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I Think I Need A Smaller Coil

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DJW

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V3i with standard coil; Have permission to dig around an abandoned older housing camp used for many years by immigrant workers during MI planting/picking seasons. This place is like digging in a tab top/beer cap collection point.. I am finding many new pennies and dimes but having a rough time getting thru to any deeper stuff. Don't know what the signatures will be but it would seem reasonable that I would find some older Mexican coins and hopefully jewelry. The nice thing is that I do not have to worry about how I dig or how I fill the holes as the landowners are going to be knocking down the building and plowing the ground for planting in the future. What would be a good coil for the V3i in these conditions?
 
White's offers the 4x6DD and the 5.3 concentric coil. If I was at that site, I'd use a shovel and dig everything. You said it was going to be plowed. After the top was cleared I'd look for the deeper stuff.

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I think your gonna have to remove the shallow stuff to get to the deeper stuff due to masking..... with that said I guess it wouldn't matter too much which coil you chose.:detecting:
 
Rob (IL) said:
White's offers the 4x6DD and the 5.3 concentric coil. If I was at that site, I'd use a shovel and dig everything. You said it was going to be plowed. After the top was cleared I'd look for the deeper stuff.

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I suggest the 4x6, don't stress about deep stuff right now...clear out the top signals. The 4x6 will see as deep as you need to get to those "shadowed deeper coins" easily enough. Really...the 4x6 hits deep and yet prunes out the clutter while getting there. Run that coil hot. It will amaze you. martin
 
I have both 4x6DD and the 5.3 concentric coil. The 5.3 being the newest in the arsenal and have used it only on two hunts and time will tell. I seem to be getting deeper targets with the 5.3.
 
If we look back about 30-40 years we would note that many detectors were offered with a smaller-size search coil. Gold Mountain, Garrett, the original Teknetics, and some others used a 7" or 7
 
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