9” HF Round Versus 5” X 9” Elliptical

[Guest Tnsharpshooter]

All I can do is share my experiences.

After spending lots of time in this one old site, using Deus and LF coils, both 9” and 11”.  Etrac, CTX and others.  Hunted 4 times in this site with elliptical Hf coil.  Found one Spanish bit, one half dime.  All no deeper than 5”.  Loads of iron in site small and larger.

Was it just a coincidence?  You folks can answer.

Same operator using detector/coil setup.  And operator had little time on coil used.  Yet these finds were located.  This site had not had 9” Hf coil with Deus over it previously though.

BTW, these targets, signals not knock your socks off.  But enough data to make me dig.  Can a person listening using elliptical be lured to dig some iron?  Yes.

Also dug a real small thin Spanish bit in another site.  This find was deeper like 7” deep.  This bit may have actually fell through the sifter used back in the 90s when this site was excavated and sifted by archaeologists.  My thoughts anyways.

[palzynski]

3 hours ago, Tnsharpshooter said:

All I can do is share my experiences.

After spending lots of time in this one old site, using Deus and LF coils, both 9” and 11”.  Etrac, CTX and others.  Hunted 4 times in this site with elliptical Hf coil.  Found one Spanish bit, one half dime.  All no deeper than 5”.  Loads of iron in site small and larger.

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OK you found 2 coins with the Deus elliptical HF , but what were the results at the same site with the other machines ( etrac , ctx , etc .. ) ?   Curious to see your results , thx ...

[brys]

on a clean site the 9x5 oval was pretty good i am getting used to it ,no coins yet but the site is not right yet ,i use the coil back to front to keep the centre of gravity back a bit .using the all metal gold prog it was deep,it needs a clean site so you dont  dig tiny bits of metal all the time than its just fine .i am hooked on the oval as its lighter

[palzynski]

28 minutes ago, brys said:

on a clean site the 9x5 oval was pretty good i am getting used to it ,no coins yet but the site is not right yet ,i use the coil back to front to keep the centre of gravity back a bit .using the all metal gold prog it was deep,it needs a clean site so you dont  dig tiny bits of metal all the time than its just fine .i am hooked on the oval as its lighter

Yes the 9X5 oval is a little lighter , but not much , around 10g .
310g for the 9"X5" and 320g for the 9" round

[brys]

snippet from a gary article

 

[Chase Goldman]

2 hours ago, brys said:

snippet from a gary article

 

I like his HF coil settings program.  I’d probably bump disc up to between 7 to 10 but I’m just glad to see Gary using disc for once, he notoriously favors setting disc to minimum settings.  Deus disc is a powerful tool because it doesn’t just filter ferrous audio, it stabilizes borderline ferrous/non- non-ferrous response and tends to mitigate the effects of ferrous down-averaging of non-ferrous target IDs.  Pitch audio is underrated, what lacks in conveying discrete tone ID it more than makes up for in terms of giving you a better sense of target depth/size.  Furthermore, the pitch audio really distinguished itself against the low grunts of iron audio which really helps you zero in on desirable, potentially keeper, non-ferrous targets.

[brys]

Oval coil is my favourite as on sweet corn field they’re planted on a 2 feet pitch and I can detect between the plants anytime and spud  fields which are in furrows allowing me to stab it anywhere.mind you ,you could use 9inch round as well