Your hottest nickel machine (machines)

[HaroldILL.]

Pure raw depth Nautilus IIBa 15'' easy! But I.D.at depth the CZ-3D And the Etrac .

 

[jimmyzr1]

Well, I ended up today with 7 nickels today, 2 V nickels, 2 Buffalo nickels, and 3 Jefferson nickels. I also found an Indian head penny, and 2 or 3 wheats, but no silver with my new to me, ctx-3030. two weeks ago I had almost similiar results with my XP Deus.

 

[Cameraniac]

The F75 that I had seemed to be really hot on nickels.

 

[DaveNV]

I'll throw my opinion out there. I've been at this game since 1973 and have owned a lot of detectors, dug a lot of pull tabs and a fair amount of goodies. I went out for about 1 1/2 hrs today to a park that has been slammed, but continues to give up coins (mostly new). My totals today: (all clad) 1 quarter; four dimes; two copper cents (one was a mower-whacked 1952 wheatie) and 14 nickles.
MY bottom line: the Etrac is the best nickle-finder I've ever owned and used. When it says 11-14 on the ferrous scale and 13 on conductivity, 99% of the time, it's a nickle.

 

[Dancer]

Man, Dave that's a overwhelming ratio of nickels. That's a hot one.

 

[Altamaha]

Fisher CZ-3D without a doubt!

 

[bubbadirect]

Fwiw, I love the Nokta CoRe for nickels.

Bubba

 

[MarkCZ]

Well, with anything made in the past 25 years! for me I'll say that my F70 seems to like nickels pretty well, I'm not real sure how its going to do on deep ones yet? but down to around the 3" to 4" range it does good.

The thing about nickels for me is that a good number of detectors I've tested nickels with they go UP the ID scale after they get about 4" deep, I've tested them down to 7" inches and had then read the same ID as a Zinc penny. In between the 4" to 7" range they read right in with the rest of the trash that's between Nickels and Zinc's. And with some of those detectors the nickels did the same thing air testing them.

Now when I say my F70 likes nickels I don't mean everything that falls into the nickels range is a nickel, what I mean is the few times I had it had this season I was able to tighten up on the number range within the nickel range and was able to pick them out pretty well. What's a bit bad about that is that the number split can shift a bit from one area to another so its takes digging some extra trash in a new area to find that magic nickel range. Its been so long now sense I've been able to get out and hunt that I'll have to start all over again with my F70

Mark

 

[Dancer]

My thoughts on nickels is this. And of course nothing is written in stone. With today's machines, I'm thinking, most of them can grab most nickels say down to 4". Starting from 5" down is when you start separating the men from the boys. Under my normal conditions my AT Pro handles em pretty good to 6". Now I have squeezed it past the 7" mark by listening intently. If the trash isn't outrageous I'll follow it with my Infinium PI. Now I believe this. That depth has a lot to do with the hunter himself. Just comparing myself with myself , I'll find deep targets going over the same ground I hunted yesterday.
Now the comments on machines seem to be running along the Fisher / Mine Labs. The CZ3D getting a lot of notice. Question I have on it is can it handle say simi trashy parks / beaches?
Can it survive a dunking?

 

[HaroldILL.]

A CZ-3D can easily handle a semi trashy park if you know how to use it that is. No it is not submersible.

 

[goldman55]

F19 beats them all

 

[Dancer]

A CZ-3D can easily handle a semi trashy park if you know how to use it that is. No it is not submersible.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Harold.

 

[mtdoramike]

CZ 5 and C$ are my best two nickel machines. Yes, some are better than others when it comes to finding nickels.

 

[BarberBill]

I use several Tesoros at planted coin hunts where most of the coins are nickels including painted ones for prize tokens. I haven't compared the response to other brands, but I can tell you that I never have a problem picking up nickels and find lots of them in park, play fields etc. hunts as well, even with the disc set just below nickel. They also pick up lots of dimes in parks etc.
BB

 

[jerseyjim]

THE CTX 3030 I USUALLY Don't have a problem identifying nickles.I use the C/M

 

[Hightone]

I wish I could say my Land Ranger Pro, but nickels is it's bane. Actually, I didn't see any Teks listed either which the new BH Pros mimic. Fratbros machines are awesome in silver, not so well in the nickel range I guess.

 

[irontondan]

Tesoro Tejon...period. I've used a ton of different detectors the past 44 years and I've never run across one that can so easily sound off on a nickel. A 7 inch nickel sounds like a quarter at 2 inches with this machine.

 

[Dancer]

Tesoro Tejon...period. I've used a ton of different detectors the past 44 years and I've never run across one that can so easily sound off on a nickel. A 7 inch nickel sounds like a quarter at 2 inches with this machine.

Well irondan, with your 44 years experience your choice should be taken in good recognition. Thanks to everyone's comments.

 

[digginLa]

Omega 8000 has been the best so far for me, haven't used the 705 enough yet to see if its any better.

 

[mrwilburino]

The biggest problem at my sites is all the trash that seems to hover around the nickel range, so for me it's anything that can ID crusty old Buffs and Vs well while giving an accurate depth reading. CZ-3D in enhanced mode and CTX are a couple of good ones.