I have a "Joey" coil, should I get a smaller coil too???

[Anonymous]

Hiya all;I'm new on this forum!
I am going to be detecting on an iron trashed old house site,
and got the Coiltek joey as a smaller width _ but wide swinging coil.
I am hoping it will be compact enough for the job.

Slowswinger.

 

[James N.D.]

A 5 inch coil either made by Sun-Ray or an Excelerator coil. It will be able to see better thru the Iron since it is a lot smaller than the Joey Coil. Don't get me wrong about the Joey Coil, it is an awesome coil and I personally own one and use it as my secondary coil when detecting thru a trashy site. You may also want to learn how to run ferrous tones when you detect this site of yours. Run Iron Mask -16 and the low tones will be Iron and the medium and high tones will be the items you are looking for. Occasionally, a bent rusty nail will give you a high tone and a few other iron objects but for the most part it will be the good targets other than Iron that it will be finding. Run your sensitivity around 20 and try Manual since it will get a bit deeper than Semi-Auto. And lastly you may want to run in Fast instead of Deep but you will have to try them and see which setting best suits your type of hunting.

 

[Chuck@TreasureHut]

I agree James....however, both the Joey and the Platypus help to increase the response and recovery time from null to positive, and are easier to sort through the trash with.

 

[James N.D.]

a smaller coil would work very well in Iron infested areas that has more Iron than good targets. I personally tried a 5" Sun-Ray that a friend loaned to me to try out and I was over an area that was junky with both the stock coil and the Joey Coil. I put the coil on and a friend was there watching me and he was really amazed at how many silver coins I already had found at an old Fairgrounds we were at. Anyways, I put the coil on and I swung the coil to the right and got a signal. This was only half a sweep! I pinpointed it and dug a plug and when I pulled the plug up there was a Silver Washington Quarter at the bottom of the hole. Both of us couldn't believe that I went and walked to that certain spot and I found a Silver Quarter with just a half a sweep. I also found a few Wheats with it in an Iron infested area where I believe the Grandstand use to sit. Not a bad coil but the only bad thing is that it will take a long time to cover any amount of area with it. That is why I only own a Joey Coil and an 8" coil right now. But I do agree with the response speed and how well the Joey can pick thru the trash and I can't argue with that Chuck.

 

[Rick(ND)]

I am sure you know why as i was picking coins out of that one area at the same fairgrounds many had been over and even me with the Joey, but the 5 inch coil picked out many more older coins the other coils couldn't see in the heavy trash. The Joey is the coil I used the most and a excellent coil, but the 5 inch will see coins the Joey will not in heavy trash.My first coin found with my 5 inch coil was a walker half dollar that was only 6 inches deep, but sounded off great, what was better is that I know of 7 different detectors that went over the same spot and missed it.
James, Dave want us to get together again at this fairgrounds as we know there is more old coins to be found there.

Rick

 

[James N.D.]

See if you can't find out when Dave wants to meet up with us at the Fairgrounds and we can plan on being there. Let me know Rick!

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks James for the reply,I'll take all that on board,I have the Joey so I'll keep working with it...
-16 Iron mask mode sure delivers the whole sound spectrum!!!
But this is what this fabulous machine is about, isn't it!
I just got back from over a week in the Australian countryside, and found a few coins ( nothing old,)but I found an old navy badge that I think is a cap badge from the front of a cap.
It is fine brass, and has crossed anchors.
Unfortunately it has a part missing.
When I get organised I will post a pic or two...
Here's my settings used on my break...

Sens Man
" " Val 25
Threshold 7
Iron mask -6
noise ch 5
Display Smart @ Full screen
" " " Contrast 8
Audio vol 7
" " Gain 7
Th tone 10
" Variability 10
" Tone limits 9
Audio sounds Conduct
Options response Normal
" recovery fast Off
" recovery deep On

The soil in the area is really hot ( mineralised.)

Thanks again,
Slowswinger