Just got in from another test run with my 10" coil. I was using my CZ5 w/8" coil to locate mid range targets in a nearby park. Showing steel bottle caps all around (iron hits) I found a good clear high coin signal in the middle of a group of about 6 iron hits over an area about a foot square. That's usually just the iron targets talking but in all metal I could hear that dime about 6" down in the middle of that mess with the CZ. Put it down and got the F70 and while I knew I could have hit it with the 11" coil or the 5" coil I had my doubts about the elliptical.
Doubt resolved. At my normal swing speed I probably would have passed over the target. (Speed kills!) It was bouncy and ranged a little too wide for my liking but I knew there most likely was a good target there from the CZ review. So I slowed the swing and let the rig do the rest and it did hit good when the coil was directly over the target. Read a little high. (80-84) and feared the worst, another clad quarter but it turned out to be nice '44 merc.
Another target the CZ located was a no date buff at 4". Reading nickel-foil but mostly foil I've learned the language of the buff on the CZ and in pinpoint mode I was fairly certain target sizing and placement had me over a buff before I dug it. So up came the F70 and it was her turn. 29-30 all day long from every side.
Now I was thinking maybe a V because in the sidewalk tear-out work I've been hitting lately that's where the V's come in while the buffs are reading 30-32. But pinpoint and depth were right on and it was that no date buff. One chink in the CZ armor for me has always been the beaver tail steal. If it's a bent beaver tail from 2-5 inches deep it will ring in solid nickel at 4" on the CZ for some reason. Sure as the sun rises in my experience. So I located more than a few of them targets (they are plentiful around here) and took the F70 to them and as I've already learned using the 5" and 11" coils, they pretty much always lock in at 26-28. No surprises except that the concentric coil performed as the DD's do on this nasty little target type.
Still gotta dig that target though, you just never know until it's in your pouch.
Doubt resolved. At my normal swing speed I probably would have passed over the target. (Speed kills!) It was bouncy and ranged a little too wide for my liking but I knew there most likely was a good target there from the CZ review. So I slowed the swing and let the rig do the rest and it did hit good when the coil was directly over the target. Read a little high. (80-84) and feared the worst, another clad quarter but it turned out to be nice '44 merc.
Another target the CZ located was a no date buff at 4". Reading nickel-foil but mostly foil I've learned the language of the buff on the CZ and in pinpoint mode I was fairly certain target sizing and placement had me over a buff before I dug it. So up came the F70 and it was her turn. 29-30 all day long from every side.
Now I was thinking maybe a V because in the sidewalk tear-out work I've been hitting lately that's where the V's come in while the buffs are reading 30-32. But pinpoint and depth were right on and it was that no date buff. One chink in the CZ armor for me has always been the beaver tail steal. If it's a bent beaver tail from 2-5 inches deep it will ring in solid nickel at 4" on the CZ for some reason. Sure as the sun rises in my experience. So I located more than a few of them targets (they are plentiful around here) and took the F70 to them and as I've already learned using the 5" and 11" coils, they pretty much always lock in at 26-28. No surprises except that the concentric coil performed as the DD's do on this nasty little target type.
Still gotta dig that target though, you just never know until it's in your pouch.
