NEL sharpshooter...1st impressions

[oneguy]

First off I'm by far any expert with the etrac or any coil expert. These are just my impressions and results with a new to me used NEL sharpshooter coil that I traded for with another forum member. Had to go into the big city for some medical crap so I went in a day early to do some tecting with my new coil. Weather was great and I put on about 7-8 hrs with the SS coil (5.5x9.5) and these are my first impressions. My hunting seems to always be in trashy public and I lean towards the smaller type coils. My favorite is the 6" eq2 but obviously you can't cover much ground and that drives me crazy so I was looking forward to the SS coil. I hunted mostly in conductive with maybe 2 hrs in TTF. First I hit a pounded park and wanted to try and focus on nickels as the easy deeper high tones are few? I spent about 2 hrs at the park and dug 3-4 wheats and the bulk of these nickels. Not sure if I'm just getting my ears more tuned to nickels (?) but this hunt my nickels to beavertails/bottle caps was probably the best I've ever done before? The coil gave me very good accurate info, at least on this particular hunt? One of the nickels was on edge and in the 7-8" range and my PP was off by about 2-3" because it was on edge but the SS got it and accurately id the coin! Most my wheats were in the 6-7" range and I did use my Lesche to actually measure 1 wheat at 8". I've never dug a coin deeper than 9" even tho I read stories of much deeper (?) so I was happy with an 8" wheat. I also dug a coin signal (can't remember what type of coin I thought it was) and popped out a square pulltab at maybe 3-4"? Then I thought "well that wasn't the sound I heard?" and went back in. Found the coin that was under the square tab, then ran the PPer around and it goes off again so I kept digging to find a nail or screw in the same hole but under the coin. So I was kinda impressed with both the etrac and the coil on that dig. Coil seems deep enough on my first hunt, seems to be accurate on id's, seems to like the nickels real well..??? I liked that I can cover just a bit more ground with it and it's smaller size is a great fit for my style. It definately will have a place in my coil stable and I look forward to learning the etrac and the coil even more in the future. No impressive silver finds this hunt and I dug some deeper zincs hoping for IH's. I probably passed up as many shallow coins (zinkers) as I put in my dug results shown below. These are my impressions on the coil and I'll let the pics do the talking....

 

[Illinoismic]

Silver is silver nice finds. I am thinking about getting a smaller coil. Just gotta stack the money up away from the wife

 

[sprchng]

I've had similar results with that coil and it's a mainstay on the etrac now. I prefer it to the 6x8SEF for some reason , possibly because it has a two year warranty and my 6x8 did not last that long. I would still like to see a good objective review/comparison to the 5x10 WSS. My only complaint with the NEL is unnecessarily thick cord and the loose coiling.

 

[Nuke em]

Well done on the finds .

If I was looking for a new small coil then the Sharpshooter would be the one but I cannot drag my butt from using the Pro.