Fisher Coin Strike
Street Price $1000 - Coin, relic
Number of Reviews: 24
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Newbie, but I love my CoinStrike
Mindy in Minnesota -
I went on a metal detecting trip and wound up using the tour operator's CoinStrike instead of my Minelab Advantage (I just couldn't set the Minelab to discriminate very well). Within a day, I was doing pretty well with the CS, and after the week was over I came home and bought my own "like new" model. This year went back on the detecting treasure hunt, and found I've gotten really good at recognizing the sound of a good target; the numbers weren't always consistent but I'm still learning how metals and size of the artifact/coin make things sound different. The CS really does tell you very well if you've got iron, and this year I was also better at picking a good target out from the middle of junk/iron. I dug very little junk, just occasionally a large DEEP piece of rusted iron would keep me digging. I used some settings recommended by other CS owners, no notching, and found the machine was just really nice, easy for me to use, and pinpointed well too. I love the hip mount feature, and rigged up an old fanny-pack with a hole in the bottom for the cable. It was nice because it came with its own little gadget bags on the side. I have VERY little detecting experience, probably only 110 hours, of which 100 are with the CS...but I have no plans to switch machines in the near future. Also, you can get VERY good deals on lightly-used CSs...and they're built very tough too.
Mar 23, 2008
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Fisher Coinstrike
Sal in ohio -I have been using this unit about 1.5 years only in the warm months though, this unit gets very good depth on coins relics, unit is jumpy if not set right, you must try to keep your threshold close to 0 as possible unless you have to much interference in area then go to minus -5 -10 -15 or -20 if you have to only and turn down your sensitivity until stable it is better to keep threshold close to 0 for best depth or a bit pos and turn sens down to 4 or even 2 this will get you the best depth I think, this is where a lot of users have a problem saying the unit is unstable, you must put some time in to learn this machine to let you know its language. The unit ground balances very nicely, just be sure area is clean, pinpoints well I just added a clear sticky tab on pinpoint button now I don't have to keep looking for the right pad I can feel it with my finger, unit goes thru trash very well, the sweep speed is great on this unit you can go fast or slow and lose no depth, using the 5 inch coil is a killer on coins in trashy areas, in iron I noticed deep iron would read number 51 on the meter would dig to china sometimes without finding object, balance and built quality is excellent on this unit just wished they would of put a pinpoint button like the cz 5 but I fixed that problem a bit, all in all I feel it is a very good unit, I would rate it 4.5 if possible I rated it a 4 only because of the pinpoint button and getting 51 readings on large iron but would hit these very deep once you know the unit you would avoid this anyway when you size the object when pinpointing, also good you can chest or hipmount unit, I would recommend this detector to coin and relic hunters....
Feb 08, 2008
3 people found this review helpful.
Disapointed
Pcollins in Michigan -Some background on machines I have owned, Garrett GTAX750, GTAX1250, GTI2500. Whites MXT, 2 XLT's. Fisher CZ6a, 1280x, coinstrike, Gemini. Minelab Explorer XS, 2 Soveriegn XS, Musketeer advantage. I metal detect every day the weather allows. The coinstrike was a disapointment. The audio had a tin sound to it with a delay, the beep would be delayed slightly after the sweep. Nothing like the CZ's I have used. Also it would ID every single steel bottle cap as a quarter, from any direction. This I would be able to tolerate, as some very deep machines have this trait, but this machine is not very deep. 5 inches max on a dime in my ground. To be fair i may have had a dud machine, some people have had excellent luck with this detector. There may be a wide variation of quality out of the box with this detector. But I will never spend the bucks to find out.
Jan 20, 2008
0 people found this review helpful.
