Smaller coil, raise or lower sensitivity?

[Outdoorsman258]

This year I am trying a 5 x 8 coil instead of the 8 x 11 that came with the machine. Should I raise or lower my sensitivity with the smaller coil? I was running at full sensitivity with the big coil. When I run at full with the smaller coil I am finding nails past 10"! I am hunting an old farm in the woods, so I dig everything.

 

[stetam]

Continue on with the highest sensitivity the conditions allow and DIG EVERYTHING in the woods/fields! Good luck.

Steve

 

[hoser]

Yep I have the 5X8 as well and I pump up the sens till it gets chattery then drop it back a tad.

 

[vmc1161]

Continue on with the highest sensitivity the conditions allow and DIG EVERYTHING in the woods/fields! Good luck.

Steve

Same for a big coil? I was told when using a bigger coil to back down the sensitivity years ago by the guy at the Whites store.

 

[stetam]

Same for a big coil? I was told when using a bigger coil to back down the sensitivity years ago by the guy at the Whites store.

He told you wrong

 

[hoser]

You want to try and run your sens as high as you can till it gets out of hand so you get the greatest depth. I have never used a larger coil than what came stock. But I would imagine it may affect your sens a tad, but hey it's adjustable.

 

[Sojourner57]

How much of the farm will you search? I ask because I know several farmers in my area, and they own thousands of acres. I read about people doing entire fields. Seems to me focusing around structures would find more than horse shoes and such.

 

[Longhair]

How much of the farm will you search? I ask because I know several farmers in my area, and they own thousands of acres. I read about people doing entire fields. Seems to me focusing around structures would find more than horse shoes and such.

Hunting entire fields here in the U.S. is a waste of time unless you know that there has been activity across the whole thing. It's better to study old plat maps to determine if there were homes somewhere in what is field now, or study the history of troop movements if there was any fighting in the area.
I hunt farm fields where there were homes 100+ years ago, and my better finds come from those sites. The location of the home is easy to determine by finding where all the square nails are, because they typically just burned off the house when they no longer wanted it there. You hunt where the bed of nails are, and then the area around it that may have been the yard (mostly from the home site to the road). More than that is strictly a hit-or-miss proposition where dumb luck is your only hope.

 

[stetam]

Dumb luck got me 8 LC's, 6 KG's, a Barber and Walker half, numerous IHP's and an 8 and half Reale hunting random farm fields.

Steve

 

[too_pointer]

Come on stetam, Tom wants to see pics of your LC's, lol
too_

 

[Sojourner57]

Well, two of the rooms form the 1850s house were moved across the yand attached to my house, the rest was torn down and used to build out buildings. No chimney left standing and I haven't found any trash dumps or foundation.

I'm down to dumb luck and educated guessing. There was supposed to be an Indian encampment in my soybean field. I know several locals have bragged about finding arrowheads and stone axe heads in my crop ground.

Well here's to dumb luck, or God's guidance.
Don