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    Silver quarter - Vaquero - been awhile

    I took the Vaquero with stock coil to the local park today . Set the sens way high , balanced neutral and min. disc. just hoping too find some deep stuff everyone else missed . There was one great sounding target , quiet but mellow and consistent . I was predicting a dime or penny six...
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    Two Sterling rings

    Went to a yard today for about thirty minutes . There was a clothes line in the backyard , thats where I concentrated . Using the Vaquero with stock coil , I turned the disc up to eliminate tabs and made a quick search .I found eight copper pennies one was a wheat , two clad dimes and two...
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    Token I cant ID .

    This token is about the size of a quarter but thin as a dime . Appears to be copper , It has a H on one side and a W or M on the other . Found it in Hannibal Missouri and maybe thats the initials on the token H and M .
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    Mercury and a wheat

    Went to the local park today for an hour . I decided to hunt close to the road where all the tabs and caps are . It was a mild day so i dug just about everything . Super tuned the vaquero with stock coil and went to work . All those tab and cap signals turned out to be just that . Did get two...
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    Dated SLQ , Sterling brush handle and lots more

    Went to an old church yard today and found it freshly mowed , so I was able to get the stock coil on the Vaquero close to the ground .. Been here twice before and found one mercury dime .I super tuned the machine with the sens set at the end of the red line . Had my best outing in a long time...
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    I'm in a slump .Found a token

    I havent been hunting much lately , have a lot of personal stuff to attend to . It will be that way for awhile . I get out occasionally , an hour here and there but havent found much .I purchased my Vaquero four years ago and posted every good find here and theres been a lot of good ones . My...
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    Vaquero hunting along the bluffs

    I dont recommend people to do this . I have been traversing these places for forty years and it just doesnt scare me . I found a 1891 dime on a place like this a couple of years back . I didnt find anything good today but for a second I thought I had something ...
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    Buffalo nickles with video

    I went to the park today with the Vaquero . I concetrated on te mole hills and found three nickles , Two of them no date Buffalo's . Sensitivity was turned to the end of the red . Threshold a little higher than a slight hum , disc at minimum . Heres the facebook video...
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    Silver Quarter and 2 Wheats

    I went to a local park today . Had the vaquero with a stock coil super tuned , hoping to find some old deep coins . I found three coins all right but they were not deep . A 1946 quarter , 1911 and 1944 wheat cents . The quarter was in some loose soil , where a mole had tunneled . Ive hunted this...
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    Whats wrong with my Vaquero this time ?

    Its chirping . You know how it falses when the sensitivity is maxed out . Thats what it is acting like all the time . I replaced the battery and it still does it . I checked the coil connections and took the coil cover off . Still does it . I've had the unit for four years and have already sent...
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    First silver of the year

    Went to a farm field today . There use to be some sort of building here . Only found one good item . A 1912 Barber dime . I think that makes three 1912 Barbers for me . I had the Vaquero set neutral balanced , sensitivity slightly in the red , disc set at minimum . Lots of square nails but I...
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    Real gun or toy ?

    Real or toy ? It is pretty heavy .
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    22 or cap gun

    I was hunting the woods with the Vaquero today . Not finding anything . Got a rusty can signal but sounded a little better , so I dug it . At first I thought I had a small 22 caliber revolver because it is really heavy. But after cleaning it I think its probably a toy . What do you think 22 or...
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    1914 D penny's

    I have found two 1914 D Wheat cents . Both with a "Tesoro" , had to get that in . Do any of you have any idea how much these are worth in this condition?
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    Unknown military button

    I took the Vaquero to an old playground today . Only hunted for about ten minutes because it was cold and windy . I did find this old military button . Can any of you ID. it ?
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    Missouri tax tokens from WWII

    I took walk up a creek that I havent hunted much with my Vaquero . I found a high flat spot and thats where dwellings usually are located . Looking around I found a couple of bricks , so I started hunting . Lots of nails so there was definitely something there . Using the stock coil I listened...
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    A Mercury and other odd stuff

    I took the Vaquero to a vacant lot today . I think it use to be a church . I set the sensitivity to 10 used the stock coil and set the discriminate at a lot of different places . I picked a 1920 Mercury dime and this little copper bird. The second picture has a couple of pieces of a pocket...
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    3 wheats and tax token from neat spot

    I did not have much time to hunt today but knew of this little area overlooking the Mississippi river . I use to go there as a kid as did the kids 100 years ago . Its a little overhang , a natural shelter . Using a Vaquero with stock coil I found two wheats under there 1940 and 1912 . Also found...
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    Been a while since i found a silver ring but...

    ...I got one today. It isnt much but its silver . Its broke on the back . I'm going to see if a jeweler can fix it and I'll give it to my niece . Found it in the woods down by a creek with the Vaquero . It wasnt very loud and discriminated out early right around nickle and thats what I was...
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    Hardest coin I ever retrieved

    I was in the woods with the Vaquero and stock coil . In an area with lots of trash . I got tired of digging trash and was on the way out so I cranked the disc way up . Beside a tree I got the best signal of the day , this was probably going to be a coin . But , there was a large root in the...
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