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M6 - Take Two

Daniel Tn

Active member
My wife went back to work today (I go back tonight) so I snuck out with her M6 for a few minutes. I went to an old football field that I've done fairly well at in the past. It gives up silver dimes from time to time and a few wheaties. The last couple of times I've been there I've came back skunked though. It's kinda my playground for new machines. Last time I was there I had a new Minelab Quattro and a Tesoro Tejon with 5.75 coil. This place is really trashy. The Quattro nulled everytime it got near the ground. I put it away and hunted with the Tejon. But now for the M6.

The point I wanted to make is that it has been hunted and it is very junky.

I set the M6 on the preset disc of 1. I set the sensitivity to around the 75% range. Ground track on. I put the trigger in the center. The 7 tones are a neat feature but I found pretty quickly that the center mode is definatly the mode for depth. I pumped the coil over the ground a few times and began my search. I probably shouldn't have done it but I simply ignored all the pulltab and nickel ranges...especially the ones that would lock with a full bar. I dug only the upper coin signals. It was fooled only twice. This machine is a coin machine no doubt. The two targets that fooled it where the same...Mello Yellow bottle caps that were flattened. They read as 1c. I was digging the 1c signals because of the afore mentioned wheaties in the area. I came away with around 50 cents in change...made up mostly of pennies and one quarter. In other words...I dug lots of holes. Most of the pennies were between 4 and 5 inches down. The few that I could read are from the early 60s and some may be wheaties but I've not cleaned the green crud and dirt off to see yet. I would search in the center position til I located a coin reading then would flip the switch forward. I really don't see the purpose in the forward position other than for a modern clad coin shooter because from what I've seen it loses atleast 2 inches of depth between the forward and center position.

It's definatly a coin machine though. Should be a fair relic hunter too if you turn the disc fully counterclockwise. It's EXACTLY the kind of machine I was looking for, for my wife. No complaints or regrets thus far. I even like it for myself. I know it's been beat to death in the old saying...but it is really a "fun" detector to use. Very well balanced and not as noisy or quirky/bouncy on the numbers as the MXT was.
 
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