COMING SOON for the MX Sport and MX-7 .... a 6½ Inch Concentric coil! :thumbup:

[Monte]

put in an order for an early spring? The 'official' first day of Winter in the northern hemisphere was yesterday, the 21st, and it has already been pretty cold, white layered enough, and left us with very solid-frozen ground here in Eastern Oregon, and I don't think you're enjoying balmy weather where you are outdoors in shorts and a T-shirt, either. Spring, and summer, can't get here soon enough!

I am planing on getting one of the 6.5 inch concentric coil when Whites makes them for my wife MX7 as what I seen myself when I did the field test on one for the Minelab Sovereign.

I've enjoyed both Concentric and Double-D coils on a wide range of detectors, and sometimes a good DD coil works well enough for me and my needs at dense iron trashy sites. I keep different DD;s on two CoRe and another on one Relic for ready service. However, all too often I've found a Concentric coil to provide me with better general-purpose hunting results in the past. Today, I have a versatile arsenal of detectors and an ample array of search coils for them, of both design types, and can opt for either on most of my detectors, but have certain detector/coil assignments at-the-ready so I can grab-and-go when I reach a site.

I have 6" and 7" Concentrics on three Tesoro units, the 7" Concentric on my primary-use Impact, and the excellent 6½ Inch Concentric attached to my first-grabbed White's MX-7. I haven't ignored any larger-size Concentric coils for more open places, keeping a 5½X10 mid-sized Concentric on one FORS Relic, and the 950 Concentric on my other MX-7 I got yesterday

For my wife MX7 I ordered in the 8 inch DD coil so we will see what it will do compared to the 6.5 concentric Whites will be making and feel my wife will want to keep this coil on her MX7 and will have to sell the 8 inch DD coil.

What 8" DD? Do you mean the Detech 7" DD that is made for White's for the MX Sport and MX-7? I have that coil, also, and keep it on a spare lower rod, and when we get detecting weather back, or when I head south to some next month, I am going to work the 6½" Concentric and 7" DD coils side-by-side with identical settings and see how well they handle site conditions and compare at a variety of sites.

More than likely you are going to be correct on your search coil acquisition and departure.

Monte

 

[dcleghorn]

Using the MX7, would the DD 7" Detech or this newer 6½ Inch Concentric coil that is coming out be best for using on land? I can only get one extra coil and am wondering.

 

[Monte]

Using the MX7, would the DD 7" Detech or this newer 6½ Inch Concentric coil that is coming out be best for using on land? I can only get one extra coil and am wondering.

Part of the decision is a personal thing as some folks are partial to either a Concentric or a Double-D coil design. It might also be a matter of the type of terrain you'll be hunting, the amount of discarded trash you'll be encountering, as well as if the trashy conditions are made up of more ferrous debris or non-ferrous discards.

The MX-7 coms standard with the 950 Concentric coil. That s an 'OK' coil for more open areas where targets, accepted or rejected, are not closely spaced. It's not my favorite coil, nor the one I wish White's would have used for this series of detectors. That would have been the open-frame design 9" Concentric coil they have in their line-up, but failed to adapt it to the MX Sport and MX-7. A more modern-looking, better balanced, and useful coil for working in water as it isn't buoyant like the 950.

But for the MX-7 there are other coil choices, such as the elliptical 6X10 DD, which I'm also not a fan of. The aftermarket 7" Double-D that's made by Detech and not by White's, another thing I feel was a shame because a detector manufacturer ought to be making a set of search coils for their own detectors, in my opinion. Anyway, I had used the 7" DD last year a few times on some MX Sport units a few friends use and I felt it was a sufficient coil for a number of uses for me, plus Tom Boykin gave me a 'prototype' 6½" Concentric coil to evaluate. Naturally, I didn't hesitate because that has been my favorite coil size and type from White's for a couple of decades and more.

Anyway, if you tell me you are only going to be land hunting, which you did, and want a smaller-size coil for most typical environments, and that means usually trashy of some sort, then my strongest suggestion is to hold out for the release of the 6½" Concentric coil ... [size=small]they will likely call it a 6" as they did so years ago with the blue max 600 offering[/size].

In my case I wanted to compare the 6½" Concentric against the 7" Detech Double-D in many different search environments, to include light, moderate and dense trash conditions, and from locations with 'average' discarded junk to a very heavily iron debris littered sites. I quickly learned that I like the MX-7, but I also know I hate down-time to disconnect and remove a lower rod and coil and replace a different search coil on a lower rod. I could mean frequent switch to compare those two coils on a located target, so it made sense, to me, to just acquire a 2nd MX-7 and keep each coil mounted to its own detector, then match the mode [size=small](program)[/size] and settings of both devices.

I made a trade with a White's Dealer in Texas so I now have a 6½" Concentric and 7" DD at-the-ready because I have two MX-7's. That means I have two brand new, unused 950 coils in my Accessory Coil Tote. I guess if I wanted to have a larger-size, standard 950 coil also at-the-ready for hunting plowed fields, open rangeland, sports fields or dry-sand beaches, it would make sense for me to own a 3rd MXT just to keep a 950 at the ready.

So my approach, and one you might consider as the MX-7 grows on you, is to own the search coils you feel will work for you the best, and keep them on their own lower rods .... and keep those attached to their own MX-7. That works for me because I am retired and have the time to spend using my equipment, and I'm not currently married and have a spouse who frowns on what they consider to be excess spending. I can do as I please, and I aim to please myself with the toys I want and need.

If $$$ is tight, then my suggestion would be to hold out for the Concentric coil that should be released by White's very soon. The 7" DD is an okay coil, and I have it to also use when hunting any beach, freshwater or salt-content, because it isn't buoyant like the 6½", 6X10 or 950 solid-body coils.

Monte

 

[dcleghorn]

Thank you for the great advice. I will hold out for the new coil as that would seem to meet my area of hunting better.