Hmmm... 6" coil finds?

["Dr.Tones"]

Yesterday I went back to a productive site that I've hit multiple times from all sorts of directions etc. It's a hard place to hunt as the grass isn't kept and there's a few hundred mole hills but I figured if I really slowed down I could squeeze out a couple more. I put the 6" coil on (which I'm not a huge fan of because its painfully slow to cover ground with) and went slow being very meticulous. Found this stuff in a 5x10 spot that was overlooked because its a pain the ass to hunt. Found one or two wheats in other spots. earlier in the day I went back to another spot that we hit hard and I gave the 6" a go... Nothin. Notta. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I had high hopes too because this place was iron infested. Sooooo... I'm sure the six inch has its place and I plan on keeping it for ghost town hunting and things like that but I feel pretty confident that if I work an area using the stock coil as slow as I would have to with the 6" that I'll get it all. Like I said though its nice to have that six incher for separation and pinpointing. I dunno. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I haven't found a target yet that the 6" could find that the stock coil couldn't. Your thoughts.

 

[Digger]

With the ability to recognize multiple targets under the coil, the stock coil should be able to detect anything that the 6-inch coil can detect IF the larger coil can get to them. Many of the places I hunt (corn fields, bean fields, homesteads, farm sites) are so dense with vegetation that the larger diameter coil with the spokes makes working the areas difficult, if not impossible. The smaller "smooth bottom" 6-inch coil allows me to navigate the vegetation with ease. Just a matter of having different tools for different jobs. JMHO HH Randy

 

[rjfjedi]

So the 6" and stock coil separate under the coil the same? So for park or old homesite hunting there is no point in spending $299 for the 6"?? Would love to hear opinions.

 

[nolanation]

I agree! The 6" coil is painfully slow to cover ground, and throws off the balance of the detector too. In most cases I would rather hunt slow with the stock coil.

 

["Dr.Tones"]

Well put digger. It is handy to have for navigating those tricky spots.

 

[DukeOBass]

If very rarely, I mean almost never, used my 8x6 SEF coil on the Etrac. I always favored larger coils, even in junky areas. Last summer , I used a 15x12 SEF coil in every situation. I never took it off and cleaned up big time. From experience, I will never waste the money on anything smaller than the stock coil.

 

[PokerShark]

So the 6" and stock coil separate under the coil the same? So for park or old homesite hunting there is no point in spending $299 for the 6"?? Would love to hear opinions.

Not too fast. Digger makes a great point. If you can't get to it with the large stock coil, those potential finds are not being detected. The 6" has a place, and objects like to fall and go unrecovered in the more difficult areas it seems. The 6" is just another tool. What makes it worth $300 is another discussion. Seems a little high unless there is exotic materials involved (gold, platinum and such)

The Shark

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

The 6" coil is best used in tight places and HEAVY iron/nail infested ground. You can set a mode on the CTX in 50 conductive, open screen with smooth tones and go very slowly, listening for the low/high conductive breaks in the sound. The nails/iron will make the detector squeal non stop as long as the coil is moving. When you hit a low conductor or high conductor the sound will change or break. This is only used in very very heavy iron or nails to find the goodies that even normal mode will not find.

 

[goodmore]

I do not agree at all, but everyone hunts differently. I like to hunt the places others stay away from. A small coil is mandatory for me. I wish you continued success.

 

["Dr.Tones"]

The small coil can come in handy if you're working close to other metal objects too. Like chain link fences, park benches etc.

 

[vancemetaldetecting.com]

I love my 6"! Especially in high trash and along the fence!!lol

 

[aurumpro]

I love the 6in coil
I use it in the gold fields here in Australia to extract gold from the old diggers piles and in the heavy trash where you cannot use a GPX 5000 (or other pulsinduction detector)
It is quite painfull searching with such a small coil as its like painting a wall with an artists brush, but the 11in is not sensitive enough to find the most common smaller nuggets.(dosent have any problems if they are over 1g)
The 6in can easily find a .2g nugget at 3in and as most of the gold is within 4in of the surface on the piles and it pays quite well even if it is slow going.

