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kac
I completely agree it has limited use. If others are interested in the coil I can say that I use it at the beach and there are a few fields I may use it where the top soil is greater than 12" but those ares are not very common.

It is "limited-use" of any larger-size coil for me because I mainly search very littered area, especially those with ferrous debris. I do use the Raider coil on the rare occasions I hunt a freshwater beach, or wander into a wide-open grassy park, etc. So most hunting, for me, dictates the use of smaller to md-size coils. Garrett's mid-size Ripper coil provides excellent performance as my main-use Apex coil. I do wish they would make the small, round Concentric coil for the Apex or something in that class of a 'small' coil size.

Now, if I am discussing 'separation' it usually involves the use of smaller or sometimes a mid-size coil to better handle a lot of trash. For fun, a year ago when I had an Equinox 800 w/11" and 6" DD coils and a Vanquish 540 w/5x8 DD and 9X12 DD, I wanted to compare them using my Nail Board against other models I had, and there it got interesting.

I got 8-out-of-8 hits with my Tesoro Bandido II microMAX and Silver Sabre microMAX, each using their 6" Concentric coils, my Nokta FORS CoRe w/4.7X5.2 DD and FORS Relic w/5" DD.

I got 7-out-of-8 hits with a N/M Simplex + w/5X9.5 DD coil, as well as using my Garrett Apex w/5" NEL DD, Ripper (5X8) DD, Viper (6X11) DD, and yes, even with the Raider (8.5X11) DD.

The best I could get with the EQ-800 and both coils or Vanquish 540 with both coils was 4 or 5, or at best 6-out-8, and that was another performance strength for the Apex.

Monte

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