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Fisher CZ 3D

Price: $800
Avg. Score: 5 stars! 4.53
Based on 34 reviews

Avg. Durability: 5 stars!4.75
Avg. Ease of use: 5 stars!5.00
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Super Machine that teaches Patience!!

October 30, 2006
As a newbie to detecting I did a lot of research and gambled on the 3D. The first month I really questioned my choice. I didn't understand it's love of rusted nails. I dug enough to roof my house! Twice!! But refusing to give up I put in a lot of time and dedicated practice. Then it seemed to hit me all at once. I figured out the iron mystery and the machines little quirks. It was a real revelation and my quality targets took off like crazy! Rings, Silver, Wheats. I sometimes had a feeling like I was cheating or something.

When I leave the house with this machine I'm always confident that I will find something interesting.And I do with a frequency that blows my friends minds. I've got to the point that I can show up to any property and find at least a hand full of wheats with ease. And the ratio is about 10 to 1 wheats to some kind of Merc, Silver quarter or the like! I know the big score is just a matter of time. The depth is top shelf. The 3D regulary and solidly identifies targets to 8 inches. I've recovered a few hovering in the 10 inch range with the stock coil. Pin pointing is dead on. I rarely find a silver off center of the pin point. Sometimes wheats can drift an inch or so, but I believe this is due to the corrosion factor. I really agree with the reviewer that stated you get "Jedi" about coins with this unit. It has become an extension of my senses. I see them on Ebay for super prices sometimes. Just buy the darn thing and "unlearn what you have learned." You will be very happy with The CZ-3D.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

462

Bronze Coins

October 22, 2006
Being in Japan I look for a lot of old Bronze coins..Have used Garrett in the past and done good! Got the 3D and went over some old spots and came up with more old coins between 200-700 years old. Does good on the old bronze coins deep! Small and light..What I need here in the jungles of Okinawa.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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Very Fine Machine

June 05, 2006
I am here in Japan and have done very well with some of my old sites and new sites with the 3D!
Find many old bronze coins dating back 300-900 years and it as done very well with bring them up to me! I am now trying to get a 2nd back up machine!

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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6 Months with CZ-3D

December 24, 2005
I was very frustrated with this machine at first, but wouldn't trade it now. I have found relics and old coins, including V and Buffalo nickels. It is great on deep silver dimes. Using it in trash is tricky and you must slow down and understand how to listen to the tones for good targets buried with iron. Only two knocks are it will cause you to dig deep corroded iron nails that signal coin and you cannot discriminate out zinc pennies. Watch for shallow depth and you can avoid digging zincs as well. It is rugged and dependable like most the Fishers. I have found a Sunray in-line probe helps me discriminate out iron trash without digging a hole to China.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

313

THE BEST

November 19, 2005
The Best i Have used & i have mastered The Troy X5 the CZ70 Most Minelabs what a wast of money there wow... the CZ 3D get one you won't be sorry

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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Great machine

September 09, 2005
I have had my CZ3D since april and have found many great things with it. 1820's military button, late 1700's civilian button, 1880's pocket watch, and others. Pulls coins out up to 9 inches or more sometimes, as long as it is balanced properly. Simple to use, just don't push the sensativity up too high. Almost has a threshold where it will become unstable, but again, just balance it and start cooking. Also works great on the beach in salt mode.
I made note of some negative reviews of this detector before I purchased it. Sufice to say, properly tuned, it cooks. I am still learning the tones, but you get jedi about it after time and can feel the coins. Does not pull alot of trash. I don't descriminate as corroded iron will bounce high/low, so I leave the low tones on. A coin will hold solid unless it is quite deep, then dig per depth on such a signal. HH skip

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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CZ3d, definately no CZ5

May 31, 2005
I have used my new 3d now for about 5 outings and have determined the following:

If you want a unit that will allow you to descriminate out zinc pennies, this unit aint for you. The only way I have been able to partially knock out zinc pennies is by putting the 3d in the salt mode and crankin descrimination up to 6, which is max.

Next, if you want a nickel machine like the CZ5, then don't waste your money on the 3d, buy a used CZ5 and save about $400.00. The CZ3d in enhanced mode will not hit on a nickel period, not even a 1939 Buffulo nickel, which it was designed for older coins. The only way to get nickels with the 3d is by putting it in salt mode and even then it wants to bounce between foil & nickel quite a bit.

I can see why they recommend pre-1950's sites for the 3d, because you will dig more trash with it. Bottom line, if your looking for as good a performance as the CZ5, you will be very disappointed, but if you've never used a CZ before, then you will probably like this machine, it has great depth in enhanced mode, great tones (4) and its a Fisher, what more could you ask for.

I wish Fisher would bring back the CZ5, it was a better machine!

Overall Rating 3 stars

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CZ-3D

January 22, 2005
You had better learn to speak Chinese because this rascal does go extremely deep! Start all over again with those so called hunted out parks...you won't be sorry. It is as good as it gets with the Fisher quality. CZs rule...especially this one.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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Hunted Out - Not if you own a CZ-3D

January 17, 2005
I live in an area where the old parks have literaly been "hunted out" by the old timers. I am talking about sites that have been hunted for four decades. Going to these parks is frustrating to all. I found my share of new coins, nails and trash at these site but no old coins.
I hunt with a Fisher CZ-20 and it has performed great on land, lake and ocean beaches. I have found my share of silver coins and wheat pennies and older nickels. This luck is not happening for me on the hunted out places but on sites where my research has allowed me to be first or second person to detect the site with history and lots of old activity.
I saved my Christmas Money and coupled with some savings and my recycling money (I recycle all trash metals) to purchased a better detector. I narrowed it down to 2 high end detectors. I was going to purchase either a Minelab Explorer 2 or another Fisher the CZ-3D. I stayed loyal to Fisher. It's cold here in Ohio in January, but I don't care, I figure the cold makes me tougher. I took the new Fisher CZ-3D out in the cold anyway. First three steps into the "hunted out" park and at the bottom of the hole I plucked out an 1879 Indian Head penny in almost very good conditin at about 6 to 8 inches. I guess the old timers did not get all the coins.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

392

Red Clay Specialist

January 08, 2005
Best deep coin detector that I have ever used.
In red clay soil, there is no other.
I have tried over 10 "high-end detectors" and none can compare to the detection of the CZ3D. Quality construction and EXCELLENT discrimination on older sites. The CZ3D can find older coins that the other detectors that are sweeping ahead of me just pass off as "trash" or just miss entirely! Expensive but well worth it.

Overall Rating 5 stars!

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