steve herschbach
New member
I owned first a DFX and now a V3i pretty much for one reason only. They can run my Big Foot 3" x 18" coil. It is the only time I have owned detectors to run a coil instead of the other way around. Now, those two machines have all sorts of neat features but that is totally bedside the point. I am not running the detectors per se. I am running the Big Foot coil.
The thing is just awesome for covering sports fields or other large areas looking for more modern items like recent coins and jewelry. It is not a depth monster but that is a feature in my opinion. The way to score is to have a Big Foot and a screwdriver and just recoverable targets you pop quickly and move on. If it is deeper than the Big Foot can reach I don't want it for this style of detecting.
Better yet is the ability of the Big Foot, due to the figure 8 winding, to activate the front half of the coil for pinpointing purposes. It is as good or better than most pinpointers by itself, again, making target retrieval a snap. These coils are so good they were banned from most competition hunts as giving the owners an unfair advantage.
The main problem is they do not make the coil any longer, and they go for many hundreds of dollars used on eBay!! I could probably sell the coil for more than the detector it is attached to. Makro might not sell a lot of these coils but they could price them such as to make it worth their while, whatever that might be. My wallet is half open waiting. How about yours?
The thing is just awesome for covering sports fields or other large areas looking for more modern items like recent coins and jewelry. It is not a depth monster but that is a feature in my opinion. The way to score is to have a Big Foot and a screwdriver and just recoverable targets you pop quickly and move on. If it is deeper than the Big Foot can reach I don't want it for this style of detecting.
Better yet is the ability of the Big Foot, due to the figure 8 winding, to activate the front half of the coil for pinpointing purposes. It is as good or better than most pinpointers by itself, again, making target retrieval a snap. These coils are so good they were banned from most competition hunts as giving the owners an unfair advantage.
The main problem is they do not make the coil any longer, and they go for many hundreds of dollars used on eBay!! I could probably sell the coil for more than the detector it is attached to. Makro might not sell a lot of these coils but they could price them such as to make it worth their while, whatever that might be. My wallet is half open waiting. How about yours?