outlaw vs compadre

[machineman]

I know this sounds like a strange face off, but those of us who have Compadres know what is up. I recently modded my Compadre to use other coils. I found something interesting. The Compadre hits gold deeper than my outlaw, in air tests. While the place where gold discs out is considerably higher on the Outlaw. I have a mens 14k white gold wedding band. It discs out just below 5 cent on the outlaw and just above iron on the Compadre. The Compadre with my clean sweep will hit that same ring at about 5" and the Outlaw at only about 4" with these settings. Has anyone observed similar results with the Outlaw? I have noticed that the Outlaw preserves more depth as you turn up the disc. Meaning it gets about 5" on the ring with the 5.75" at minimum disc and just before losing the ring it is around 4.5". The Compadre gets the ring at about 6" with the stock coil and just before losing it about 4". These are in air tests. Just some interesting observations. I like that the Outlaw discs out foil before gold in most of the tests I have done. I love my Compadre and with the coil options more open now I dont want to use the Outlaw. I have had the Compadre longer than any of my other detectors and it speaks tp me better than the Outlaw. I know the Outlaw is deeper on silver but I cant seem to find any with it. Any tips on using it for silver coins?

 

[Nauti]

Just goes to show that a lot of these high tech detectors with all the bells and whistles are not as far in front of a nice simple machine like the compy than a lot of people would like to think.I believe this is why Tesoro do not make a fancy high tech machine with daft features......they know that a machine with good all round simple performance is as good as it gets for a metal detector.I must admit though ive always being put off from buying a compy because I thought they may be too basic but from the results that people seem to get from them I am seriously tempted.

 

[slingshot]

I have noticed similar results and always use the Silver umax whenever in a hurry and don't care too much about the signals in the small foil region. It's also the reason I don't ever turn my Compadre above just between foil and iron.

 

[GunnarMN]

Inoted the same thig with the compadre. and the silver umax, if i was discing out foil i would lose gold rings, as far as depth , in my ground the out law is deeper thatn the silver umax but the compadre was a little depth monster , it did very well considering it has no ground balance and that with the small coil , But i really like the outlaw because of its expanded disc, as I will not be digging all the small foils, and one way i like to hunt with the outlaw is in threshold all metal with minimum gaine and sensitivity because it hits hard on a gold ring and also ignores small foil and nails, just a super detector

 

[machineman]

I will have to try the all metal hunting. I liked the videos you did on the Outlaw, especially the the bottle cap one. I have been having trouble with finding caps with the 10x12. Thanks gunnar.

 

[CaptEsteban]

Remember that WHITE gold & Yellow gold have different compositions. I would test yellow gold, too.