The Ol' C$ keeps reminding me why i luv it....

[Mark in NC]

I had a few minutes free on Sunday, so I decided to hit an old school yard in the middle of town that EVERYONE who has a detector hunts. It has pretty much quit producing now, but occasionally one will pop up. I've pounded this place with every detector I've owned, and the undisputed winner for finding the deepies is still the Coinstrike.

We had a nice soaking rain last week, so I knew digging conditions would be perfect. I decided since I had limited time, I'd just dig the high tones that pinpointed deep. After a few minutes, I got a repeatable high tone that ID'd around 32. Pinpoint was between 9 and 11 (you know that's good!) I dug to a depth I'm not gonna repeat or people will call me ugly names and up popped another wheat from this pounded place. It's still too cruddy to tell a date (the ground here is mean to copper). I know a wheat is no big deal, but right beside the penny was a old rusty nail.. (about 3 inches away)..

Yep, I still luv my Coinstrike!

Mark in NC

 

[fishman]

I'm curious, for school yard hunting, where so you have your sensitivity and threshold set? I'm still low on the learning curve with my C$.

 

[Mark in NC]

The more you use it, the better it gets Today, I was running at sensitivity "5" Threshold "30" nothing notched. Don't be afraid of running the C$ with a low sensitivity... it will still go deep. The worst thing to do is run it "too hot" where you get frustrated with the falses. When there's nothing under the coil, the C$ can almost be so quiet it's spooky.

hh'n

Mark in NC

 

[mtdoramike]

until you get used to it, then gradually start notching in nickels Zinc Pulltabs and such until you have all the notches notched in. The you should start playing with the sensitivity by raising it and raising your threshold up to -15, -10 or -5.

 

[christopher-ohio]

at a sensitivity of 6, I was impressed. However, I hunt mainly old farmhouses with external hanging powerlines that drive the C$ nuts. How do you guys deal with this?..particularly setting wise? I would love to make it my main hunting machine but this has always been the issue...I would think that the smaller coil would be very helpful to cut down on this problem?...HH

 

[mtdoramike]

and drop the threshold to as low as -40 which seems to help somewhat. Now, I have noticed that with the small coil, I have not had the first problem with interference. But that's not say it won't.

 

[Bill Ladd]

I had a similar hunt. Had like an hour or so to kill & stopped at one of my pounded cellar holes to see if I could pull anything outta the thick iron. I just picked an area where the house stood, loaded w. square nails & tried to pick repeatable signals outta the iron blips. I got one nice colonial button & a small strap buckle. LIke you said, don't sound like much, but fun to see what you can "unmask". Could have been a half dime or something too

 

[Mark in NC]

I live in a rural area with lots of electric cattle fences around. Almost every detector I've owned goes nuts when the fence "pulses"... The only hope is dropping the sensitivity way, way down. For city hunting (those dadburn street lights)... low sensitivity helped there too. With most detectors when you drop sensitivity, you lose tons of depth.. not so (from what I've seen) with the Coinstrike. Mike Hillis had a cool chart one time that showed the correlation between sensitivity ,threshold and depth. You can find those here: http://home.insightbb.com/~johnhetti/coinstrike/charts.htm

hh'n

Mark in NC

 

[Tony (NC)]

To run the SENS very low. I hunt a homesite in VA that dates 1820. The RF there is TERRIBLE. It's not just the C$, it tears up every machine we have taken there. It sounds like Morse code in the headphone when you fire it up. The only way I can hunt there is to set the SENS on "0". The last time I was there, I was wondering if I was wasting my time running at "0" and I got a solid hit that PP at "2". I dug a harmonica reed at 8". Shortly afterwards I got an IH penny and a "V" nickel at about 4". So the moral of the story.....the C$ will still get good depth even at low SENS.

 

[Hawkeye Jim]

that has happened to me on several occassions, where my C$ was running so silent I had to throw my screwdriver on the ground just to see some negative numbers flash across the screen!!! HH - Hawkeye Jim.