Weather was nice and the Compadre was just that

[tvr]

Easy swinging, expressive voice, wonderful discriminator, lift the coil to both determine depth and get some idea of size. It was a nice couple of hours out with the Compadre.
Got my first whistle ... even if it is crushed.
a Rotary International pin, 1 quarter, 6 dimes, 11 nickels, 18 pennies,19 tabs, other articles and a pocket full of can shreds that aren't shown.
Cheers,
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[pulltab]

the compadre is a great machine that flys under the rader

 

[Beale]

Very nice hunt! Good work, Beale.

 

[amcjavelin]

I've got a brand new compadre just waiting to rock n roll! and find that fine gold jewelry!

 

[Tseeker]

Nice for a couple of hours. So tempting to think about getting one for a backup someday.

 

[tvr]

The Compadre keeps surprising me.

I like to have threshold and pinpoint. I like to have sensitivity adjust and ground balance.

Per a suggestion, I turned up the sensitivity potentiometer until it was a kind of chatty.

I have found that with just a little discrimination, this detector chats over open area but quiets down over a target, gives a good hit, and lets me raise the coil to find where the target fades out. At the fade out I get not only a sense of depth, but also a much narrower beep area for good pinpointing.

A couple of those nickles were between 6 and 7 inches down. Soil not difficult on that hunt ... not as deep as Cibola or Tejon, but that is sometimes as deep as I want to dig. If I have to go deeper than that with the digger, I need to open the hole up a bit and I don't like doing that in the school yards when I am near entrances or sidewalks.
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