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I Need Some Info
- Thread starter moose57
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Ronstar
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I have a Sharpshooter for my Fisher but a couple of comments. Catalog says they found it had good depth and separation, I find it works pretty good in trashy areas and my experience so far are targets to 6”. I like the fact the 9” height allows you to cover ground a bit faster than say the 5” round. Pinpointing is dead on under the coil where the shaft connects so that a plus.
Yes, I have used the NEL Sharpshooter and a few other aftermarket DD coils, plus all those that were made by Tesoro. I've used them in a variety of site environments, but most of the time it was Relic Hunting ghost towns and other old locations that had a lot of iron nails and other ferrous debris.
Due to the poor performance of all DD coils compared side-by-side with Concentric coils with most of the Tesoro model's circuitry designs, I don't use DD coils with a Tesoro. Concentric coils were easily the better performers.
In more open areas with reduced ferrous-target challenges, such as maybe Beach Hunting or some open-area Coin Hunting applications, some DD coils worked okay.
Of them, I liked the Sharoshoorer for performance, balance, and that relates to the good rod-mount position, and separation when nails are not too close to keepers.
Some Tesoro models will, sometimes, work a little better with DD coils than other models, but I have found the Tesoro circuitry designs to work better with Concentric coils in most cases.
Keep in mind, too, that the Golden microMAX relies on an internally pre-set GB and that function will change a little or a lot with search coil changes.
Monte
I bought a huge aftermarket coil for my Silver umax some years ago, but shamefully admit that I haven't hunted with it since. I did clean- out 2 virgin cavalry camps with that machine with the stock coil years ago. Great machine! I'm different than a lot of diggers in that I don't want to dig very deep targets. Health won't let me. 6-8" is where I've found most things.
If you have a huge, aftermarket coil, I'd offer up for sale portrayed and hopefully find somebody who thinks they are going to benefit from having an oversized coil.
I have eight detectors in my personal outfit and only one of them has a bigger size coil. That's my Garrett Apex with the 8-1/2X11 'Raider' DD. Coil mounted for open-area searches. All the rest of them have a small or mid-size coil mounted. For five and a half decades smaller to mid-sized coils have served me quite well, and a lot of that was early-on when I was healthier and had ample mobiluty. Today, it's a different. I've been getting around with a cane for just over 28 years and with other compounded help limitations my getting down and getting up is a serious struggle both ways.
Most of the good targets I find now are between surface and 5" or 6" with the few occasionally down to 8". Things haven't changed much since I got started in '65 .... most good stuff is surface to 4" and in some of those a little bit deeper fall into that depths up to give or take 6".
I enjoy using both my Bandido II microMAX and Silver Sabre microMAX with their 6" coils, my Relic w/5" DD, Simplex + w/5X9-1/2, ORX w/5X9-1/2 HF, and Apex devices w/5X8 'Ripper', the above mentioned 'Raider' coil, and a NEL 5" DD.
I also like all of my simple to easy-to-use detectors because I don't care for complexity.
I wish you the best of success on every opportunity you have to get out detecting.
Monte
I have eight detectors in my personal outfit and only one of them has a bigger size coil. That's my Garrett Apex with the 8-1/2X11 'Raider' DD. Coil mounted for open-area searches. All the rest of them have a small or mid-size coil mounted. For five and a half decades smaller to mid-sized coils have served me quite well, and a lot of that was early-on when I was healthier and had ample mobiluty. Today, it's a different. I've been getting around with a cane for just over 28 years and with other compounded help limitations my getting down and getting up is a serious struggle both ways.
Most of the good targets I find now are between surface and 5" or 6" with the few occasionally down to 8". Things haven't changed much since I got started in '65 .... most good stuff is surface to 4" and in some of those a little bit deeper fall into that depths up to give or take 6".
I enjoy using both my Bandido II microMAX and Silver Sabre microMAX with their 6" coils, my Relic w/5" DD, Simplex + w/5X9-1/2, ORX w/5X9-1/2 HF, and Apex devices w/5X8 'Ripper', the above mentioned 'Raider' coil, and a NEL 5" DD.
I also like all of my simple to easy-to-use detectors because I don't care for complexity.
I wish you the best of success on every opportunity you have to get out detecting.
Monte