The Buzzard King
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About a month ago, I bought a used CZ-5 with the 8” coil, in VERY good condition, for a pretty reasonable price, and I’ve been tryingto get a grasp on the thing ever since.
I’m starting to REALLY like using it now.
Although I was completely out of commission for about 2 weeks in late April, due to a nasty bout with the flu, I’ve managed to get out 5 or 6 times for a few hours in the last 2 weeks.
Here’s a couple of photos of an abandoned house at the site I’ve been “hunting/learning machine” at lately. It’s an old farmhouse that I found on the 1873 Atlas of my area. Took me a little legwork to find the owner, but I did, and after a discussion with his wife, they gave me permission.
You could hunt a lifetime on this farmland and never be done, but as of my last visit last night, the grass is too tall for swinging anymore. So I’ll have to wait now till they cut the fields. And this is in an EXTREME rattlesnake area. There’s a million ways to get killed on this property, so I wont hunt without my cell phone zipped in my pocket.
Anyway, here’s the first goodies found with my new toy. These were found over the course of the last 2 weeks.
The 28 Merc was about 8 inches deep, and rang out loud and clear at the highest discrimination level. That was my first silver coin with the CZ-5. I was happy to find my first “wilver” with it, and very impressed with the machine. Both the Rosies were very shallow, less than 4 inches.The 1899 Barber dime was VERY deep. It was around 10” down and still gave a nice sound all the way up to full discrimination on the detector. The Quarter was in the 8-9” range, great sound . And the 1892 Injun, which is easily the best condition dug Indian I’ve ever seen, was somewhere near 10“, and it gave a nice sound all the way up to full discrimination. (Although I’ve air tested some other Injuns that “disc out” just above foil).
A barely discernible 2 cent piece, at only about 5 inches, that only made it up to 4 on the CZ-5’s disc knob, but still had a high tone. My closest guess on the date would be an 1868. I’ll probably never know for sure.
And a gold ring. Which was only about 4-5” deep, and had about the exact same characteristics as the 2 center to the CZ.
Also, I returned to another of my old sites that I was sure I “Hunted out”, and pulled out this pretty nice 1853 Large Cent, from this small little area that I went over at least 10 times before! I’m not lying when I say I feel this coin was a foot deep or more. I couldn’t believe the depth of this coin. A good signal, that still rang clearly at the highest discrimination on the CZ-5. Thank God I can make big plugs here. I cut this plug almost a foot wide, and it easily took up 10 inches of soil with it when I pulled it up, and I still had to dig down a few inches more to find the coin. THAT moment made a Serious CZ believer out of me!.
The large Cent was NOT foundat the farmhouse pictured.
So I think I’m pretty happy with this new toy. I’ll use it this whole summer and see how I do.
Oh, and as usual, I always dig TONS of garbage, bullets, pulltabs, and clad etc, that I never mention.
And the deep nails are still messin’ with me some too.
But I’m really impressed with the depth capabilities of this CZ-5.
Anyway, I wish everyone continued success, and happy hunting!.
Thanks for looking.
T.B.K.
I’m starting to REALLY like using it now.
Although I was completely out of commission for about 2 weeks in late April, due to a nasty bout with the flu, I’ve managed to get out 5 or 6 times for a few hours in the last 2 weeks.
Here’s a couple of photos of an abandoned house at the site I’ve been “hunting/learning machine” at lately. It’s an old farmhouse that I found on the 1873 Atlas of my area. Took me a little legwork to find the owner, but I did, and after a discussion with his wife, they gave me permission.
You could hunt a lifetime on this farmland and never be done, but as of my last visit last night, the grass is too tall for swinging anymore. So I’ll have to wait now till they cut the fields. And this is in an EXTREME rattlesnake area. There’s a million ways to get killed on this property, so I wont hunt without my cell phone zipped in my pocket.
Anyway, here’s the first goodies found with my new toy. These were found over the course of the last 2 weeks.
The 28 Merc was about 8 inches deep, and rang out loud and clear at the highest discrimination level. That was my first silver coin with the CZ-5. I was happy to find my first “wilver” with it, and very impressed with the machine. Both the Rosies were very shallow, less than 4 inches.The 1899 Barber dime was VERY deep. It was around 10” down and still gave a nice sound all the way up to full discrimination on the detector. The Quarter was in the 8-9” range, great sound . And the 1892 Injun, which is easily the best condition dug Indian I’ve ever seen, was somewhere near 10“, and it gave a nice sound all the way up to full discrimination. (Although I’ve air tested some other Injuns that “disc out” just above foil).
A barely discernible 2 cent piece, at only about 5 inches, that only made it up to 4 on the CZ-5’s disc knob, but still had a high tone. My closest guess on the date would be an 1868. I’ll probably never know for sure.
And a gold ring. Which was only about 4-5” deep, and had about the exact same characteristics as the 2 center to the CZ.
Also, I returned to another of my old sites that I was sure I “Hunted out”, and pulled out this pretty nice 1853 Large Cent, from this small little area that I went over at least 10 times before! I’m not lying when I say I feel this coin was a foot deep or more. I couldn’t believe the depth of this coin. A good signal, that still rang clearly at the highest discrimination on the CZ-5. Thank God I can make big plugs here. I cut this plug almost a foot wide, and it easily took up 10 inches of soil with it when I pulled it up, and I still had to dig down a few inches more to find the coin. THAT moment made a Serious CZ believer out of me!.
The large Cent was NOT foundat the farmhouse pictured.
So I think I’m pretty happy with this new toy. I’ll use it this whole summer and see how I do.
Oh, and as usual, I always dig TONS of garbage, bullets, pulltabs, and clad etc, that I never mention.
And the deep nails are still messin’ with me some too.
But I’m really impressed with the depth capabilities of this CZ-5.
Anyway, I wish everyone continued success, and happy hunting!.
Thanks for looking.
T.B.K.
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nice pics
lol.
