I planted a test garden for club members on a members property. Planted a Zinc, and Copper Pennies, a clad Nickel, Dime and Quarter at 4 and 6 inches. A 57 Silver Dime and a 43 Silver War Nickel at 8 inches. Plan to add more next weekend.
The NEL BIG coil easily detected them all. Freshly planted the vdi numbers were jumpy. Perhaps next weekend they will settle down. We had a club hunt there a couple weeks ago, so I know the BIG will work I the area.
After hitting the 8 inch coils, the club member/property owner got curious and raised the BIG up to around 6 0r 8 inches further over the 8 inch deep coins. It still detected them. At about 10 inches they were detected but sporadically and with no VDI number.
The 5x8 detected all the coins, including the 8 inch ones, but those were faint signals with no vdi numbers. The stock 8.5x11 DD did much better. It got a strong signal on all the coins.
I plan to add more coins, multi coin, trash and perhaps some deeper coins to the garden next weekend.
I will report back again next time.
The NEL BIG coil easily detected them all. Freshly planted the vdi numbers were jumpy. Perhaps next weekend they will settle down. We had a club hunt there a couple weeks ago, so I know the BIG will work I the area.
After hitting the 8 inch coils, the club member/property owner got curious and raised the BIG up to around 6 0r 8 inches further over the 8 inch deep coins. It still detected them. At about 10 inches they were detected but sporadically and with no VDI number.
The 5x8 detected all the coins, including the 8 inch ones, but those were faint signals with no vdi numbers. The stock 8.5x11 DD did much better. It got a strong signal on all the coins.
I plan to add more coins, multi coin, trash and perhaps some deeper coins to the garden next weekend.
I will report back again next time.