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Hmmmmmm cannot make up mind:confused:
- Thread starter C.J.M.
- Start date
cjmI have the 6x8 sef butterfly coil on both my MXT Pro and my MX5 and I love it. It is a great little coil. I first got one for my MXT two or three years ago, and it has been on the MXT since then. I got one for my MX5 about a year ago, and it has been on the MX5 since then. I wish that Detech would start making one for the Sport and MX7 detectors. I would buy one for my MX7.
Diggindumbstuff
Active member
6x8 for sure! My Dad has one on his M6 for 5years now and routinely kicks my rear. Me having a MXT Pro I thought for sure I could out hunt him. I have Whites coils 950,6x10,10D2 and Detech 5"round and Ultimate 13. I have put a lot of time in with each of these coils . 2 weeks ago my pops got me a Detech 6x8 and wow! NO WONDER. THIS COIL IS AWESOME! This coil has brought back some of that hope I had for all my "hunted out" sites. Works awesome around iron. Low and Slow. You will not be sorry. This will not be taken off my Pro for a long time.
Diggindumbstuff
Active member
Also wanted to add... About 6 yrs ago i made a test garden with an Ike dollar a clad quarter and a dime all at about 8 inches. I could never hit any of them cause there is so much iron around them. The 950 would hit them the best but not consistantly. I dont think I would have found them if I didnt know they were there. Now using the Detech 6x8 I can hit all of them with ease. Even at below preset gain. It really is an awesome coil. Well worth the money. Not sure I will ever buy another Whites coil.
Albeit i dont own a MX-5 but i do own a SEF8x6 coil on my DFX and it basically stays on the detector almost 95% of the time,its a superb all round everyday day coil,nice and light,pinpoints well and the target separation is superb.I also use on on my T2 as well with great success.The 13'' coil is very good but would not be used as much as the smaller SEF coil,it would be the best option of course on wide open clear sites as this would give you extra ground coverage as well as some extra depth,but you would not get the target separation as with the smaller coil.
Diggindumbstuff
Active member
Haha..... Hey it would be the last money you spent on coils
Everybody knows that concentric coils are best for depth and discrimination, I would not use a DD coil on my MX5. If you like digging rusty steel bottle caps, then go ahead and buy a DD coil. My personal opinion on coils for the MX5 would be to use the stock 9" spider coil on more open and less targeted areas and then for the junkie areas use the excellent 5.3 Eclipse coil.
OregonGregg
Well-known member
Hombre said:
Agree 100% with Hombre. Th only two coils I have for my MXT and M6 are the Eclipse 5.3 and the 9' Spider coil.
Diggindumbstuff
Active member
It does like bottle caps.
I have the whites 5.3 and 9” spider coils, and those are the ones that I would use if I did any ghost town hunting. But for the type of hunting that I do (local parks and schools) the self 6x8 works extremely well. For some reason, I don’t have much of a problem with bottle caps. Also, our metal detecting club has a list of junk items that they call a scavenger hunt (pull tabs, bottle caps,etc.). During our monthly meeting they draw three different types of scavenger items, and whoever has found the most of each item gets a silver dime. So I don’t mind finding bottle caps (LOL).
Welcome to the Forums here for White's.dcleghorn said:
The 6X8 SEF coil, to my knowledge, isn't currently made for the MX Sport or Mx-7. Also, search coil selection can be a very personal or individual thing, often influenced by past experience, what we hear from other's uses, or the marketing done to promote a product. I like to read the marketing and try to separate the hype from the facts or potential field results, then I like to put one to the test afield and compare it with other coils for balance, feel and performance.dcleghorn said:
I've spent most of detecting career of fifty-three years in trashy to above-normal trash-filled sites, therefore my search coil preferences have been toward smaller-than-stock size search coils to better handle working in and around junk. They don't make that size SEF for the MX-7 or Sport models, that I know of, but I have used that size coil on other makes and models tom include the White's MXT Pro/All-Pro which used to be my primary-use detector.
I found that, for me and the sites I search the most, the 6X8 SEF just wasn't a very good coil. I compared it against the 10" DD coils from Detech and White's, 950 and 9" Concentric coils from White's, the 6X10 Double-D coil, the Detech 6" round DD coil and White's 6½" Concentric coil. The 6X8 SEF generally behaved similar to other Double-D coil designs that didn't handle iron trash rejection as well as a Concentric, didn't seem to provide consistent visual 'lock-on' as well as a Concentric, and the depth-of-detection was usually no better than a comparable sized Concentric.
"Be best" for what? The MX-7 comes standsrd with a 950 Concentric coil and I find that coil size and type to "be best" for me when hunting dry sections of beaches, sports fields, and open areas of larger-size parks where there are minimal targets [size=small](accepted or rejected)[/size] to hamper detection depth or mask good targets. Other areas would be open fields, rangeland, and similar areas with sparse target content and a large area to cover.dcleghorn said:
What applications did you have in mind for a 6X8 SEF Double-d coil? I wouldn't expect it to provide the depth of performance from a larger-size coil, such as the 9" spider or 950 Concentric sized coils [size=small](And I wish White's made the 9" for the MX-7)[/size]. Nor will that coil fit in and around trash, or feel as comfortable as some smaller-sized coils, such as the Detech 7" DD made for the White's MX-7, or the soon-to-be-released 6½" Concentric coil from White's.
Back when I worked with the 6X8 SEF on MXT series units, or when I worked with others who had that coil for their units, my field results narrowed my coil selection to only two search coils for my MXT Pro and All-Pro models. The open-frame 9" Concentric for more open area searches, and the 6½" Concentric for the bulk of my hunting where conditions are trashier. Of about 6-to-8 others who had a 6X8 SEF and then borrowed or bought a 6½" Concentric coil to compare afield, only one of them liked the feel and performance enough to keep the 6X8 SEF. The others kept or bough the 6½" Concentric coil for working trashier or more confined areas.
Today I have multiple MX-7's and my coil picks have varied only slightly. I have the 6½" Concentric mounted on my most-used MX-7, and a 950 mounted for open area hunting. I do have the newer 7" Detech DD mounted to my 2nd MX-7 for certain uses. I do use it for some of my day-to-day hunting when the trash level is mild to moderate, but it is the search coil I prefer to use when I am working a water body because it is an open-frame design that doesn't 'float' like the solid-body 6½ and 950 coil do. Those are the only three coils I like to juse for the various siste environments I hunt because they are a nice fit, they balance well, and they work even better for what I need.
Monte