Mojave with a 4" coil

[Electricfrontporch]

Got a sweet deal on a used 4" coil.
Threw it on the Mojave and headed to a local lakeside park.
Went around the concrete pads the picnic tables are on.
I have previously done the same with the stock coil and the 5.75 compadre.
These slabs are nasty with wire and rebar sticking out. I've found lots of stuff
within 3-4" of them but was surprised with how effective the little 4" was.
2 wheats, a 59 memorial and a bunch of clad. All within 2" of the slab and one
of the wheats was less than an inch from an exposed piece of rebar.
Slow going but seems to unmask targets better at higher disc settings.
It's weird how coins from the same area can age so differently.

 

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[Stoof2010]

Definitely will keep this in mind!!
I have yet to have an area that I need to use that coil!!!

 

[bottlebum]

I could have used one, yesterday! The tabs were so thick that I just cranked up the discrimination, and dug a little over $5 in copper pennies, dimes and quarters. Was hoping for a little silver, but ....

 

[tabman]

Nice! How does the depth compare?

tabman

 

[Electricfrontporch]

Nice! How does the depth compare?

tabman

It won't hit the 6" coins in my test bed, but it hits the 4" stuff loud and clear.
I have two different combos of nails tabs and a coin buried also. With the stock coil
I can disc out the nails and hit the tabs and coin no problem but with disc set
to where tabs break up it loses the coin. With the 4" it hits the coin with disc at max.
Definitely awesome at unmasking things but in an open area it will be slow going.
Probably will mostly be used around nasty concrete stuff because the lack of depth
out weighs the unmasking. But for $40 it will be a fun toy.
If I end up with an outlaw or bandido I'm sure the depth would improve.

Noah

 

[pinenut]

It won't hit the 6" coins in my test bed, but it hits the 4" stuff loud and clear...If I end up with an outlaw or bandido I'm sure the depth would improve.

Noah

Maybe a little more depth with the Outlaw and Bandido, but probably not much. Mojave has pretty good depth, but the little 4" coil is, well...a 4" coil.

 

[Electricfrontporch]

^^^^Thanks for the reality check Pinenut!^^^^
Started having dreams of a super deep seeking laser beam! Haha

 

[pinenut]

^^^^Thanks for the reality check Pinenut!^^^^
Started having dreams of a super deep seeking laser beam! Haha

Tried the 4" on my Cutlass μmax and Eldorado. Usable depth I got out of each was about 5"; it's probably the same on Mojave, which seems to have pretty good depth for a five-pin, turn on & go Tesoro.
I thought it was fun in totlots around the play equipment, but man, did it take a long time to search the open areas.
Supposedly, our English friends the "mudlarks" like the 4" in the mud.. I need to try my 4" out again (only used it for a week or two), but I've been using the 5.75 nearly everywhere, on most of my Tesoros.

 

[doggoneitdignit]

My 5.75 concentric is doing me quit fine in the park I am cherry picking right now with my Vaquero and will switch off to the stock RSD coil when ready but currently this size is doing me just fine right now. Iwill receive my Compadre 8", this week I will likely be using this more often to cover bit more ground the my 5.75 and may loose some depth can't see that much though will see...and may try going with the Vaq 5.75 to see the difference here when I do with the Compadre, but after cleaned what I can out will go right to the RSD coil for those deeper objects.

 

[nagant]

i tried my 4" on a golden µmax due to trashy spot in my yard. I was getting good chirps there with the stock coil and found a few coins. The 4" coil just didn't see the 5" and deeper coins though so dug the trash out and found them. It does better at parks around picnic tables for shallow drops. Trash was snips of copper coax so was extra bad.