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i agree bill. i have the 11" coil for my 1266 and it goes very deep on coins. i hunted an old picnic grove a couple weekends ago with both the 8 inch and 11 inch coils and my finds were all made with the 11 inch coil. it was also easier to swing the big coil in the taller grass and weeds.....it seemed to float over the tall stuff better than the spider coil did and it hit hard on the deep wheaties i dug............roger
I have a Nautilus DMCIIb and an Explorer II XS but still grab my 1266 sometimes. Ill be swinging it tomorrow with the 10 inch spider coil on an old log cabin site. Its not been hunted that I know of but Im not getting my hopes up.
One good 1266 story I have is years ago I was hunting a CS camp that was being developed. I had hunted it a lot and decided to move out of the areas where the bull dozers where working and try around some hut holes that were well know and hunted to death for years. I got a very faint but good signal just 2 feet from a really large hut hole. I dug a little and it got better. 15 inches later I pulled out a Maryland coat button with over 90% gold guilt still on it. I stuck my shovel in the hole and marked it so I could measure it later. At the time I didnt have the 10 inch coil so I was using the 8 inch coil then. I do have to say the ground was very good, sandy with no mineralization.
