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How To Double Or Even Triple Your Finds In A Hunt:surrender:
- Thread starter John-Edmonton
- Start date
dfmike
Well-known member
I love that coil. I'm intrigued by the 400i in general. You seem to be doing really well with it. Do you prefer it to your AT for coin shooting in general ?
Personally I don't much care for the screw driver digging technique. Less effort no doubt but I'd hate to start poking metal on metal on something more valuable. Also, a plug when well done will leave no visible trace to someone who didn't know something was dug there. If it's clearly visible, it's a botched job. It is indeed more effort and time spent for sure though.
What really gets me is when I see big holes dug with a spade shovel that haven't even been filled at all ! I've seen this more often than I care to remember. Infuriating !
Personally I don't much care for the screw driver digging technique. Less effort no doubt but I'd hate to start poking metal on metal on something more valuable. Also, a plug when well done will leave no visible trace to someone who didn't know something was dug there. If it's clearly visible, it's a botched job. It is indeed more effort and time spent for sure though.
What really gets me is when I see big holes dug with a spade shovel that haven't even been filled at all ! I've seen this more often than I care to remember. Infuriating !
Excellent video. I've been hunting that way for thirty five years but using a BigFoot coil to do the same thing. Pinpoint, pull the coil back until the sound stops and the coin will be right in front of the coil. No digging holes, no plugs, no shovels no pissed off park or school employees. This method is only used for shallow coin and jewelry or fresh drops. I'm with John on this one, if the Pro Pointer won't hit it, it's too deep and time to move on. I don't worry about damaging a coin using this method as the older silver coins are deeper than an inch or so, so a different method is used when hunt deeper old coins.
HaroldILL.
Active member
I do the samething when clad jewelry hunting athletic fields. Also use a Bigfoot coil on my Whites.We lost a lot of are older areas due to guys using shovels. This type of hunting is the last frontier in my area that is close by.
I have observed some terrible dead plugs left over from last year in some fine parks and schools. A 8" square dead yellow plug really stands out. Not good.... 
What you are doing is an excellent example of what we should so!
I use the concentric coil on both machines for hunting sports fields. Very fast, accurate pinpointing and no plugs. Relic hunting is usually with a DD coil, in the woods where digging deep holes is not an issue and they too get filled in. The coil makes all the difference for me, not the detector.
Ha! Too funny....if you watch the video, and look in the mirror mounted on the wood panels above that white chair, you will see a bunny at about 21 and 43. He managed to get himself in the video. I had no idea! 
DirtFisher60
New member
I've been using that method for most of my 30+ years of detecting, but you need to be more gentle with the probing. You never know when it might be something valuable like jewelry or even a silver coin. One of my oldest silver coins, a barber dime, was less then 2 inches deep. Not too long ago, I found a nice silver chain bracelet in the roots. If I had stabbed at the ground like that, it could easily have put a big scratch in it. Other than that, it is a fantastic method and a lot quicker/easier to retrieve shallow targets than making a plug. Just wish a lot more guys would take the time to learn/accept that.
Sven
Well-known member
I really like concentrics for pinpoint accuracy, makes coin popping quick and easy.
Too bad more manufactures are just offering DD coils than concentrics these days.
It makes it tougher, all in all getting better at it.
Only one of my detectors has a optional concentric you can buy.
White's IDX I am repairing, it will sport a 6" concentric.
Tesoros were my favorite for pinpointing.
Too bad more manufactures are just offering DD coils than concentrics these days.
It makes it tougher, all in all getting better at it.
Only one of my detectors has a optional concentric you can buy.
White's IDX I am repairing, it will sport a 6" concentric.
Tesoros were my favorite for pinpointing.