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Do I Have a Problem? Vaquero/ dime distance

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I'm getting ready to drive 400 miles to hunt a colonial site in Jersey....Checked my Vaquero ,in air, Grey Ghost phones,, threshold at the three o'clock position, sensitivity same position, and a dime as the air target. Got seven inches in air..Disc was at nickel...Went outside and same settings, but disc higher, soil moist, and got a Roosevelt dime at UNDER 4 inches...Does anyone have some honest comparison figures? Last Summer,I was pulling dimes at 6 inches measured. Batteries fine . connections tight...I have a feeling the over all consensus is going to be" SHIP IT"
 
Several thoughts - first ground balance set properly? and two - not having a Vaq is sensitivity at 3 set fairly high or low or medium? What do you get in soil with all metal? You say disc higher - how much? You don't mention if you couldn't pick up the Rosie at more depth or it was at 4 inches.. 7 inches in air seems about right unless you were getting more in AIR TESTING BEFORE.
I'm not sure you really have a problem,.
BB
 
Sensitivity at 3 o'clock is just before super tune.With the threshold there and same for sensitivity...Something has to be wrong. The Compadre will hit the dime close to 5.5-6.0 inches..I see the videos where the detector is power balanced and banging on a dime in the ground at what looks like 12 inches.. I'll spend the money, then get a back up Vaquero when I get back..I have a really deep detector when hunting Indian copper, but pin pointing not that great..That's why I have a back hoe on tap..
 
Hi,
you can try tricky balance. To do GB properly in Freq 2. Go to close to supertuned Vaquero (check this forum how to do it.) So, at this moment, sens is max, thresh is max. (It is ipportant, thresh is not volume of noise only....) and, put down in the grown 2 inches a coin, cooper, small. Move up with disc. If is sound clear, move with GB to negative.And to do it close will sound dirty. If is dirty as a voice old jazzman voice, move lightly back. And do not thing about airtest, never. Ground is a king. (move back to freq 1)

You will be able to hit deeper targets and you will able clearly hear iron and foil with disc lover than foil. No headphones? Forgot it.

Enjoy it!

regards

litrfree
 
You may not have a problem at all. Has the dime been in the ground long - like a couple years or so? The reason I ask is because last year I buried a few coins at 7 inches and wasn't able to hit them, with a few of my detectors. I wound up moving them up inch by inch and finally at 3" I was able to just get them, even though my Vaquero could easily hit a dime, like yours at 7 - 71/2 inches. I never spent any time trying to figure it out, I just dug up the coins and put them back in the bank. At the park I'm easily hitting dimes 6 to 7 inches. Sorry if I state the obvious but make sure you set your GB at slightly neg. What I've done is, when I get a hit on a coin at 5 - 7 inches in my park, I mark the spot and use it for testing on my other detectors. I know these coins have been down there for a couple years so they serve as my personal test garden. Don't give up yet. I don't think you have a problem.
 
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