last night and took it for a brief spin this afternoon. I searched around the edges of a volley ball court for about 45 minutes and came away with 9 quarters, 12 dimes, 7 nickels and 2 pennies. A couple of the quarters and dimes were in the 5-6 in. depth (sandy) and came in loud and clear. All were clad and seemed to read 1 to 2 numbers lower then the stock coil does. It sure runs a lot quieter then does the bigger coil, but the less ground it covers will take some getting used to. My first impression is IT IS A KEEPER and am looking forward to giving it a real test tomorrow on a very trashy site I've hunted quite a bit with the stock coil. Hope everyone had a great holiday. HH jim tn
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Found the small coil under the Christmas tree
- Thread starter jim tn
- Start date
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Your legs will ache from all the squats you'll be doing. Your neck will be sore from looking down at the meter all the time, and you'll be mad as a wet hen when all the coins you find bust out the bottom of your favorite hipmounted finds pouch that they no longer make anymore. 
Happy
Happy
iliketodigit
New member
Waiting for my F75 to arrive, hopefully Friday.
I have allready bought a small coil and will be using it in some heavily wooded and bush areas.
Please post back on how you go on with the coil, signal strength, tector settings etc Thanks, M.
I have allready bought a small coil and will be using it in some heavily wooded and bush areas.
Please post back on how you go on with the coil, signal strength, tector settings etc Thanks, M.
I hunted with it for about 4 hours this morning and love it already. I worked a very trashy area that I and others had hunted before and while I didn't pull out any silver, I did recover 7 wheaties, 12 pre 82 Memorials, 5 dimes, 1 quarter and 5 nickels. 2 of the nickels were Buffalo's, both no dates. I did recover 1 rather neat coin, though, a 1943 Australia Penny. It is about the size of a half dollar and read 79-80. A couple of the coins were in the 6-7" (true) depth range and the small coil rang out loud and clear. M, I've pretty much settled in with the following settings for coinshooting, which is mainly what I do. Sen. 75-80, disc. 6 & 10, no notching, 3h tones and de process. As I had mentioned in my earlier post, I was finding the readings running about 2 numbers less then they do with the large coil and that seemed to still hold true on this outing, too. Depth readings are not all that accurate, but I don't find that to be a problem. Without question, the small coil will sift through trash and get right up against things. In my humble opinion, the small coil is a must for the serious coinshooter. HH jim tn
Jim,
I have had my small coil out only a few times and love it already as it really get some of those coins that are in with trash. I feel this small coil has help me understand the F-75 much better that it did before with the stock coil and so far no problems with the rusty bottle caps. What has surprised me first time out was a picked up a buffalo nickle out of a well worked area of a old park we had missed with our other detectors. Second time out in a yard I had worked heavy too and knew some bad area full of iron and didn't find anything really, but I decided to try along the sidewalk anyway even though it has been tried over and over again and got a 1902 V nickle. What does surprise me is the depth this little coil gets as it is great. One thing I see no one seems to mention is my target ID read higher on deeper targets as both of the nickles were almost reading like the new zinc pennies were and thought they may be IH pennies for a high as they read. Out of the ground they read like they should, but with them deeper they seem to read higher on the ID numbers. I notice it with the stock coil too so when it is a deeper target I don't go by the numbers as much as how well it sounds. I wasn't a believer in the 2 tones, but find I like it more and more each time I use it as in the 3 or more I get a lot more iffy signals off of trash.
You are going to love this coil I am sure Jim and I hope that First Texas will include this with the F-75 some day so people can see what this coil can do.
Rick
I have had my small coil out only a few times and love it already as it really get some of those coins that are in with trash. I feel this small coil has help me understand the F-75 much better that it did before with the stock coil and so far no problems with the rusty bottle caps. What has surprised me first time out was a picked up a buffalo nickle out of a well worked area of a old park we had missed with our other detectors. Second time out in a yard I had worked heavy too and knew some bad area full of iron and didn't find anything really, but I decided to try along the sidewalk anyway even though it has been tried over and over again and got a 1902 V nickle. What does surprise me is the depth this little coil gets as it is great. One thing I see no one seems to mention is my target ID read higher on deeper targets as both of the nickles were almost reading like the new zinc pennies were and thought they may be IH pennies for a high as they read. Out of the ground they read like they should, but with them deeper they seem to read higher on the ID numbers. I notice it with the stock coil too so when it is a deeper target I don't go by the numbers as much as how well it sounds. I wasn't a believer in the 2 tones, but find I like it more and more each time I use it as in the 3 or more I get a lot more iffy signals off of trash.
