Large After Market Coils Compared To Large Nexus Coils

This might be a slightly controversial topic but I'd like to write about the misconception of the achievable depth with the larger mass-produced coils compared to the larger Nexus coils. I believe I am in the position to write about this because when I was using my Equinox 800 I purchased the 15' inch Coiltek coil thinking that I was going to be able to punch deeper. Over a considerable length of time hunting the same fields it became apparent that the 15' inch Coiltek coil was no deeper than my 11' inch stock coil. To be totally honest I don't think it was much deeper than the 6' inch coil either.

I understand that there might be some Coiltek shills and employees out there that find what I've said highly offensive. I'm fine with that, what I find offensive is being charged premium prices for poorly built coils that just don't do what the company states. I believe this goes for all the larger after market coils that are offered for all the digital machines. Until you've swung a set of true deep seeking detectors then you don't have a proper reference point, I stand by what I've stated in the past, all the high end digital detectors aren't deep seeking. Some brand loyal simpletons will disagree with this but they don't have a real reference point to compare their machines to. 

Don't get me wrong, something I've also pointed out many times before is the fact that pretty much all the detectors out there will find a huge amount of targets in the ground. This has been proven for decades, look at all the amazing finds through the years that the most basic of metal detectors have found. But I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about those small percentage of targets that are really deep and are out the range of all the tech/digital machines. I will repeat myself here just one more time, one machine can't do it all. Does Changing Out The Stock Coil On Your Equinox, Deus etc And Replacing It With A Larger Coil Turn It Into A True Deep Seeking Machine? No it doesn't, yes .. it covers more ground but I believe that's where the advantages end.

Due to the filtering on all the tech detectors, they're never going to be deep and due to the size of the larger coils, sometimes more filtering is needed to run them stable. This is what I had to do with my 15' inch Coiltek coil, it had to be tuned down otherwise I would start to get interference. When you take this into consideration it comes as no surprise that these large coils don't exhibit any real depth advantages. You can convince yourself otherwise if you want, I understand if you've laid out a considerable amount of money for a larger coil it's going to be hard to admit you've been taken for a ride. Even when I could run my sensitivity to its maximum, there was no clear depth advantage demonstrated.

Nexus coils are different, How Do I Know This? because I own over 13 of them, I have single coils ranging from 7' inches up to 20' and I own dual coils ranging from dual 4' inch all the way up to a dual 20'. All these coils have been used extensively on the same land that I hunted hard with my Equinox 800 using the 15' inch coil. I've lost count of the deep targets I've dug that I was clearly walking over with my Equinox. Is This All Part Of My Imagination? no it isn't, I applied my mind and put serious time in to being able to come to this conclusion, also I'm not full of shit or sponsored by some company. 

If I've been swinging my 10' inch coil for a few weeks and then swap it out for my 13' inch coil there's a very noticeable depth increase in the targets that I'm digging. There has been periods of time where I've focused hard on a small piece of land and I've swung coils ranging from 10' to dual 12' inch. Once again, there's a very noticeable difference in the depth of what I'm digging, if this wasn't the case I'd be the first one to say, I gain nothing by purposely misleading people. It's just not the case with these big YouTube channels that have lots of sponsors, it's these guys that are painfully sycophantic and misleading with the information they put out, They need to praise everything they use otherwise they could risk losing their bullshit sponsor deals.

To conclude, through experience, I genuinely don't believe you're going to see any real depth increase with the larger generic aftermarket coils. They're overrated, overpriced and completely underwhelming, the only real benefit is the fact they cover slightly more ground. The same can't be said for the large Nexus coils, not only do you cover more ground but they all go considerably as you go up in size and shape. How Do I Know This? I've put thousands of hours into detecting with all shapes and sizes of coils on both my Nexus and digital detectors. Opinions should be based on your own groundwork, not off some sellout that needs 50 sponsors to go and dig shit out the ground.