turtlefoot
New member
Hi All,
I still have not had the opportunity to do a direct face off between the 11" DD coil and the 10" Magnum coil but I have had a chance to use the 11" DD a few times now and here is what I have found so far.
1. I find it much easier to pinpoint with this coil. When I get a signal, I move the coil until I lose the signal off of the front of the coil, I am at the target. I have been right about 8 out of 10 times with this method.
2. All metal mode is an absolute killer on iron and small items. It picks up almost too small bits of iron in all metal mode. It is more sensitive than the 10" coil in that matter. I have had decent luck on a one hour hunt in a pasture with finding logging relics. I found one logger's pike at around 9". I found a 410 shotgun headstamp at around 2" or so. It sounded off like an aluminum can on the surface. I know that is not very deep but I was happy with the solidness of the signal.
3. Using disc. is a bit confusing to me. I am sure that a lot of this is because I have virtually no experience with anything other than all metal mode. I followed the owner's manual on setting the disc. for high/low tone hunting (jewelry mode basically). The low tones are supposed to be for nickel/gold and the high tone for brass/silver/copper with a mixed/broken signal for junk metals. I wanted to be able to report on how it would work for those who are coinshooters/jewelry hunters. With the disc. set, I got a high tone on a copper penny only 75%-80% of the time, but not every time. Dimes and quarters hit the high tone EVERY time. I was hunting a back yard of a house that was built in 1955. Here is what happened with the penny. I was swinging away and got a high tone hit. When I was swinging the coil to pin point it's location, I got the low tone on the second swing. After several more swings I got the low tone two more times. I went ahead and dug the target (a 1962 penny). I checked the area again, in case there was something possibly masking the penny, causing the low tone. Never found anything else. I put the penny on the surface and was able to repeat the low tone one more time. This never happened in the past with the 10" coil. I could turn the disc. all the way up and still get a high tone every time. I put the 10" coil on and never could get the low tone, no matter where the disc. was set. This bothers me a bit. I am afraid I might miss some good copper targets from time to time if I am in the high/low tone setup. I actually have a 1930's campground that I am going to have limited time to hit. I have been given permission to hunt until spring tourist season starts. I was going to "cherry pick" the area first, and then give it a hard hit this fall. If I do this, am I taking a chance of missing something, if I use disc. and the 11" DD coil? I am going to try it out with other pennies on the surface, in case this was just some sort of weird fluke.
Overall, I think this is going to be a killer relic setup but I have hesitations with disc. usage (with my particular detector anyway) until I get a chance to test it again, in more controlled conditions.
Sorry for being so long winded.
Doug
I still have not had the opportunity to do a direct face off between the 11" DD coil and the 10" Magnum coil but I have had a chance to use the 11" DD a few times now and here is what I have found so far.
1. I find it much easier to pinpoint with this coil. When I get a signal, I move the coil until I lose the signal off of the front of the coil, I am at the target. I have been right about 8 out of 10 times with this method.
2. All metal mode is an absolute killer on iron and small items. It picks up almost too small bits of iron in all metal mode. It is more sensitive than the 10" coil in that matter. I have had decent luck on a one hour hunt in a pasture with finding logging relics. I found one logger's pike at around 9". I found a 410 shotgun headstamp at around 2" or so. It sounded off like an aluminum can on the surface. I know that is not very deep but I was happy with the solidness of the signal.
3. Using disc. is a bit confusing to me. I am sure that a lot of this is because I have virtually no experience with anything other than all metal mode. I followed the owner's manual on setting the disc. for high/low tone hunting (jewelry mode basically). The low tones are supposed to be for nickel/gold and the high tone for brass/silver/copper with a mixed/broken signal for junk metals. I wanted to be able to report on how it would work for those who are coinshooters/jewelry hunters. With the disc. set, I got a high tone on a copper penny only 75%-80% of the time, but not every time. Dimes and quarters hit the high tone EVERY time. I was hunting a back yard of a house that was built in 1955. Here is what happened with the penny. I was swinging away and got a high tone hit. When I was swinging the coil to pin point it's location, I got the low tone on the second swing. After several more swings I got the low tone two more times. I went ahead and dug the target (a 1962 penny). I checked the area again, in case there was something possibly masking the penny, causing the low tone. Never found anything else. I put the penny on the surface and was able to repeat the low tone one more time. This never happened in the past with the 10" coil. I could turn the disc. all the way up and still get a high tone every time. I put the 10" coil on and never could get the low tone, no matter where the disc. was set. This bothers me a bit. I am afraid I might miss some good copper targets from time to time if I am in the high/low tone setup. I actually have a 1930's campground that I am going to have limited time to hit. I have been given permission to hunt until spring tourist season starts. I was going to "cherry pick" the area first, and then give it a hard hit this fall. If I do this, am I taking a chance of missing something, if I use disc. and the 11" DD coil? I am going to try it out with other pennies on the surface, in case this was just some sort of weird fluke.
Overall, I think this is going to be a killer relic setup but I have hesitations with disc. usage (with my particular detector anyway) until I get a chance to test it again, in more controlled conditions.
Sorry for being so long winded.
Doug