You are going to love this coil I am sure Jim and I hope that First Texas will include this with the F-75 some day so people can see what this coil can do.
Rick
On the deeper targets I also go more by sound then with the numbers. You may be right on the 3 tones giving more iffy signals off of trash, but I like the high tone in 3h and when I get a high tone I carefully check it out. I was very pleased to see the small coil does equally as well as it's big brother on nickels. Also, I didn't mean to imply in my last post that someone is not a serious coinshooter if they don't have the small coil. If anyone took it that way, I apologize. HH jim tn
iliketodigit
New member
I managed to try out the small coil today and was very impressed.
I was searching some tough ground on a hill side in amongst conifers and other trees, bushes etc so plenty of roots which i did not want to damage when i was digging.
Also there are quite a few hot rocks like a well compacted coke that sounded off on a regular basis.
I first searched with the standard coil, DE, Sen from 75 through to 90 (as conditions permitted), Disc at 10 to 15, tone 2f or 3h.
I prefered the brighter tones of the 3H mode on this occasion but will use both.
With this setup i detected and marked around ten signals that i wanted to have a closer look at, at this point i changed to the small coil.
Every one of the marked targets were picked up with a strong signal using the small coil with similar settings as above.
First thoughts on the small coil.
Can such a small coil really perform?
It does look really tiny when changing from the stock coil however i think the answer is YES.
1. Very sensitive.
2. Retains good depth.
3. Pinpointing is excellent.
4. Target id very accurate.
When it said ring pull it was, twice.
When it said foil it was, three times.
The hot rocks read at Dime / Quarter with a Fe3 O4 from 0.1 to 0.3 with a very low reading on the confidence meter four times so i now know what to look for with them.
The one coin found was a QE2 ship halfpenny which read in the 70's with a bright clean sound in 3h and full bar on the confidence meter.
The depth reading read deeper than it actually was. Reading of 8" actual depth of around 5".
I you haven't got one go and treat yourself.
Happy digging, Mart.
I was searching some tough ground on a hill side in amongst conifers and other trees, bushes etc so plenty of roots which i did not want to damage when i was digging.
Also there are quite a few hot rocks like a well compacted coke that sounded off on a regular basis.
I first searched with the standard coil, DE, Sen from 75 through to 90 (as conditions permitted), Disc at 10 to 15, tone 2f or 3h.
I prefered the brighter tones of the 3H mode on this occasion but will use both.
With this setup i detected and marked around ten signals that i wanted to have a closer look at, at this point i changed to the small coil.
Every one of the marked targets were picked up with a strong signal using the small coil with similar settings as above.
First thoughts on the small coil.
Can such a small coil really perform?
It does look really tiny when changing from the stock coil however i think the answer is YES.
1. Very sensitive.
2. Retains good depth.
3. Pinpointing is excellent.
4. Target id very accurate.
When it said ring pull it was, twice.
When it said foil it was, three times.
The hot rocks read at Dime / Quarter with a Fe3 O4 from 0.1 to 0.3 with a very low reading on the confidence meter four times so i now know what to look for with them.
The one coin found was a QE2 ship halfpenny which read in the 70's with a bright clean sound in 3h and full bar on the confidence meter.
The depth reading read deeper than it actually was. Reading of 8" actual depth of around 5".
I you haven't got one go and treat yourself.
Happy digging, Mart.
Since my initial post I've been out with the small coil 5 times, once to a school yard and the other times to the trashy and hunted hard site I have been visiting quite a bit. It has now been baptized with silver recoveries, 1 very small sterling ring and the other a 1953d Rosie. At the school yard in about a hours time I recovered $4.10, 5 pennies, 25 nickels, 10 dimes and 6 quarters. The F75 with either coil loves nickels. lI have found the same thing, Mart, the targets are a little less deep then the readings. Ya, I am hating the small coil more and more.
HH jim tn
HH jim tn