Golden verus Cortes for Notch Feature

[Clad2Hunt]

Like the Cortes features but seems only has a single tone till you use the Sum switch. Seems I would spend to much time looking at display. Has anyone used the Cortes and the notch feature in the same pursuit of rings?

 

[Mike Hillis]

I have owned and used a few Cortes units since 2004. I love to look at them, dislike using them just because I'm hooked on tone id. But that's just a personal preference. If you enjoy tone id, you will most likely not like the Cortes just because you do have to look at the meter for every target. But if you don't mind that it works fine. Look at Phinholt posts of the jewelry he is finding with the DeLeon, which is the same detector with less features.

Since it is a single tone hunter (sum mode is useful but can only be used after you have aquired a target) the notch becomes a little more important to limit the beep to what you are hunting for.

The Golden notch is quite a bit different because its on a tone id unit. On the old tone model you used the notch switches to tell the two middle tones apart. One the new toned Golden you don't really even need the notch, just move the nickel tone into the place you want it and hunt until you hear that tone, then dig.

HH
Mike