I have a White's MXT with a stock 9.5" coil. We've had a love/hate relationship over the years, but I've grown accustomed to her, I suppose. There is a place that I have hunted over the years, an old church yard way out in the woods. You've got to know it is there to find it.
Anyway, it was abandoned as a church about 100 years ago and now is maintained by the cemetery committee and the 'homecoming' group - an annual reunion picnic is held every year. I've found silver dimes, buffalo nickels, wheat and indian head pennies, etc. But the area around the picnic tables each about 30" long) is lousy with pull tabs and bottle caps. I figure if I had a smaller coil, it would help me find the 'gooder' stuff in-between the aluminum trash.
So my question for you folks with experience with such is - of the smaller coils available for the MXT, which is the best for this type of hunting? BTW - I've recently purchased a Deus with an 11" coil, but it and I are not yet speaking the same language, and I'm not sure it will do as good a job in the environment I described as the MXT with a smaller coil.
Anyway, it was abandoned as a church about 100 years ago and now is maintained by the cemetery committee and the 'homecoming' group - an annual reunion picnic is held every year. I've found silver dimes, buffalo nickels, wheat and indian head pennies, etc. But the area around the picnic tables each about 30" long) is lousy with pull tabs and bottle caps. I figure if I had a smaller coil, it would help me find the 'gooder' stuff in-between the aluminum trash.
So my question for you folks with experience with such is - of the smaller coils available for the MXT, which is the best for this type of hunting? BTW - I've recently purchased a Deus with an 11" coil, but it and I are not yet speaking the same language, and I'm not sure it will do as good a job in the environment I described as the MXT with a smaller coil.