When you just start digging with your first metal detector, each time you want to get as much as possible from it – both depth and area coverage (after all, you’re digging in the fields at first), but when you’ve already had more than one season behind you, the metal detector is far from budget, but the most If there is a top-end one (the essence is expensive), then, it would seem, why do we need more coils for it? But not everything is so simple, over the years comes the understanding and realization that different tasks require the right approach, the correct selection of ammunition, equipment and reels. Therefore, it was decided to supplement the Nokta Anfibio Multi with a larger coil, fortunately it was plowing season and in order to cover kilometer after kilometer of plowing, a larger and more serious coil was needed than the standard 11″ circle. The choice fell on CORS Labs, a kind of analogue of NEL, with their interesting Detonation coil, measuring 13×14″ inches (33×35.5 cm).
Its size is just what you need – it seems not as huge as “steering wheels” of 15″ or more (yes, there are such), but at the same time it is not as small for a cop in plowing fields and vast fields as the standard ones 11″ coils. What is the difference? After all, the diameter is only 2 inches larger, but what a result: the field coverage area has increased, due to the additional 2 inches you can go through the same field faster, which will save time and have enough strength for an even neighboring field, or at least catch there is not enough of it to understand whether there is any prospect for it. Another important factor is that when you swing an 11″ reel in a low-litter area, somehow there are fewer skips. You walk and don’t notice that with an 11″ coil you don’t cover the entire area, step by step, but you run through and leave gaps, so then there’s nothing to be surprised by big finds on a field that seems to have been beaten hundreds of times, and many would call it fate, but I just grin and I call it laziness and simply an unwillingness to slowly knock out a promising cop spot.
The weight of the reel also pleased me, only about 650 grams. I compared other reels of approximately the same size and their weight was a good order of magnitude higher. Every extra gram on the mine is an untraversed meter at the digging point, which means a loss of finds (but we will never know this). The coil seems very light in the hand; on the Noct Anfibio metal detector it did not shift the balance in the wrong direction at all and did not pull the hand too much.
As you can see, the coil sat on the device organically and like a glove! The kit included additional rubber bands and a bolt, but I used standard rubber bands from Nokta, but I installed a bolt from CORS, it’s too good.
It turned out to be a penny day for me. While I was running through the beginning of the field, this beauty came out – 3 kopecks, 1897. It’s not that old, but the place has already been beaten, including by me, but still finds are still coming in little by little, especially copper coins like this one. But my task was even greater – I wanted to get to the fresh plowing nearby to see what else had been pulled out of the ground there along with the pile of stones with which our entire land was strewn.
Good signals are often hidden under stones, but you won’t walk and turn over every stone, because they cut the depth. And we’ll just run through and wave the big coil looking for useful signals.
Fortunately, the comrades are running nearby. Do you see any boulders? And among these boulders, people have managed to plant and grow something for centuries. I’ll say right away that the reel behaves excellently on such soil, the protection is installed and, fortunately, sometimes it saves the reel from accidental collisions with stones and does not crack. I remember how one time I hit a Garrett AT MAX coil hard on a stone and the protection cracked – here you can immediately see the good quality of the CORS coil protection, there are no cracks, a minimum of scratches and it is clear that such protection will last a long time.
There are no problems with weight. I've been running around the field for more than an hour, but I'm not tired yet, it's just hot. The field is good, something is slowly emerging.
But we still have to go far, far away, somewhere out there all the good finds are hidden and our task is to find them. Yes, an important addition – the cable length of the coil is slightly longer than that of standard coils for Nokta/Macro. This is good, you can make a little more turns and the wire will not wander around the rod while you are digging. Another useful task is to attach the wire with Velcro at a distance of 20 cm from the mount with the coil in order to leave a loop there. Firstly, the loop will prevent the junction of the wire and the coil from fraying and breaking, and secondly, it will help to avoid additional interference from the movement of the cable over the coil. Even if the coil has shielding on top, the coil can still react to the metal inside the wire and receive other interference from the movement of the cable.
And this is another penny from the neighboring field. The field turned out to be a little littered, so I changed the large coil to a standard one, again – you need to know where and when to use different coils. A sniper rifle, like a large reel, should always be in the arsenal of a serious digger.
And I like these pennies, they have a very interesting and unusual design.
It would seem like small finds in one day, but how nice it is to have a great time in nature, and even get such a result.
Additional coils never hurt, because it is not always possible to dig with a standard coil. A sniper rifle works great in a trash can and gives good targets; in a large and open space, a large reel is already much more useful and useful than a standard or sniper rifle! You need to know this and be able to use it correctly, then your search will be the most productive and will bring interesting finds! No fluff!
