Need smaller coil for minelab Explorer SE for trashy areas. What should I get?

[Detectingfreak]

Got any suggestions on what Coil I should get for trashy area's? Thanks for your help!

 

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[Ant]

I would suggest that you try staying with the stock set-up until you become proficient with it, then upgrade. My friend got a hockey puck for his SE and he seldom uses it, if at all.

If trashy areas are giving you problems switch to fast, lower the gains, hunt in iron mask opened all the way up using the smart screen display (check all signals in digital), ferrous tones and go slow.

My last check on a iffy coin signal is with the stock smart screen set-up for coins, except that I add jewelry.

 

[Jeff In North Georgia]

I like the 8" coil for these sites. I also have a 5" and seldom use it as it is just too small in most areas.

The Minelab 8" is heavy but does a good job. I currently use an 8" Sun Ray coil. It's much lighter and goes as deep or more.

Jeff

 

[mastereagle22]

I have an 8 inch Excelerator and I find it to be VERY useful in trashy areas and areas with lots of iron. I used my stock coil in one yard and went over a silver dime and missed it and so did my buddy with his XLT but then when I switched to the 8 inch coil I found it.

Could be luck but could also be that it was burried right next to scrap aluminum too.

 

[Ant]

I have an 8 inch Excelerator and I find it to be VERY useful in trashy areas and areas with lots of iron. I used my stock coil in one yard and went over a silver dime and missed it and so did my buddy with his XLT but then when I switched to the 8 inch coil I found it.

Could be luck but could also be that it was burried right next to scrap aluminum too.

Sometime tuning is the answer. I found that some signals can be lost by the way you have described, but lowering the gains and switching back and forth from the stock coin screen to a fully opened up iron mask screen can find or miss them. I’m not saying don’t get the 8” coil.

I find it hard to believe that a detector that cost nearly $1300.00 needs to be upgraded almost befoer one uses it, oh, I need a new pinpointer and couple of new coils.

 

[mastereagle22]

The point I was trying to make Ant was that I ran the machine at the same settings with both coils. I missed the silver signal because the aluminum signal was shallower and bigger. The stock coil is about the same size as my buddies XLT.

Once I put on the 8 inch coil I got a LOT more signals in the area we had just detected because they were so close together they overlapped with the bigger coil.

I think the smaller coil is much shallower than the larger coil, at least from what I have experienced so far. I had doubts about the small coil but I think it was a good purchase.

 

[Ant]

The point I was trying to make Ant was that I ran the machine at the same settings with both coils. I missed the silver signal because the aluminum signal was shallower and bigger. The stock coil is about the same size as my buddies XLT.

Once I put on the 8 inch coil I got a LOT more signals in the area we had just detected because they were so close together they overlapped with the bigger coil.

I think the smaller coil is much shallower than the larger coil, at least from what I have experienced so far. I had doubts about the small coil but I think it was a good purchase.

I know, you are absolutely 100% correct. But I'm going to try and make the stock set-up work until I learn it backward and forwards, then I'll move up.

 

[mastereagle22]

I will make one point I have "discovered" Now that I have three coils to chose from I find it VERY difficult to decide on which one to use first and for how long.

So my default is Stock coil first for at least half the hunt time then switch to the coil that would be best for the site.

 

[Detectingfreak]

Thanks for all of the imput! I really enjoyed reading all of your thoughts!

 

[jhen999]

I was using the S.E.F 12 x 10 coil on my SE Pro and found it noise and hard to pin point with in trashy areas, so I went with a Sunray X-8 coil and it seems to work vary well..i get good depth and pin pointing is a lot easier...

 

[LI Tom]

I have a Sunray 8" and it's on my Explorer 75% of the time.Much easier to use in high trash.

 

[Rodbuster209]

I use the Minelab 8" coil most of the time unless I am at the beach. I mostly hunt old home sites, mining camps and demo sites, it works real well!

 

[philski]

The smaller the coil the better. The Coiltek 6" Treasureseeker is awesome and you wont even need a pinpointer. Dig smaller holes and swing it all day long. If its mega trashy I normally go over an area with the biggest coil i have. Then mark the targets i find with little flags, then go over it all again with the smallest coil and discriminate using that. The amount of targets i dig would be double to triple what i was getting, target, after target,,.

Its easy to swing the smaller coils too fast too, so the above helps eliminate that step.

hope that helps.
Phillip