Anybody Use The Fisher CoinStrike?

[JOE(USA)]

TomNWMI,

Sounds like you made a killer deal! Joe

 

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[TomNWMI]

TomNWMI,

Sounds like you made a killer deal! Joe

Hi Joe,

Not me, that would be Badger I was replying to his post!

I'm down to 3 machines right now. ID Edge, ML Advantage and Fisher 1270. They may be only "mid-priced" units but handle my needs and conditions very well. 8)

Tom

 

[Michigan Badger]

MichBadger
Hello,I also have the C$, if you got any ?`s. Feel free to PM me I will help ya out all i can.
For the record ,I also wanted to wrap mine around a tree ,But in time i think you will like it as much as i LOVE mine.

Thanks much. I may just do that.

Badger

 

[Michigan Badger]

I sold my Coinstrike.

Fastest sale ever for me on ebay. It sold in about 1 hour BUY-IT-NOW.

Reasons:

1) I've decided I don't like pad buttons on any machine

2) It seemed rather heavy and off-balance to me

3) I didn't like the sloppy lower rod assembly (it wobbled)

4) I've decided I don't like complex programming type detectors

Pros:

It seems deep and excellent for working trashy areas. It's just not my thing.

 

[JOE(USA)]

Badger,

Your just a Minelab / Tesoro type of guy! Joe

 

[Michigan Badger]

Badger,

Your just a Minelab / Tesoro type of guy! Joe

Ya, you're right Joe.

Funny its taken me all these years to figure that out.

I can even narrow it down to three machines:

1) The Minelab Sovereign GT (awesome)

2) The Tesoro Tejon (excellent)

3) The Tesoro Silver uMax (very good)

There are others I like but these 3 stand out.

It will be another 3 months before I can start hunting again and I just know I'll have another GT before then.

The GT beats em all Joe. There's nothing that comes even close to the overall abilities and smoothness of this detector.

 

[Burdie]

Badger If a guy blinks when reading your posts he would get totally lost. I love it. You have a great New Year and a safe one!
Burdie

 

[Dan B]

Badger, don't you have an Explorer SE still in the box? Or did I blink and it's gone?

Dan

 

[Michigan Badger]

Badger If a guy blinks when reading your posts he would get totally lost. I love it. You have a great New Year and a safe one!
Burdie

I've been testing the machines I buy and I don't post all of my results because I don't want to get sued

Here are probably the best name brand (current model) coin/ring detectors today:

1) Whites MXT
2) Garrett Infinium
3) Minelab Excalibur
4) Minelab Sovereign GT
5) Tesoro Silver uMax
6) Tesoro Tejon

 

[oneton]

The coin$trike has a learning curve,40 to 50 hrs and no wants to learn it.once mastered it is the best detector that you can use in trash or open ground.This machine seperates iron from good targets better than any detector on the market,and its responce is as fast as the f75.Its has many programs and people are not into learning these programs most people want a turn on and go detector,we'll if you not a learning person than you need a simple detector,but if you put your time in to the coin$ you will have an edge over many detectors.Most users keep this detector only a few weeks or even days and then they will say i used this unit for 2 weeks or 20 hrs and now its for sale. its junk, i want to wrap it around a tree,Like i said put 40 to 50 hrs use and you will smoke the rest.

 

[Leight]

yep i use it have done for the last 4 years now, admitidly it does have a big learning curve but once mastered its a superb detector.

truthfully though i feel it unfair for anyone to slate any detector until they have had long term use of it, every machine is different, everyone detects different to the next person and everyones land is different to the next so before any judgment can be made that a detector is good or nogood it requires long term use.

i have had fantastic results it some of the harshest conditions with my coinstrike, i also have a minelab xs wich i have used for over a year now and is also a good machine but the response is much slower and i think that it also has a huge learning curve.

my other machine is a 1266xpro which i personally feel is the deepest machine ever made out of all the generally purpose detectors and is one of the easiest machines to learn

 

[Coin Digger]

I had a C$ in 2006 that I used for most of the year and I had a real love hate relationship with it. I finally decided I hated it and traded it off for an MXT.
The MXT was all that and then some.
A hunting buddy of mine wanted to trade machines for a couple of weeks and I said sure. He got rear ended and the MXT got destroyed so he gave me his XLT as replacement. (His insurance only covered up to $250 for lost valuables.)
The XLT was stolen out of my car a month later.
So every time I hear of a C$ I cringe and think about the chain of events it unleashed.

