Which would be better for old home sites Edge or Coinstrike???

[Prospector]

I have found a used like new Edge for around the same price of a new Coinstrike $550.00. I am looking at a unit for old home sites and coin/relic hunting. Money for money, which would give me the best depth and most features for the buck? Thanks to any who respond in advance. "Mark"

 

[Bill Ladd]

But for the same price I would go with the coinstrike. I love the Edge, but The C$ has many more bells & whistles, is a little deeper, & it wasn't too long ago that they were FRL's most expensive model @ over $800......
Good luck,
Bill

 

[Cal_Cobra]

There's a like new Coinstrike for $440 BIN on eBay at the moment, which also has a "Best Offer" setup on it (which IMO begs for you to offer less). It also has the warranty card, but I'd ping the seller to verify if it's ever been registered with Fisher, as I understand you can do it without sending in the warranty card. You might ask if they could do better on their steep shipping fee too if interested.

 

[bhershey]

If you get a C$, you'll love what it does at old home sites! Here are my first two posts from 2004 after I bought mine. I thought you might find it useful. HH!

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First time out with Coin$trike...

Posted By: Brian H. (PA)
Date: Sunday, 30 May 2004

Went to an old farmhouse property for the third time.. first time with the C$. The first two times I used the Excel, and pulled around 60 coins... 10 wheaties, silver quarter, 14k GP ring and misc nick-nacks, all under 6".

Spent about 4-5 hours there learning the C$. I ended up running sens at 9 and threshold at 0. I'm hoping I'm doing the right thing by running with the sens as high as I can and still running stable.

I ended up with...
- silver dime (61)
- 3 wheaties (41, 42, 48s)
- 11 clad (pennies, nickle, dimes and quarter)
- Uncle Sam 1949 play money 50 cent piece
- Allis Chalmers farm machinery token
- gold color medallion - under glass is a picture, looks like a soldier.
- two old buttons
- metal toy watch
- 2 glass canning jar lids (no markings)

The deepest repeatable signal I dug out was the metal toy watch... it was showing a reading of 20 and was 8 or 9" deep. I actually had a couple good signals showing #10-15 on the depth meter, but had to give up because of tree roots. I was VERY impressed with that!, just too bad I had to leave them behind UGH.

I don't know how Fisher did it to get the C$ and Excel to run so stable, but I have NO regrets selling my CZ-70 Pro(alias ChatterBox NailLover) In my hunting conditions and from just using it once, I can say the C$ already exceeds anything I've ever used.

Looks like my strategy will be to use the featherweight Excel when at a new site, then follow up with the C$.

Great first time out with the C$!!

HH,
Brian

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Love finding "STUFF"

Posted By: Brian H. (PA)
Date: Monday, 7 June 2004

Back for the fourth time to an old farmhouse on the grounds of a local highschool, 2nd time out with my C$. I just love this machine! I was running sens 10 and threshold at 0. This time hunted with everything but zinc notched out and for a few hours dug everything that gave me a signal from different directions. Deepest find was a 1920 wheatie, depth showed 20 (about 8"). Found 5 wheaties all within 4 feet and get this, they all showed in the 90's in depth! I actually passed over them at first, thinking they were shallow junk, but considering I didn't dig much junk at this site, I gave it a go... lesson learned!

The other 1920 wheatie had two rusty nails in the same hole... amazing.

- 10 wheaties (20,20,40,41,44,45,51,51,57,57)
- 13 recent coins (12 pennies, 1 dime)
- buckle, kids watch, buttons, bullets, and stuff, stuff STUFF

HH!
Brian

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice finds Brian. Were you using the 8" coil ?

I recently acquired a C$, but am having a bit of a time getting a handle on it....

hh

 

[bhershey]

yep, 8" stock coil for those hunts.