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Finally got the 6 inch minelab 18.75 coil and its a great !

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Trackerman

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Well i went out to a park i goto on ocasion wich i thought i had picked pretty clean and found some neat stuff. I must say this coil is fantastic. I found 2 mexican coins 2 nickels and 3 quarters and 4 dimes and a token and some junk charm and a ring! It rang up as a solid 27 .Though fake its a ring. I think this coil is going to be one hell of a jewelry killer for the xterra 50 i run. Now the quest goes on
 
I have a 6 inch DD 18.75kh coil and it picks up all the same junk that the standard coil does, only deeper!

Both coils and the detector (X-705) are great but the operator needs a lot of work!

I live in a metal detecting wonderworld, all I need is to learn how to get the best out of the 705 and sort my way through all this stuff in the ground. (Work in progress)
 
Thanks people this little coil is dam good for parks and for beaches it must be a killer too. I must admit its a bit smaller than i thought lol. Its like swinging the detector without a coil. But i have a feeling its going to be a ring killer. When i dug the plug with the ring i saw the ring and was pretty happy even though it wasnt gold or silver but its always good to find rings. Happy hunting to all and the best of luck.:super:
 
I just bought the 6" a couple of days ago myself.I put it on the detector yesterday and have been playing with it in the yard mostly air testing.Tomorrow I will be on a beach with it and see how it does,but it is hard for me to believe that this coil goes deeper than the 10 inch mid frequency coil.
Air testing with the 6inch I was getting about 10 inches on my gold ring and it is a mid size ring,a little smaller than a class ring I would say.
I like the balance of the detector much better now but going to smaller coil size means more swinging.
What kind of depth are you guys getting in actual hunting with this coil?
 
auldrider said:
I have a 6 inch DD 18.75kh coil and it picks up all the same junk that the standard coil does, only deeper!

Both coils and the detector (X-705) are great but the operator needs a lot of work!
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nickie said:
I just bought the 6" a couple of days ago myself. I put it on the detector yesterday and have been playing with it in the yard mostly air testing.Tomorrow I will be on a beach with it and see how it does,but it is hard for me to believe that this coil goes deeper than the 10 inch mid frequency coil.
Air testing with the 6inch I was getting about 10 inches on my gold ring and it is a mid size ring,a little smaller than a class ring I would say.
I like the balance of the detector much better now but going to smaller coil size means more swinging.
What kind of depth are you guys getting in actual hunting with this coil?
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Both of you are saying the 6" HF DD goes "deeper" than the bigger coils. If this is true, can you explain a bit more about it, thanks?
 
No, its not deeper than the 10.5" mid-frequency coil. Real depth really depends on the ground, but in our moderate mineralized ground it will pickup target from 7-8" deep.
 
I have one I'll sell for $100 delivered.. Used no more than 2 hours. I have the 5 x 10 18.75 elliptical coil and use that one. I think it covers a little more real estate on each sweep.
 
My bad on the depth of the six inch coil.I air tested it again with a tape measure and got eight and a half inches.I bought it for high trash areas mostly beach bars where there are lots of pull tabs and the bigger coil just makes all kinds of noise when there are many targets under it.
But it does not look like it covers much ground thats for sure.
 
Great coil in the trash. You will like it. Not as deep as the 5x10 but close.

I do my air tests on the ground so that the machine has some dirt to contend with. Often when doing that I will use a hole the dog dug just to enclose the subject of the experiment.

Jeff
 
I like the 6inch high frequency better than the 5 x 10 because its water proof and the 5 x 10 isnt. So for the beaches and lakes the 6inch has it beat in that regard also better around fences and tight spaces.
 
Can anyone with more experience give me setting recommendations for the waterline with this coil please
I am going to visit a hunted out beach this evening and try to give this coil a good workout. I don't want to make any mistakes and miss something.
I'm still going through the learning curve and trying different settings.I know I'm still making a lot of mistakes even though I have made finds,I know I am missing a lot,especially deeper stuff because the soft sounds confuse me.
My other problem is the false signals by the waterline.
I have tried the settings with threshold at 3-5 and sensitivity at 26-27,auto ground balance and noise cancel at 0 with target ID stability on ,Coin and Treasure mode, and I get a lot of false signals.
Should I manually adjust ground balance,and if I do,what should I look for for correct ground balance?
Is my sensitivity up too high for the waterline?
If I am looking for jewelry,should I use the prospecting mode with Iron Mask rather than coin and treasure?
How can I get rid of those false signals?
 
The simple answer is either in the water, or out of the water. That is, the coil should remain submerged or over the wet sand, but not in and out in the same motion, or letting waves splash over the coil. Remember saltwater is in essence a liquid metal. So what about the area that you are missing that is at the water line? Simply wait for the tide to move the water line and then cover that area, whether it is coming in or going out. Your sensitivity at 26-27 is very high, start at 15 and work your way up after walking for a couple minutes with each increase.

HH
BarnacleBill
 
That is good advice for saltwater, we have no saltwater here, only freshwater lakes, but it is good to know as I plan to retire and go to saltwater areas in the future. In-land, very lengthly severe cold weather areas like I live at now are Bull-Shit areas and I want out of here as soon as possible. I see what you mean, in saltwater, keep the coil either completely submerged, or completely out of the water. NO, in and out, or NO waves splashing on the coil. Also keep the sensitivity at about 15, then increase as necessary as Bill said.

Also there is a mode that I never use here, it is called the Beach ground balance on the X-70(5). An umbrella icon appears on the very top right hand of the screen. The Beach ground balance is suitable for saltwater beach use it can ground balance any combination of magnetic or conductive soil(wet areas of saltwater beaches). However ferrous and some low conductive(very small, fine gold rings and chains) targets can be balanced out. For this reason in Beach ground balance-Tracking should be used only when targets are far apart. I heard that the Beach ground balance Tracks faster than Normal ground balance so it can sometimes Track(balance) out faint(small or deep) low conductive good target signals on a repeated or slow swing. Also the owners manual says for beach detecting a senstivity setting below 15 may be required. Also in high trash areas such as modern parks a sensitivity setting below 9 may be required especially when searching for shallow coins.

Dry salt-sand is no problem at all for the X-70(5)'s as it performs deep, but in wet saltwater sand the BBS and FBS machines get more depth as everyone preaches. Barnacle Bill might know how much more depth? Just marginal or a couple of inches?
 
Dudes,I just got back from the beach.I had planned for an eight hour hunt but it was cut short.The cause was a ring with 16 shiny stones of which I will post a pic as soon as my son comes home. Looks like a jackpot.
Anyway back to technical. I decided to try prospecting mode today and here is what I did and how it went.
Let me say that I had not read the above posts when I went to the beach,but did read Bills other post on the prospector from Oz and thought I would go with prospecting mode today.
I ground balanced,beach mode.
Then went to prospecting mode Iron Mask,but was not able to adjust the iron mask using the + -. I had a reading of 0 and was hitting a lot of small nails.
I did have sens at 20-24 so tomorrow I will lower it a little more.Threshold at 1-5 and was GB tracking a bit to kind of get a feel for it.
Even though I did find coin and the ring,( of which I will post pic shortly) , my problem is how can I adjust Iron Mask.
I know I was doing something wrong there.
 
That is what I was thinking but was not sure. Will check it out.
And excuse me,did not mean to hijack the thread.
 
These little coils will give about 6inches on a plug on nickels and the like thats pretty good for a little coil havnt hit the beach yet with mine gota go.
 
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