Uncle Willy
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I remembered the other day that my best friend who passed away three years ago had two Compass detectors so I asked his wife if I could buy them and she said yes. I only got one because at the last minute one of her lard arsed kids ( whom I can't stand ) decided he wanted one of them, and he doesn't even detect and has about as much use for one as I have for four noses. Anyway I got the one, a Compass Coin Hustler, which was my wife's choice of detectors when she was still able to hunt. They came out in the early seventies. This one is like brand new and has a six inch coil, which I think is a DD. I can't remember..
It's a simple TR machine, light as a feather, no gobs of buttons or knobs, no digital junk, no display, no menus to churn through, no discrimination or sensitivity, just one knob to operate and the essence of bare simplicity. These machines are the favorite of competition hunters due to this simplicity plus very rapid response, absolute deadly pinpointing, and target separation that's hard to believe. When you pinpoint with this puppy the target is exactly where the coil says it is.
It was such a ball to play with and drift back to those days of yesteryear when detecting was a pure joy and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to operate your detector. One of my first finds was four quarters and a dime in one pile in a bark chip playground. This is where the incredible target separation reared its head. Today's detectors would have seen this group of coins as one target and signaled as such - but not the little Hustler. That puppy picked each one out one at a time like the signal was a needle piercing the chips to each coin. I only hunted about an hour because two or three places I went to were loaded with house apes, but there is tomorrow..
Bill
It's a simple TR machine, light as a feather, no gobs of buttons or knobs, no digital junk, no display, no menus to churn through, no discrimination or sensitivity, just one knob to operate and the essence of bare simplicity. These machines are the favorite of competition hunters due to this simplicity plus very rapid response, absolute deadly pinpointing, and target separation that's hard to believe. When you pinpoint with this puppy the target is exactly where the coil says it is.
It was such a ball to play with and drift back to those days of yesteryear when detecting was a pure joy and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to operate your detector. One of my first finds was four quarters and a dime in one pile in a bark chip playground. This is where the incredible target separation reared its head. Today's detectors would have seen this group of coins as one target and signaled as such - but not the little Hustler. That puppy picked each one out one at a time like the signal was a needle piercing the chips to each coin. I only hunted about an hour because two or three places I went to were loaded with house apes, but there is tomorrow..
Bill
