detect4coins
Junior Member
I got in a 2 hour hunt with the digger today. I have to say that I am impressed with this little coil! I purposely went over areas that I have hunted before with my Eagle Spectrum and it's 5.3" coil. I managed to pull out 76 cents from the area. 5 dimes, 2 nickles, and 16 pennies (including one toasted 1946 wheat). Two of the dimes and one of the Lincolns came out of a plug that also had a pull tab in it beside the coin, yet I could hear a nice clear signal from the coin. On two of those coins, I actually found the pulltab in the plug first with my pinpointer, and then when I double checked the hole with the pinpointer, I found the coin. That tells me that the coin was deeper than the pulltab, but off to the side of it and the little Digger still picked it up. Coins signal with a nice clear tone most times. They just sound "cleaner" than a junk target. The only ones that fooled me were two pulltab rings without the tail attached that sounded good. Maybe with more time I will be able to differentiate the sounds for those rings, but I don't know yet. Square tabs sound rough on the ends of the signal and sometimes ring in as a 12 on my 505. The only surprise signal was a pocket spill of two nickles that rang up with a 30 VDI. I was expecting a zinc, but was surprised with the two Jeffersons. The nice thing with the 3 Khz coil is that I can often tell a clad dime from a copper penny in my soil here. Dimes were reading 36-39, and Lincolns were 33-36. Zincs were reading as 30 usually. I look forward to getting some time in with the Digger and getting a better read on how it reacts. For a coinshooter, It is a great tool! The deepest target I found today was at 4", but was a good, solid signal. 
I'm in Fayette Co.
