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Coil Size is everything

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oneon

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Unless your ground is really clean. And I MEAN EVERYTHING.
Been working a Sov GT with a 10 inch tornado on the beach digging incredibly deep in all metal and disc but nothing outstanding has come up for me in 2 weeks. Took out my V3I same piece of beach yesterday with my 4x6 dug 2 rings, old coins and some interesting artifacts. That 4x6 is amazing and really sorts out the junk. I am convinced that coil and size make all the difference in the world.
 
Use what works for you. Following the leader is not the best way to go.
 
Best way to perceive ground is to think of it as being always changing. (It doesn't, but what we're doing walking our gear over it does.) Everyone misses great finds no matter what you use or how proficient you are.....patience while learning dirt, your machine, and yourself is what yields what's left for me every time. Watched a guy make some finds in some ground that I've pounded across from my house. Didn't bother me a bit. We sat and talked (Great guy who really new his box!) and I ran back to the house,grabbed my gear, and found stuff he'd missed. Made for a good laugh!

Every change you make (coils, detectors, how much coffee you have) will lead to different finds. I'll search hard with my V3i,find certain targets in volume and at depth. Swap to my 5900 Di Pro.......clad dimes at depth in the same dirt! (Lots of 'em!) Gold jewelry or hunting perfectly neutral ground.....it struggles compared to the V3i and DD coils? Switch to a 5.3 on it....spanks shallow/mid depth foil and rings about as good as the V3i.


Like Rob inferred.....do your "own thing" and learn it well. Don't buy into comparing yourself to others much.
 
"Like Rob inferred.....do your "own thing" and learn it well. Don't buy into comparing yourself to others much."

Today I got to hunt soil where 9" to 12" targets were the norm. Some depths were unbelieveable. And these were good solid signals. Now if I were to read about this hunt and compared these depths to those I get in my soil I would think I was doing something wrong.

All coils and all programs will not work everywhere.
 
It's been a long time since I've had that depth or needed it. The areas I've been doing have had some old targets but not deep and all annihilated by traffic and gravel. Your making me want to go back to a spot that had deep and easy digging loam.....it was coughing up a lot of decent wheats and a couple dimes but the sod was rough and required a lot of jab and hover. (One thing to do that with a small loop but this was with the big 12" concentric....felt like a monkey chasing a football.)
 
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