5.75" Concentric Trash Test

[POLEWAGGER]

Got the time to do a 3 hour hunt today at my favorite park. I picked an area that is FULL of trash. We're talking layers of tabs and caps. I ran through his area previously with the 9X8 and was pretty sure I'd extracted all the goodies even though I was getting trash hits every 3 square inches. The ground is also terrible for balance because it's iron soil on top of blue clay. I was re balancing every few minutes using my "neutral on freq2 disc hunt on freq1" GB.
It seemed like every time I re balanced, a wheat penny would hit to the end of disc. There was so much other trash around these coins, I really had to short stroke them to get a solid hit, but when I did, I thought I might be digging silver!
Thought I show my entire dig so you can see exactly how much trash I dug. I knew most of them would be tabs but was hoping for rings or old nickels. I started discing higher after awhile. I NEVER expected to pull THAT many wheaties out of this area that's been hunted by others besides myself.
The 5.75C is a definite performer in the trash, and setting the GB neutral on freq2 and hunting disc on freq1 is now a proven winner in my book.

 

[Jeff in Pa]

I really need to get me the small concentric. That coil sounds awesome! So how deep have you dug using it? I have read that it can run with the stock coil for depth but I would have to think it loses some depth vs the 9 x 8. I have ares I hunt that the trash is overwelming and the small coil would possibly make them more huntable.


Thanks,

Jeff

 

[tabman]

The depth of the 5.75 is close to that of the 9 x 8. Rusty Henry highly recommends the 5.75. It's super light, deep and is deadly in thick trash. A must have coil. Period

Great test Polewagger!

tabman

 

[Topo]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

 

[POLEWAGGER]

I really need to get me the small concentric. That coil sounds awesome! So how deep have you dug using it? I have read that it can run with the stock coil for depth but I would have to think it loses some depth vs the 9 x 8. I have ares I hunt that the trash is overwelming and the small coil would possibly make them more huntable.


Thanks,

Jeff

I'd say the 5.75" is about an inch short of the 9X8 in disc.. This was from some minor testing in the coin garden. Have heard others say the same. AM might be a different story.

 

[POLEWAGGER]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

mike5853 said he was going to get the widescan and do a test video. I'd really like to know more about the widescan. I chose the concentric even though my ground is high iron and varies like crazy. It works very well, as long as I stay on the GB. The little thing just seemed to suck up the wheaties every time I did a GB adj. I think about 5" is the max depth in my ground for a dime or penny. The 5.75 rules for woods hunting.
Depending on the size, you can usually tell a hot rock by "looking" in AM.

 

[Topo]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

mike5853 said he was going to get the widescan and do a test video. I'd really like to know more about the widescan. I chose the concentric even though my ground is high iron and varies like crazy. It works very well, as long as I stay on the GB. The little thing just seemed to suck up the wheaties every time I did a GB adj. I think about 5" is the max depth in my ground for a dime or penny. The 5.75 rules for woods hunting.
Depending on the size, you can usually tell a hot rock by "looking" in AM.

cool, I would really like to watch that test

I use the same AM technique for the hotrocks with my stock coil, but some times it's seems they were planted by someone on purpose lol, there are so many. I'm also thinking for a small solid coil for wood hunting

 

[Ism]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

I have the widescan but not the concentric. The 5.75 widescan performance is was within an inch of the stock coil in air-tests.
I never use it anymore The 5x10 DD has more coverage and is better for my style of jewelry hunting. For some reason the 5.75 DD is better for depth.

 

[kneedet]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

I have the widescan but not the concentric. The 5.75 widescan performance is was within an inch of the stock coil in air-tests.
I never use it anymore The 5x10 DD has more coverage and is better for my style of jewelry hunting. For some reason the 5.75 DD is better for depth.

the 5.75 DD better in depth than the concentric 5.75? I also jewery hunt, wouldnt the concentric disrciminate better?

 

[Topo]

has anyone compared the concentric and widescan 5.75 side by side?

I love the stock coil, but some annoying hotrock are causing me some worry

I have the widescan but not the concentric. The 5.75 widescan performance is was within an inch of the stock coil in air-tests.
I never use it anymore The 5x10 DD has more coverage and is better for my style of jewelry hunting. For some reason the 5.75 DD is better for depth.

thanks Ism, nice to hear that, I really believe the 5.75 is a tad deeper than the 5x10, must be the 0.75 that makes the difference on DD coils

the coil format 5x10 must also be a nice choice, I have the equivalent 6x10 installed on my MXT and is my favorite coil on that machine