hotshot

[jim dixon]

I am about to visit my wife,s exboss in the hospital. Her sixth hip replacment. Yes six. While I am away maybe some of you can advise me about putting a hotshot on an XLT. Or for that matter your results with a hotshot. Thanks.

 

[jeff & Maria]

n/t

 

[cyberdan (SoCA)]

but lots of bigfoot experience on my XLT. I just hooked it up, went to my favorite tweaked program and started hunting. I got the same good results as with a stock coil but got the lighter weight and wide sweep benefits.

I would tend to think you could do the same thing with a hotshot.

 

[Craig in Alabama]

I only had a few places to use it that I felt there might be deep targets but I never found anything deeper than what the standard coil would find. I used it in a large pasture and you can cover a lot of ground with it but you also have to put up with it reading a lot more ground/targets at once. I personally didn't think it helped me with the areas I hunted. I believe it was a good coil and would find targets deeper than 9-10 inch's that my standard coil could reach but if the targets aren't there then no coil would find them. I guess it depends on the areas you hunt and if you believe there are some really deep targets. Just my opinion

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=medium]Jim, when I first got my XLT in the mid 90's, I bought a Hot Shot coil ~ why?... because of all the hype that the Hot Shot people talked up the performance of the their coil. Yeah, sounded great: Faster than a speeding bullet * Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound * More powerful than a speeding locomotive, yada yada yada. Well I used the new super coil with great expectations day after day. I saw no "improved" depth", "More finds," "Better separation" etc etc. The coil I got was a 10", slighter larger than the Whites 9.5 stock coil and in theory the Hot Shot being larger should have had a littler more depth the the Whites but you couldn't prove it to me . Face it, Whites who has been making metal detectors and coils for longer than most of us has been alive, they ought to have the latest technology designed by some of the best technicians in the business working for them. They are putting out the best coils available for THEIR product. Now I'm not saying the Hot Shot's a piece of junk, I'm just saying I've found it to be a little more hype than help. I have every coil Whites makes for the XLT, from the little 4" DD to the trash can lid size 15" monstrosity. Of those coils, my favorite are the 4" DD, the 5", the 8", and the standard 9.5". Those coils will handle any situation that you would normally come upon as far as detecting in high or low mineralization, or trashy areas you would commonly detect in. My two cents worth.
Vernon [/size]

 

[jim dixon]

I'll try to respond to all at one time. My hope was for greater depth and a larger cover area using the 12 inch coil since my bigfoot has gone belly up. I sent it to Compton, CA for repair a few months ago and now it has reverted to it's old noisy falsing self. I think from your input there are better things I can do with my
money. On the way to our visit this am we stopped at Safeway and I got a war nickel in change. Thank, everyone.

 

[Craig in Alabama]

n/t

 

[cyberdan (SoCA)]

You mean they have more in Compton than gangs, drugs, grafitti and drive bys?

If you are of the caucasion persuasion you stay out of Compton especially at night unless you drive one of these.