silversweeper
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Greetings all. Finally got my 13" Ultimate coil in the mail on Saturday, after 1 month+ of waiting! Got out briefly on Sunday to try it out. My first stop was at a very hunted out Union encampment. First few signals were trash so I decided to move from that area and as I did I noticed that the mix of signal tones became almost nonexistant, except for some occasional high tones that I could never seem to chase down. I swung the coil for probably 10 ft. square and had all but decided that the coil was all hype....then I looked down and discovered that I'd left the switch on my pinpointer on!!!! GAH I havn't done that in a long time!! LOL In any case, no good targets at the encampment other than 1 small piece of camp lead, but I would have been very surprised to find anything (even with my pinpointer switch on off!). I'd covered that area with several different coils and from all different directions. Worth a try though. Next stop was in the field I'd been finding Colonial buttons in. The corn is really too high to be doing much swinging but I thought I'd hit one of the hot spots swinging sideways and see if I could find something I'd missed with the 10x12 SEF. Nothing for quite some time and then I did finally dig one nice, but plain, Colonial Tombac button. Iffy signal but repeated from 4 directions. It was probably about 8" or so deep so I can't swear to a difference in detected depth between the coils, and I may have just missed with with 10x12 due to swing speed the 1st time, but it was in an area of heavy iron concentration so finding anything there with that large of a coil was impressive. I can tell you, however, that the 13" is almost exactly 2 ounces heavier than my 10x12, I weighed them on a scale (2 ounces doesn't sound like a lot but it feels like a lot when you swing it for a while). The only other find on that short hunt was a small shot round ball. At that point I wasn't real impressed but gave it another go on Monday afternoon. Took the coil to a pretty much hunted out park. Every once in a while I find a silver here still but they are few and far in between. I swung for a while, dug some trash, and also picked up some litter. I spotted a trash can several feet away and figured swinging in that direction was as good as any. Half way there I hit a confused signal that fluttered every once in a while to 11-45, I got a good high tone in 4 directions so I figured it was worth digging. When I dug my plug and pinpointed, I discovered a nice Merc. at about 6 inches deep. Drop the plug back in and waved the coil back over the area and discovered that a second merc had fallen off the side of the plug and was laying on top of the ground. SWEET....1st 2 silver spill I've gotten in a long time (a '34 & a '36, both plain). I swung around the park here and there for probably another 30 minutes and on the way back to the van decided to go over an area I'd hunted many times with other coils. Got another confused signal that again flitted to 11-45 once in a while, and again a high tone repeated from 4 directions. Dug down and about 5 inches deep was a beauty of a 1916 Barber dime on edge. SWEET! That was it for my time and I headed to the house with a 3 silver day, my first in a long time. SO....my opinion of the 13 incher is that it is a bit heavier than my 10x12. I don't find it as easy to pinpoint with, most of my targets dug were not in the center of my plug which is rare for me. In fact, the nicer of the 2 mercs, the '36, has a little ding in the side where I hit it with my digger GRRRRRR. Also, as Bryce noted in his trial of the coil, if the signal doesn't repeat from 4 directions, it was usually trash. The barber actually repeated solid from 3 directions, the 4th was "spotty" due to several other targets close on that side. I also dug a couple of Jefferson nickels and pennies, those are still in the pouch. I can't attest to added depth with this coil yet because nothing I dug was surprisingly deep. I'm positive that I swung over all three silver dimes, however, with other coils in the past so I guess I'm going to keep swinging the 13" great white hope for a while and see how it does. Am thinking about spray painting it black, though, if I keep it. That white sure does get dirty quick! OH....and the birdpoints in my pictures came from my early Monday morning hunt in a different field.....eyeball finds of course, wish they made a detector for those!!!! HH To all!!
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