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Short Park Hunt.

Ron from Michigan

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Another search with the 10X12 coil very heavy trash city park.Today's hunt was a struggle nothing seemed to go right,arrived late and cherry picked 180 and nickel signals.In this park a ton of trash the two hour hunt found a couple of wheat's.The SEF coil has great depth but in this park I would go with the smaller 800 Tornado.Building a round pen and put in 8 post with post hole diggers and noticed the extra weight.Always nice to get out for a search.HH Ron
 
No way to dismiss the fact its a 12" coil Ron, your right.

Nice time of year, finally getting the yard cleaned up and ready, in a week or so the garden goes in. Already dusted of my bikes and have been out riding(cannondale and trek).
 
GOOD HUNT RON-I WENT THE HOMESITE TODAY WHERE I FOUND THE GOLD COIN AND THE BLANK HALF CENT AND JUST FOUND AN OLD BRAKE RETAINER WASHER AND ANOTHER WASHER. I KNOW THERE ARE MORE COINS HIDING IN THE IRON THERE, AND GO THERE WHEN NO OTHER NO OTHER PLACES ARE AVAILABLE. KEEP IT UP-YOU ARE DOING GOOD-HH-MARK
 
Neil,I need to start biking(my equipment is sad),was going to get in a 5K running race last week but just too cold canceled, put in some mileage(no distance or speed work) to prepare for the last three weeks not enough to be competitive, but just to keep fit.The little 800 Tornado 71/4" separates very well and you are correct the SEF is a large coil.Thanks Ron
 
Definitly the 8 " coil for those trashy areas i will not waste my time using a 12x10 doing a wiggle wiggle what i think might be a good target ? even in big farm fields that have lots of iron it,s a waist of time . The 12x10 works great in SALT !! water beaches at the right setting,s . Glad you got out . Jim
 
Max,even on my bad days out searching its still good for the mind and physical health.There are a lot of people who don't use a metal detector because it is work and unpredictable on finds.For me I'll keep plugging away until a good target strike.Thanks Ron
 
Jim,your observation on the wiggle I think is correct the wiggle on the smaller Tornado is much more effective.Wide open spaces little thrash the 10X12 SEF coil is more effective ie right tool for the job.Off subject noticed they have a clone out of the Pistol Probe for $60.00 dollars shipped and all so there is a 10 inch used Tornado coil on EB that may go for a decent price.Thanks Ron
 
I would like to hear more about the struggle on the search so most hunters know everyone has a unproductive day.LOL every day can't be the Savage BOOM! day.HH Ron
 
Well you got out Ron, thats alway's a good thing. Our 9 inches of snow finally melted so I got out for a few minutes myself today but too dang cold, only 35 degrees with more snow tomorrow. Crap! That's my unproductive story. Got nothing.
HH Gary
 
Gary,sometimes we get stuck only hunting areas close to home.This season maybe a drive to the other side of the state to add new sites.Great thing about this hobby we set our own goals.Thanks Ron
 
Ron, in terms of left/right separation I feel so far the 12x10 is as sharp as it gets, compared to all other coils, big or tiny,concentric or DD, to separate targets from each other. I'm very confident using it in the heaviest of trash.

All about angles, so that the length of the DD line misses forward or aft trash, because, despite what has been implied about VLF technology on certain models, there is simply no way a detection field can see past the first thing it hits, and relate dual target IDs to those two "as one" objects. First (meaning shallowest) object the field hits, and it's game over.

But, yea...In terms of length wise separation, the 7.25" Tornado has already shown me unmasking ability length wise that any larger coil just isn't going to get around, unless you grid from just the right angle(s) to miss all surrounding ring of targets with the DD line to hit that coin and that coin alone. That is where this little coil comes into play for me.

I have owned one other small trash coil, which was a good bit smaller than the 8" Tornado, but even though it's length wise separation was outstanding, I found it's left/right separation *appeared* to me not nearly as good as ANY coil I compared it to, big OR small, so I sold it off and bought an 8" Tornado.

I can live with the 8" Tornado not having better left/right separation than the 12x10, because no coil I ever owned, concentric or DD, regardless of size, comes even close and I can't imagine how it could get better, but that said the 8" Tornado has really good left/right separation, and that combined with it's sub 8 or 9" typical size for trash coils on most machines, means that alone will have it finding stuff other machines or coils can't.

And, combine that with it's apparent super deep abilities for such a tiny coil, and I see a bright future for this coil in the right situations at "dead" sites. The 12x10 may be able to sift out left/right wise better IMO (initial impressions here of course with the 8" Tornado), but it'll take far few odd grid angles for the 8" Tornado to work it's magic...
 
Critter,my third time out with the SEF.wheats were found in a well worked area with the new coil.Not a good search, time restrictions that day didn't help me or my equipment.Rian tomorrow but warn, maybe another hunt.Thanks Ron
 
Hi Jim, ok so can you tell me what the wiggle wiggle is, i see it alot but thinking its moving the coil quik from side to side ? Yes? Thank you. GS
 
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