It was a decent machine just not for me, but you may like it.

 

[Willy]

Aside from the touchpad and strange programming, one thing that ticked me off re. the C$ (and also the XTerra 70) is that it had real problems tracking the ground where I hunt. The MXT is silky smooth and can re-GB in a blink of an eye after hitting some of the hotrocks here. Both the C$ and Xt70 would require the coil to be pumped several times after hitting one of those babies.. otherwise they wouldn't track the ground back to a decent setting. The MXT could also be run at max sens. with no problems in these areas (with a DD.. I didn't use the stock coil. With the Xt70 the 5x10" still had to be frequently 'pumped', even at lowered sensitivity. That's why I'm going to get rid of the Xt70, even though it's incredibly sensitive in AM mode, and get another MXT; prospecting becomes a lot more enjoyable here. ..Willy.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

^ That does make sense as the C$ has auto-tracking, no further GB required. You can do a manual GB, just switch to AM mode, hold the GB button, pump the coil a couple of times, and viola your done. If your ground sucks, switch to auto-track. I've had the C$ for about a year now, and once you learn it, it works great, goes deep, and works awesome in trash (especially with the small coil). The TID is fast and accurate, it loves round objects (I've been amazed digging tiny round things 8" deep), has three user programmable memories and even a backlit LCD screen for night hunting. The user interface is fairly easy (just read the manual a few times), but you really have to put some time and effort into the machine or it'll get the best of you.

HH,
Brian

 

[Willy]

Yup, and that's the problem with the ground tracking on the C$/XT70.. the ground here is often too tough for the ground tracking circuit. Manual GB is a non-starter 'cause I don't want to GB every 3 ft. When even a PI struggles, you know you've got it bad. ..Willy.

 

[mikelb]

I have had my CS for about 3 years and bought it used off e-bay.It did'nt take me long to get use to it and start finding silver.I find that it accurately Id's most targets i know when i have a coin as most of the time it lock in a number and stays i always swing from a different angle and if it is still locking then i know what i have sometimes it will show a coin then it will move and i know i either have a bent iron nail or a screw cap.It easily pin points the target and gives me an accurate depth reading.Im a cherry picker going after old coins or silver clad and only look for gold in play grounds where there is less junk.I did far less junk then others i detect with not because they will dig anything but because the target on thier machines say coin and it's not.I can honestly say if i were to buy another detector if something happened to this one i would buy another Coinstrike.The only thing i dont like is it's hatred for leaking power lines or underground power lines.I can tune most of it out by lowering my sensitivity and thresh hold.I even found two indians and a silver rosie working a block of torn up side walks with the readout all over the place but paying attention to realize what i had .I have a friend with two CZ's and he's afraid of it LOL i think for some the numerical read out and learning curve are to much.

 

[Sal]

The coin$trike has a learning curve,40 to 50 hrs and no wants to learn it.once mastered it is the best detector that you can use in trash or open ground.This machine seperates iron from good targets better than any detector on the market,and its responce is as fast as the f75.Its has many programs and people are not into learning these programs most people want a turn on and go detector,we'll if you not a learning person than you need a simple detector,but if you put your time in to the coin$ you will have an edge over many detectors.Most users keep this detector only a few weeks or even days and then they will say i used this unit for 2 weeks or 20 hrs and now its for sale. its junk, i want to wrap it around a tree,Like i said put 40 to 50 hrs use and you will smoke the rest.

I love my c$ i use it with my 5 inch coil great depth recovery great around iron and a killer in trash i compared it to a f 75 in the same yard in 30 min i had 10 to 12 coins compared to 2 with the f 75 seemed to have dug much more trash with f 75 a frustating machine to use i dont enjoy using the unit seems like a toy sounds like a bounty hunter,i know i could keep up or surpass with any unit in its class with my c$ hunting side by side,easy unit to adjust you dont even need to discriminate i use none of the notches iron to 99 sens 4 or 5 and threshold at -10 and hardly dig any junk a coin killer,the pads once set are fine by me,i put a little clear pad on pinpoint button now i dont have to feel for it,i think most dont take the time to learn this unit to bad it gets a bad rap but you can get a awoseme machine for little money on the upside............