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[palzynski]

Today I was invited by a friend for an outing on a 1st WW hospital in a plowed field. 

After a few weeks testing the Apex , I decided to use my trusty XP Deus WS4 , this time with a brand new elliptical 9X5 HF coil instead of the 9 HF round coil that I have been using since several years now ... 

Normally this elliptical coil is more designed for searching very small targets in the high iron trash and !I was curious to see how it will work for mili hunting ...

Long story short , I spent around 2 hours in the field and I found 8 1st WW buttons , German and French including a very nice French Marine button with an anchor. Very happy with these finds 🙂 😹, it is unusual to find so many buttons during an outing here ...

The 9 elliptical HF coil is excellent , it has a very good ground coverage because of its length and it is very easy to pinpoint the targets because of its narrow size. May be it is not the most powerful for depth but this has no real importance in a plowed field where the targets are mostly near the surface.

This little coil is really a beast for field hunting , for me it is even better than the round HF coil and I wonder why I have never tried it before  ... 

As usual the Deus audio is perfect , the iron filtering is great and the signals on targets are excellent . Definitely the best machine I have ever used for plowed field hunting 👍 ...

My settings were DEUS FAST nr 3 factory mode , 14khz , 5 tones 

 

A few 1st WW buttons ... :

 

The trash  :

 

The Deus WS4 wireless headphones , the elliptical 9X5 HF and the round 9 HF  :

[kac]

Very cool seeing ww1 buttons. Not a lot different than the civil war buttons we have. Nice run.

[locator]

Looks like you had some fun in the field. Cool relics. WTG

Thanks for sharing. GL & HH

[relicmeister]

I have similarly made great finds with the same arrangement as yours and not just tiny non ferrous, although they turn up also. I never considered the elliptical for fields cause of the smaller sweep footprint, but I’m going to rethink this given your experience. Nice finds. 

[Chase Goldman]

FWIW the elliptical actually has slightly greater sweep coverage than the 9” round (though the 9” round has slightly more depth) because it is 9.5” heel-to-toe.  But the 11” round has both of those beat in terms of swing coverage, and it has slightly more depth.

[palzynski]

Yes but the 11" is significantly heavier than the HF coils( 400 vs 320g ) . I would only use the 11 coil for big coins hunting in clean soils , using a low freq like 5khz. But for this kind of deep searching I prefer my Vanquish 540 with a V10 or a V12 coil.