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looking for advice.. Se and 5" Sunray
- Thread starter Elton
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Elton,
I have the Sunray X-5 that I use on my SE and I love that coil. It works great in trash with excellent separation and stability. I've hit some silver dimes over 8" deep with it in my soil. Once it hits a signal it doesn't seem to drift off like some coils do even on iffy signal. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
baleniM
I have the Sunray X-5 that I use on my SE and I love that coil. It works great in trash with excellent separation and stability. I've hit some silver dimes over 8" deep with it in my soil. Once it hits a signal it doesn't seem to drift off like some coils do even on iffy signal. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
baleniM
mattockman
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Hey baleniM (mirror) Minelab....At that kind of depth...what do you run your sensitivity at?....with the smaller coils I run it high as possible and on manual....and you?.....smaller coils can handle it and stay very stable I find.
If it really trashy with a lot of pull tabs, etc. I may drop down to 10 manual so I can try to skim the top of the trash so to speak. If its fairly clean I'll run 25 or 26 manual depending on the soil. I very seldom can get over 26 with any coil around where I live in MS without a lot of falsing. I almost always use manual because I think the coil holds the signal better on the sweeps. It seems that in Auto if I get an iffy signal on a sweep, the machine resets the sensitivity before I can go back for another hit. I'll switch to auto if I'm in a lot of iron that hits above the iron mask setting I use but other than that, I use manual.
baleniM
baleniM
As with any smaller coil, on any machine/brand, you'll gain better target separation/averaging, but loose a bit on depth. I've noticed that I can usually up the sens. a bit more with the 5" coil, because ....... naturally ... it's "seeing" less ground (minerals). As for the "tabs" you allude to, that boils down to the age-old debate of "tab signals could be a good target" 
But reality is, there are some places where no one is a "hero" searching for nickels or gold rings (lest they go mad digging tabs, etc....). So if targets aren't necessarily deep (like in hardpan dry soil), then cherry picking with a 5" coil can produce more coins that a larger coil would mask on.
But reality is, there are some places where no one is a "hero" searching for nickels or gold rings (lest they go mad digging tabs, etc....). So if targets aren't necessarily deep (like in hardpan dry soil), then cherry picking with a 5" coil can produce more coins that a larger coil would mask on.legal_in_usa
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Elton...............I use an Excelerator E coil 4 inch.............i dig in the trashiest areas i can find.......i get very good depth with it.normaly i can get good targets up to 5 and 6 inches ..........as for the pull tabs .i dig every signal i get .........sometimes it pays some times it doesnt. however i can tell you I dug over 50 gold rings in the pulltab range..and there are diggers on here that will vouch for that.I also dug probably close to a pound of silver...as far as setting .I will send them to you in a pm.if you like ..I will be glad to tell you what they are.David