best used detector under 100 bucks
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no need to complicate it.
Keep looking EVERY day A FEW times a day on Craigslist. TODAY I missed an ACE 350 with new headphones and DVD for 50.00. I was the second caller. Used once.
Silversmith45
Elite Member
Pick it up locally and save the shipping. If he gets tires if it you can probably get it back.
beephead
Elite Member
It would be impossible to do better! Nothing can match a Compadre.
It's the best deal on Planet Earth. It can find stuff that the more expensive detectors can't.
beephead
gianetics
Elite Member
ive been looking for a compadre. seen 2 at 125 in the classifieds. im going halfs with another friend. its been a rough year on my business. im in the fishing indurstry and monterey had one of the worst salmon years i have ever seen. couple that with breaking my ankle with no insurance and saying its been tough year is an understatement. oh well !!!! happens got to move forward. thats the reason for the need to keep it sub 100 that would be 50 bucks each and doable. if i cant pick up the tosoro for a bill im going with the tracker.
Rather-B-Huntin
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http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=202734
I just bought the Cibola (even though I own a CTX3030, XP DEUS, AT PRO, and F2). I've heard too many good things about the Tesoro machines and want to see what the hype is about. If the Compadre doesn't sell soon I'm going to grab it too.
I just bought the Cibola (even though I own a CTX3030, XP DEUS, AT PRO, and F2). I've heard too many good things about the Tesoro machines and want to see what the hype is about. If the Compadre doesn't sell soon I'm going to grab it too.
sycotoad
Member
Here's what Dave Johnson, Chief Engineer had to say about the BH
The BH Tracker 4 doesn't have a lot of performance or features, but within its limitations it does what it does very well. Predictable and easy to use. The approx. 6.5 kHz operating frequency, and low sensitivity compared to an expensive machine, allow it to be used on a saltwater beach with little difficulty although if you're where you're actually getting your feet wet you'll probably have to reduce the sensitivity and/or increase the discrimination level. ......Although as an engineer I'm constantly looking at ways it could be "improved", the boss reminds me that of those people who actually own a Tracker 4, it's almost impossible to find someone who's unhappy with it, so "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". A surprising number of people here in the USA who have expensive machines have a Tracker 4 as a backup or loaner machine. .....I used to know a guy who'd had several expensive machines and never liked them, and gave up on metal detecting, but then oddly his wife gave him a Tracker 4 for Christmas, and he went out to the park and learned out to use it, and from then on out he spent many hours a week "cleaning out" parks in Colorado, often embarrassing the heck out of other detectorists who had shown up with expensive machines that they hadn't learned how to use properly for coinshooting in a public park.
However, for those who favor, he simpler, meterless Compadre, Dave also said this.
Nowadays there are machines with visual target ID down to about US$100, in the same range as low-cost machines without visual target ID. In this price range, machines without visual target ID generally provide a more nuanced audio response and more control over discrimination. That's the tradeoff. Given that choice, my personal preference is the units without the visual ID. Outside the USA visual ID isn't all that useful anyhow because it is only the peculiarities of USA coinage that make it such a desirable feature here. (Most more expensive machines offer a visual ID system and audio system which work somewhat independently so you don't have the tradeoff that exists with the low-cost models.)
The BH Tracker 4 doesn't have a lot of performance or features, but within its limitations it does what it does very well. Predictable and easy to use. The approx. 6.5 kHz operating frequency, and low sensitivity compared to an expensive machine, allow it to be used on a saltwater beach with little difficulty although if you're where you're actually getting your feet wet you'll probably have to reduce the sensitivity and/or increase the discrimination level. ......Although as an engineer I'm constantly looking at ways it could be "improved", the boss reminds me that of those people who actually own a Tracker 4, it's almost impossible to find someone who's unhappy with it, so "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". A surprising number of people here in the USA who have expensive machines have a Tracker 4 as a backup or loaner machine. .....I used to know a guy who'd had several expensive machines and never liked them, and gave up on metal detecting, but then oddly his wife gave him a Tracker 4 for Christmas, and he went out to the park and learned out to use it, and from then on out he spent many hours a week "cleaning out" parks in Colorado, often embarrassing the heck out of other detectorists who had shown up with expensive machines that they hadn't learned how to use properly for coinshooting in a public park.
However, for those who favor, he simpler, meterless Compadre, Dave also said this.
Nowadays there are machines with visual target ID down to about US$100, in the same range as low-cost machines without visual target ID. In this price range, machines without visual target ID generally provide a more nuanced audio response and more control over discrimination. That's the tradeoff. Given that choice, my personal preference is the units without the visual ID. Outside the USA visual ID isn't all that useful anyhow because it is only the peculiarities of USA coinage that make it such a desirable feature here. (Most more expensive machines offer a visual ID system and audio system which work somewhat independently so you don't have the tradeoff that exists with the low-cost models.)
detectingMO
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there is and has been a compadre in the classifieds from vexhold for $100 for about a week. Surprised it's not gone1
Rather-B-Huntin
Elite Member
I bought his Cibola and it's in as new condition. If the Compadre hasn't sold by the time I get home from deer hunting next week I'm going to buy it too.
gianetics
Elite Member
i cant believe i didnt spot those but i did pick this hopefully. http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=201977
would have liked the compadre but i heard this fisher does not loose that much depth in discrim which is almost a must where we plan on hunting.
would have liked the compadre but i heard this fisher does not loose that much depth in discrim which is almost a must where we plan on hunting.
sllingshot47
Elite Member
I still use mine!!
