MXT 300 Coil Question

[lokkenpa]

I must say that I like my MXT 300. I had to fly to Oklahoma City to go to my in laws at Guthrie, OK over x-mas. My wife and kids drove out prior to me flying because of a death in the family. So I packed light and did not take a bag to be checked that my ACE-250 could go in... So I found a MD dealer and bought my self an x-mas gift after talking with the owner for a couple of hours and told him the machines I was looking at. I never had the MXT on the radar so to speak (hence the long conversation with the owner).

To make a longer story short, I got the standard 9.5" coil with it and bought the 5" smaller coil. I plan on sending in for the special offer that came with the machine to get a pinpointer, headphones, and my choice of coils for 99 dollars more (I forget the name of the coil, but its a $250 one). My question is this: Coin and jewelry hunting, which is the better coil to use? I know that for trashy area's to use the smaller coil and such...

When I was down in OK, I went to a place called "The Flats". I found a ton of pull tabs and some clad in the few short hours that I had to hunt. Tricky part now is learning all the VDI numbers. Don't have that with the Ace... But I will say that the MXT 300 is one sweet machine.

Thanks for looking and HH...

[Sandman]

It is not so much which is the better coil to use, but where you are going to hunt. You know that the smaller coil will work best in trashy areas. The larger 12 inch will do well where you need the extra depth of have a lot of ground to cover. It is still important to overlap some to get the most out of this larger coil.

Someday a manufacturer will come out with a large light weight coil that we can by using a setting on the detector change the size of the field on the coil from large to small depending on the ground we are hunting.

[R-bass]

That would be great if you can change the field to low or high