While The Omega Is Away, The Coinstrike Is At Play

[MarkCZ]

Two short day hunts,
Same place,
Using the Coinstrike I bagged,
141 coins! (that is a record for me)
40 Quarters,
54 Dimes,
35 Pennies,
1 Nickel.
1 Dollar coin. (first one of these I ever found)

Now, I didn't dig hardly any Zinc's, wasn't hunting for Nickels. So, I'm thinking after I get all the other junk coins out of the way that are masking them I'm going to go back and get them as well. But for now I'll have to just keep working on those old junk Quarters and Dimes.

P.S Oh, my Omega just up and died the other day

Mark

 

[MarkCZ]

The day one group has the dollar coin at the top, day two (or todays) group is the other one.
One thing about this C$ is its sure HOT on dimes, it will sniff a dime out of a Zinc penny spill with no problem!

Mark

 

[WV62]

Pretty nice haul, little brother.

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

It was so wet those two days that the ones I dug when I stuck my digger in the ground bubbles would come up out of the ground! Recovering coins from two inches under ground in the bottom of a four inch water hole is a bit different. But with all the water I was able to keep the mud under control.

This was just a money run really, I've been on the look out for places and or ideas where there might be some larger deposits where other people either haven't detected, or maybe hasn't been detected for maybe a few years anyway.
If I can find a places where coins come about every swing of the coil maybe the wife will help out with the digging. I really decided to pass over the zinc's if the C$ didn't hint to something else in the mix, which is just what happed a couple of times, I knew they're zinc's but I also knew there was a higher conductor in with them, so I would dig out two or three zinc's and then presto! out came the dime or quarter.

I will say that what I was digging and where I was digging the C$ did very well, pinpointing was easy.
And those surface dimes was confusing for me for the first 15 or so, I'm not sure if all the water was affecting the response to dimes or what, but good grief! the detector was smoking hot on dimes and they wasn't falling in the same ID range as copper pennies. Day two I had to put up with some rain, but I put a clear large food storage bag over the control housing and it fit PERFECT!
I was also pleased with the performance of my 9 volt rechargeable LSD batteries! I used the same set for the two days, at the end of day two I recharged them so I didn't have to spend any of the recovered money on batteries. I'm going to try for a $100.00 in the next month!

Mark.

 

[HaroldILL.]

With the Coinstrike can you cherry pick Quarters with the number read out's? That is the only thing I never liked about CZ's is you couldn't split hairs between the Dimes,Quarters, and Half's.

 

[MarkCZ]

With the Coinstrike can you cherry pick Quarters with the number read out's? That is the only thing I never liked about CZ's is you couldn't split hairs between the Dimes,Quarters, and Half's.

My forum user name "MarkCZ" is back when I still had my CZ7a-pro. Like you, I didn't like the large blocks (target segments) for targets to fall into, so when I found some reading about the C$ and its number ID display I actually thought it was going to be an upgraded version of the CZ! but much later I found out that I was very wrong in that thinking, yea, they packed it in the same housing, but the C$ is a different breed altogether and as I understand it now the C$ spring up from a different designer as well.

Another thing I've noticed about the C$ is of the two that I had they were different from each other, now I don't mean different features but rather in little things in the way they operated. My first C$ was so easy to ground balance that now looking back I wonder if the ground balance was doing anything? my second one I got now is more finicky to ground balance, I mean if its not exactly right you know it, unlike my first one, this one the only way I can get it right is to change to all-metal motion mode and search for a clean spot in the ground and then do the automatic ground balance, then switch back to the discrimination mode, my first one I could just keep it in discrimination mode, watch the display and when it didn't read or display any targets I could just ground balance and go on. The target ID numbers on the new vs my older one is different as well, I mean yea there close, but different. Quarters on my other one was like 32-33 my new is more 34-35.
Clad dimes on the older one were the same as copper pennies, the new one dimes have been hitting at more to 29 while copper pennies most times have been in the 26-27 range. What I've not tried yet with my newer C$ is to hunt for nickels, I know my old one was not good at all on nickels, but the one I have now may be better.
I'm not for sure yet, but at this point I don't feel my new C$ is getting the depth of my old one, not to say its not deep enough and it may just be me. I hunted a lot with my first C$ and not so much with my new one, the reason for that is with my first one for the longest time it was the only detector I had, by the time I got my second one I had collected other detectors like, a Whites, 5900/Di Pro-sl, a Whites XLT, a Omega, Tejon, so, using these other detectors kind of put the C$ on the back burner (the new one anyway)
When I say my new C$ I mean I bought it as a dealer's left over stock and so its supposed to still have (now) three years of warranty left on it. When I no longer had a need for two C$'s and decided to sell one I kept the one with the warranty.

So far I can cherry pick Quarters, dimes, copper pennies, and zinc pennies. I'm about ready to give it a go for nickels.

Mark

 

[MarkCZ]

The Omega is on its way back at this time, so, I'm looking forward to getting that back, but getting the C$ out has been really good, for me and it!
I've finished up at the one ball field with the C$ and I think I did really good, I'm thinking I could do better on the Nickels because of the total number of coins I got there should be more nickels in the count. But, the first three days I had them notched out due to there being so much trash and so many of the other coins to recover.
Here is how it worked out.
Three day hunts,
Two short hunts under three hours each, well that was one two hour hunt, then another short hunt trying to round up the quarter count to two full rolls, or to say I needed eight more to have gotten 80 quarters.

Totaled out I got,
1 Dollar coin,
80 Quarters,
114 Dimes,
8 Nickels
188 Pennies,
For a total of = 390 coins.
Nothing old, all clad coinage.

Over all the C$ performed very well.

Now, I know of another larger ball field only about a half mile down from the one I just hunted and I'm thinking that if the one hasn't been hunted then its just as likely for the second one to not have been hunted.

Below is one item that at first made my heart skip a beat or two! it was a fresh drop and I thought it was a large diamond ring its loaded with diamonds!! but it ended up being a pretty nice piece of costume jewelry (ear ring that is).

Mark