Exp II & WOT first trip

[Anonymous]

Oct 31, 04 Went to the local park, in the rain, had to give the WOT a test run. Located all these items in less than one hour and right by parking area. Of course we have hunted this area and park uncountable times!
Now I am not sure why these items turned up, all about 4 to 6 inches and two nickles and dime in same hole. I have covered this area before with CZ-6,CZ-20, SOV XS and Exp XS & II, but first time with a Exp II and WOT? I cannot explain it! <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">

 

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[Anonymous]

I've found several wheat cents and buffalo nickels recently with the WOT at a park I thought for sure I'd hunted out (I walk my dog there and have hunted it relentlessly). Some were deep but several were in relatively clean areas and shallow (4 inches or so), and it's puzzling to me how I missed them. The only thing I can think of is that very small pieces of trash which might mask a target with a smaller coil are invisible to the WOT.

 

[Anonymous]

My WOT seems to like small targets real well. I've dug more rivets and thumbtack heads that sounded good with the WOT.
Maybe the WOT adjusts to mineralization better and that's why you're finding things you missed. That, or maybe you have better coverage with the WOT.
It's good that you're still finding goodies in your park.
HH - Rhoderman

 

[Anonymous]

Until this weekend the WOT was the only coil that could freak me out. The WOT would hit solid on a 1/4 inch grommet from a tennis shoe yet also had this habit of reaching below shallower trash to lock onto coins. I suspect that DOC is performing some Arizona snake dance ritual over them before they go out the door!
Freak coil number 2 is the 9 inch coplanar/concentric coil I built for my Explorer. I took it out for a quick field test and blacked out the entire bottom 40% of the screen as I just wanted to see how it worked in the iron and high conduct targets. I get a solid coin signal I figure to be a wheat cent. I dig...about 4 inches down I see a button and thought huh, a copper button??? I wave the X1 probe over it and the machine nulls solid. I check the hole with the probe, coin is still in there, a couple more inches down out pops a wheat. There was no hint of null when I swept it, how did it get past the button??? No matter I continued on. 15 minutes later I get a semi-high conduct tone, solid, figured it to be a pull tab ring. Out pops a beaver tale, waved the probe over it, it nulls. I'm like what the hell!!! Dig down some more, out pops the pull tab ring.
Maybe the snake dance charm jumped into my Explorer control box last time I used the WOT!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting what you've found with your new coplanar coil Charles. 'Twould be interesting to find out how it behaved over two targets if you were running wide open with no disc. I'm betting it would average quite well.
This weekend, I had a nice quarter sound. It was hitting a little lower than usual, but good enough to go after. I dug 3 pennies and a nickel within a few inches of each other. I thought WTH? Then I rescanned and found the quarter. The other targets were "pulling" the signal a little. I guess that's the drawback of the WOT in areas where there are a lot of targets close together.
I'm wondering how long the Snake Dance fine tuning ritual works. Will I need to send it back to Doc for a tune up? <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
HH - Rhoderman

 

[Anonymous]

Told this one before but...
I bought a WOT and 5" a couple of winters ago. Doing some testing inside made me believe I would use the 5" often and WOT seldom... It looked like an iron target anywhere across the hot zone would mask a good target- more hot zone meant greater chance of masking. Real life behaved otherwise. I remember the first time I used the WOT: I was in a really trashy park and having almost constant iron hits with the 7" coil. Decided to put on the WOT just for giggles. Pulled up 3 barber dimes and a bunch of wheats from in between the iron. Was not expecting this at all.
Since then it has become my primary coil. It does well in iron but much harder to use if there are more higher conductivity junk. And it takes alot of concentration to use it in trash. Often get a hit but moving forward or backing up a couple inches and the signal gets masked. Pretty much have to try X the target to pinpoint, if you backed up to either edge of the coil the target will be long gone.
Seems to me that the bigger coils seem to have some ability to see below trash, especially in the pinpoint spot in the middle of the center web.
Chris

 

[Anonymous]

I know just what you are saying. I have dug some nice silver fused to nickels that were ID'ing out in the middle of knowhere on the screen.
The other thing I keep an ear pealed for is the nothing signal. I'm hunting IM -16 yet I'm getting a null, thats usually a coin surounded by iron targets. Its like the explorer doesn't quite know what to do, no threshold, no sound, the odd silent signal. Move the coil around a little and it locks onto the iron or nearby trash, I dig the void in the middle.
What the WOT does not handle well, or the stock coil, or probably any coil are coins that have a large nail casting an iron signal out over the top of them along the nails length. The nail is off to the side, and often there is more than one nail at the party. I can generally only get a signle if the coil is positioned just perfectly at one angle, or in other cases with just the front tip of the coil sneaking up on it from the one good angle. It seems easier to get a piece of the coin if the nail is right next to it verses that nail shadow cast over it from the side. That might be where Fast ON has an advantage, I might have to test that next time I come across one.