Fisher 1266

If higher frequency machines are better at detecting low conductors. Why was my ole 1266 at 4.8 kHz far better at detecting and hitting hard on buttons and bullets than my 13 and 19 kHz units I have now.

I bought a brand new 1266, found many coins and several rings with it, pretty much ran it wide open with no disc and second disc at beavertail reject shoulda kept it

Hey Hombre, I thought you said the 1266 like the CZ was a nail grabber?

Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> Hey Hombre, I thought you said the 1266 like the
> CZ was a nail grabber?


No...I never said that, my CZ5 was a high toning son of a gun on deep rusty nails....pretty much helpless in the places I hunt. With the 1266, take a freshly dug beavertail pulltab and throw it on the ground, and set the trigger forward second disc to reject it. set that way it would nab the higher conductive coins from wheat cents on up.

One of the deepest, most ergonomic, battery efficient units of its era...Very noisy but those that leaned its language excelled...

I always heard after 6'' you had No Disc. as it would sound on anything deep?

Bill I have always wondered the same thing and I'm beginning to think that frequencies between 4.8 to 13kHz are ideal on relics. The 1266x and Teknetics T2 fall in that range and look at their cult following and performance on relics.

Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> I always heard after 6'' you had No Disc. as it
> would sound on anything deep?


I have a 1265 and I have dug up small silver 5 cent pieces here in Canada deeper than anyone I know with any modern machine. About three times now at 8" at least! I almost never dig rusty nails anymore at any depth. It took quite a while to learn what they sound like. There is always a clipped scratchness to the sound with iron whereas good conductive targets have a smooth sound from start to finish.

Forgotten underatted machine. Great in remote op3n woods. Friend used to run one and it was very deep in our good dirt. EMI gave him fits, but thats what you get with alot of high gain machines like that. One spot with an electric fence gave it so much trouble that it was unusable where other machines could still function.