little unit with Big ability. Awesome Walt.