First hunt with the 1270.

[MichiganJason]

Hey all, detected a small field near my house that for some reason had no snow in it. I didn't stay long because I was half frozen but I did dig a coin. I was using the small coil and got a nice loud signal. Then when I pinpointed it it sounded deeper. Ended up being a 53 wheat penny at at least 6 inches. I was very pleased with the performance of the 1270.

 

[WV62]

Glad your first small hunt went well. When you are getting wheat pennies, it just as well could have been a silver coin.

Just a reminder the 1270 will not lose any depth with high disc settings like the old 1266x and 1265x did, so if all you want is coins just crank it up, you wouldn't lose anything except the trash.

Good hunting,

Ron in WV

 

[MichiganJason]

Thanks Ron, really enjoying it so far. I've been keeping the disc at about 6 to try and get an feel for everything. Now I just need to hit some good areas. Still a little bit of snow yet here.

 

[therover]

Just getting out and sniffing out a wheatie where there isn't any snow, and then digging in the cold is a feat in itself.

Will be interested to hear your results when the ground thaws, especially if you crank up the discrimination and strictly coin hunt with it.

 

[WV62]

Just talking now, when I was running the 1270 I pretty much just hunted coins and I had 2 levels of coin hunting. First one was for silver coins and for that one I would run the sensitivity up to the edge of the noise and disc just below a little low of max. My thought was to get the good silver out of the way before I slowed down and started looking for the older coins like the Indian head pennies. One day I set the sensitivity at max just to see what it would do, it was like running a gagger counter like a bunch of chatter. I was surprised when I would hit a good target it would get quiet and give me a nice clean signal. I got 2 silver dimes that day and several wheat pennies.

Now if I wanted to get the Indian Head pennies I would run just a little high of pull tabs and of course I would also get those junk zinc pennies.

I didn't run this much but a few times I would run in iron disc set at max and dig all good signals or toggle over to normal disc set just under what I wanted to dig, a lot of times that was nickels.

Now I was never a big fan of the little 5" coil I never trusted it to go the distance on the deep silver that is why I ran the 5x10 about 100% of the time. It would for sure beat the 5" in depth and it was within a gnats hair of matching the 8" depth.

Ron in WV

 

[MichiganJason]

I might have to nice the elliptical a try. It actually feels quite heavy for the size. So far ice just used the 8 and 5. Sure will be nice when my town announces the lift on the detecting ban. Which is suppose to be soon. Our town has never seen many metal detectors. Then again there was nothing even here til 1887 so the chance at real old coins is slim.

 

[WV62]

For me the 1270 with just about any coil was kind on the heavy (besides being old I am kind on the small side). I always ran it with a home made harness, which would add hours to my hunt day.

It's not hard to make and I can post the idea if you would be interested. I bought a ready made harness and didn't care for it, I was hooked to the detector and couldn't get out of it without a big deal. Also I had several detectors and to change detectors it was another re-rig session, just didn't work for me.

What I have now is a wire tie loop on each detector and the harness is on me with a open hook, it is only hooked to me when I am swinging.

Ron in WV

 

[MichiganJason]

The 1270 isn't too heavy. I use to use a Whites 5900 and that thing weighed about 187lbs..haha.