I can honestly say that this little 6" Excelerator coil has become my favorite to use. I can run it absolutely hot and it doesn't false...even when I bump it on tall grass stubble. I had the Excelerator 4.5 x 7 coil and it is a great coil too. In fact it was my favorite until now. This is my second actual full hunt with the 6" coil and it pulled a lot of coins out of areas I had previously hit with my stock SE coil. It's a pretty trashy site and I pulled some of these coins out of a hole less than 2" from a piece of can slaw or rusty nail. Another fact I can state with 100% truthfullness is that each and every one of these coins was found at depths of at least 6" to as deep as 8". I did not find one single coin at less than 6" and I would say that well over half of them came from 7" or more....and 4 or 5 came from 8". One of these mercs was 7" down straight on edge. I dug the hole and there was nothing there but I got a good signal with the probe on the side bottom of the hole. I took my finger and sure enough...7" down straight on edge at the side of the hole was a 1937 merc.
I then got a strong hit and dug down over 10" until I finally saw something. It looked like a rounded piece of thick wiring so I stuck my finger down and rubbed accross it. BIG MISTAKE because it was the top part of an old razor ...blade still intact (pictured) and it sliced my fingertip wide open. It took 15 minutes for it to stop bleeding. I also found a tiny washer type object pictured next to a new penny just to show how small it was...which gave me a solid high hit from 8" down so this coil is very sensitive to smaller targets.
I ended up hunting for 20 minutes...then dashing for the car because of rain...then back for a while longer. I did this off and on for 5 hours until I had enough!
I ended up with 17 nice teens and twenties wheaties...3 mercs...2 nice indian heads...and the razor which nearly sliced my finger off.
When I hunt large areas and need to cover ground faster then sure...I'll pop on one of my bigger coils. Otherwise the 6" is staying on. I had plenty of confidence in it after I posted on it a few weeks ago. Now it's become my favorite if I'm not in a hurry. It gave me a nice solid hit on even the 8" coins. I could easily tell the difference between a 6" clad dime hit and a 7" silver dime hit. These finds may not seem all that impressive to many of you but this is a site that I have pounded for thirty years with many machines including my SE. My research usually leads me to a weeded up- Jurrasic Park setting so I really enjoy going back to a heavily pounded site to see if I can pull some more goodies out. It gets frustrating for me when my research leads me to a dead end or a weed field. I have found myself hitting "hunted out" sites more and more lately.
I then got a strong hit and dug down over 10" until I finally saw something. It looked like a rounded piece of thick wiring so I stuck my finger down and rubbed accross it. BIG MISTAKE because it was the top part of an old razor ...blade still intact (pictured) and it sliced my fingertip wide open. It took 15 minutes for it to stop bleeding. I also found a tiny washer type object pictured next to a new penny just to show how small it was...which gave me a solid high hit from 8" down so this coil is very sensitive to smaller targets.
I ended up hunting for 20 minutes...then dashing for the car because of rain...then back for a while longer. I did this off and on for 5 hours until I had enough!
I ended up with 17 nice teens and twenties wheaties...3 mercs...2 nice indian heads...and the razor which nearly sliced my finger off.
When I hunt large areas and need to cover ground faster then sure...I'll pop on one of my bigger coils. Otherwise the 6" is staying on. I had plenty of confidence in it after I posted on it a few weeks ago. Now it's become my favorite if I'm not in a hurry. It gave me a nice solid hit on even the 8" coins. I could easily tell the difference between a 6" clad dime hit and a 7" silver dime hit. These finds may not seem all that impressive to many of you but this is a site that I have pounded for thirty years with many machines including my SE. My research usually leads me to a weeded up- Jurrasic Park setting so I really enjoy going back to a heavily pounded site to see if I can pull some more goodies out. It gets frustrating for me when my research leads me to a dead end or a weed field. I have found myself hitting "hunted out" sites more and more lately.
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