Thanks man, a couple of short hunts and I am getting used to it already.
We should be out of this deep freeze by the weekend so I will put a few more hours on it then.
Here are my first impressions after those hunts.
Got out for a couple of hours a few days ago but then the cold weather returned so I probably won't get out again to get a decent hunt in again till next weekend although a friend just asked me to get out for a few hours at an old park this morning and I am thinking king about it...but it is so cold.
Still I have a few initial impressions I can share.
It is big and not light, definitely heavier than the Fisher 11"DD which I can swing all day effortlessly but it is still well balanced on my Fisher.
This one I definitely know I am swinging but it isn't all that bad and I can still probably do it all day if needed.
It glides along soft ground easily so that helps.
It deals with bottle caps the same as the rest of my DD coils, the wiggle and pull back method causes a drop down to lower numbers as the front edge if the coil passes over this kind of target.
Using the same technique makes pinpointing pretty effortless and the usual way I pinpoint most of my targets and when using the pinpoint button the target shows up in the center of the coil at all depths so all that is great.
I only picked up three coins on this hunt but I learned a couple of things on each one.
The first was a common copper memorial cent that was not deep but was in an area I had been over a hundred times before and never saw it once.
This area is also problematic being in a site that is surrounded by wires on all sides, right next to a building with WiFi and never has been a quiet place to hunt but even though it was still jumping a bit in tones and numbers as always my F70 quieted down and gave me some solid 72-73 numbers and great tones as I swung the coil over it.
As far as noise my Sharpshooter coil is unusually quiet in this same area, much quieter than my Fisher coils so I can actually bump the sense up a bit higher than usual.
Using this coil and settings of disc 6, thresh at -2, I was surprised to be able to push the sense up to 95-99 without a whole lot of chatter.
Usually I can't get much past 80-85 here if even that so it was nice to see this one handle the EMI so well...that was unexpected for such a big coil.
The other two coins were quarters in a different area of the park.
One was laying right on the surface under some leaves and again a solid non jumpy dead on 85 with no overload even though the coil was right on top of it.
The other quarter was also shallow, maybe an inch deep at the most but the cool thing about this one was I believe it was standing completely vertical and this coil still picked up on it from at least two ways perfectly.
All three coins pinpointed perfectly using both the wiggle and pull back method and the pinpoint button.
I didn't dig a ton of targets but on the ones I did the ID's seemed pretty good and normal for around here.
Different sized pieces of can slaw ranged from foil up to nickel, iron came in either as dead on iron or falsed high up into the high ranges on sweeps.
Those that did false acted with behavior I know well in that it either changed to iron from 90 degrees or hit high from one way and dropped to iron on the return sweep.
Every piece of iron I called iron, none were surprise good targets but most that act like this rarely are although I still dig many signals like these just in case.
Large pieces of can slaw from thick bottoms or tops to crushed or flattened full cans came in normally in the dime area and swinging way high over them still came in solid so I could tell what they were, coins don't act this way around here.
Depth...the real reason I decided to get this coil.
It does seem deeper, I got depth readings at the 5, 6, 7 and even up to 8-9" on a couple even though I didn't dig them because they jumped a bit too much.
On this hunt I was concentrating on mostly the more solid stable targets but I will get into digging more on future hunts.
I can't say for sure yet but I think this one possibly might live at a bit deeper level than all my other coils.
I hoped even an inch or two would be great and this might be doing just that but I have to try it at other sites and a larger gangs if dirt to get more data.
Man, if I can get to the 8"+ level consistently, my dream is 9-10" if possible, I suspect there might be a whole lot more great targets down there that nobody around here has been able to reach or make sense of ever in this strange dirt.
All of this was fun, I love exploring these things with a new coil and hopefully I will be surprised or even shocked as my season goes on but I am happy with my short experience so far and makes me think this might have been a great decision to take a shot on getting this beast but much more data to gather so we will see.
More to come.
Addendum...
I did get out a bit yesterday because it was a nice sunny day that wasn't too cold.
Now a deep freeze is coming in for the next few days so I won't be out again until this weekend.
Yesterday went pretty much as before, found some clad plus my first piece of junk bling shown below which looks like a mutated put to me.
All targets showed up the same, good ones under the coil were pretty stable with not much jumping and trash jumped a lot.
Nothing good was super deep but that is normal for my sites, I will come across some deeper stuff soon enough.
The weight on this second hunt has become a non issue after only a few hours, I guess I have gotten used to it which didn't take long.
It's coming along, looking forward to the weekend and continue our journey.
