That Big Coil Likes Little Buttons

[Lodge Scent]

Decided to go with the 13 inch coil today at one of my cellar hole homesteads out in the woods. My plan was to use a couple of variations of the Tekkna program. I've been using it on my 9" coil and it keeps surprising me by sniffing out nonferrous targets at some heavily hunted sites. Wasn't really sure it would work well with the big coil with all the iron at this site but once again it surprised me with a handful of nonferrous finds. I started out with the "classic" version of Tekkna in Sensitive Full Tones. But the falsing got annoying fairly quickly so I switched to Tekkna General 4 Tones. With multi tones I can play with the tone bins so the falsing doesn't bug me as much. I didn't find anything special today but I dug 7 small buttons, and a thimble with the big coil. Also dug an iron chape. Don't find many made of iron. The partial shoe buckle frame next to it appears to have been in a fire or it is made from an odd alloy.

The whole trifid spoon and the trifid spoon top peice were from the previous hunt using the 9" coil and Sensitive Full Tones Tekkna. That is a very late 1600s or very early 1700s spoon and the first complete one that I have found. Those buttons below the spoon were from the earlier hunt. For me, Full Tones is most affective on the mid tones and it has been a button killer over the years. It loves the small bits of lead and pewter as well. 

I still can't quite get my head around using all that Disc in Tekkna, but it is putting finds in my pouch from some tired sites. 

Lodge 

 

 

 

 

[F350Platinum]

How did I miss this post, LC? 🤔

That is one heck of a site you're on, 13 buttons is a great haul. 👍 It's really an accomplishment (or luck) to come across a whole spoon that old!

Good stuff! 👍

[Doc Bach]

I somehow overlooked your post as well LS.

I have had the exact same experience and results as you (and others) with the 13 and in fact for the past several months i have used the nine very little.

Also i have found that the weight and profile of the big coil navigates the heavy springtime weeds and ground cover better than the 9 coil.The only caveat being that my right arm looks like Popeyes and is out of whack with the left one.

With the ability that the thirteen has to sniff out the small buttons and 22 shorts and other tiny co-mingled targets i'm halfway expecting more 1 dollar gold coins to be found.I like all of the early relics that you dig and that spoon is exceptional!

Doc

[Lodge Scent]

Thanks Gents. 

 

F350, putting my coil over the spoon was luck. It was a couple of hundred yards away from the actual cellar hole.

Doc, I use that big coil like a sickle sometimes. 😁 The extra weight does come in handy. When I complain to myself about the swinging that extra weight, I force my self to remember swinging my old DFX battle ax with the 12" coil. That was just plain unpleasant. Actually I think it feels better to swing the Deus with the 13" coil than it did swinging the DFX with the 9" coil.