I have had my CTX for the about a month now and I purchased a 6" coil to hunt in the rocky beaches when I water hunt (I am primarily a water hunter). Previously I have been water hunting with my 10" excal for large sandy beaches and my 8" excal in the rocky beaches but since my 8" excal has been sent in for repairs I have been using the CTX with the 6" coil. I have been playing around with the CTX at a couple of parks and schools to try and learn the machine better. In the last 5 water hunts and 3 park hunts, with the stock coil I only found 1 gold ring, every time I put the 6 inch coil on I have found gold or platinum. I have hunted the same beaches and parks with the 6" coil and I have pulled up 5 gold rings at the last 5 beach hunts, a gold ring and a platinum ring at my last two park hunts... When hunting the parks with the stock coil the machine recommends a sensitivity between 4-8 and I am usually able to run the sensitivity between 12-14 without it making way to much noise but even at that I can only detect a nickle at 4 inches max and it is iffy with no reading on the display, just audio. With the 6" coil the recommendation is 10-14 and I can manually get away with 19-22 and I will pick up a nickle at about 6" with a jumpy display but solid audio. The stock coil is great for dry sand hunting and but that is the only place that I think that I will use it, all other times I think that the 6" will be my go to coil.
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Loving the 6" coil
- Thread starter h.m.scoop
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The 6 is my go to coil I hunt heavy trash .
The reason I use the 6 is because I can usually crank it to 30 in manual but the stock I can get 24 to 26 sometimes but then I am hunting heavy trash .
Just wondering if you tried seawater mode can get your sens up a little more with it enabled . sube
The reason I use the 6 is because I can usually crank it to 30 in manual but the stock I can get 24 to 26 sometimes but then I am hunting heavy trash .
Just wondering if you tried seawater mode can get your sens up a little more with it enabled . sube
I used it once .I had found a 1940 Jefferson ,non silver , at about 5 inches down. The numbers came in at low 12/30's. Actually thought it was an Indian before I dug it. After I pulled it out I figured there had to be a penny in there with it to give me that reading ,but nothing. Hole was clean. Sube,does your 6 give you that type of signals on nickels? First time I found a nickel with those low 30 numbers ..
hiluxyota No my nickels come in at 12.13 ferrous coin the only nickels that come in higher are war nickels 12.13 to 12.30 because they have silver and other things in them .
But some war nickels come in at 12.13 so I guess they read all over because of what's in them .
The nickel you found what does it read out of the ground it seems strange that it came in that high , the only way it could would be something higher with it to get the #s up .
Also depth will be off using the small coil tends to read deeper than it is . sube
But some war nickels come in at 12.13 so I guess they read all over because of what's in them .
The nickel you found what does it read out of the ground it seems strange that it came in that high , the only way it could would be something higher with it to get the #s up .
Also depth will be off using the small coil tends to read deeper than it is . sube
Hey H.M. sounds like that 6" is treating you right.
I also have that coil and use it in rocky beach areas and trashy sites like Sube. It sounds like you are using it in strongly mineralized ground just curious if you are hunting east or west coast beaches. I'm on the west coast and hunt heavy mineralized beaches and My 11" coil wants to run sens levels in the single digits to low teens. The odd thing I find is when I put the 6" on the machine suggests lower sens numbers. I haven't tried switching seawater on yet. I mostly hunt in ground ground coin due to the high mineralization.
So far no gold with the 6" but I have pulled silver out trashy and mineralized areas that have been heavily hunted by others. I was air testing that coil the other day and it will hit coins and rings past 6" in air testing. One thing I notice with the coil is the slower you go the better it hunts.
I'd still like an 8x6 maybe coiltek will make one for us
HH
I also have that coil and use it in rocky beach areas and trashy sites like Sube. It sounds like you are using it in strongly mineralized ground just curious if you are hunting east or west coast beaches. I'm on the west coast and hunt heavy mineralized beaches and My 11" coil wants to run sens levels in the single digits to low teens. The odd thing I find is when I put the 6" on the machine suggests lower sens numbers. I haven't tried switching seawater on yet. I mostly hunt in ground ground coin due to the high mineralization.
So far no gold with the 6" but I have pulled silver out trashy and mineralized areas that have been heavily hunted by others. I was air testing that coil the other day and it will hit coins and rings past 6" in air testing. One thing I notice with the coil is the slower you go the better it hunts.
I'd still like an 8x6 maybe coiltek will make one for us
HH