I can only give the Makro CF77 two thumbs up

Would give it more but I am all out of thumbs. I have the CF77 that was sent to me to try from this wonderful forum, it has all three coils the 9"/11"/and the 17.5". I have played around with the 11" coil in my yard and took the 9" coil out on an actual hunt today, have not tried the 17.5 coil at all yet. The CF77 is well made, solid but not heavy it is balanced well. Very easy to setup, ground balancing is a breeze to do. For me it is an ideal detector, the max discrimination is set to where I run all my detectors (knock out nails and accepts everything else). I tested it on some of my wife jewelry and it hits everything I passed by the coil even tiny ear ring backs. To me it is like using some of my all time favorite detectors all at the same time, Tesoro's simple but great beep and dig abilities, Minelab Musketeer's can almost feel if the target is a coin or not before you dig it, plus more depth than the Tesoro's or Musketeer's. I am not a multi-tone kind of person by any means but the 3 tones on the CF77 are pleasant and right on the money. I was/am in the market for a detector and am so glad that NASA-Tom gave me the chance to try out the CF77, I had my choices narrowed down to the Vaquero or the CF77 and most likely would of went with the Vaq. due to being skeptical about a detector that is not as popular and not alot of info about them. I can honestly tell you all that the CF77 is a great detector, so much so that I am going to order one from my distributor when I have to send back the one that was sent to me to try. A great all around detector.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/2016 11:01PM by SkiWhiz.

Did you compare it to any of the "depth monsters" ie; F75 ? Or what kind of depth does it seem to have? Thanks for your report.

I knew you would like it SkiWhiz - You were the one responsible for me getting a Musketeer a few years back - I recently managed to pick up a lightly used CF77 standard pack for a couple of hundred dollars here in NZ - I did however get to see and briefly play with one when they first came out & was blown away with the build quality this unit displayed - Not a bad effort for being Makro's first real hobby coin detector & now we can see clearly that they are not one hit wonders -

I haven't put in the hours to give you sound advice etc but I do know that its a very capable and deep detector -

Thanks again Ski

doc holiday Wrote:
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> Did you compare it to any of the "depth monsters"
> ie; F75 ? Or what kind of depth does it seem to
> have? Thanks for your report.

Not so much head to head but have had many detectors over the years. I pulled some coins out of the ground a good 8" with the CF77 which might not seem that deep to some of you but in my ground it is fantastic depth.

Thanks Ski--good info.