 

[beachdude]

I am using the 6" coil in a lake bed full of iron nails to pick out coins in the matrix. There are so many targets, so close together, it is impossible to hunt with the stock coil. Multiple targets are often under the 6" coil but not as many, so the detector can do its work.

I bought my CTX just to hunt this particular site. I have been over it already with a BHID, an Excal, a Dual Field (like sticking needles in your eyes), and also carefully with an Etrac, always wrried I would drop it in the water.The CTX with the small coil is finding good targets the other detectors missed because they couldn't cope with the sheer number of targets.

 

[JamesM]

I bought a 6" coil about three weeks ago, so I don't have the experience with it that some of the others do. However, I believe it finds targets that the 11" can't see or isolate. I used it on a site that I had hunted almost daily for the last month, and from every direction, with the 11". On this particular site I had set waypoints on five or six iron infested areas (maybe 5' X 5") that I thought held a good target or targets. Using the 11" coil, I was unable to isolate or pinpoint a target in those areas, and the CTX screen (target trace) looked like it had been splattered with red buckshot . Using the 6", I recovered silver or wheats, in four of those spots, and in the fifth spot, I recovered a tiny, and I do mean tiny, sterling buckle that appears to be from a ladies watch band. I'm know that the 11" could detect those targets, or I wouldn't have thought that there was something there to begin with, but the 6" was able to isolate and pinpoint them, alowing easy recovery. I have since used the 6" in other such areas with the same results.

I don't know whether it's that the small coil gives me better separation , or the fact that it slows me down, or a combination of both, but IMO, in some of those high trash areas, the 6" is much better than the 11".

 

[AngelicStorm]

The 6" coil is best used in tight places and HEAVY iron/nail infested ground. You can set a mode on the CTX in 50 conductive, open screen with smooth tones and go very slowly, listening for the low/high conductive breaks in the sound. The nails/iron will make the detector squeal non stop as long as the coil is moving. When you hit a low conductor or high conductor the sound will change or break. This is only used in very very heavy iron or nails to find the goodies that even normal mode will not find.

Yes, it is really good in heavily iron infested areas as I have a few HEAVILY iron infested sites myself where I know the 11" coil is always to confused to produce finds. My question is would the above settings work better for these iron infested sites than Combined/Ferrous-Coin? As with the 11" coil, I still get a lot of falsing with the 11" coil and that holds very true for the iron infested areas.

 

[sube]

I hunt a fairground that's been in use for 130 years . The 6 inch coil is all I use. The stock coil was used in a lot of places before I got the 6. I have gone back over the places where I used the stock coil , I won't be putting the stock coil back on here. There are to many coins I missed with it .That being said the stock coil is good ,But the signals are so close together that they are lost in the mix and very confusing to isolate the good from the bad. The 6 has the depth that I need,separation is key here. If used in the right place it's a killer,looking at my finds only confirms this. This fairgrounds has iron, pull tabs,foil and you name it, all from probably over a million people that have used it.

 

[DaytonaGold]

I think if I had to make a choice between the 8" or 17" coil I would go with the 17", I've heard of incredible results with it.

 

[Aaron]

If you have any old pounded iron camp sites, try the 6" there. In the iron is where it really shines, found that out myself a few months ago as Keith Southern recently discovered.

 

[Porschephile]

I have all the CTX coils and they are all excellent in my opinion. My habit has become to hit a new spot with the 6in or 11in coil and collect all enticing targets. Then go over the spot again in another direction with the 17in. I almost always find something else that I missed. The depths are similar with the 6in and the 11in in my experience. The 17in seems to pull targets at 8-10in with ease. In other words the signal in usually quite strong whereas the other coils start to struggle at those depths in my soil... So while all the coils can pick up targets at 8-10in, they are much easier to classify as diggers with the larger coil especially after the surface targets have been removed...