1270 depth?

[WV62]

Copied and pasted the below from sales web sit.

The Fisher 1270 is made for the Treasure Hunter who wants an easy-to-tune, easy-to-use metal detector, with features that are easily understood and can be operated to its maximum performance level 10 minutes after the detector is taken from its box and assembled. No meter, no bells and whistles, nothing to breakdown and slow your metal detecting experience. This metal detector is "HOT" and VERY POWERFUL. Buy the Fisher 1270 only if you're looking for a super high-performance metal detector that will find valuable coins, rings, gold, etc. from upper ground levels to single coins as deep as 18 and 20 inches.

Is anybody out there getting close to the 18 to 20" on a single coin in the ground? I can say I air tested mine and was detecting a quarter at 17", but nothing close to that in the ground to date. Ron in WV

 

[amcjavelin]

thats what i use to get with mine air testing, now in the ground maybe 12 to 13" at best beach sand could be a little more but hard to say and thats a quarter

 

[shooter]

Wv Told you she was a powerhouse, how'd that iron set-up I sent you work out. you can also use the same set-up with AM's as your primary.

 

[WV62]

Wv Told you she was a powerhouse, how'd that iron set-up I sent you work out. you can also use the same set-up with AM's as your primary.

Well can't say I have tried them yet, but I did write it in a copy of the owners manual, under the section that Shooter says to do this When I ask that iron question I expected somebody out there to say just run the iron disc to max unless you wanted some iron to come in.

Right now I am confined to the house, my wife had shoulder surgery Wednesday, so I am setting around the house bored to tears. Ron in WV

 

[Woodchuck]

17 to 18 inches. i can't dig that without a excavator LOL.Most coins and jewlery I have found is in the top 1 to 4 inches.Anything deeper has been dang aluminum cans,I still can't figure that one out how they got so deep.i set my sens. at 3 on mine and it still goes deeper than i care to dig.The 1270 definitley has the horsepower,under the hood to get down there.What got me the other day was a liittle piece of metal smaller than a dime that blew my ears off,that the 1270 picked up.Still trying to figure what its made of.but the 1270 hit on it,and when I dug it up ,I was like you got to be kiddin me ! that dinky thing LOL

 

[WV62]

Okay it sounds like we have more than enough power (depth) and we can detect past most of the coins.

How can we take advantage of that? Seems that we would need to do something a little different than most of the others. I am thinking maybe small coils, I hear a lot of talk about getting bigger coils and going deeper. With the 1270 sounds like we could still go pretty deep and get stuff that is mask by the bigger coils. I haven't done any curbing since about 1998 or 9 but I had a 1265x with a 3 3/4" coil and I was doing real good on the nickels (Buffalo's and some Vs) and still getting some silver.

Anybody have any thoughts on that? Ron in WV

 

[Woodchuck]

Your next best coil option would be the 5 inch sniper coil. for more target seperation..As for nickels I find that my 1270 has picked up more nickels than anyother detector that I have had...

 

[shooter]

You will do yourself a really big service by getting the 5"coil for that 1270, incredible depth and target separation, I was working a park for years with the 10.5 after getting the 5" started redoing the park where I got ton of stuff but there was also tons of junk, and she pulled coins and jewerly that were masked and could get real close to fences and seesaws and swings without it going crazy.Also woodchuck is right about nickels, found more nickels and gold ring like I did with the my 1265x, way more then I'm getting with my F75 LTD. I also use it with the 1265 X because its so light with the 5 ". Remember if you get one get it with a 7' cable just i encase you decide to HIP or Chest mount it, the 3' cable is to short and you'll have to find an extension cable like I did for my 10.5 coil, ended up making the cable from my 555-D hip mount cable.

 

[WV62]

I am in pretty good shape with coils, I have them all except the 10.5 spider. My 5" has the 3' cable, but my brother has one with the long cable, maybe we could work up a trade if I need the longer cable.