Newbie here- need recommendations............

[ms.digg]

I have been searching on here for awhile and wanted opinions on the fisher 1280 for both land and water. ( beaches, parks, lakes, etc..) I just want to make sure this is something worthwhile for a first time user. If anyone owns one, can you tell me the pros and cons?


Also, any dealers in the metro detroit area that you can recommend?

thanks a bunch!

 

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[sandrailer]

welcome to the hobby sorry i can say on pros and cons for the fisher 1280x but if your looking for more info on under water md`s some one here will help you out,if not try the beach and water detecting forum at findmall
here is a link to it http://www.findmall.com/list.php?26

 

[thompy]

it may be kind of heavy, but if you want to hit the water, should be a great machine, have you checked out detector pro machines, the controls are in the headphones.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I had a 1280 and liked it for water hunting in fresh water. I've never been to a salt water beach but would like to try it. I now use a CZ-20 by Fisher an while they look the same, they aren't. The 1280 has preset GB while the CZ-20 you have to Ground Balance so in some places it should go deeper I'm told. 1280 makes one tone and the 20 makes three to help id the target. When I used the 1280 I set the disc. at 2 and dug everything that made a noise. The CZ-20 set with the disc. at 1 I only hear the mid tone and high tones which cuts down on digging hair pins, etc. Hope this helps you some.

 

[TonyinCT]

Its a good detector but heavy unless you use it to dive with. i would look at something lighter.

 

[kaptainkosmic]

Diamonddiva welcome to the hobbie

the 1280x is a great freshwater machine. its build like a tank to stand up to the rigors of water detecting. the drawback is that it is quite heavy, however you can mount it either on a belt or a chest harness to get some of the weight off of the stem. i use a cz20 which has different circuitry but is built with basically the same body. the 1280 doesn't perform very well in saltwater/wet salt sand, lots of falsing. does fine on dry sand though. so if your going to hunt ocean beaches you might consider a cz20 or something else. i'm attaching a pic of the chest mount that i use. i hope this helps.

hh steve