I've had a lot of struggles with my CZ-21. I purchased it used on Craigslist from a guy in Florida who said it worked fine. It did not. I sent it in for repair, had to upgrade it, and have had it back to Fisher three or four more times to correct problems that it has had (coil water incursion at least twice, if not thrice). I sent it in a few weeks ago, after our Bahamas vacation where it falsed constantly, for what I swear is the last time. I received it back and it seems that they did replace the coil, again. So, wanting to test out the work that was done, I loaded the family into the car for a two hour drive to Stinson Beach, CA.
The road there is a windy one, and my youngest had a melt down while the eldest maintained a stiff upper lip (albeit with an unsettled stomach). When we arrived, it was too cold, the sand was too cold, there was no sunlight, the sand hurt their feet, ad nauseam... But once we settled down and started digging our way to Australia, all was well with the world. I tried my luck in a trough that was handily in front of us, but not a peep other than falsing. I was not happy with that, but swore I'd power through and try deeper water. Putting the coil into 4" and deeper seemed to kill the falsing. For some reason, this coil does not like salt water sloshing over the top, but immersed it seems to be fine. Unfortunately, my headphones were TOO quiet, and I elected to instead try my luck on a sand dune.
I was glad I did! On the way, I uncovered a couple of coin spills and eventually found this very nice and very delicate sterling bracelet (by Elsa Peretti, which is sold at Tiffany's) with my initial on it. I don't expect that I'll be wearing it, but fate does seem to want to tempt me...
All in all, this was a good outing, and I pulled a lot of potentially harmful trash off the beach in a short amount of time! I won't be convinced that my troubles are over, though, until I've had this beast in salty water a few more times.
Happy hunting!
The road there is a windy one, and my youngest had a melt down while the eldest maintained a stiff upper lip (albeit with an unsettled stomach). When we arrived, it was too cold, the sand was too cold, there was no sunlight, the sand hurt their feet, ad nauseam... But once we settled down and started digging our way to Australia, all was well with the world. I tried my luck in a trough that was handily in front of us, but not a peep other than falsing. I was not happy with that, but swore I'd power through and try deeper water. Putting the coil into 4" and deeper seemed to kill the falsing. For some reason, this coil does not like salt water sloshing over the top, but immersed it seems to be fine. Unfortunately, my headphones were TOO quiet, and I elected to instead try my luck on a sand dune.
I was glad I did! On the way, I uncovered a couple of coin spills and eventually found this very nice and very delicate sterling bracelet (by Elsa Peretti, which is sold at Tiffany's) with my initial on it. I don't expect that I'll be wearing it, but fate does seem to want to tempt me...
All in all, this was a good outing, and I pulled a lot of potentially harmful trash off the beach in a short amount of time! I won't be convinced that my troubles are over, though, until I've had this beast in salty water a few more times.
Happy hunting!
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