5" exceleretor 2 and the MXT

[plidn1]

A few months ago I bought a 5" exceleretor 2 for nugget hunting with my MXT.
When I first got it I tried it out to make sure it worked OK with the detector, then put it away. That was the last time I used it.
In one of the parks that I work that has been very productive for me, are two tree lines that follows a soccer field and ball diamond. The trees sit on a burm or rise of about 15' in relation to the playing field. A lot of people sit up there and even put up canopy's during the games.
I have worked them in the past and found gold and silver rings and pendants, but it is very frustrating as it is infested with foil, tabs, caps and everything else you can imagine. Even the hardiest of hunters tire fast here.

Today I decided to attack it with vigor and not liking the 4 X 6 DD, I mounted the 5" for a work out.
My third target was a small 12 k pendant at about 4". I spent about an hour and found a few more coins and a junk ring.

This little coil is great. It pin points like a rifle shot, VDI's very close, and my deepest target was at 6". That is pretty impressive depth for a 5" coil. My ground in the park varies between 57 and 67. Very mild.

Anybody looking for a great alternative to the elliptical coils and has a need to cherry pick really high trash areas, would not go wrong with this coil.
But beware, it cannot pass up a bottle cap.

 

[Monte]

Yes, the good old search coil topic and how it can bring about an argument at times. that's not my intention here, just a little personal opinion based on experience. My experience through the past 48 years of detecting has pushed me to often own/use more than one favorite detector and more than only one search coil of interest. Why? because sometimes you might lick onto a better-than-average detector or coil, or things might go the other way and you get a detector or search coil that is a little below par.

On the very positive note, I have owned 5 White's M6 models, 6 MTX's, and 2 MXT Pro's. That was after evaluating an early prototype that then was much improved and surfaced as one my my all-time favorite detectors on the MXT Pro! The positive note is that all of the M6 and production MXT's I have had worked very consistent and performance has been top-notch!

Then there have been the search coil choices. Personally (and I hope the folks at White's are listening up here), I like the 12" Concentric coil for certain specialty hunting needs, mainly for larger relics or a cache, but I DO NOT think it should be a standard coil on any model that is offered. Second, I have more use ... on periodic occasion ... for the 950 coil and I think it is an 'OK' stock coil for the MXT/MXT Pro models.

I keep my 12" and 950 coils each on a spare lower rod to use when the incidental occasion comes my way. I have the 6

 

[Aarong81]

Monte, what do you think is causing the high GB where you have been hunting? Would Hot Rock that has been dozed all around cause that ammount of ground mineralization? If so, I always assumed a high concentration of hotrock means two things, (1) alot of time has been spent there many years ago,(2) MOST metal detectorist give up very quickly in that particular area. Which should mean, theoretically, there are lots of goodies there and it is possibly even virgin ground considering the difficulty of hunting it.

I found a spot like that near a vacant school lot in the town I live in and it was very hard to hunt. I persisted for 2 day hunts and found 2 silver dimes in the hotrocks. This site has been pounded hard over the years so I was pretty surprised to find any old silver at all. The only reason I could come up with is that the hotrocks deterred the previous hunters and my mxt had a slight advantage, perhaps? The silver dimes were barely any different sounding than the hotrocks as they also blared high tones all over the place. The difference I noticed were that the typical hotrock would beep at random spots and never consistantly in the very same spot. When I came to the dime signals they sounded the SAME as the common HR but I could get a response in an exact spot on each swing. The Dimes might have been a bit more faint but the sound was very much the same. Note, I have the pro and was comparing the high tone. Hotrocks are on the bottom of the VDI scale but they can somehow max out the + side of the VDI as well. Is that normal for HR's? Alot of HR just shows -80 or so and shows hotrock on the screen. The problem is that when it is detecting HR it is nulling out the good signal buried with the HR. How is it suppose to detect -80 and +80 at the same time?