What little chatter he did receive was easily discernible from actual signals and despite the
crowds having been absent for months, he was able to pick up a handful of coins from the surf
line. As Paul and my daughter headed off exploring the beach, my wife and her aunt tried
their luck with the M6. Again, setup and ground balancing the black sand proved to be quiet
simple and they were also able to find a number of coins & other items in both the wet and
dry sand.
New Years Day 2006 was picture-perfect for detecting and the previous weeks rain made the
ground ideal for digging. Paul and I went to a spot near the local college hoping for a silver
coin or two. By now he needed no instruction and before I had the rest of the gear out of the
truck, he was off hunting. The ground was quite hot resulting in some chatter so Paul dropped
the SENS to the 70 mark and the M6 ran silent.
A number of coins turned up over the next 2 hours but other than a lone wheat cent, they were
all modern vintage. As we started back to the truck, Paul hit a target that registered 32/35 pull
tab / ring but sounded different than some of the trash we had recovered. Rechecking it in the
TONE ID mode and then checking the depth he saw it indicated 6. Since all of the tabs and
screw caps we had recovered had been 3 or less, it was a promising signal. Well, we cut a
deep plug and the unmistakable glint of gold was visible in the bottom of the hole.
Carefully pulling it free, we saw it was a class ring from the college dated 1946. We are
drafting a story on this great find for a future issue of Lost Treasure but suffice it to say that
we tracked down the daughter of the rings owner who said that her mother had never returned
to the area once she graduated meaning the ring had lain there for close to 60 years! It was
truly special being able to return the ring to the daughter . . . . as her mother had passed away
just 4 months prior to our finding the ring.
Over the next few weeks I put the M6 through its paces at a number of sites in the Carolinas
some of which were notorious for their highly mineralized ground or trash conditions. The
M6 with the stock 9.5 concentric coil resulted in a fair amount of chatter in these challenging
locations; however, I was fortunate to have a 6x10 DD Eclipse coil which resulted in much
quieter operation and more stable target ID readings as ground conditions deteriorated.
If you experience less than optimal results with the stock coil, give one of the DD coils a try!
At a few old homesites I used the M6 at, the heavy concentration of pieces of rusted iron
caused the detector to chatter a good deal with the AutoTrac circuit in the ON position, but as
recommended in the manual, switching to LOCK allowed me to hunt these areas with much
greater success.
SUMMARY
The M6 was designed for coin & beach hunters that might not have wanted the additional
modes/features found on the MXT. The addition of the 7-tone audio ID circuit is a real
advantage for those hunters that want as much information as possible as to a target's possible
identity before they take the time to recover it; yet, with the flip of a switch, single-tone audio
is available. Ground balancing is a snap and it worked well even under some harsh conditions
on land and at ocean beaches. The weight and balance of the M6 make it a detector that one
can use for extended periods of time without fatigue. A few comments that deserve mention
are that the stability of the target ID indications (VDI & bars) drops off noticeably on deeper
targets; in extremely mineralized ground the stock coil is a bit noisier than Id like to see (but
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