Started out today using the 5 inch coil in the iron/pulltab infested baseball diamond at our local park. I generally hunt in iron mask and conductive modes. I was not getting any of the deep stuff however just iron, shallow pulltabs and some can slaw, etc. so decided to switch over to the pro-coil. With the pro-coil I kept getting the usual iron looks like silver in one direction and looks like iron at 90 degrees readings mixed with iron nulling so passed these up as probable iron. I kept this up until a few of the pulltab signals did the same thing just lower on the smart find screen and aligned with nickels and pulltabs. Pinpointing just centered on the iron in most cases and sweeping the center nulled out like iron with a high pitched tone off the assumed edge of the iron. So I had to approximate the center of the pulltab sounding targets. I dug a few of these to confirm that indeed they were deep pulltabs right next to iron. Normally I would have assumed these were just iron except the pulltab tone in one direction told me to dig these anyway. I then decided to go back and find some of the high pitched mixed signals which would be in the copper silver range. Glad I did this because one of these turned out to be a wheat and the other a silver dime. These were fairly deep and read up in the right hand corner of the smart find in one direction and then pegged on the iron line to the left when I turned at other angles to the target. From discussions in other posts this was supposedly a dead ringer for an iron target with the signal jumping from left to right on a slight angle at times. Checking these signals back and forth I was getting nulling from iron and iron reading except in the one direction. So I pinpointed the iron and it completely nulled out. Then I located the high pitch in the one direction and approximated the center of this signal which was steady on coin but only from one angle. Digging down resulted in the finds.
So in light of the above, could someone just get along without the smaller coils just learning how to interpret the mixed signals with the stock or a larger coil? The pro-coil appears to do well with separation. I am wondering if I should just part with the small coils and get some money back. Maybe I'll miss a few things here and there but generally should be able to find the bulk of the targets with the stock coil?
So in light of the above, could someone just get along without the smaller coils just learning how to interpret the mixed signals with the stock or a larger coil? The pro-coil appears to do well with separation. I am wondering if I should just part with the small coils and get some money back. Maybe I'll miss a few things here and there but generally should be able to find the bulk of the targets with the stock coil?
