I went to a location that is infested with trash and has pounded over the years but I was able to pull out a bunch of wheaties and 4 rosie's a week ago with the stock coil. First I tried the 10x12. I hit a wheatie right away but after that had a difficult time with the coil. The sounds were different to me with this coil and I could not adjust. I tried some different settings to see if I could find something I liked but was not finding any targets, not even newer clad. I was in cherry pick mode and not looking to dig all targets, just wheats on up tones. Being confused as from what I read that this coil had better separation than the stock coil I was surprised, I could not get targets isolated. I threw the stock coil back on for a bit to see if it was me or the location and tracked over the same area I covered with the 10x12 and I was able to pluck out some clad and wheat pennies, no rosies. I am not sure what went wrong I think I need to try the coil out again in a cleaner environment first to get the feel for it.
I then threw on the 6x8 and went into some of the very trashy areas. I have to admit with the different things I have been reading about this coil the past weeks my expectations were not that high. Boy was I wrong. I started hitting deep, iffy signals. Some of the signals I would bet most people wouldn't dig as the fe numbers were way off and the co numbers bounced a bit. The tones were those deep sounding ones. I decided to dig a few anyway. Everyone was a coin, some clad some wheats (again no silver). One of the signals I dug out the plug, removed some dirt, scanned the hole and the target, a bicentennial quarter, was still in there and it was a true 10" deep. In fact I almost left it down there because once i got that deep I thought is was going to be a large target as I did not think this small coil would get a coin that deep. I was stunned as I pulled penny after penny out at 8-9". As time went on I was taking care to make sure that these coins were not falling in from the sides but were actually that deep to start. I was totally impressed with the coil. I was running sens manual and at 28 (fast and deep on).
I think the reason that people have a problem with this coil is because the targets sound different. The tones are the same they just have that "iffy" type of tone to them. You really need to use the wiggle to make the signal sound diggable. I honestly believe if I had someone else there with me and let them listen to the tones most people would not have dug them. I was moving the coil very slow to find them too.
I now look forward to trying out the 10x12 again. I think it was a combination of different sounds that the coil produces and also the fact that it has a little more coverage than the stock and that may have made multiple targets under the coil more confusing for me. I will post more as I get more time to hunt including some tests on the 15x18. I have one but that coil is for specific locations.
I then threw on the 6x8 and went into some of the very trashy areas. I have to admit with the different things I have been reading about this coil the past weeks my expectations were not that high. Boy was I wrong. I started hitting deep, iffy signals. Some of the signals I would bet most people wouldn't dig as the fe numbers were way off and the co numbers bounced a bit. The tones were those deep sounding ones. I decided to dig a few anyway. Everyone was a coin, some clad some wheats (again no silver). One of the signals I dug out the plug, removed some dirt, scanned the hole and the target, a bicentennial quarter, was still in there and it was a true 10" deep. In fact I almost left it down there because once i got that deep I thought is was going to be a large target as I did not think this small coil would get a coin that deep. I was stunned as I pulled penny after penny out at 8-9". As time went on I was taking care to make sure that these coins were not falling in from the sides but were actually that deep to start. I was totally impressed with the coil. I was running sens manual and at 28 (fast and deep on).
I think the reason that people have a problem with this coil is because the targets sound different. The tones are the same they just have that "iffy" type of tone to them. You really need to use the wiggle to make the signal sound diggable. I honestly believe if I had someone else there with me and let them listen to the tones most people would not have dug them. I was moving the coil very slow to find them too.
I now look forward to trying out the 10x12 again. I think it was a combination of different sounds that the coil produces and also the fact that it has a little more coverage than the stock and that may have made multiple targets under the coil more confusing for me. I will post more as I get more time to hunt including some tests on the 15x18. I have one but that coil is for specific locations.