Wish I never parted with.......

My Fisher F19. Never got the following it should have. My Whites 4900. Got my ear tuned to that one and it rewarded me many times over. What about you?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2017 08:52AM by woodchiphustler.

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My Fisher F19

I had a real good one that would ID real deep and accurate. I got rid of it but tried a couple more after that and never got one as good as that one.

Troy X5

Me two . I had a couple. One of the finest ever!

Once it is time to move on...it's time to move forward

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Lawrenzo Wrote:
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> Once it is time to move on...it's time to move for
> ward


YES SIR!!!------Move on----move forward---TO THE F-19!!!!!!!!!!!!

I liked the F19 but kept the racer 1

LowBoy

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Folks may have different response(s) here to this thread,,, given time.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2017 01:20AM by tnsharpshooter.

I had a good F19 but much prefer my Racer 2. Sorry I didn't keep my Compass Gold Scanner Pro from back in 1989 or so. Really nice all around detector.

the original 1266xb's with the white coil and twin stacked boards that dang thing was Deeeeeep!!

tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Folks may have different response(s) here to this
> thread,,, given time.
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Two ways to take that

New stuff puts ALL to shame

Old stuff BETTER than anything new on the boards.

LOL

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Wish I never parted with .......

The longer we've been enjoying this sport, the more models we might consider. When I was younger and healthier I spent more time Coin Hunting wide-open parks and such and enjoyed my XLT's and XL Pro's as I felt they were the cream-of-the-crop for the moderate-to-fast sweep detectors. I'd let one go to try something else, then reacquire one again. I had 27 XLT's since early '94 and I enjoyed all of them. But they are gone from my arsenal and while I have good memories from using them, they just aren't a practical 'fit' anymore.

I've let modified Classic ID and IDX Pro's go and ... for a while ... I regretted doing that and wished I had one back. A few times I'd reacquire one, but soon they were gone for an assortment of reasons. Most of the older detector designs have been replaced with several modern, better featured and better performing detectors for the types of hunting I prefer to do the most, so I am comfortable with what I have. There are very, very few 'older' detectors that can provide the lighter weight, balance, fit-and-feel of what we have today. Many, perhaps most former detectors, even though we really enjoyed them and they worked well back then, just seem to come up short in comparison with todays models for what we do.

Most, but not all. For whatever reason a newer release from Fisher, the F19, has drawn a lot of discussion here. I could see the potential in them and the hoped-for improvements over the G2/Gold Bug Pro plus the added features. I got two of the F19's. They were an improvement. I generally liked the packaging. But I found the 5X10 DD coil to be nose-heavy, and I was annoyed that it took a high VDI setting of '38' or '39' out of the '40' ferrous range break point to reject most nails I evaluated it with. The V.4 Omega 8000 only required a '16' / '17' Disc. setting and the G2 was very close to that, not an almost maximum setting which eliminates ferrous range fine-tuning.

In the field and hunting several very iron litter old sites I enjoy Relic Hunting at, the F19's did OK, but they were out-performed by my Nokta FORS CoRe, and Racer 2 which has Iron Audio Volume, and especially by my FORS Relic with similar features and operating at 19 kHz like the F19's. There have been a few other recent models I used to enjoy and temporarily re-acquired, then the reality hit as to why I let them go. They just didn't balance as well and didn't perform as my current detector battery.

There are just two models I can think of that I really admired their performance and limited versatility compared with our modern offerings that I do keep a watch for. The Tesoro Bandido, 'original' model, and the Bandido II. No, they don't provide great depth, but I mainly hunt trashier sites, and although I have my Bandido II µMAX and Silver Sabre µMAX ready-to-go, and they do work reasonably well in dense iron debris with their 6" Concentric coils, the microMAX models do struggle a little in many iron-masking conditions than those two previous models. I attribute the weakness to the Low-Noise/High-Gain circuitry incorporated in the microMAX series and have demonstrated it frequently and experienced it when working several of the iron debris sites in many of the old RR ghost towns I've hunted for decades.

No, they don't provide 'depth' on smaller, coin and token and button-sized targets, but most of those targets are not that deep anyway. They are just masked by the dense amount of close proximity trash and have been missed by others who didn't use the better tool for the task. So I am looking for either or both of those models to add to my working arsenal, and if I really go back-in-time I'd love to find a choice condition and excellent performing Compass 77-Auto. All lot of variance among them and it would have to be an excellent performing specimen.

Until then I am quite content with everything I currently own and use for a variety of hunting needs.

Monte

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My thing is, that I don't stick with just one niche of the hobby of metal detecting. I tend to come and go from old coin hunting, to relic hunting, to beach/jewelry hunting. I don't really do modern coin hunting though and even though my area has gold in it, it isn't big enough to detect with a detector anyway so I don't prospect for it with a detector. So with that said, my detectors come and go with whatever I happen to be doing in the hobby at the time. I tend to have a few models that I like for each particular thing, but don't have "just one" for doing it all. For the most part, I can easily obtain any of the previous model machines I have had. But if I had to say there is one I wish I would have never parted with....it would be one I could probably obtain again but would pay dearly for if I were to get it. It's the Bandido II uMax. It may be just because I haven't had one in my hands in so long that I remember them being better than what they actually were. I have been keeping an eye out for one for a while now but every one that has came up, has been more than I want to pay for one of them. I've also been looking out for a CZ-70 Pro. I have had several CZs over the years but the CZ-70 Pro was the only one I really liked of the models I've had. I've came VERY close to punching the Buy It button on some of them I've seen pop up.

woodchiphustler Wrote:
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> My Fisher F19. Never got the following it should h
> ave. My Whites 4900. Got my ear tuned to that one
> and it rewarded me many times over. What about you
> ?
surprised you sold the F19 woodchip. I remember you raving about it. but the hobby for you seems to be more related to playing with different machines. nothing wrong with that....
I won't ever sell my G2+.....and I really like my Racer 2 but the poor ergos will eventually cause me to sell it for a replacement...

Tom Slick Wrote:
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> I had a good F19 but much prefer my Racer 2. Sorry
> I didn't keep my Compass Gold Scanner Pro from bac
> k in 1989 or so. Really nice all around detector.

Loved the model.. Depth Demon of the day!