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Looking for an 8 inch coil for my G T.. do I want an s-8 or a coinsearch??

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Mark ( ohio )

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the coinsearch may be a tad heavier, but being solid design wont get hung up on twigs while scrounging in the woods.....Does one have a significant depth advantage over the other??

Any help fellas... Mark ( ohio )
 
You might want to ask about the 8" Tornado too. There are guys on here who have used all three, but I forget which one they said seems to have more depth.
 
Just stay away from the old BBS 8" coils before the Tornado. My friend has one on his Excal and when I took it off to paint it for him with spray on bed liner it was heavier than a boat anchor.
 
Mark ( ohio ) said:
the coinsearch may be a tad heavier, but being solid design wont get hung up on twigs while scrounging in the woods.....Does one have a significant depth advantage over the other??

Any help fellas... Mark ( ohio )
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I've had all of them and have to say the 8" Tornado is the best of the bunch (At least it was among the specific coils I have used). The Coinsearch is a very good coil, but is not waterproof and any that you find are going to be quite old by now. The standard BBS 800 coil is decent, but is not as stable or as deep as the rest (It's also the heaviest). The S-8 I just started using recently. I have not field tested it much, but in my coin garden it does not get as deep as the 8" Tornado coil.
 
The 8 inch coinsearch is not waterproof and was the first coil the Sovereign used, but is the best one for learning the Sovereign with in my opinion. The signals are easier to hear as the hot band of the coil may be wider as the signals were more drawn out and easier to hear. Now the S-8 I feel is more for those that have a little more experience with the Sovereign as it seem to be a quicker and shorter response and those new to the Sovereign may miss some of the signals as most try to go too fast and don't know what to listen for until they get a little more experience with it. The S-8 will separate better because of the quicker and shorter response and seems to go deeper from what we have seen in actual hunts we have done. I let a guy that knew his Sovereign well try my S-8 and he tried a old park everyone had hunted plus he did with his coinsearch and within a hour he had dug 5 merc dimes that were 10 plus inches deep from a area he had been over before and got nothing. He kept it and told me to buy a new one as he wanted this coil. A week ago I had a guy come in that has had a GT for the last 2 years with the stock 10 inch coil and he was only doing OK, not great and wanted to try a 8 inch coil, so I let him try my new S-8 I had on the shelf and he was impressed with it and said it seem to work much better for him so he bought it, but wound up trading his GT in for a new E-Trac as he just had to try one of them too, so I got the coil back again along with the GT with a Sun Ray meter and Sun Ray probe.
On the open center on the S-8 I know Sun Ray used to make coil plugs to put in the holes so you could have a solid coil if you wanted, but hate to say not sure if they still do or not.

Rick
 
I have used all these coils.My favorite is the 800 Tornado.Hits very hard on targets excellent separation.The BBS 800 is a good coil also but a little heavier and is close in performance with the Tornado.The S-8 and Coinsearch are great coils but the little 7 1/4" 800 coil works best for me.HH Ron
 
Are the Coin Search and the S-8 true 8" coils in size, while the old BBS 8" and new Tornado 8" coils are only 7 & 1/4"?
 
Critter,I think the Coinsearch and S-8 are true 8 inch coils.My brother talked me into a seeded hunt in Virginia this June the Sovereign with the Tornado 800 will be used.HH Ron
 
I have the S-8 and it gets just as deep as the 10" coil i got in the bad ground today the 7" buried dime i also was going to sell it its a good coil the tornado 800 is good two high quality you can do alot with the 8 & 10
 
Well I've read of some of these smaller coils used on a Sovereign getting I think 12" on a coin, which is rather impressive. Rarely do you hear of even coins that deep on the Etrac or Explorer (or even a Sovereign) with a 10 or 11" coil. Of course a lot has to do with the soil type. On the other hand, I bet an 8" coil gets deeper than a bigger coil in really bad ground that a larger coil is taking in too much ground matrix in. I think I remember Crazyman saying he got better depth with an 8" coil in his soil than the 10".
 
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