Two Questions About My New 6" 18kHZ DD coil

[Clad Daddy]

After reading all I could find and asking questions on this forum, I purchased the 6" 18kHZ DD coil for my 305. I also finally got Digger's book to download on my internet service. I've made 3 hunts since Thursday with the new coil and using multi-tone/no discrimination, Found over 130 clad coins with a larger precentage of quarters than my previous hunts. coincidence or does the new coil hit on quarters better?
I went to an old farm house i had hunted twice before with the stock coil on my 305. I had found one memorial penny on two hunts. Yesterday, I found a 1940 nickel, 2 wheaties(1918 and 193?), and a Mississippi tax token hiding where I had been before..I was concerned this coil wouldn't do as well on coins. Wrong!
Question #2. I got a sgnals several times that were very faint, They showed very deep on the scale which isn;t always accurate. TheTID number mostly shiowed 44 or 36. I was thinking a deep quarter or half dollar. Dug a couple down to the point where my digging tool wouldn't go any deeper and never could get a signal with my Pro Pointer. Any guesses as to what it would be? My conclusion was a wrap around iron signal.

 

[Old Longhair]

Answer to question No.1=Likely the smaller DD coil unmasked the good targets mixed in with trash. All frequencies will see all metals, but accuracy and tone response change.

Answer No.2=The 44 could easily be wrap around iron, in which case going slow and listening to the tone quality often tells the story. And don't chase faint signals or chirps, even if repeatable, unless you can pinpoint them from more than one direction. If it pinpoints to a different place each time, then it's not likely something that you want to dig.

And congratulations on doing so well with the new coil! I've found that each new coil effectively renews sites I commonly hit.

 

[mapper65]

You're going to like that coil but like with the other coils you kind of have to get used to the sounds and TID's. Often times I get decent signals and it will show a depth much deeper than what the target really is. I've been going over a property that we thought we had hunted out with it and I'm still finding a coin or two nearly every time. Last week I had two really nice finds that had not shown up with either of the 10.5" coils.

A Property That We Thought We Had Hunted Out