Coinstrike A Couple Of Years Later
R.L. Johnson in Ohio -I had one of the first Coinstrikes and had some success with it and gave it a favorable review. I took one on a trade last year and hardly used it. I just got my third Coinstrike and I have used it hard for the last 6 weeks. I am recently retired and I hunt about 5 times aweek so the newest CS has got a workout. First, don't make this detector more difficult than it is. It is really simple. I have a set it and forget approach. I hardly ever vary from these settings. I won't bother giving these settings as they seem to work great in my ground. I have never used a detector that is so sensitive to checking targets from different angles. This detector will high tone and get great numbers with your first sweep. You will swear that it is a good coin and dig a pull tab. If you check from a 90 degree angle and the tones and numbers stay close to the same, dig it and it will almost always be a coin. This is not any news that doesn't pertain to any other detector, but with the CS it is imperative. If it is not just about exactly the same, it will be junk. So far as depth, I routinely dig 8 inch coins with a couple deeper. The key is a slow sweep and don't listen for a banger signal. I have found a signal that pinpoints deep and repeats from all angles, but might have a number of say 18 or 19, you better be digging because most of the time it is a coin. A tip here is open the plug and rescan. A good coin will get a better number and tone. No detector will accurately id a coin from these depths all the time. Here is another tip. Do not notch anything out and go right in to the heaviest trash with a slow sweep. It is noisy, but listen for the high tones. If you sweep slow enough, this detector will separate good targets from the bad an inch away even with the 8 inch coil. This type of hunting is not for people who like silent search. If you can get use to this type of hunting, you will start making great finds. A couple of weeks ago I hunted a park pavillion that is probably the trashiest spot I can think of. Here were the first five finds: two indian heads, two old wheats, and one barber dime. I know I have been over this spot with Explorers, CZ's, DFX's, and many other brands including my first CS. All these coins were 7 to 8 inches deep and surrounded by trash. They all repeated and pinpointed in the 30's. So far as the pinpointing, this detector is the best I have ever used. Lastly, if you are in fairly clean ground, don't hesitate to hunt in all metal. Again, slow sweeping is a must and I have found coins over a foot deep. The CS still gives out numbers in all metal, but it is only a single tone. I believe that the Coinstrike is the most misunderstood detector in recent detecting times. Keep it simple and don't make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Jul 15, 2007
13 people found this review helpful.
sorry unit
Ron B. in Indiana -
After having owened several CZ's this C$ is a real disappointment. I'm fairly adept with most detectors but this outfit is lousy!!! It never misses a bottle cap or piece of rusty steel and it doesn't seem to have much depth. I have used it about 20 hrs and ready to sell. It is easy to set up but I think that is it's only asset. A real" don't buy" machine.
Jul 01, 2007
3 people found this review helpful.
Good Relic Detector but a little pricey
Mirage in Cleveland, Ohio -Currently I have 4 metal detectors ? the Whites DFX , The Minelab Quattro, The Minelab Explorer II and a Whites Classic III SL. The Explorer I have only had for about a month. My review of the Coinstrike is based on my experience with it in Cleveland, Ohio and is in comparison to the above mentioned metal detectors that I have. I had the Coinstrike for about six months. I made some good finds with it and think it is a good detector.
The Pros:
- Simple and fun to use.
- Good target separation.
- Good for iron infested sites.
- Good solid lock on coin sized targets up to about 6? deep
- Easy to cover a lot of ground .
- Great for relic hunting.
The Cons:
- Interference. Could not use it near my back side of my house ? power lines made it too unstable.
- Depth not the greatest. In my soil conditions deepest I can get on a penny is 6-7 inches tops. It will get a silver dime up to a max of 6 inches(even with the 10? coil).
- Deep rusted iron will give off a high tone. You can sweep in alternate directions and still get a good signal. A lot of times you will see a negative number and you can eliminate it as being iron but it does like rusty iron.
- Pinpointing number system is a bit tedious. You have to focus on number readout rather than a bargraph or strictly tone.
- Tend to dig more trash(than with the Quattro, DFX and Exp II).
Overall it is a good detector especially if you are planning on digging everything. Learning curve was very quick being accustomed to White?s Metal Detectors(I understand it is more difficult if you are use to a previous Fisher detector. I sold it because I was just digging too much trash with it and could not get the depth I needed to get the deep coins we consistently find in Ohio.
Aug 08, 2006
14 people found this review helpful.
Glad I Got The CoinStrike!! And What A Coin Finder!!!
Bernie in East Coast of FL. -I have had my CoinStrick a little over a month now, and hunt on the weekend's, on the east coast of FL. beach and inland.
The first time I hunted on the beach it was more of test and try, and found a good amount of coins, went back the next day, and set the coinstrike to one of the memory programs I saved and WOW, after two & half hours of diging coins 8" to 10" deep my foot was worn out.
Last weekend I took the coinstrike to a RV camp ground, that has under ground power line for each site, I thought that would be a good test for RF interferrence, NO PROBLEM but had a lot of bottle caps and pull tabs and foil,after a few hours I knew what they sounded like,and knew what the coins sounded like and easy going after that.
I can,t understand why some say it can't pick up a penny on top of the ground, that sounds like a user problem, not a machine problem,come on get real!!
Like I said I am glad I got the CoinStrike, I am still learning what it's telling me and now rewarding me. Merry Christmas, and HH,
Dec 14, 2005
6 people found this review helpful.