Fisher CZ 70 Pro
Street Price $900 - Coin, relic
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Fisher CZ 70 Pro
Great detector
Lance in Oh -I have owned numerous high end detectors, all the major brands. I'm not new to this sport, so I can honestly say this is the best all around detector I have ever used. Buy one if you can find one.
Jan 30, 2008
3 people found this review helpful.
A Shame That The 70 Is Discontinued
R.L. Johnson in Ohio -This digital version of the CZ's is still one of the best detectors around, if you can find one. It does have some shortcomings which don't at all affect the performance. The sensitivity and volume have limited adjustment compared to the analog 's knobs. Some might see this as a hinderance, but the 70 goes deep even with these drawbacks. All CZ's have a reputation for loving deep iron, but with some time in the field, this is an easy problem to solve. Depth is equal to any detector made and it will lock onto a deep coin and if it repeats from all angles get ready to dig a deep coin. I personally don't use the notch, but prefer to hear all the tones and pick out the high, repeatable tones. The 70, along with most all CZ's are bar none the best nickle finders around. The nice feature about these detectors is a nickle will sound off with a high tone, which simpliies coin hunting. Many people shy away from manual ground balancing which the 70 has, but it is relatively easy. Getting a proper ground balance is crucial for the super depth the CZ's are known for. The 70 is built to last and splash proof which is a good feature if you ever get caught any distance from your car or shelter. Great detector that First Texas should spruce up and reintroduce.
Jul 26, 2007
4 people found this review helpful.
A Great All Around Detector
L.W. Steve in Seattle, WA -In my opinion the Fisher CZ-70 Pro is the best "All Around" detector ever made!
Folks, I've been using Fisher CZ's since 1992...
This detector will go very very deep!
I can use it to hunt the wet salt water surf.
I can also take it relic hunting and or nugget hunting.
I can chest mount the "rain proof" control housing and do some shallow water hunting in lakes or in the ocean with it.
The ID meter is very accurate and if you know where the gold reads out at then you got it made.
Dual Frequency for extreme depth in mineralized soils ( 5 kHz and 15 kHz )
Four Tone Target ID
Lock on 7 categories Target ID
A bright LCD Back Light with a programmable Notch System
Wide Scan Autotune Mode and with the 5" coil I can detect very tiny gold nuggets with it.
Digital Depth Readings
Constant battery monitoring (3 levels of strength)
Two 9 volt drop in batteries
Touch pad controls
Normal/Salt touch pad mode switch
Faint Target Audio Boost
Three Piece Breakdown
Micro-Proccessor controlled
A very comfortable pistol grip S-handle upper rod design
Double Locking Nylon Stems
Manual Ground Balance (single turn potentiometer)
No motion VCO pinpointing
Silent, VLF slow motion search
The ID meter has last settings memory
The CZ-70 Pro is not effected by Hot Rocks in silent search disc. mode!
This detector is almost completely immune to electrical interference. Believe it or not!
This detector luvs nickels...
This detector is the best "nickel gitter" in the business!
With this detector you can discriminate and not lose any depth.
The CZ-70 Pro is the Ultimate Machine!
Nov 10, 2006
14 people found this review helpful.
cz-70, good and bad..
Larry D Gressel in Sweet Home, Oregon -I really like Fisher detectors, but with the cz-70, there is one thing that bothers me a little. With mine, if the soil is EXTREMELY bad, such as in a rockpile, extreme magnetite or pea gravel, it WILL NOT detect a nickel when the discriminate is set to cancel iron, no matter what I do to it. It will find a nickel in all-metal, but not in discriminate. In normal bad, difficult soil it is a very sweet, beautiful machine, but there seems to be a bit too much discrimination built into the pushbutton settings, enough so that in EXTREME bad soil, a nickel reads like iron.
In salt beaches, and good to normal bad soil, it really behaves like a new Mercedes Benz, but not in the utmost poor ground conditions. It has excellent balance, one of the best of all my 15 detectors, but a little less discrimination would have been a better idea when they made it. Other than that, it is perhaps the second best all-around machine I've ever seen. My Compass Scanner (R&C) and my old Compass GoldScanner Pro were the best of the best in this regard, and were also two of the best nugget hunters ever made.
I give the cz-70 somewhere between a 4 and a 5, but closer to a #5
Mar 19, 2006
14 people found this review helpful.
Clear tone deep disc machine!!!!!!!
John N in Vancouver, Canada -One thing that is very noticeable on this machine, is that there are no maybe/disc signals. All targets lock squarely in a category with a clear sharp tones, even at depth. Iron disc is much more effective and accurate if you manualy ground balance the unit. The pushbutton method, while good, is not as accurate and lets the iron objects play games.When you disc out a category...it's gone!!! This unit ranks right up there with the best/deepest disc machines, you have got to use it to believe it.
Nov 07, 2005
13 people found this review helpful.
CZ 70 Pro
JRG in USA -It's my favorite "all around" machine. My 3-D has no depth advantage in my soil conditions that I have noticed(low mineralization). The 70 is accurate and easy to use. I also own a C$ and have owned ExpXS and DFX. the XS was better in heavy iron but doing head to head depth tests on coins the 70 was much deeper. Of all the machines I've listed some may have an edge in one aspect over the 70 but overall the 70 is "best all around"!
Oct 19, 2004
27 people found this review helpful.
CZ 70 Pro
Tom in USA -
More is less...Fisher needs to address the one BIG problem the CZ70 has and that is the limited range of sensitivity adjustment that is obtainable due to the digital control.
I don;t know what other changes, if any, were made in the digital CZ's vs the analog CZ5 but the difference in performance is HUGE when you are at a site that requires tweaking the sensitivity control for conditions.
Fisher left an analog knob on it for the critical ground balance adjustment but must have thought that no one would notice the drop off in performance due loss of adjustability in the critical range neccessary for best performance using the disc mode.
If you are a serious coin hunter the analog CZ5 or the new CZ3d are your only choices.
The CZ70 must have been pushed thru by marketing types "we gotta have this to compete" rather than engineers.
HH, Tom
Sep 28, 2004
19 people found this review helpful.
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