INTRUDER S-12 TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS

Hello Ralph, just wanted to drop you a line and rave over the S12 coil! last Jan I bought a new Sovereign GT and told Terry (Detector Depot) just keep the stock 10" coil and I'd pay the diff on a S12 coil and glad I did!  This is my 3rd S12 and here is why...last week I paid for my entire detector package with this find. Found the 1st of the set on Thursday and the 2nd on Sat. Hope you enjoy the pics as your company played such a big part in the find. Thanks for a great product! Hargis Miller (Dixie Digger). Submitted 04/18/08.

Submitted by Gary in Florida on 10/26/04

Hi Ralph,

Just wanted to drop a line and rave about the S12 coil. I couldn't be happier with the Sunray S-12 / Sov Elite combination. It's the best beach rig I've ever used, and I've tried a lot of them. When hipmounting the Sov, the S12 is so light I could swing it for hours without fatigue. I've been working the beaches since the storms came through down here in Florida and in less than a month, I've found 17 gold items, over 400 silver coins, buffalo and V nickels, IH pennies, lots of wheaties, cast toy soldiers, many silver jewelry items, tokens, bullets, foreign coins and more clad than I care to clean and count. Lots of my finds were in areas that were already worked several times by other hunters. Good finds are getting thin now, but I'm still working slowly between the iron junk and using the Sov wiggle to pick up the remaining deep, scrappy signals that others have walked over. Using that method, I've found several more merc and barber dimes and several broken gold rings, and you know how hard they are to pick up with any detector. I even found a mercury dime with a rusty screw still attached to it, how's that for great target separation! (picture attached) Thanks much for designing the best beach coil I've used Ralph. It ROCKS!

 

Gary in Florida
 

Submitted by David at Dixie Metal Detectors, Madison TN

"I'm very happy with my new S-12 coil for my Sovereign Elite.  After hunting with it a few times my impressions were that it pinpoints as well or better than my 10" Tornado, has great ground coverage, is very sensitive to deep targets and small gold, and is even LIGHTER than the stock coil.  It even does well for land hunting in moderate trash, something I was thinking I would probably need to put the 10" back on for.  I can see myself running with this coil pretty much full time. 

 
I've made a lot of nice finds with it in the roughly a dozen hunts I've had with it, but the best one is the 14K diamond ring I found recently while beach hunting the low tide at night.  It has 24 diamonds and is valued at about $2000.  I LIKE this coil!"
 
 
Regards,
Mike (Virginia Beach)
 

Hi Ralph,

 
Glad to see you are feeling better.  I guess everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame and now it's my turn.  Here's the WHOLE story, so edit at will.
 
I bought a Minelab Excalibur this summer and was extremely impressed with how well it worked at the beach.  It was easily finding dimes and quarters  at over a foot.  My other detector couldn't even come close.
 
The opportunity to go on a metal detecting trip to England in February arose.  I thought a Minelab Sovereign and the SR 12 inch coil would be a fantastic combination. Unfortunately I was unable to get one because you were on vacation and then ill. I was talking to Houndawgg and he said I could borrow his for the trip.
I took the set up to the beach just to become familiar with the new sounds.
I left some targets in the sand as I just couldn't dig them out. It's difficult getting deep targets when each successive wave fills your hole.  On this particular target, it was a mid-tone and no matter what, I was going to get this deep one out.  I can't tell how deep as the waves kept filling in the hole but I know I must have been digging for at least ten minutes.  Very glad I kept digging.  It was worth the effort.  I was hot that week.  That was the third gold ring for the week. For the first week in January and not a storm in sight for weeks it was a pleasant surprise.  Finally received my SR 12 from Rick this week.  Hopefully I will do much better the second time around in England.
 
HH
Donna Martorano

 

Sun Ray Intruder S-12 Report

Posted By: BobH <bobharris@k-online.com> (209.19.209.253)
Date: Sunday, 19 January 2003, at 12:24 p.m.



First let me thank Sun Ray for making the Intruder S-12 and David@Dixie for helping me decide to buy it.

The S-12 arrived yesterday (Saturday), sooner than expected. I live right on the beach, so I put it on the Sov and headed out. I've had no luck to speak of the last three days because the sand is filling in and this beach is pounded by many detectorists leaving the goodies few and far between. I was surprised to find 11 coins, a broken part of a junk ring and a nice silver bracelet in about 45 minutes.

I decided to put the stock 8" coil back on and check the areas on both sides of where I'd found the goodies with the S-12. I spent about 30 minutes and found a dime and two pennies. BTW, for those who haven't detected saltwater beaches, those things that look like globs of sand contain zinc pennies. They start corroding and just keep "gluing" more and more sand to them as the time passes.

I put the S-12 back on and went over the areas I'd just checked with the 8". Most of the goodies in the picture (S-12 2nd out) were found right where I'd just been with the 8". A few were found in another area. This time I ended up with 16 coins, 2 junk rings (that's not a gold one), a zipper pull, another silver bracelet and a silver plated religious pendant & chain. The picture shows all dug targets - I wasn't fooled by any of the numerous nails. The steel (a real one is nickel) Franc was a strange signal I decided to dig. It could have been a steel washer, but sounded different.

So, what does it all mean? This coil is nice! I believe the Sov/S-12 is the best set-up I've owned (and I have an Explorer and had a CZ-6a, so I guess that's saying something.) Coverage is great, the weight seems to be only slightly heavier than the BBS800, the depth is fantastic (one pre-1982 copper penny at about 12") and it acts just like the BBS800 - Pinpointing, smooth threshold, target sounds, etc. I will be using the S-12 regularly.

I hunt the beach in Disc (Disc and Notch all the way counterclockwise - off), sensitivity in auto (this time because of the heavy black sand deposits, but I sometimes use manual), threshold at barely audible, volume at low (the Sov is loud to me) and no meter.

I apologize for the slightly out of focus poor quality picture, but I didn't want to get out my tripod. -- Bob

3rd trip to the sandbox with the S-12

Posted By: BobH <bobharris@k-online.com> (209.19.209.203)
Date: Monday, 20 January 2003, at 2:54 a.m.

Oh Boy, another picture of clad coins from Bob!



I took the S-12 out for about 2 hours hunting on the beach today. I decided to go slow and listen close. No great finds, but amost all were found between 8" and 12+". I dug a big hole off to the side of one high pitched, repeatable, but faint signal and carefully dug up to it. I left it (a quarter) where it was, enlarged the hole and put the S-12 in the hole on edge. The whole coil was in there and about 2" below the sand surface. That's around 14"! As I said, the signal was faint and had I been moving ahead faster, I probably would have missed it, but nevertheless I got it. A few of the other coins were nearly as deep. I do like this S-12 coil. It gives me more confidence than the stock 8" and that makes detecting more fun. I think I'll head inland with the S-12 tomorrow (today now). -- Bob

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