Compadre in the trash

[machineman]

I have been hunting an old town site. It is loaded with iron and I have found very little non ferris metal. I have only turned up one silver coin which appears to be an 1803 Mexican Reial. It was sitting on a gopher mound and I could have seen it just as easily as detected it. I have hunted the area with a Xterra 705 with a 6" dd stock 9" and 10.5" hf dd coils, my Outlaw with all three coils and my Compadre with the stock coil. The site is huge and I have not really touched it yet. There is one area, in front of the only visible sign of the town, which appears to be a cellar hole. I had about 30 min to hunt on Christmas eve and got out my Compadre. I hit the are around the store which I have been over with all the above detectors. I was surprised to come up with about 6 targets that the other detectors missed. None of them were anything great, mostly old bullet casings but the Compadre found them in the trash. I get 10 or more hits in a sweep in all metal in this area. With the xterra I was getting almost continuous iron sounds. I haven't given the Outlaw a fair try there with the small coil yet so I will be trying that next. I am really liking the Tesoro smaller coils.

 

[BarberBill]

In my years of detecting, I've come to appreciate and use standard and smaller coils much more than the larger ones. I originally had the notion that "bigger is better, right?", but have found that in many cases that just isn't true. Unless an area is quite clean, the pattern of larger coils over multiple targets is more of a drawback than a help, in spite of some increased depth.
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[SpiritRelic]

You should hit a silver coin with the Outlaw and the round doughnut 8" coil.The most depth you can get out of the Outlaw for deep silver coins,will be the 12x10 concentric coil.Then the 9x8 concentric.For deep coin hunting you have to go slow and listen for the very faint signals.You did not do that good with the Xterra because these detectors have slow recovery speeds.Meaning when the Xterra hit a trash target the detector does not reset itself quickly like a Tesoro does.Tesoro is well know for lightening fast recovery speeds.If you get to know the outlaw better you should do very well with it.It takes awhile to get to were you will really like it over the compadre. :-@

 

[GunnarMN]

thats a trashy spot , I bet it got lots of coins in it masked , the 5.75 coil is good in spots like that , I also have ordered a 7" widescan I find the outlaw is not as hot on silver as it is on gold , my musky was hot on silver 5khz, you may want to dig some nails unless it gets plowed. I have been finding coins around an old foundation for the last 4 years every time they plow , its like you say Iron signals all over the place,and i have had several detectors out thear including the compadre Wich found 3 coins I like the expanded range of the compadre, able to get back further on Iron and it hits small things well

 

[Monte]

My 4th of 1969. Many others and a couple of club outings there have thinned it down, but ..... for me and those who hunt it well with a top-end performing detector AND SMALLER-THAN-STOCK concentric coils, we continue to thin the good stuff all these years, decades really, I have only been skunked once. Just one time. So, what's been in my favor? #1, I am sure, is Patience & Persistence. #2 is that I have relied on some of the best detectors for hunting iron-riddled conditions (and non-ferrous junk, too), combined with #3, the use of a smaller-then-stock Concentric search coil.

Included in the "Patience and Persistence" category are such things as working the coils slowly and methodically, hunting the same sites from various directions, and removing all unwanted stuff. No, not always and everywhere but I have slowly gridded certain areas as I have worked from the outsides of the town toward the center.

My most used detectors, especially since '83, have been the Tesoro Inca, Bandido, Bandido II, Bandido II

 

[machineman]

Great advice as always, Thanks. I had a interesting experience with my front lawn. I went over it one day with my infinium and the first target I dug was a wheat penny. The house is an 70s or 80s house so I was surprised. I gave up on the infinium due to EMI without covering much ground. Then I tried my outlaw with the 8" coil, still too much EMI. Switched to Compadre and pulled a few more coins and another wheat. Then went to my GM2 and found some more coins. Nothing on the last few runs. I have hit this area as hard as I can with my current lineup. What I was amazed at was that after some really heavy coverage with the compadre the GM2 still found some shallow coins. Just goes to show what you may be missing when it doesn't sound quite right. I was basically digging everything that beeped. I want to get the 3x7 coil for the infinium and try it again.