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help with coil choice

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leroy1937

New member
I'M a great one to use coil that comes with machine.
Should I be using different coil if so which one
I have all 6 name brand detectors
Thanks
 
Depends on many things...
What types of areas do you prefer searching?
What items do you prefer searching for?
Is there a lot of junk metal in the areas?
What types of soil?
How fast do you swing the coil?
How much do you overlap your swings?
Which machines in particular are you using?

There's many more questions that I can't think of right now.
Your question is a bit too vague... There's uses for all the popular coils for each machine.
Depends on your preferences/habits and the environment and desired targets.
 
I like big coils for overall depth, small coils for trashy areas, DD coils for mineralized soils and stock coils for general use
 
High leroy,
The bigger the coil, the more surface area it covers per sweep. Most bigger coils also have a greater detection depth.
But: they are heavier and pin pointing as well as target seperation gets more inaccurate.
So basically it amounts to common sense : you don
 
I've used most of the available coils for my detectors at one time or another. As I often hunt trashy parks and tot lots, I've found that the smaller coils are my best choice as they handle trash well and I don't need large coverage or great depth, usually. As mentioned above, large coils do cover more ground and get a bit more depth, but they are heavy and can drive you crazy in trashy areas. Where an 8" coil would be considered "stock" I often hunt with a 7" which is a pretty good compromise. Sometimes a 5.75 or even a 4 if the trash is extremely heavy. Every now and then I hunt large, clean areas where I can make good use of the larger coils, but I find them to be heavy and tiresome after a bit and generall end up using the stock in many of those locations as well. IMHO, for most coin shooting etc., one will be better served by using coils on the smaller side versus the large ones. They pinpoint more closely as well.
My two bits,
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