maxxkatt
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I have had my 6" coil for quite a while and finally decided to give it a really good test.
My nearby park is super trashy. I mean slammed with poptops, foil, pull tabs, bottle caps and tin cans. Why so trashy, it is the most popular park in the county since it is the only one on the river. On the weekends the parking lots are full and people are parking along the road in on both sides.
Once I dug up some dirt in one hole and filled a gallon ziplock bag. Took back home and found 11 metal items in the bag.
Put in a coin cherry picking program in my bins that basically looked for nickels and pennies and up in terms of coins. Turned down the volume to 5 on all non-coin items. nickels and pennies set at medium tone and volume and all other coins at high volume and pitch.
Only got fooled once with a smashed tin can. Forgot to raise coil which would have ID'd the can.
the 6" coil and a 7 recover speed and 0 iron balance was perfect for this hunt. On iffy good signals switched to gold2 and it stabilized the tone and ID.
bottle caps were easy to ID due to tones and cranking up the F2 to 9 and most of the cap signal died away. also use iron mode to ID bottle caps as well as pumping on them and watch a jumping ID in the display.
Fun hunt when you are just coin hunting. Found all clad and no silver but this park has no real history of silver due to the flooding buries the really old coins beyond detector's depths.
My nearby park is super trashy. I mean slammed with poptops, foil, pull tabs, bottle caps and tin cans. Why so trashy, it is the most popular park in the county since it is the only one on the river. On the weekends the parking lots are full and people are parking along the road in on both sides.
Once I dug up some dirt in one hole and filled a gallon ziplock bag. Took back home and found 11 metal items in the bag.
Put in a coin cherry picking program in my bins that basically looked for nickels and pennies and up in terms of coins. Turned down the volume to 5 on all non-coin items. nickels and pennies set at medium tone and volume and all other coins at high volume and pitch.
Only got fooled once with a smashed tin can. Forgot to raise coil which would have ID'd the can.
the 6" coil and a 7 recover speed and 0 iron balance was perfect for this hunt. On iffy good signals switched to gold2 and it stabilized the tone and ID.
bottle caps were easy to ID due to tones and cranking up the F2 to 9 and most of the cap signal died away. also use iron mode to ID bottle caps as well as pumping on them and watch a jumping ID in the display.
Fun hunt when you are just coin hunting. Found all clad and no silver but this park has no real history of silver due to the flooding buries the really old coins beyond detector's depths.