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Date Posted: 10:51:29 03/15/02 Fri
Author: Steve Herschbach
Subject: Re: White's Small Coil for Goldmasters
In reply to: Rattlesnake Jim 's message, "Re: White's Small Coil for Goldmasters" on 08:19:59 03/15/02 Fri

Steve with Tesoro Lobo ©1999 Herschbach Enterprises

Hi Rattlesnake,

I would expect that. The extreme sensitivity of small coils comes with a penalty, and so they usually make a better tool for working a patch then general hunting.

I run my 6" coil on my Gold Bug 2 a lot. Small hot rocks that would never signal on other detectors give faint signals that sometimes sound like gold. Luckily, in my area they are not so common as to present a real problem. But I run with my machine jacked all the way up. If I would moderate the settings a bit I could probably smooth some of the rocks out.

Organics are always a problem. Clumps of dead leaves, fern roots, and larger tree roots all give me problems in our moist conditions in Alaska. Half my efforts go into scraping an area clear and pulling roots before I even turn on the detector. If the picture at the top came out it shows a common scenario for me. I'm using the Lobo and have scraped an area to get at the soil. Found a 7.8 grain nugget at this spot.

I ran the 6" elliptical last summer at my local site and it ran very well. Smooth and clean, but our conditiions are not demanding. I ran a test bed with heavy black sand soil (ground balance 9 on Gold Bug 1) and found the Gold Bug 2 with 6" coil and GMT with prototype 6" coil to be the only two detectors that would hit my 1 grain test nugget at 1.5" Both machines got about 1" with their stock coils.

I've had good luck with small coils in rough terrain that has produced gold with larger coils. Just going round one more time and poking around in deeper holes and crevices and under the bases of boulders. I tend to concentrate better when using a small coil. I always find something hiding in a nook or cranny that the larger coils missed.

So while they have their issues, I find those little coils indespensible. More form me on the 6" elliptical very soon. I see dirt on southern slopes peeking out of the snow now!

Steve Herschbach

Steve Herschbach

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