Thoughts on the 3x18" Widescan Coil

[jfeeney]

Does anyone have any experience using the 3x18" Widescan coil? I've been doing a bit or field MDing and thought about upgrading from the 12x10 coil that came with my Outlaw. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

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[digger27]

I have never used one, but I do love that 10X12 DD and that scanning field is wide enough for me and deep when mounted on my Vaquero.
I have read a bunch of posts from guys that do have the 3X18" and they all seem to sing it's praises no matter what Tesoro it is mounted on from the Silver on up.
These would be mostly coin and jewelry hunter types that hunt wide open areas without a ton of trash in parks and sites like that.
Every one of them have mentioned that this coil is no depth monster, however, the 10X12 will go deeper, but I am a jewelry hunter and the wide coil does go plenty deep enough to find the good stuff which in my experience usually doesn't hang out much deeper than about the 6" depth level more often than not.

 

[jfeeney]

Digger - thanks. I like the 10x12 as well. It's plenty deep. I need to test it but that couple of hunts I didn't think the back of the coil was picking up any targets. I found myself just using the front half. It might have been my brain was frozen MDing in the cold. Thanks for info.

 

[Sandman]

I have lots of experience with the Clean Sweep Coil. Do a search for the coil as I made a lot of posts about using one. Here is a link I forgot to add.

http://www.losttreasure.com/content...ld-test-report-tesoro-clean-sweep-search-coil

 

[jfeeney]

Thanks Sandman I got a lot of info from your previous posts. I should have searched before posting. I love the idea of covering so much ground. Still not going to pull the trigger just yet. Thanks again.