Monte/ white coil question

[Anonymous]

Monte/ or others, I often see posts where you prefer the older white coils as used on older Tesoros.
Question why ?? and are you refering to the white open coil or the closed white coil??
Thanks in advance.
Richard

 

[Anonymous]

Richard,
When I am referring to my personal preference for a white colored coil, it is that I am, not fond of the brown colored round open-center coil. Not the coil as much as the color. I hunt a lot of ghost towns and other sites where a coil is being worked in and around and under brush/bushes and I can visually keep watch on white coil's placement/coverage.
I also preferred the white open-center 8" coil to the brown one that replaced it because I had several white coils and they were lighter, and I also seemed to get a little better performance with them. Even so, I have usually worked a 7" coil on a Tesoro to deal with trash and provide a nicer 'balance' for me.
I do not like the solid 8

 

[Anonymous]

I rather prefer Tesoro's brown "donut" coils to their white, solid coils. This is probably because I spent years with the 8" brown donut that came with my Silver Sabre II and took to it right off the bat. Nothing to fuss and muss with -- you just position the signal to the middle to the donut and you were as good as gold. Not so -- to ME PERSONALLY -- with the white solid coils. I own a white solid 4" Tesoro coil, and to this day, I keep wishing it was a 4" donut coil.
Much the same argument/debate could be presented on whether it's easier to center a target with an 8" brown donut vs. a 10x12 spoked "spider" coil.
Everyone's "eye" is different, and it all comes down to that -- which boils down to just plain personal preference rather than actual performance. An 8" Tesoro donut coil will perform exactly the same as an 8" white solid coil.
Scott

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Scott,
Where have you been hiding all these months? Have you been out in the woods measuring the sink rate of coins/relics?? What conclusions have you made?
You know we all miss your daily comments, so welcome back !!!

 

[Anonymous]

The white coils stand out better if your wading also. We have a lot of cedar water which has a root beer color to it here in NJ, and the brown and black coils are tough to see in this.
Neil