A couple of good video,s by Minelab on 8" coils

[deepdiger60]

The 8" coil looks pretty good new video this month by Minelab , ok so this is FBS not BBS but a 8 inch is a 8 inch it cuts through the trash very well .Jim

http://www.minelab.com/usa/treasure-talk/cutting-it-fine-with-small-coils

This might of made up my mind on which small coil to get .

 

[Critterhunter]

I see that Kellyco has an 8" Detech coil out for the Sovereign now. Looks like they got rid of the 6" coil, unless they mislabeled it as the 8" coil or something. The 8" Tornado is really only 7 & 1/4" big and from what I hear gets excellent separation and depth. I can see why people like using it, but I prefer going smallest as possible when wanting a coil for a real trashy site...And that means the S-5 which is 5.5". I also prefer a round coil like this in a small coil and not an egg shaped coil because that's a trade off in some separation ability in order to gain more depth. I'm more interested in max separation than I am depth when using a small little coil, so I want the smallest round one I can find, and that's an S-5. It still gets good depth, though. 7" on a Rosie I found that hit so hard that I bet it could have been even about 9" deep or maybe more and I would still have heard it. And this was in mineralized soil where my other non-Minelab machines were lucky to get 7.5" deep using an 8 or 10" coil. Very impressive little coil, and says a lot about the Sovereign's abilities to penetrate mineralized ground too.

 

[deepdiger60]

I see that Kellyco has an 8" Detech coil out for the Sovereign now. Looks like they got rid of the 6" coil, unless they mislabeled it as the 8" coil or something. The 8" Tornado is really only 7 & 1/4" big and from what I hear gets excellent separation and depth. I can see why people like using it, but I prefer going smallest as possible when wanting a coil for a real trashy site...And that means the S-5 which is 5.5". I also prefer a round coil like this in a small coil and not an egg shaped coil because that's a trade off in some separation ability in order to gain more depth. I'm more interested in max separation than I am depth when using a small little coil, so I want the smallest round one I can find, and that's an S-5. It still gets good depth, though. 7" on a Rosie I found that hit so hard that I bet it could have been even about 9" deep or maybe more and I would still have heard it. And this was in mineralized soil where my other non-Minelab machines were lucky to get 7.5" deep using an 8 or 10" coil. Very impressive little coil, and says a lot about the Sovereign's abilities to penetrate mineralized ground too.

For years now i have wanted a small coil all i have is large , back in the 1890,s a few miles from here the township built a outdoor weekend park and dance place about 30 acres wood platforms with wood over hangs everyone would come to square dance on the weekends drink beer by the gallons seeing this is a farm community it lasted until the 1920,s when a big nor-east er storm tore it down all 6 platforms according to historic town records, back in 1950 the town finally cleaned up the woods and cut most of the fields down now its a public nature trail and park all 30 acres i still finds old silver with the big coils i can only imagine what else is in all those thousands of nails and iron trash the 8 inch should work well . Those square dances get pretty wild with beer to !!! coins jewelry flying all over the place .Jim

 

[tiggar]

hi Jim, I sent you a PM....

George

 

[Rick(ND)]

Yes a small coil should be one most should have and used in some places. There is a difference in the FBS and the BBS coils in Even the same brands, like the Joey for the Explorers are very good, but that Joey for the Sovereign don't seem to be as good for me anyway. I thought the Minelab 8 inch coil on the Explorer does OK, but didn't like the BBS 8 for the Sovereign that much and preferred the older 8 inch coinsearch or the S-8 of Sun Rays when I wanted a smaller coil. In fact before the 10 inch Tornado coil I only used the S-8 and then the S-12 for a big coil as they seem to work so much better for me. I tried the 5 inch coils and they were OK, but I needed more depth that they could give me and found I could us a S-8 and give me more depth plus I had to swing a little slower in trash and did not miss anything with the 5 inch would have seen. On the Explorer it was a little different as I did find a few coins the 8 inch didn't see when I tried the Excelerator 5 inch coil.

 

[Critterhunter]

I would for sure get a small coil just to hunt through those nails at that place. Sounds ideal for it. A small coil would also help to poke around between brush and stuff since it sounds like that area is grown up now.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Light, good depth,and separate targets well.HH Ron