The Compadre can find targets closer to big metal than any other detector/coil/setting that I have ever tried...and believe me I have tried.
Does it easily too, if you listen for that double beep or triple beep if the target is shallow.
I am talking not just near but right next to or even leaning on big metal and that would be any Compadre with any size coil.
My tot lots are all unusually clean, someone scours these things regularly but at every one I have hunted I have no problem finding targets near most of the metal legs.
Whatever these other guys are using it sure ain't a Compadre...thank goodness.
It can find silver in any size, weight, shape or form like it was a religion.
That is why there is a cult built up around this thing and we even have a church.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=87892
This is the smallest, thinnest silver ring I have ever found.
It was in an old super trashy park and was closely surrounded by larger pieces of trash on 3 sides.
My 7" coil had to be over all 4 targets at the same time and I heard them all in low disc.
When I maxed out the disc the others went away but this thing still rang in loud and clear like it was a silver dollar.
Then there is that gold thing, and it finds chains of any size better than any detector I have ever owned.
I don't just use mine in tot lots, either.
Far from it and not just because it can find the goods anywhere but mostly because it is such a blast to use.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=86773
Here is that double beep thing with a borrowed 8"coil unit.
I stopped at a certain point but trust me I could have leaned this dime right on the pole and it would have still double beeped.
