6X10 or 6X8

[Flintstone]

Hi All, Dose anyone know if the 6x8 excelerator coil hunts on the MXT like the 6x10 dd ? Do they hunt down the middle like the 6x10? and witch dose everyone like? Thanks Dean

 

[Bearharold]

Welcome to the world of MXT coils . lol Now this is my opinion and only mine everyone else will have to speak there own opinions . But I have and use both the 6x10 and the sef 8x6 an I like the sef better for several reasons , for me I get better depth with the SEF 8x6 also I am pretty old and the sef Coil weights less than the 6x10 does so makes detecting a lot easier on my arm considering I am using a fairly heavy detector too . A lot of people say they get great depth with there 6x10 but I wasn't happy with the depth on mine . The first day I used the SEF 8x6 I got a 1960 dime at 8 inches and a wheat penny at 9 inches in the same place I had been useing the 6x10 in . I might add that normally my coins aren't that deep but those two were .and I get alot 7 inch targets with the 8x6 . Its really hard to tell anyone what a coil will do in there area for them but for my area the 8x6 is my best choice of those two coils if I use any other coil now days it is usually the whites D2 10 inch .
Yes the SEF butterfly coil works like the DD coils down the middle with a level pattern of depth . Maybe this will help you out a little bit .



Harold

 

[Flintstone]

Hi Harold, Thanks for the info. You say you like the D2, how does it do it trash? It being a 10" coil ? Is it better than the 8x6? Thanks Dean

 

[Bearharold]

NO not in the trash the 8x6 is better in trash . The D2 is noisy also but it is a good detector.



Harold

 

[Monte]

I'm sure you'll find some folks who like one more than the other. Regardless of their shape, and you can add the round 10" D2 to the mix just to have three different physical shapes, these are all in the Double-D design family. Thus, your more reactive area for response in center-line, front-to-rear.

The 6X8 SEF's wider design will be more like the round 10" DD coil in that it might provide a little better depth than the more slender elliptical designed 6X9 DD. Often, detection depth isn't all to be credited to a particular coil because one might be able to search with a higher Gain setting than with another coil they are comparison.

Just like detectors, there is no 'perfect' search coil. We can, however, settle in on one or two particular search coils to handle most of our hunting needs, and that will depend upon the detector used, our patience level, the types of sites hunted, etc. For me, I have owned 4 of the 10" D2 coils and while I kind of liked them at times for some hunting, I also had issues with them being noisier and not hitting that well on many targets I checked against a friend with he XLT w/8" concentric or another with his XLT and XL Pro w/950 coils.

I wasn't a big fan of the 6X9 White's coil as the trashier sites I hunted were actually better worked with the 5.3 Eclipse coil on the M6 and MXT's I used for comparisons. The 6

 

[Flintstone]

Hi Monte, I am hunting in a old park that was a standard ball park in the 1900s and in 1930 they build a nice big ball park with four ball fields and lot of things for people to do. Lots of old iron junk, bottle caps, I have the 5.3 coil on my mxt most of the time, but now i have got some of the trash out of the open fields i need something to go deeper.

 

[Flintstone]

Witch one?

 

[srf2112]

I'm with Monte on this one Dean in that I've found consistently deeper targets with the 5.3 than the 6x10 in the same areas. I can't comment from experience on the sef coils but if you're looking for more depth than the 5.3 from the Whites line then the stock 950 coil or D2 would be my guess as the two best candidates depending on the conditions. JMHO

 

[Flintstone]

Thanks 2112, I will see if i can find a D2

 

[jacknh]

I just bought a D2 (new) and paid approx 200.00-219.00

 

[SEMPERFI61]

n/t

 

[Larry (IL)]

As good as the 6X8 is, coil performance will vary with the ground you are hunting in. In low to medium mineralized ground the conical coil, 9.50 and 5.3 will excel over a DD/SEF, gaining in depth at a loss of separation.