I am fortunate to have a friend that owns an F-75 that just bought the 5" DD coil. He got it with his F-75 and he has let me borrow the coil for a few days to test it out some.
Well I gotta say this...I will own one of these coils! I may have to try and buy or trade something for this one I got now hehe. I had the little football shape coil for the F-75 and I had heard a lot of good about it. I got one because of that and I did not like it. The ground around here reads around .3 or 1 (that's a 1 with no point in front of it BTW) on the Fe meter. Which means it's pretty hot. That football coil just didn't cut the mustard here. This 5" coil is a different toy all together. It hit every target I had in my little test garden which was pretty impressive. So to say it don't get any depth would be a bad misinterpretation of it!
But test gardens ain't real world so I had to see what it could do in the real world.
I took it to a couple places...really trash laden sites. Well finding goodies was the goal but just being able to pick through the junk was the main test. I was able to pinpoint several targets that I dug that ended up being things like shotgun shells and such...but targets that before were pretty much just one big signal to the big F-75 coil. And depth wise on those...I dug one shotgun shell brass at about 7" so I know it does get down there pretty good.
I'm still testing the little bugger out but I can already tell it's a keeper. I dug one little sleeper find at a little camp close to my house. This is kind of hard to describe but this site is a developing subdivision site. When they cleared the trees off it, they would pile debris and junk around tree stumps and burn it. Well those little areas like that are the only ones left that haven't been pounded or hunted hard. So when I had the chance, I took the little coil up around some of them to see if I could pull anything out. I dug one target in a recently cleared area by one of these places. And that one target for me, was a pretty good one.
Dug a plug and I could see the edge of a silver coin in it. I walked over to my buddy to show him, before I ever broke it free from the clod. I had dug some silver coins here at this site before...but they were only merc dimes from a homesite that also sit here in the early 1900s. Well anyway that's what I figured this was. When I broke the coin from the clod, it transformed into an 1851 half dime with O mint mark. Not that bad of shape either! I don't have a picture of it to show you guys...my buddy said he'd never dug one before and it made the 3rd one I've been fortunate to dig so I gave that one to him. I'll have to try and get a picture of it for you guys later. But the coin itself was just 3-4 inches deep and gave a solid ZINC signal.
Well I gotta say this...I will own one of these coils! I may have to try and buy or trade something for this one I got now hehe. I had the little football shape coil for the F-75 and I had heard a lot of good about it. I got one because of that and I did not like it. The ground around here reads around .3 or 1 (that's a 1 with no point in front of it BTW) on the Fe meter. Which means it's pretty hot. That football coil just didn't cut the mustard here. This 5" coil is a different toy all together. It hit every target I had in my little test garden which was pretty impressive. So to say it don't get any depth would be a bad misinterpretation of it!
But test gardens ain't real world so I had to see what it could do in the real world.
I took it to a couple places...really trash laden sites. Well finding goodies was the goal but just being able to pick through the junk was the main test. I was able to pinpoint several targets that I dug that ended up being things like shotgun shells and such...but targets that before were pretty much just one big signal to the big F-75 coil. And depth wise on those...I dug one shotgun shell brass at about 7" so I know it does get down there pretty good.
I'm still testing the little bugger out but I can already tell it's a keeper. I dug one little sleeper find at a little camp close to my house. This is kind of hard to describe but this site is a developing subdivision site. When they cleared the trees off it, they would pile debris and junk around tree stumps and burn it. Well those little areas like that are the only ones left that haven't been pounded or hunted hard. So when I had the chance, I took the little coil up around some of them to see if I could pull anything out. I dug one target in a recently cleared area by one of these places. And that one target for me, was a pretty good one.
Dug a plug and I could see the edge of a silver coin in it. I walked over to my buddy to show him, before I ever broke it free from the clod. I had dug some silver coins here at this site before...but they were only merc dimes from a homesite that also sit here in the early 1900s. Well anyway that's what I figured this was. When I broke the coin from the clod, it transformed into an 1851 half dime with O mint mark. Not that bad of shape either! I don't have a picture of it to show you guys...my buddy said he'd never dug one before and it made the 3rd one I've been fortunate to dig so I gave that one to him. I'll have to try and get a picture of it for you guys later. But the coin itself was just 3-4 inches deep and gave a solid ZINC signal.
And if you noted what I said about the Fe Meter readings I get in my dirt here. You gotta remember that .58 cal minie balls will read as zinc in good ground but in my ground (and in VA and other bad dirt areas) the same bullet will read as iron. Same goes for coins.