Surprised (again) by the 6-inch DD coil.....

[Digger]

I thought I had a good idea of how deep it would hunt, in a given circumstance. But today I got a pleasant surprise while hunting in a nearby park. This park is NASTY with modern trash. Every sweep of the coil would produce from 4 - 6 beeps! Foil, bottle caps, pulltabs, can slaw, nails, screw caps. You name it! Using anything less than a small coil would create too much masking, so I grabbed the 6-inch DD at 18.75 kHz. I am a big advocate of hunting in all metal and simply listening for the tones. But the trash was so bad at this site that I actually used a modified Pattern. When I would get a higher tone, I would switch to all metal and make sure that I was not getting the high tone from the "back side" of a ferrous target. Once I confirmed the audio was from the intended target, verified the TID, and sized them up via the Prospecting mode, I carefully recovered the targets. I have not been a fan of the higher freq coils for coinshooting. And the DD coils have not my first choice either. But this little 6-inch DD is unbelievable. I dug some of the deepest small cents that I have dug with a smaller than stock coil. Many of them were deeper than 6 inches, with the deepest being a 1919 D at a measured 8-inches. I have always been, shall we say suspicious of reports of finding coins this deep with a small coil. I always suspected that the coin was at the side of the hole and fell into the bottom as the hole was enlarged. But I was careful to make note of where the coin was located and it was definitely buried 8-inches from the surface. These new 6-inch coils are HOT! HH Randy

 

[Frank in NH]

I am putting it on my X-50, do you think i would be better off to buy a used X-70?

 

[bfodnes]

Was out today with it for the first time in real detecting situation. Today the GB nrs was 38 instead of 16 on the stock and GP nrs was a little lower then half of that on the stock. That was more like I had expected.

I dug every good signal and some iffy, found very deep targets. Nickel coins at 6-7 inches and big coppers at 8. I am confident that this coil will find the smallest stuff aswell as being deep enough on the coins. I think you will find coins even deeper then 8 with it even if I did not do that today.

I dug no iron nails or iron trash other the steel bottlecaps, some of them gave a good signal at around 26 ID.

Regards.

Bjorn

 

[Elton]

Sounds like you had a good day, and learned something too.

 

[North Georgia Relics]

n/t

 

[Digger]

Hey Frank, I generally hunt with my X-70 in 4-tones, manually set the GB a bit positive, sensitivity just on the brink of chatter and dig consistent tones and ID. I like the X-70 Prospecting mode for pinpointing. But other than that, I have my X-70 set up just like the X-50. Sure the Auto NC, Auto GB, Tracking and Prospecting are nice features on given occassions. But I think you will do fine with your X-50. HH Randy

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I figured the 6" coil would do well, I'm happy with the separation I get even with the 10.5". I do not really have a need for a small coil unfortunately, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[chigger]

Good report. Sounds like a great coil for trash hunting.

 

[COMMANDR]

My 6 inch Sniper DD coil comes tomorrow and after reading these posts I can't wait to give it a try. Good info on using Prospecting mode for pinpointing, I have to try it. Thanks for sharing.

Gary

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