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Used both the Sovereign XS2 and Explorer ll to cover the same area.

Ron from Michigan

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My goal for today's hunt was to scout my new park and use the Sovereign to find a spot where old wheat's were located.This park has filled in areas where clad dimes are recovered at 8-10 inches.I don't have a S1 probe on this Sovereign and I used the Pistol Probe and Bullseye ll for pin pointers.The Pistol Probe does interfere with the Sovereign and I moved the coil as far away as possible to stop the annoying noise coming in from the Sovereign when using this Probe.The Winburn Avenger meter worked great steady looked on the deep targets with the wiggle and never needed adjusted.The meter IDed the two nickles recovered at 145.The coil I used was the 800 Slimline excellent separation and good depth.The three hour hunt ended in a pine grove where I recovered 4 wheat's in a five foot circle in the 1920s and 30s.Deepest coins the XS2 recovered were around 8 inches.My total finds before switching to the Explorer 22 pennies 7 of them wheat's 1925,1926,1928,1938,1940 D,1940,1942 two nickles five dimes and one quarter which all was clad.Maybe its the way I hunt but my biggest problem with the Sovereign is the wheat to silver ratio,which for me has been too high a 20 to 1 ratio leads me to believe I'm leaving silver.The Explorer ll was used in the same area and found some targets I missed.The big surprise a large Canadian 1919 cent,which,I don't know how I missed with the Sovereign.Another 5 pennies recovered 3 wheat's 1930,1942 and 1956D. In addition 3 dimes one silver 1956.Bottom line I thought the Sovereign did an exceptional job finding the old wheat's.The Pistol Probe and Sovereign is a bad combination stay with a S1.A 10 or 12 inch coil would have been a better setup for today's hunt.
 
My Timber wolves has a switch that will turn the head set off.To eliminate this annoying chatter just a flip of the switch will solve most of the problem.
 
Nice collection of wheates there! Thanks for the pic, keepem coming.
 
That was a good and interesting hunt Ron. Sometimes I find wheats and clad, but no silver, and am sure there should be some there. Lot's of places where I have a solid null in the area, seems like I don't find anything deep, but find lots of clad shallow. I wonder if i'm doing something wrong. I wonder if others have had the same problems and have answers. I know my GT goes deep, because it's worked me to death sometimes,lol. HH-Mark
 
Mark,The Sovereign will find deep silver,but my wheat ratio like yours is too high,which we know what that means. I find the Explorer is the opposite a lot of Silver and few wheat's.They are both great units.
 
...............Ron.....how about using the Explorer first and then going back with the Sovereign?? I'm just curious.......................the Explorer may be better for Silver??...................... but I'm not ready to get a new ( to me) machine yet!!..............Joe
 
Yeah, I have the same problem, the wheat to silver ratio. Part of it is the wheat cents in my area of michigan have a halo you can see when dug, the green dirt around the coin makes a bigger target. The silver is more difficult to detect. A lot of the silver left behind is dimes, dimes on edge, and quarters on edge. What helps me is going with a large coil, it will light up the sides of the coins on edge. When I have used the WOT coil, I noticed I did not get any deeper, but I started picking up more silver on edge. But the coil was a pain to use, espiecally in trash. A friend of mine started getting more silver with his Sov when he switched to the 10 inch coil.
 
machine to pull silver dimes from 8 inches deep.

It's not only the machine but the user, soil conditions, weather, angle of the coin, ground moisture, relationship of coin to trash, and a bunch of other factors.

I spent a lot of time with the Sovereign GT and it pulled up lots of copper but few silver coins. In fact, this same thing could be said of all brands I've used over the past 30+ years.

Back in the earlier days of detecting silver ran 1-4 inches deep and the early guys killed it. What we're after today is the difficult stuff for the most part.

--kid
 
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