vaquero coils

[Herb Jones]

I have a vaquero and a stock 9x8 concentric and a 12x10 widescan ... I mainly coin shoot, but would like to get
More into relic, civil war army encampments, old homestead detecting, as I have several locations that have
probably never been swept by anyone is there any specific coil available that would nicely round out my coil selection?
Or should the two I have cover me in most situations? I mostly work clean, open ground not trashy, and have no adverse
Mineralization effects to Contend with.So basically is there a third coil out there I should keep my eye out for? I was thinking
that maybe a closed surface coil/solid body as opposed to the open coils, just for the sake getting into bushes without
getting hung up, most of the places I'd Like to hunt have grown over with vegetation.

 

[REVIER]

I have a 5.75" concentric and love that little thing.
I also own the others you mentioned but this one usually lives on the bottom rod of my Vaq.
Fast, sensitive, responsive, deep and excellent target separation in trash or iron.
I hunt in trashy parks with tons of pop tops and that was a big reason I went with a concentric over a DD and never regretted it for that and many other reasons.
Seems to work surprisingly well in mineralized soil, too.

On one of my first hunts just trying it out I was planning on hunting a bunch of parking lot dividers loaded with trash at a local Jr. college but wandered over to a huge area just for laughs and I was swinging super fast because I expected nothing.
I was pleasantly surprised when I still got a great tone that made me go back and check out this target.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=FhPT55m2TOM

 

[Herb Jones]

I was considering I got the 5.75"... all
If have to compare it to is the compadre
It is slow going but I love the quality of the
responses I get When using it. How much
depth would you estimate you loose with such
A small coil.?

 

[REVIER]

On a Vaq...not much.
In low mineralized soil with the standard concentric I could get to the 10" range easily, maybe a bit more.
In some neutral tot lot wood chips I once hit a tiny stud off of a kid's pair of jeans loud and clear at about a foot with the standard coil.
In really good low mineralized soil in Kansas and Missouri most of my deepest targets were usually only at about 6-7", normal depth for most targets in my whole career, but a few times the small coil got me targets down near that 8-10" area.

The Vaq is way more powerful than the Compadre and lives at a deeper level plus you have that GB feature that also helps.

 

[Nomad NJ]

I have the 5.75 concentric and the 11x8 coil for my Vaq. For me they were way better than the 9x8. I used the 9x8 in a seeded hunt and was on a Sandy beach near the ocean and it was horrible. The following year I put the 11x8 on it and brought my Sov GT for a backup. The 11x8 worked great.

 

[Monte]

I have a vaquero and a stock 9x8 concentric and a 12x10 widescan ... I mainly coin shoot, but would like to get more into relic, civil war army encampments, old homestead detecting, as I have several locations that have probably never been swept by anyone is there any specific coil available that would nicely round out my coil selection?

I feel you have a very good stock coil in the 8X9 Concentric. Personally, I have never liked to have an over-assortment of search coils as usually 2 or 3 is all you need depending upon the detector model in-hand. In my case, my Vaquero is the newer 'black' version that came with the 8X11 RSD Double-D [size=small](Wide-Scan)[/size] coil. That coil is sufficient for times when I might do some beach hunting or work a plowed field or other place what's wide-open and has minimal metal targets.

Most of my Coin Hunting is in trashier and confined areas, or Relic Hunting which gets me into very dense iron contamination with nails and all sorts of ferrous junk. For those needs I have long preferred coils in the 5½ to 7" diameter size. The 6" Concentric [size=small](5.75 in Tesoro lingo)[/size] has worked so well for me on my other Tesoro model group that I ordered a new 6" Concentric coil for my Vaquero from 'Rusty' which should be here Tuesday. It will stay mounted for full-time duty and my 8X11 DD will be in the accessory coil bag in case I want or need it. These two search coils for my Vaquero are all I am going to need for it.

I was thinking that maybe a closed surface coil/solid body as opposed to the open coils, just for the sake getting into bushes without getting hung up, most of the places I'd Like to hunt have grown over with vegetation.

Weeds, stiff brush, twigs, stubble fields, etc. can become annoying with an open-frame search coil. That's why I use small and medium-sized coils most of the time, on all my detectors, that are solid so as not to cause snags and hang-ups.

With a 6" and 8X9 Concentric, with a 10X12 DD if you think it works for you, you ought to be covered. They work just fine for me in all types of ground mineral conditions, and I live and hunt in some very challenging ground in several western US states.

Monte