I took the coil over to a well worked out park just to hear it work. I had hopes but didn't expect too much as I only had an hour. I knew it would be trashy, but stayed in Iron Mask, AM.
The first thing I noticed was how stable the coil was compared to the 10" stock coil! (I'm going to have to send that in as its jumpy even at relatively low sensitivity settings compared to my hunting buddy's, who has the same machine and coil...). With this 12" coil, I was able to pump up the sensitivity to 24 and still get a rock stable threshold between signals! Didn't go higher, but I think I could have. Alas, with the limited time I had, I didn't get any overlooked deep coins. (someday, I hope to post a keeper here!). I tossed a quarter on the surface of one of the few signal free areas to get a reading. I could pick it up at over 12" above it! I'm sure in the soil, it will even do better.
One type of signal I noticed quite freqently at this site, was the high pitch but with the cursor in the lower right corner...lots of 00-03, through 00-11, all far right side of the screen. No depth to these signals. I didn't dig any, but suspect they were just wadded up foil...anyone have any experience with digging a few?
Knipper
The first thing I noticed was how stable the coil was compared to the 10" stock coil! (I'm going to have to send that in as its jumpy even at relatively low sensitivity settings compared to my hunting buddy's, who has the same machine and coil...). With this 12" coil, I was able to pump up the sensitivity to 24 and still get a rock stable threshold between signals! Didn't go higher, but I think I could have. Alas, with the limited time I had, I didn't get any overlooked deep coins. (someday, I hope to post a keeper here!). I tossed a quarter on the surface of one of the few signal free areas to get a reading. I could pick it up at over 12" above it! I'm sure in the soil, it will even do better.
One type of signal I noticed quite freqently at this site, was the high pitch but with the cursor in the lower right corner...lots of 00-03, through 00-11, all far right side of the screen. No depth to these signals. I didn't dig any, but suspect they were just wadded up foil...anyone have any experience with digging a few?
Knipper