MrBranton33 said:
The Platinum has fast grab ground balance, target id, discrimination,tone id,pinpoint, and notch. The Compadre has disc only.
True, but with experience using both the Compadre , (old model...7" coil), and my F2, the F2 with the disc, tones pinpoint and notch don't seem to help me find any more than the Compadre.
Yes there is a little more info on my F2 screen, and all of this is just my opinion only, but if you believe every bit of information on any screen on any detector, that is something that can actually make you miss some great targets if you believe them 100% of the time.
About a month ago I dug up 3 gold rings with the F2 at one site, all 3 signals were trash signals 2 tabs and one foil.
No matter what I use I usually dig most every solid signal anyway, and on these 3 particular targets I am sure glad I did.
MrBranton33 said:
The Platinum costs a bit more, but at least you have some idea what you are going to dig up.
There is a huge amount of info you can get from that so called, "one tone" that the Compadre and most of the single tone Tesoros emit.
In the hands of a master like Tabdog, the target type and depth can usually be determined with a degree of accuracy that will match or even beat other detectors and their screens...an ability I am always working on and hope to achieve sometime in the next 30 years or so.
MrBranton33 said:
Plus you can get different coils for the Plat.
Also true, and I have 3 coils for my F2, but if we are talking coins both are extremely good at this as was my very cheap BH that I started with.
Mounting the sniper coil on any detector and the F2, seems to make them even more sensitive if we are talking jewelry, specifically tiny silver and gold pieces and especially chains.
I am a huge fan of smaller sniper coils after my experience this summer using mine, and I believe any detector will become an extremely good jewelry hunter with one of these.
That being said, something in the way the Compadre is made takes it to another level compared to any other detector on the market today, especially if we are talking about those hard to find chains.
I don't know if it is the older style, circuitry, or what, but I believe this statement is true.
I believe this because of my experience of finding these chains, (and extremely easily too), at sites hunting with others that missed them with higher end detectors.
This would include sniper coils mounted on an E-Trac, an F75 and a T2.
MrBranton33 said:
The Compadre is hard wired.
Yes again, but I look as the Compadre as more of a specialty jewelry unit than an all around, which it can be but small coils in large areas could drive you crazy...at least for me it can.
MrBranton33 said:
I'm sure plenty of people like the Compadre, but I like some form of Target ID.
Actually, I do too because it is just great fun but in a different way than using my Tesoros, and my next one will bee some sort of higher end unit like the F75, V3i, T2. E-Trac or something along those lines because of the great amount of information they can tell you.
I still don't think I will believe all that information all the time, however, no matter what I am swinging.
MrBranton33 said:
At least give me a few tones.
Everyone is different, and I myself enjoy the one tone from my Tesoros and the multiple tones from my Fisher, equally.
MrBranton33 said:
The platinum is a lower frequency so it should like the high conductors. I've had one and it does great on coins. It also found a good bit of silver
Honestly, even though I believe the fact that physics says this high frequency is better on gold and low frequency is better on silver stuff is true, I don't think I subscribe to this so much in real life.
I have found plenty of gold including small targets with my lower frequency F2, and lots of tiny silver items and a few really thin silver chains using the higher frequency Compadre.
MrBranton33 said:
I'm sure the Compadre will find a plenty, but if it beeps you dig. If it's a trash filled park, you may get disgusted.
Again, I will refer back to my Tabdog comment above.
They say the Compadre and others like it is beep and dig, but this is not really true...even though I do usually dig most targets no matter what I am using,
It takes slightly longer to figure out the target using different techniques using one beep machines vs. a screen which is instant, and I actually do try to do this on most targets before I dig because I am constantly learning the Tesoro language and always trying to get better and better.
In my experience, I seem to have the same amount of disgust using my F2 or my Tesoros in very trash sites, but I can see where the instant info on the screen units might cut back a little on this for most hunters.
Then I think about those 3 trash signals that were really gold rings and I continue to dig everything and am happy with that no matter which detector I use.
There are so many different kinds of people out there and luckily so many different kinds of detectors so everyone should have a chance to be so fortunate to find that exact type that is right for them.
This is a hobby, not a job, and it should be fun no matter how you want to do it.
To answer the OP'S original question, as far as finding coins, just about every detector on the market should be very good at this as long as you learn it and its language, but as an overall jewelry hunter there is absolutely nothing on the market that finds so many kinds, types and sizes of jewelry so easily then the Compadre.
Yes it might be one of the least expensive machines out there, but in my case, seeing is believing.
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