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Well, I have the sunray 8 inch and the minelab 8 inch ( which if memory serves me was actually 7.25 inches ).... but when I had my explorer II I replaced both of them with a NEL sharpshooter coil... seemed to me the target ID was a bit better and depth was pretty remarkable. ( at least in my area )..
Very nice, a fellow ohioan.... well, if your going with the minelab 8 inch coil ( which is not a true 8 inch I'm sure), my recommendation for the nel sharpshooter stands. I believe you'll be happier with the performance of that coil.
I have used many different detectors myself and for me and the hunting I do has a lot of trash so the separation does the best for me which I find the 8 inch coil works better for me. Now most of my detecting is parks, ball fields and some yard and as we know they seem to be a lot of other trash. The 8 inch seems to separate real good and even found a nice walking half in area that was trashy and many had gone over it with other detectors. also when I used my Sovereigns I got a nice franklin half with a big bolt on top of the half and wish I had taken a picture of the rust spot on the half. This was done with a 8 inch coil and my buddy had a 10 inch coil on his Sovereign and it just nulled for him. So it comes down to the type of hunting you do and my coil of choice is the 8 inch SunRay coils as they work for me. I bought a new SunRay X8 on my Explorer in a real trashy yard that everyone says there is too much trash, but I just had to try it and the first target was a dime which was just under the sod and was surprised to see it wasnt a new dime but a nice seated dime. In that yard got another seated dime and many silver tooo and feel it was because it was the smaller coil as the 10 inch seen to much.
