A Few Hours Out Comparing The 13"and 9" Coils (update)

[F350Platinum]

It warmed up enough here to get out for 4 hours this afternoon, so I took the D2 with the 13" coil and the WS6 Master with the 9" out in the field in front of my house to see what the two were capable of out there.

This field had a farm on it until about the 70s, here it is in 1967:

The stake in the distance is about where the leftmost top tree was in the aerial.

It's all gone now but the trash and some relics and coins. I just walk out the front door and up a slight hill and I'm there 😀 I don't know when the house was built but the earliest topographic map shows it there in 1917.

The spot the farm occupied is pretty trashy, iron objects, steel, and lots of aluminum. I've found a few coins here, mostly pennies and nickels. There are some relics, mostly farm stuff but every now and again you get buttons and other interesting objects. I haven't been able to hunt this spot for almost two years due to crop rotation.

I spent 2 hours using each detector and the same settings, I found with the big coil that I wasn't hearing much with reactivity at 2, so I turned both to 0. The place came alive. The 13" does pretty well with separation, I was able to pick one tiny button out of the junk, the smallest one I found. The rest was all junk that ID'd from 81 to 93. With full tones you can pick out any high tone you hear and zero in on it, regardless of low reactivity, with audio response at 3 you're getting max depth with pretty quick separation. Everything is a trade off of sorts, this first time I was testing what works well in cleaner areas.

Next I took the WS6 Master with the 9" over the same area, and really didn't find much more.

In one spot I got a small button, a piece of jewelry, and Buffalo Nickel. Funny everything that was good today had an id in the 50s to 60s, the nickel was a 61. It's a 193x nickel I think, some of the date is visible.

Here's what I managed to get out of this spot:

The tiny button was a 54, the larger one a 62. The pin started as a faint 85 but went into the 60s out of the ground. It was the deepest object.

Each one of these items were fairly deep, anywhere from 4-8", and surrounded by other objects, all trash. The pin on the left was probably gold plated, some of it is still visible.

For sure the 9" is able to pick out targets faster and more accurately, but the 13" is no slouch either. I really like how light the WS6 Master rig is. This is my first outing with the WS6, so I didn't expect anything earth-shattering, and worse this place is a tough hunt. I'll be trying a lot more here. Hopefully I'll get some more coins. What I want to do is test increasing reactivity to see if I can pull good targets out without sacrificing too much depth. There's no EMI here and the ground is mostly unfrozen.

[Ogliuga]

Very nice. Thanks for your report! 👍

[Lodge Scent]

F350, with that kind of performance in those types of conditions, it's certainly a very attractive option to use the 11" coil and its additional 33% more coverage compared to the 9" coil. 

[F350Platinum]

2 hours ago, Lodge Scent said:

F350, with that kind of performance in those types of conditions, it's certainly a very attractive option to use the 11" coil and its additional 33% more coverage compared to the 9" coil. 

I've got the 11", probably going to sell it because the 13" isn't really any heavier. 😀 The whole Deus 2 rig with the RC and 13" on Steve's shaft weighs less  than my Equinox 600 with Steve's shaft and the 10x5 Coiltek. 🤣 I like ellipticals. I could use the extra $$ to get the 10x5 FMF if they ever make one 😁

[Calarms]

I have a question on the DEUS2 I'm curious about the 13-in coil how it would work on the beach only going after gold rings if anybody's had an experience I appreciate it ,thank you

 

 

[F350Platinum]

31 minutes ago, Calarms said:

I have a question on the DEUS2 I'm curious about the 13-in coil how it would work on the beach only going after gold rings if anybody's had an experience I appreciate it ,thank you

 

 

It's a little too cold for me to go to a local beach, but the 11" found this:

It was a solid 73. 😎 I can't imagine that the 13" would do worse. 😁 Honestly you'd have an easier time on a beach!

[Lodge Scent]

I misread your post F350. In my mind you were trying out the 11". I'll blame it on covid fog. 😉 I swung the 11" a lot on my D1 and I could feel it at the end of the day. But if the 13" really isn't much different, I'll have to think about that instead of getting an 11".

[F350Platinum]

14 minutes ago, Lodge Scent said:

I misread your post F350. In my mind you were trying out the 11". I'll blame it on covid fog. 😉 I swung the 11" a lot on my D1 and I could feel it at the end of the day. But if the 13" really isn't much different, I'll have to think about that instead of getting an 11".

Yikes, sorry you have COVID, and I hope you didn't find me snarky. 😵 Seems that's going around... 😀

Tried the 11" for a while because I couldn't get a 13", but I put myself on a notification list a long time ago, and snagged one of the trickle they sent. 👍 it's only about 5 ounces heavier, hardly noticeable. I really like it. So much in fact I'm considering selling the 11".

Now I have the great coverage of the 13", which isn't too bad in the fields at present, and the accuracy and light weight of the 9". If the corn stalks were higher (they knocked em down to spread field cover this year) I'd say the 13" might be a bit trifling, but even if you have to lift it you're going to find stuff.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Great write up and some nice finds. Thank you again for sharing your findings with the 9" vs the 13" coil.

[Carolina]

11 hours ago, Calarms said:

I have a question on the DEUS2 I'm curious about the 13-in coil how it would work on the beach only going after gold rings if anybody's had an experience I appreciate it ,thank you

 

 

It is all I use on the damp, wet and in the wash knee deep now on the Atlantic coast. I do not hunt dry sand. I use the 11” in the bay with my dry suit up to chest deep. I am primarily a salt water hunter. I have the 9” for land use ( ( ( trashy & iron laden dirt ) which is seldom.