Some clarification on DD coils
Big SNIPP
Also with the 10 inch double d loop it may be a little to big for the site you are hunting in, if there is not good target separation due to the loop size. Where a smaller loop will give better target separation and make it easier to hear what is going on in the ground.
Hope this helps some as these are some of my experience in using the V3.
rcsnake
I want to complement here on the Double-D coil.
There is
almost no loop effect except if targets are within about 1inche of a DD coil.
What you have with a DD coil is an
almost perfect blade shaped signal going into the ground. So if you got a 10inch DD, you got a 10inch long blade going into that ground.
The width of that blade is an important factor, something hard to design to be thin, and this is what Minelab improved on the new coil that comes with the Explorer SE PRO, Safari and E-Trac.
In trashy areas you can incur difficulties even with a DD if you have almost surface junk messing with the Coil. To counter this when the possible target is not at the extreme depth capabilities of your metal detector, you raise your coil. And often the target is less masked or you have a cleaner and solely target dependant tone-signal.
In some other trashy areas, the lenght of a DD coils blade will be too long. That case just happened to me last week: I had to switch to my 4 x 7 DD coil instead of my 10inch DD, by losing 3 inches off the blade length made my hunting bearable, more productive, cleaner signals and much less masking.
That is my piece of the puzzle:tumble: