I took the Compadre for it's first hunt to one of my favorite sites yesterday. I have pounded this site for hundreds of hours with a Tesoro Vaquero, a Teknetics T2, and a Minelab E-Trac. I wanted to see if the Compadre would turn up ay goodies the others missed (mainly gold). I set the discrimination low to just to cut out iron and I dug every target for 2 hours. Well that was exhausting! One thing is for sure, at this setting the Compadre is a pull tab & can slaw magnet.
I did dig a clad dime, a cross, a junk earring, a key, a pocket watch part, and a button that the others missed. The spoon was probably overlooked because it overloaded on the other units.
Overall I very happy with the machine. I has a quick response, and even though it has no pin-pointing button, finding your target via the X method is very easy. At two pounds you can swing this thing all day, the question is can you dig all of those targets. I hear this unit is killer at tot lots and plan to use i the next time I got to one.
It sure was fun beep-digging again but it a lot of work!
I did dig a clad dime, a cross, a junk earring, a key, a pocket watch part, and a button that the others missed. The spoon was probably overlooked because it overloaded on the other units.Overall I very happy with the machine. I has a quick response, and even though it has no pin-pointing button, finding your target via the X method is very easy. At two pounds you can swing this thing all day, the question is can you dig all of those targets. I hear this unit is killer at tot lots and plan to use i the next time I got to one.
It sure was fun beep-digging again but it a lot of work!
