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Coil for trash

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Hi,
Which would be the best coil for a high trash area, the 5.3, 3 by 6 DD or the 6 by 10 DD
Thank you
Bill.
 
Bill i use the whites 4x6 mini shooter it works great went to a illonois park in elgin and netted 161 coins in 5 hours NO SILVER. deepest was a quarter at 7 inches me and my brother in law netted 291 total coins that day and one toe ring HH Robert in wisc
 
mini-DD, but you will not be disappointed with the
5.3 or the small Excel coil. I used the 6 X 10 DD
and it is considerably better in the trash than the
stock 950. Best to you, Richardntn
 
Bill,
I have used the 4x6 and it does a good job, I seldom got any coins over 4-5 inches. I sold the small coil as I was not very impressed. Well a while later I wished I had a smaller coil for those high trash areas and decided to try the 5 inch excellerator coil, It is a super god little coil, I found several six inch wheat pennies in an iron infested area that drove the stock coil nuts. This little coil to me separates better than the 4x6 and I personally get more depth with it. I know ground matrix plays a role in depth but around here 7-8 inches is about the deepest coin I can hit with the stock coil and that was a quarter, then I got the 14 inch excellerator and it will sound off good on a dime at 9 inches, and the depth in sand on the beaches is almost to a point of crazy, in Atlantic city I pulled 5 quarters from 15-18 1/2 inches, now they won't blast your ear beeps but definately a repeatable beep. In my opinion the excelerators are the best coils out there for the mxt, I know others strongly argue this and stand firm with what they use, But to each his own and the excelerators work for me.
Ray
 
have our favorites. Nobody's going to argue with you.
Heck, I might like the 5" Excel. best if I had used
it. Voice your opinion, that's what it is all about.
If everybody likes something different and airs it,
it allows others to take all that varying info
and make a better decision. Best to you, Richardntn
 
I have the little mini shooter myself for the trashy areas and it will pick though the trash and still have excellent depth. I think I impressed a couple of my hunting buddies when i could pick up coin after coin in trash they were not able too. I feel i have no problem with 6-8 inch coins with this coil. I also have the 6X10 I use when I dont have the mini shooter on and dug quarters at 12 inches, but you have to know what to listen for with experience.
Rick
 
I use the Mini DD and get coins and other stuff <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> that register 8 and 10 inches quiet often. I love the mini dd!!
 
the 5" Excelerator coil, closely followed by the 5.3 Eclipse.
I sold my 5.3 Eclipse when I parted with MXT #2 as I didn't have a need for it, and I had been impressed with the performance of the 5" Excelerator coil I had evaluated.
Most of the sites I choose to hunt are brushy & trashy, and this calls for the use of a smaller coil. On my MXT now I keep the 5" Excelerator coil mounted almost 'full time.'
When I do want a little more coverage I might use the stock 950, which I keep with me mounted on a spare lower rod, but when I want very good <EM>coverage</EM> to help handle the large, open areas, then I go with a bigger Excelerator coil.
I had used the 14" last fall and was impressed, but with my bad back and health issues, it was just a bit too heavy for <EM>me</EM>. I am presently doing field comparisons between the stock 950, the 12
 
Rick, how do you set your MXT up when coinhunting and what can you share about those deeper coins, as in what sound or meter readings your getting. On the deepest coins I have found (at the beach) the meter will fade in and out and usually have a real high VDI. But often this turns out to be a pull tab so I have to discount the meter(so far anyways) as being accurate on deeper stuff. I hunt in C&J mode with my sens turned up pretty high, usually betwen +1 and +2 and the threshold barely audible. The deepest stuff Ive dug has always been a soft signal, just a blur in the threshold but I do notice the meter trying to make a reading so I know its not just mineralization.
I agree on the 4x6, Ive dug some coins with it almost as deep as Ive found with the 6x10 and the window is tighter than the 6x10.
HH
Neil
 
Thats awesome Robert. A heck of alot of coins for one day especially in a park.
HH
Neil
 
Hi Bill,
The DD shooter was too small for me. If I were you I would look the 2
 
I set it up with the disc set maybe a little high for most. I go to the second preset and back it down slightly. I run the relic mode 95% of the time as I like the 2 differnt tones and able to tell the good from the bad much better that the coin and jewlery mode. I run my sensitivity just before the + numbers and sometimes if not real trashy I can go to the plus one or 2. I run the ground tracking on and the trigger in the center positon so my IH, copper and silver is high pitched while my pulltabs and nickles are low pitched. When I get what sounds like a good signal i will look at the numbers and see if it is one I want to dig. If it is deep I notice many good signals the tone will change low and high and these i will dig as the number are reading alittle lower than normal and some I may just get a weak signal and no real numbers to go by and will go all around the target and if it stay repeatable I will dig these. With the mini shooter I have decent ID at 6-7 inches, but deeper than that the meter and tones seem to be jumping around more.
I will say that mini shooter to me really nails the coins in with trash for me.
My wife uses the MXT more than I do when we hunt as I have my Sovereign and Explorer I use mostly. Most site we go to she will get 2 time or more than what I get, but I seem to get older ones than she does. She used the Mini Shooter one time when I first put it on and detected a area that wasnt trashy at all and she could pick coin after coins with it as it would lock right one. Her count was 23 to my 4 coins that day we were out for 2 hours.
For me the Mini shooter is a real killer in trash in my area and the 6X10 is used for most my other hunting with some real great depth while the stock coil sits in the closet.
Rick
 
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