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Tested the NEL Hunter coil on my AT-Pro

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Cal_Cobra

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Picked up the NEL Hunter coil for my AT-Pro from a forum sponsor here.

Have to admit that the build quality is excellent, comes with a free coil cover, and the cord is heavy duty and includes end caps to keep dirt out and prevent pin damage when the coil is off the machine.

I went to an old SF Bay Area park that's been pounded to death as gold coins and a lot of mid 1800's seateds have been found at this old 1860's park in the past, and thought it would be a good place to test (rumor has it someone tried to strip mine it in AM mode).

Only had a couple of hours to hunt, but found the coil to be really good. It was quite responsive to small conductors, and very stable. Pinpointing was easy. Only complaint might be that it's a tad heavy, but then again what 12.5" x 8.5" coil isn't?

I managed to find enough conductors to tell me that the park isn't as cleaned out as one could be led to believe, including a 1902 Indian in beautiful shape as far as a dug coin goes :detecting: Also a few pistol balls, and the usual suspects. This park had a shooting range, so that explains the shells and pistol balls :)

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I really purchased the coil for fresh water lake hunting, but won't get to try that until this upcoming weekend.

Happy hunting,
Brian
 
I purchased a Hunter coil for another detector and found it to be a deep sucker in fresh water beach sand. Be interested to hear how it does on the A T. Good looking I H.:thumbup: HH jim tn
 
Thanks Jim. About six years ago when I first started off detecting I hunted an old swimming hole at the lake I grew up around. The lake bed has 2-4" of top sand, 2-4" of rocky gravel, and then it hit hardpan clay. I had one of those cheap thin metal $29 galvanized beach scoops that would fold up on you once you got to the gravel layer - LOL. I still managed to find a 14K gold ring and giant hoop earring, and three silver rings, but I could hear a bunch of signals I couldn't dig. Now I have a super heavy duty scoop, the swimming hole is over 100 years old, so I'm hoping I can pull some oldies out that I couldn't get to before.

BTW I really like the modulated audio with this coil, seems bit more pronounced then the stock coil.

I'll report back next week :detecting:
 
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