Yesterday I went to the county fairgrounds with the 4.5x7 excelerator coil plugged into my Ex11. The weather here in ne Ohio was super and this was probably my last hunt of the year with decent weather. This fairgrounds has a midway that is bordered by blacktop drives. If I had hunted around the entire perimeter with the small coil it would have taken days to get around it. I went to the part of the grounds with the oldest buildings and concentrated on the blacktop edges surrounding them. I have used many small coils on the Explorers and just about every other detector made and this coil performs better than any that I have used. I hunted from the blacktop out three feet and it was slow going, but the coins I found were amazing. I ended up with 82 coins with the breakdown -15 wheats, 2 mercs, 1 roosie, 1 barber dime, 1 old token(big as silver dollar), and the rest clad. The trash on this ground was staggering and how these signals came through were crystal clear. I have tried hunting this way with a big coil and I had some success, but the small coil was a night and day difference. It has been a couple of years since I found any older silver here so it is nice to know what awaits me in the spring. R.L.
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One Trip Around The Fairgrounds With the 4.5x7 Ecelerator
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James N.D.
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Them Fairgrounds are always a place to go and have a very good chance of landing some nice Old Keepers from. Lucky for you, you had the right equipment and were detecting in just the right spot to find what you did and give you a good site to start hunting at in the Spring. I hope there's many more Keepers when you return to that Fairgrounds. It sure is fun when you re-discover that there is still some Oldies left for you to find in previously visited sites isn't it! Good Luck and HH to you.
Crispy, I hunt in iron mask 10, conductive, manual sens 26 with small coil, gain 8 with small coil. I sweep real slow and it is busy. I usually dig alot of nickles, but when I am hunting heavy trash, I find myself listening for the high tones and ignoring the mid nickle tones. I get bogged down digging the midtones. I only use the screen when I am digging nickle signals as the cross hair box is almost always directly on the bottom of the screen with a nickle. I also hate to admit this, but I don't dig many Indian heads and I should start paying attention to zinc type signals.
mattockman
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I agree the small coils are like night and day....Great success......when using larger coils and want shallower targets just turn down sens............
The reason I ask is I too have been using conductive sounds and have been having relatively good success but I keep hearing that we're missing so much by not using ferrous. I have tried repeatedly to make the switch but it drives me crazy. I use conductive and back the ferrous discrimination almost all the way off as kind of a compromise. I have to say that I have started digging the deeper zinc readings as they can produce the Indian cents that I desire. Usually they have to be 4-5" or deeper for me to dig them. Pull tabs are a pain but I really despise zincolns.
James N.D.
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I also always hear from others that us Conduct User's are passing up good finds in Iron and Trash, but let's really think about this now. I have been digging Coins with Iron without much of a problem, only getting weird ID's on them that make them read from 30-31 on Digital and without a Coin Icon on my XS. Usually, I thought the No Icon meant it was Iron for sure but I learned through trial and error and have dug a lot of Coins that read this high without the Icon thus getting many Coins with Iron and Trash using Iron Mask -10 Conduct.
Now Ferrous Tones can be good if you truly could see through all Iron in reality, but there is no way of doing this due to build-up over the years. If there is too much Iron over or next to a Good Target, there is no way that a good enough Signal can come through even in Ferrous to make a person dig that item. There's just too many layers and everyone passes up Good Targets no matter what their using for Tones. Even the faster Se and E-Trac will make the response so warbly and quick that you will be digging a lot of holes just to find that it was a waste of time. Even though I haven't used Ferrous much, I have used it enough to know that there will always be Coins undetectable in Iron just because of the Masking of the Trash and Iron. The only true way to find all Good Targets would be to dig All Iron and Trash, and I don't know about you but I just don't think anyone has that kind of time or patience to do such a task.
So I say use what works for you in your area and don't worry about who tells you what works best....because the Explorers work in so many different ways it's impossible to tell which is better than the other. Everyone's always going to miss something no matter what. Different Angles, Sweep Speeds, Settings, Coil Sizes, etc.
If this leads to others responding about my post, let's post the replies down the line where King has already started a discussion about Conduct vs. Ferrous so we don't take up space here from this post by R.L.
Hope this motivates you and everyone else and just go with what you feel is right for your kind of hunting. Good Luck and HH to you all.
Now Ferrous Tones can be good if you truly could see through all Iron in reality, but there is no way of doing this due to build-up over the years. If there is too much Iron over or next to a Good Target, there is no way that a good enough Signal can come through even in Ferrous to make a person dig that item. There's just too many layers and everyone passes up Good Targets no matter what their using for Tones. Even the faster Se and E-Trac will make the response so warbly and quick that you will be digging a lot of holes just to find that it was a waste of time. Even though I haven't used Ferrous much, I have used it enough to know that there will always be Coins undetectable in Iron just because of the Masking of the Trash and Iron. The only true way to find all Good Targets would be to dig All Iron and Trash, and I don't know about you but I just don't think anyone has that kind of time or patience to do such a task.
So I say use what works for you in your area and don't worry about who tells you what works best....because the Explorers work in so many different ways it's impossible to tell which is better than the other. Everyone's always going to miss something no matter what. Different Angles, Sweep Speeds, Settings, Coil Sizes, etc.
If this leads to others responding about my post, let's post the replies down the line where King has already started a discussion about Conduct vs. Ferrous so we don't take up space here from this post by R.L.
Hope this motivates you and everyone else and just go with what you feel is right for your kind of hunting. Good Luck and HH to you all.
you have an exciting spring to look forward to. I bet you will pop out a ton more oldies amidst the trash with that coil. That is a killer coil...and between that one... and the 6" excelerator...my eyes were opened..and opened WIDE at what's still hidin' in the trash. Good luck hunting that spot again next spring.