Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
This bad boy is hot!
I took it out today to my backyard test range where I have about a dozen deep targets buried in hard, dry ground for like 6 years now. All are at least 6 and as much as 10+ inches. There's a power line buried out there too that will make the machines pulse if you set them too "hot" most of the time. So it's TOUGH.
The SE with the 10.5" coil would not hit MOST of the targets if the sens was set above 24. When set to 20 it would hit them all. That was consistent with my Explorer II that needed to be at 18 to hit them all. The SE seems a little more sensitive. The cool thing about the 4.5 x 7 was that I could run it back there at 30! It was getting a little pulsing at 32 and a little unstable so I dropped it to 30 and it was great. It got all but the deepest silver dime at 10"...the signal on that was poor. The bullet and all coins at 8" or less it hit great. It also hit the silver quarter at 10" and the most amazing was that it hit the 7" and 10" nickels SOLIDLY and with great tone and ID. My CZ won't even hit the nickels that well and the SE with the stock coil is nowhere near as good. So that's interesting.
So then I went to a WELL POUNDED hunt site. Well pounded is an understatement...it's had to have been hunted a 100 times, with the best. It's a little place we call The Barber House and it's been hunted by me and several other folks now for about 6 years...it's actually an empty lot about 2/3's the size of a football field that used to have 3 houses on it. They've been gone for years. What remains is a lot of rusty nails and some very tough hunting ground...roof tacks, nails, various other scrap and trash. But before the houses were torn down we hunted the yards and got a BUNCH of silver...lots of Barber dimes and quarters, Mercs, a Franklin half, Indians, Large Cents, buttons back to Colonial times, and much more. After the houses were torn down it was hunted repeatedly, by me and a half dozen others. Garrett, Whites, Minelab, Fisher, Nautilus, etc. Most folks have LONG since given up on it. Whenever I get a new machine or coil, I go there to test it. The SE found me an Indian and a Merc there when I first got it, in about 4 or 5 hours of hunting it, so that was SOMETHING. We'd all missed 'em before.
TODAY, with the little coil, in 3 hours, I found more than I have found out there in the last 3 or 4 outings. There was iron in EVERY swing. But the little coil danced all around and in between it. Got killer depth too. First target out of the ground was a button from the 1830's that was about 8" deep under a root and surrounded by iron. Second was an old skeleton key. Next a wheatie...1912. Then a 1954 wheatie. Then a 1918 Buffalo nickel, a 1943 war nickel (silver) and a 1951 silver Rosie dime. Not bad for a place that's HUNTED OUT. Apparently not. And may not be for a while now that I have this coil. I LOVE this thing!
This button is sitting on a big root. It was deep in the hole behind the root, at least 8 inches. [attachment 45633 4by1Small.jpg]
I like this skeleton key. I found another like it after Hurricane Isabel down at the oceanfront.
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Deep, but nice sound a solid numbers...
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1912 wheatie...
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This sounded SWEET!
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Silver...not too old, but hey!
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I took it out today to my backyard test range where I have about a dozen deep targets buried in hard, dry ground for like 6 years now. All are at least 6 and as much as 10+ inches. There's a power line buried out there too that will make the machines pulse if you set them too "hot" most of the time. So it's TOUGH.
The SE with the 10.5" coil would not hit MOST of the targets if the sens was set above 24. When set to 20 it would hit them all. That was consistent with my Explorer II that needed to be at 18 to hit them all. The SE seems a little more sensitive. The cool thing about the 4.5 x 7 was that I could run it back there at 30! It was getting a little pulsing at 32 and a little unstable so I dropped it to 30 and it was great. It got all but the deepest silver dime at 10"...the signal on that was poor. The bullet and all coins at 8" or less it hit great. It also hit the silver quarter at 10" and the most amazing was that it hit the 7" and 10" nickels SOLIDLY and with great tone and ID. My CZ won't even hit the nickels that well and the SE with the stock coil is nowhere near as good. So that's interesting.
So then I went to a WELL POUNDED hunt site. Well pounded is an understatement...it's had to have been hunted a 100 times, with the best. It's a little place we call The Barber House and it's been hunted by me and several other folks now for about 6 years...it's actually an empty lot about 2/3's the size of a football field that used to have 3 houses on it. They've been gone for years. What remains is a lot of rusty nails and some very tough hunting ground...roof tacks, nails, various other scrap and trash. But before the houses were torn down we hunted the yards and got a BUNCH of silver...lots of Barber dimes and quarters, Mercs, a Franklin half, Indians, Large Cents, buttons back to Colonial times, and much more. After the houses were torn down it was hunted repeatedly, by me and a half dozen others. Garrett, Whites, Minelab, Fisher, Nautilus, etc. Most folks have LONG since given up on it. Whenever I get a new machine or coil, I go there to test it. The SE found me an Indian and a Merc there when I first got it, in about 4 or 5 hours of hunting it, so that was SOMETHING. We'd all missed 'em before.
TODAY, with the little coil, in 3 hours, I found more than I have found out there in the last 3 or 4 outings. There was iron in EVERY swing. But the little coil danced all around and in between it. Got killer depth too. First target out of the ground was a button from the 1830's that was about 8" deep under a root and surrounded by iron. Second was an old skeleton key. Next a wheatie...1912. Then a 1954 wheatie. Then a 1918 Buffalo nickel, a 1943 war nickel (silver) and a 1951 silver Rosie dime. Not bad for a place that's HUNTED OUT. Apparently not. And may not be for a while now that I have this coil. I LOVE this thing!
This button is sitting on a big root. It was deep in the hole behind the root, at least 8 inches. [attachment 45633 4by1Small.jpg]
I like this skeleton key. I found another like it after Hurricane Isabel down at the oceanfront.
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Deep, but nice sound a solid numbers...
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1912 wheatie...
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This sounded SWEET!
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Silver...not too old, but hey!
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I cant wait to hit some of those "worked out" sites too. Ditto on that concise field report Mike. Happy Hunting Grounds,
. Have fun with the little coil. I thought I would get a 4X7" for my MXT but since you say the SE does better then your MXT I think I will now hold off. The 4X7 is better then my Joey coil as I can run the 4X7 at 32 and can only run the Joey at 26-28 max. Later Jerry aka Tinfoil.
Later Jerry aka Tinfoil