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My FZ-12 is 1" to 1.5" deeper than my 10.5" stock coil in every test I have done. Tom tuned 1021 CZ-3D. It seems to hit coins on edge really nicely and is 1oz lighter than the Fisher 10.5" coil.
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Forgot to mention when I messaged the guy about buying one of his rare coils I got this reply:
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Thanks for replying to my post on the forum. I have found a FZ-12 but I am curios about your (Prototype) 6 x 10 Eliptical. What exactly is it?
What wouold you be selling it for?
Thanks,
Terry
Terry,
The 6 x 10 is actually a 5 x 10, my mistake. Prototype is an exper
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The 'bicentennial' so to speak. 50 years since US 90% silver regular strike coins have been minted. Sure doesn't seem that long ago! A big reason we need good metal detectors
to find these long lost gems. They're getting deeper and masked more each passing year.
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My advice: If you can not locate a proven 1021 unit buy a new FT CZ-3D directly from Tom! Why? It will be a 'hot' one, hand picked by Tom himself and calibrated by him at no extra charge. I have a Tom calibrated 1021 that gets 12" on a clad dime (in his soil) and my son has a new Tom calibrated FT unit that we purchased from Tom that gets 12" on a clad dime (in his soil). That
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Ebay was selling them last year, for a CZ-3D, but alas the link is dead now. It was here:
h t t p://cgi.ebay.c o m/FISHER-CZ5-CZ-3D-CZ3d-CZ6A-metal-Detector-RAIN-COVER-/110577458233?_trksid=p5197.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D3%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1362173937961715#ht_500wt_717
Bet they show up again.
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Keith Southern Wrote:
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I have watched that video several times. It is just incredible. There IS layers of old goodies beyond what our VLFs are detecting.
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I have never been able to hunt with the sensitivity over 5 without lots of falsing with any of the CZ-3Ds I have used (2-1021s and 1-FT, 2 tuned by Tom). You must have fairly mild ground?
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That's great, Dan! Do you bowhunt also? My oldest boy (32) is a hunting fool. He shoots a Mathews Z7 and an older Mathews Switchback. He has shot black bear in Ontario, pigs in Texas, antelope in South Dakota,
quite few gobblers and big whitetails here in Nebraska and in Illinois/Kansas/Iowa. All the big game seasons are closed now but he has been putting the hurt on coyotes,foxes, and a fe
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Grab a set of Koss QZ-99s
They are cheap!And the build quality is stout.
Use the search function here on the forum to see some reviwews of them. GREAT headphones/good noise canceling. They are 60 ohms.
I have these/Killer Bees/Sunray Golds and some hard to find AUVIO wireless headphones.
For metal detecting these QZ-99s are the best for me. They really bring out the tone details.
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I thought I might add a small story about half dollars. My BEST find ever was a half dollar! It was a Franklin half.
Yup, have found stuff worth a lot more money wise... a huge 22 carat gold man's ring with a 3 carat really COOL banana yellow colored diamond. The ring had no initials or anything. I sold it for $5,200. Found a woman's wedding ring with 5 diamonds on the swimming beach a
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We are talking about a Hall Of Fame here. Red Grange is in the Football Hall Of Fame.He played halfback in the 1920s. He weighed 180lbs. He was GREAT for his time but I doubt he would have all those great statistics playing against
todays modern defensive players. So we are talking about metal detectors of their own era. Sure an E-Trac is a great modern detector, as are several others. But we ca
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My vote the Compass 77B Yukon. I found thousands of silver coins with mine and more gold jewelry than all the VLF discriminating detectors
I've had put together. Perhaps the Fisher 1266X and CZ-3D also.
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True story: I personally have never done it BUT... In the early 1970s a buddy of mine and I went to a big metal detecting/treasure hunting show in Fremont, Nebraska.
They had dealers/demonstrations and a couple seminars. One of the seminars was given by Karl Von Mueller himself! If you don't know who he is Google him.
Anyway he was speaking about a lot of of different things and he came to
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Years ago a friend and myself were detecting an old church and he found a mid 1800s $10 dollar gold piece. Of course both of us were jumping around like madmen! I have to tell
you from what I recall it looked a lot like your find, just an overall rough look to it. It ended up being made of a brass alloy. In the early 70s I found two mid 1800 $1 gold coins in
the same hole detecting a very old a
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Nine inches of snow on the ground and getting close to zero degrees at night now. The ground here is frozen so no more detecting for me... and no travel plans forseen.
Time to kick back and see if any new detectors show up this winter or early spring (hint, hint, Fisher). I had a great year detecting that old golf course converted to a park.
378 silver coins/2 gold wedding bands, 1 gold class r
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