Anyone using/ or tried the 4x6 shooter coil on their prisms????

[Mark ( ohio )]

I have the 6t and am strongly contemplating the purchase of the coil, but I would like to know and hear alittle more of your thoughts..

Any help.. Mark ( ohio )

 

[andreak77]

Mark,

Check out this field test put together by George Shryock - a long time user of White's metal detectors. He tested the 4X6 DD shooter coil on the 6T.

HH - Andrea


Hi folks. My 4X6"DD Prizm Shooter arrived, along with lower rod unit, hardware and coil cover. I mounted the coil to the rod, slapped on the coil cover and hooked 'er up for a "quick look".

Folks - SHE's HOT !!!!!

I haven't started any kind of controlled or "formal" testing yet, but .... I ground balanced over my paved driveway (mineralization Heck), locked the Trac, notched out iron and nails and threw down a clad quarter, which the little shooter will nail at 9" in discriminate mode and a fair 10" in the All Metal mode. Remember now, this is the quarter layin' on the pavers !!!

I set the 6T up on my calibrated trash can, air balanced, locked the Trac, and got essentially the same results in air !!!

These depths are "max depth" tests that I do. That means that an experienced operator will be able to "hear" the signal in normal hunting conditions. I had the 6T at MAX sensitivity. I'm thinkin' that by the time I get some more discrimination cranked in and the sense knocked down a couple of notches that I'll be seein' something along the lines of 8", which is on par with the M6 sportin' a 4X6"DD shooter !!!

This little jewel is gonna clean up in tot lots, along sidewalks and in trashy areas. I'll do better when I get time, but I did want to get a "quick look" out to folks who have been waiting.

Our Metal Detecting Club has a booth at this year's EXPO here in The Villages. The guy who was working the booth with me today brought his Prizm IV with a stock coil and I brought the 6T with the new shooter. We had buried painted pennies and some "junk" jewelry for folks to find, and to facilitate our demos of the detecting hobby, pinpointers, etc, etc.

It quickly became clear that the 6T with the new shooter would "run circles" around the Prizm IV with the stock coil. I could center up and pop a penny while my buddy was still trying to center up !!!

The 6T with the new shooter coil, on a side by side test of a freshly dropped quarter, went DEEPER by about an inch than the Prizm IV with the stock coil. We swapped machines just to make sure that it wasn't "the operator". And by the way, Larry is no rank amateur. In fact, he is participating in the competition hunt in Daytona Beach.

Larry tried the new 6T / shooter hookup a couple of more times and w/o any prompting announced that "this is a great combination" !!!

I thought I'd post this "ad hoc test info" while it was still fresh in my mind. I hope it is of interest, especially to the Prizm user group.

This little coil is HOT !!! Da FoX

 

[goodmore]

I guess that it would depend on where you are hunting. I live in a town founded in 1756. So the yards & farms are full of iron. The shooter coil makes detecting these sites possible. The stock coil is just too big. Prior to the 6t I was using an Eagle Spectrum & IDX Pro. I still have the IDX Pro. I was using the 5.3 coil 90 % of the time on those units also. So I guess you could say I am a small coil guy. Years ago my thinking was bigger coils = deeper targets. I have really changed my opinion. Smaller coils = less masking = more good targets. So to sum it up. I love the shooter coil on the 6T. Hunting with that combo is just plain fun. I wish there was a 6" concentric, but the shooter coil will do for now. I will use the stock coil at the beach. I read many forum posts and I have never seen a negative review of the Prizm shooter coil. Some of us waited a good amount of time for it. The wait was well worth it.

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

You state you use the factory coil on the beach... Is that fresh or salt-water.... If salt.. where do you usually hunt and what kind of performance do you see with the detector in this enviornment??? I might be down the OBX in a few weeks from now.. May bring the 6t for a ride.

Thanks Mark

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

if anybody else would like to chime in... Please Do.. I want to make a good ,informed buying decision..

Thank-you Mark ( ohio )

 

[Monte]

I posted a 3-part review of the Prizm 6T in a Findmall Forum and can tell you, very abbreviated, that, if there was no smaller coil for the Prizm 6T, I would have been mostly displeased with this model.

I like the ergonomics, and the 9-Tone ID, and the very quick access to the adjustments. I like the quick Auto-Trac that is so similar to the M6 & MXT, and I like the full-range o acceptance and rejection of the notch segments. I like the weight and balance.

That said, I don't like the performance of the 6T with the stock coil anywhere other than a very open, low-target site. I hunted a number of places with the 6T w/stock coil that I had been working with an XLT, M6 modified IDX Pro, and an MXT. With all the others, the stock coil gave me some challenges due to the volume of trash targets at an old school site that was under renovation. I WAS able to have some degree of success, however, if I used the 5.3 BullsEye (6

 

[Mark ( ohio )]

I'm starting to put some serious time on with the machine, so it looks like the shooter will be a welcomed addition for the outfit..Thanks again..... I'll let everybody know my impressions on the coil once it arrives and I get some time in with it...

HH Mark ( ohio )

 

[bonnieblue]

Thanks Monte, I am new to MD and have the Prizm 6T. It seems to be very sensitive. I will save up for the shooter coil. Everyone else is saying good things about that combo as well.