You ll be swinging this machine for hours on end. During your selection process try and pick one that has a hip or chest mountable control box. You ll be thankful you did. Standard weights vary from roughly 2 to 5 pounds. Here we enter one of the most hotly debated topics of our hobby.
Every manufacturer claims to have the deepest seeking machine on the market.
Older coins generally reside between 4 and 6 inches on land. Any good detector will see that deep. Most will see 8 inches or more. Top end machines are known to find small targets at well over a foot. Quite recently I was told of a fairly new beach detector retrieving a penny at 2 feet with an 8 inch coil and the 10.5 coil going considerably deeper than that.