OMG what a difference

[daddyflea]

I think John bought my NEL Tornado. I sold it because I thought I needed a smaller coil in my trashy sites. Man was I correct. I went out today with my new Coiltek 5X10. Unfortunately I get to hunt after work and it gets dark at around 6:15 PM. I left the house at 5:00 PM. So by the time I loaded my Metal Detecting Hound and drove to the spot, I only got in an hour of hunting. I covered a very small area that had been covered by my stock coil. Might have used the Tornado a little but mostly the 11" stock. I found several Clad coins and these older coins.

1-1927D Wheat
1-1935D Wheat
1-1954D Wheat
1-1929D Wheat
1-1945 Wheat
1-1944D Wheat
1-1934 Wheat
1-1957D Wheat
1-1928 Buffalo Nickle



It is rare that I am over joyed with a purchase but this coil will not leave the Etrac. Most of the coins were not really deep, I would say 6" at the most but they yelled "Dig me please" on every signal. ID was perfect. I can not recommend this Coil any more than that. I swindled Richard at Backwoods out of this coil.

 

[JNimons]

Great Dan. ...another coil I'm going to want! I just picked up an 8x6 SEF....hoping for similar results from some of my schools

 

[Delta Digger]

daddyflea we told you that was a good coil. I really like mine so far.

 

[IDXMonster]

Like a laser beam eh? Live and learn,I did the same before I used a little coil. I cannot wait for SPRING! That's the season after WINTER WITH SNOW AND -20 TEMPS we have in the "north"...dang southerners...hunting all the time and what not...
Good to see your success,and your perseverance to find it if it's there! Apparently...its there.

 

[daddyflea]

Like a laser beam eh? Live and learn,I did the same before I used a little coil. I cannot wait for SPRING! That's the season after WINTER WITH SNOW AND -20 TEMPS we have in the "north"...dang southerners...hunting all the time and what not...
Good to see your success,and your perseverance to find it if it's there! Apparently...its there.

Down here our season actually starts in winter. In summer it is too hot and the ground is too hard to dig. Not to mention the skeeters and tall grass. Yep that coil is the Cat's meow

 

[~ACE~]

I recently bought the 4.5x7 excelerator coil. How do you guys think it would stand up against the 5x10??

 

[rbholt80]

your tempting me to come give you a visit lol. doesn't look like your spots are as hunted out as mine down here. good job
im not off weekends so ill have to take a vacation day but i will hit you up soon as i can.

 

[daddyflea]

your tempting me to come give you a visit lol. doesn't look like your spots are as hunted out as mine down here. good job
im not off weekends so ill have to take a vacation day but i will hit you up soon as i can.

I run hot and cold. You can never tell about these old houses. I hit a spot a fellow hunter was foaming at the Mouth to get to. I got permission and we hunted 4 hours and not a coin. I hunted an old lot yesterday that I had hunted the prior two days and found two coins. In an hour I found a bunch. I was told that the guy that owns the old Fairgrounds is going to Bull doze his house. House goes back to the 1800s and is the Living Quarters for the School superintendent. This house has never been hunted and is supposed to have a Cache of Silver Dollars there. He is also going to plow the Fair Grounds. If he does this will be great. Never can tell. I hunted an old Church the other day and was getting Silver signals in the Rock Hard Road. Had to pass them up.

 

[rbholt80]

id love to hunt the fair grounds when its dozed so give me a ring a few days before. ill take off. i know about the dry hard dirt. i have the black gumbo clay here. jackhammer needed in mid summer. i truely think i could dig a pond an use this clay as brick to make a home from. its harder than cement when dry. iv helped plow field before and broke disk just on the clay. no rocks at all in the way.

 

[rbholt80]

another thing im born n raised Texan and id never talk bad of the south but i don't think southern people from about 1970 - 2000 understood what a trash can was far. iv hunted so many places that were literally smothered with foil n tabs that you would not ever have threshold on the entire hunt

 

[Delta Digger]

daddyflea your Just about set up except for a few things. I'll get a Rnb 3100 battery. Best upgrade for the Etrac. I've hunted with mine close to 30 hrs. And it hasn't dropped the first bar yet. And I would also get a pod cover for the display head. You can get the three piece set off flea-bay. Mine came from the UK. It's called the protector very nice.

 

[daddyflea]

Already got it covered. I have a cover for each of my Display screens and I have a full Eneloop battery recharging system for my 4 battery packs

 

[surfchunker]

eneloop doesn't even come close to the RnB ... had they and not even half the run time of the RnB, I get over 40 hours on mine. warning they last so long you forget to check the battery and end up going out with a dead battery after a month. after it does drop the first bar it goes pretty quick

 

[daddyflea]

Went out with my new Coiltek yesterday and found a quarter and two pennies that I know I went over with my stock coil. the Quarter was at 8". The bad thing was i was using my 2nd Etrac and had the Audio gain turned only about half. I have a real habit of hunting around big trees so I am certain I went over it with the stock coil. Hard to believe I missed a quarter at 8" and two copper pennies.

 

[DetectorCollector]

My favorite coil for the Etrac is the sunray X-5.That little coil really compliments the E tracs slow recovery speed in the trash.Excellent separation.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Small coils on heavy iron and or overgrown sites are nothing short of fantastic !