fireguy
Sr. Member
Trying to figure out if the sniper is worth it or is it the thing of the past and the 5x8 is better in trash areas
I own the sniper coil and i had a nels big 15x18 ...the nels only added about an inch of depth and had terrible target separation...it did cover a lot of ground but missed way too many targets...the sniper coil is like a hockey puck and covers little to nothing for ground...it has good separation but hardly has any depth...it also changed my trash hits pull tabs became dead ringers for nickels and iron nails screamed silver /quarter/dime ....i found after wasting money on these coils that i should have stuck with the stock 5x8 its what stays on my machine without question ...if your hunting with the ace250 it came with a concentric coil and its already a trash hound id just try to upgrade to abetter machine rather then waste money on coils that wont make a machine any better ....try to swing for a the at pro or better and stay away from the ace line
Theres alot of hype with nel coils but im afraid thats all it is ...they sure look good on youtube with a guy waving a nels over a 2 foot hole and sounding off on a gold coin but once you drop the 2 bills on the coil and get it on and start swinging you will notice little to nothing for depth gains ...an inch gain on a 18 inch coil is terrible they claim a 50 % added depth so take a stock ace350 lets just call it 6 inches on a quarter air testing well 50 % would be 9 inches but it wont do it...and better target separation is there other claim...not sure how they think a 18 inch coil is going to separate better then a smaller coil but they slap that on there advertisement also false...and they forget to mention the coil weighs almost as much as the machine to swing it ...i really got mine for beach hunting thought i could get deeper and cover more ground but that coil is terrible in wet sand couldn't even use it ....i feel sorry for whoever got mine off ebayI just read Nasa Tom's review on the big 15 inch coil for the fisher f75/f70 and his review was very similar to yours of the nel coil for the garrett. Very littles depth gain, and in mineralized ground...no gain!