I took my F4 out for a spin this afternoon and decided to test the 8" coil in the same park I recently tested the DD coil, although in different locations within the park.
I was there for about three hours, and landed:
8 quarters
9 dimes
5 nickels
23 pennies
the usual trash, although not really that much, and I had nothing notched out in the event there was a nice diamond ring awaiting my discovery (alas it wasn't to be today). I also ran w/max sensitivity.
Some observations - this is a newer park, only about 12 or so years old, so you know up front nothings deeper then 4-5 inches and forget finding old silver coins and such. It has several tot lots (sand, wood chips, etc) and lots of grass. I found the 8" coil worked well, EXCEPT for some odd reason it stumbles on zinc pennies. They go all over the map on the TID, and rarely locked like they did with the DD coil which locked them right in every time. Odd. Pinpointing with the 8" coil was a snap, pretty much right in the center of the coil when using the pinpointing button, or if close to the surface you could just X it with good accuracy.
There's no question that the 11" DD coil scans the ground at breakneck speed compared to the 8" coil, and properly ID's zinc fine, but does have a propensity to ID screw caps as quarters, which luckily hasn't been a big issue because I have hunted an area laded with screw caps (yet).
This weekend I'm planning to take the Coinstrike and the F4 out to hunt an old house across the street from an original transcontinental railroad depot, and then off to a 100 year old swimming hole area if I can get into it.
Hopefully more to come (I'm dying to test out the 10" coil on the F4, just need someplace that actually has deep coins
I was there for about three hours, and landed:
8 quarters
9 dimes
5 nickels
23 pennies
the usual trash, although not really that much, and I had nothing notched out in the event there was a nice diamond ring awaiting my discovery (alas it wasn't to be today). I also ran w/max sensitivity.
Some observations - this is a newer park, only about 12 or so years old, so you know up front nothings deeper then 4-5 inches and forget finding old silver coins and such. It has several tot lots (sand, wood chips, etc) and lots of grass. I found the 8" coil worked well, EXCEPT for some odd reason it stumbles on zinc pennies. They go all over the map on the TID, and rarely locked like they did with the DD coil which locked them right in every time. Odd. Pinpointing with the 8" coil was a snap, pretty much right in the center of the coil when using the pinpointing button, or if close to the surface you could just X it with good accuracy.
There's no question that the 11" DD coil scans the ground at breakneck speed compared to the 8" coil, and properly ID's zinc fine, but does have a propensity to ID screw caps as quarters, which luckily hasn't been a big issue because I have hunted an area laded with screw caps (yet).
This weekend I'm planning to take the Coinstrike and the F4 out to hunt an old house across the street from an original transcontinental railroad depot, and then off to a 100 year old swimming hole area if I can get into it.
Hopefully more to come (I'm dying to test out the 10" coil on the F4, just need someplace that actually has deep coins