Compadre Arrived Today..........

[Chizzy]

I got home from work just as the package delivery was being placed at my front door...........
Didn't even bother pulling around to the back of the house..........until I saw my wife retrieve the box.
Unfortunately, I've had other work to do every evening cleaning up our rental property, so...........
It's now 10:30 pm and I'm just getting ready to open a new world/experience/hobby/addiction............

Lots to learn................

 

[Chizzy]

11:30 pm..........
Read the paperwork, assembled and turned on..........
One thing I know for sure.............it finds the primitive nails in my hardwood floor...........
Hope I have time to let it see the light of day tomorrow...........

 

[WhiteTornado]

I use a Tesoro Cibola. Been a fine machine so far. I have enough hours with it (about 75-80) that I'm finally starting to understand it very well. Give it time. It will find things very deep. Hunted on a horse farm a couple of weeks ago and found a small piece of horse tack that had to be at least 10" down. Don't forget to check out the Tesoro-specific forum, too:

Tesoro subforum

 

[Indian Steve]

You will LOVE that Compadre.

 

[Chizzy]

Thanks..........took it out on the lawn this evening with a handful of different coins to get a feel...........tried different settings, and.........the good news is that I didn't loose any coins............

 

[Chizzy]

Because of heavy work schedule and cleaning up our rental property (daughter and family moved out of state ), I haven't found time to dig any holes........until today........took the Compadre out in the front yard for 15 minutes and dug 3 holes. First hole produced 2 Washington quarters (1974, 1983), second a 1974 Lincoln cent and the third, a screw...........well, it's a start..............

 

[Chizzy]

Round 2 today with the Compadre.........another 30 minute hunt in the yard. Dug a deep hole along a garage and discovered an old metal pail. Handle was still attached on one side. It was too deep to retrieve, although I did try.........dug out part of the inside and part of the arc on the south side. Hole number 2 yielded a piece of crumpled scrap aluminum. Hole number 3 was a tire balancing weight............
Rain tomorrow, so I'll try after the ground gets a soaking.............

 

[Chizzy]

4th hunt with the Compadre today.......a quick 30 minutes in the back yard after supper..........



It ain't much, but I'm learning.............

 

[basque-man]

Yup; your hooked!!

 

[JOe L]

Great machine, take your time and it will talk to you, right now its a language you may not understand.
I have the Tesoro Cibola and loving every min of it.

 

[Chizzy]

Thanks to everyone for your encouragement.........

A question for you all.........I began searching with my discrimination in about the 3 o'clock position (a suggestion I read on a thread) and wasn't getting much feedback from the MD. I changed to the high noon position and have had some better signals and targets to dig...........
Where would the optimum setting be for a beginner?

 

[WhiteTornado]

Thanks to everyone for your encouragement.........

A question for you all.........I began searching with my discrimination in about the 3 o'clock position (a suggestion I read on a thread) and wasn't getting much feedback from the MD. I changed to the high noon position and have had some better signals and targets to dig...........
Where would the optimum setting be for a beginner?

I'd recommend that if someone is just starting out, discriminate out pull tabs, at least to keep your sanity . Really, though, it's whatever setting you think is working for you and where you are having fun. Generally, having fun means you are finding enough keepers per hour/day/etc to keep you interested. Make sense?

 

[Skippy SH13]

Thanks to everyone for your encouragement.........

A question for you all.........I began searching with my discrimination in about the 3 o'clock position (a suggestion I read on a thread) and wasn't getting much feedback from the MD. I changed to the high noon position and have had some better signals and targets to dig...........
Where would the optimum setting be for a beginner?

I'm going to disagree with Chizzy (not that there's a "wrong" way to start... just go!), but I think you'll save yourself in the long run by learning what you're digging with the discrimination set only to remove iron.

I also think you'll appreciate the first time you find a Tungsten, Titanium, or Gold ring that you weren't "Practicing" with discrimination too high.

Cheers!

 

[Fletch88]

Set disc just below nickel and dig all repeatable signals. You can practice thumbing the disc knob on targets to try and identify what you're about to dig, but most of the time I just go ahead and pop the target out and get a pleasant surprise every one in a while. If you want to find gold/platinum jewelry you have to dig pull tabs there's no way around it, even with the most expensive VDI machine. If you get tired of digging mid conductors just set disc up to 3 o'clock and look for clad/ silver targets!

 

[Chizzy]

5th time out to the backyard for 40 minutes...........discriminate at 12 noon...........
Too bad glass shards aren't in great demand.........the bottom of my bucket is about covered.........



That piece of copper wire had me going for a while...........looked just like some of the other roots in the patch of earth I was digging!!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Time to get out and hit some woods, farm fields, baseball outfields, soccer fields!!

 

[WhiteTornado]

5th time out to the backyard for 40 minutes...........discriminate at 12 noon...........
Too bad glass shards aren't in great demand.........the bottom of my bucket is about covered.........

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That piece of copper wire had me going for a while...........looked just like some of the other roots in the patch of earth I was digging!!

When I was first starting out, I was hunting a park and kept finding pieces of wire like that one in your picture (although they were not copper). After digging up about the 5th one, I realized they were scraps from when the baseball field's chainlink fence was installed LOL. I finally wised up and hunted another part of the park.

 

[Chizzy]

Time to get out and hit some woods, farm fields, baseball outfields, soccer fields!!

"......woods, farm fields......" Yes, I agree and have that urge to detect a few isolated historic spots. Still perfecting my hole filling technique to attempt public areas, unless they are surface finds. And, I have been given permission by several of my clients that have old homestead lands............

Thanks for the encouragement.........

 

[Chizzy]

When I was first starting out, I was hunting a park and kept finding pieces of wire like that one in your picture (although they were not copper). After digging up about the 5th one, I realized they were scraps from when the baseball field's chainlink fence was installed LOL. I finally wised up and hunted another part of the park.

I can empathize..........lol. Just shows me how badly I need a pointer.............

 

[Chizzy]

Hunt number 6 in a grassy parking area of a local park for another 40 minutes. Found 2 dimes and 3 cents immediately. Won't bore you with another ho-hum picture. I've posted a couple for practice with the new phone camera...........
Summation of the balance of the hunt.......pull tabs, bottle caps and foil ended in a 4 all tie........was too tired to go extra innings...............