first 12 hours with the V3I finds 5 Rings and

[Rob in (Ca)]

With the Rising price of Gold, My Hunting style change to all Jewelry hunting two years ago. My new V3I just got it's first 12 Hours of hunting time

My results are 5 Gold Rings, (4 rings only pictured daughter took the 5th one ) 4 Charms, 3 Necklaces (The V3I is a necklaces Hound )

A Baggy of Clad, one 1939 Silver Dime, (not even looking for old coins) and 1 Silver Bullet, yes Silver Bullet

I must have the Lone Ranger or Werewolf hunters at my Parks.



I have 2 small issue's with the V3I and would like see if anyone could help


1. The rear arm rest with the strap (wobbles) yes I got the set screw tight, I even added a small lock washer and still wobble - wobble while hunting, My DFX never did that ?? kinda of driving me nuts

2. (some times) while pin - pointing the audio will go Blank on the WL Headphones ?? I have new Energizers and the headphones power level is at max??



love my V3I, it's a jewelry Hunters dream machine


Rob



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[Rob (IL)]

The lose cuff is not just on the V. Either put a piece of black foam under the rod or wrap the rod with black tape before you put on the cuff. You won't have to tighten the bolt that much to be rock solid. Some time there is the slightest play in the rod connector near the pod. Make a shim from a piece of aluminum can. Again the setup will feel like it is one piece.

There are 2 posts on this page about the pin pointing issue.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Thanks Rob will give the tape trick a try......Rob

 

[Larry (IL)]

I took the cuff off and squeezed the cuff together a little bit so it fits tight around the rod, reinstall and no wiggle.

 

[Aurium]

Awesome finds even better you're creating a treasure of memories for your daughter.

 

[Larry (IL)]

What a success story, you found more gold rings in 12 hours than I found all of last year. A change in hunting habits is something I have wanted to do for several years but I just can't get the trigger pulled on digging a lot of trash. I'm still stuck in the old coin mode. I think as a whole, the metal detecting hobby will eventually turn to more jewelry hunting than old coin hunting, just from supply and demand. There is no more old coins being lost and the places to find them has been dwindling, especially public hunting grounds. Jewelry seems to be a renewable resource and getting quite profitable with gold over $1500 an ounce.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

It's mind boggling on how the V3I is so sensitive to very small metal, I can find a BB size piece of tin foil at 6+ inches.

maybe that explains why after all the years of detecting, All of a sudden I'M finding necklaces ??

jewelry hunting is a little more slower, and you must dig more trash, Most Baseball fields and soccer fields are not all that trashy

Unlike other area's of a park, which will drive a person nuts with so much trash

The down side of hunting sports fields is, one must hunt off hours, as weekends and Early eve's, the sports fields are full of people dropping there jewelry

actually it was 15 hours of hunt time as I spent 3 hours at first dialing in the V3.

just need to find more time to hunt.

 

[MSG Hoff]

Wow...those are spectacular finds of gold jewelry. Congratulations. If I send you my coil, will you rub it for gold luck?
J.R.

 

[ozark]

had the same problem with mine 2 rubber washers between the cuff & rod used sink washers problem solved...Ozark

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

It Rained on our Easter Day But today was a Post card day so between honey Do's , went out for only a 1 1/2 hunt, which yielded just clad a a small stud ear Ring ......Man that V is supper sensitive on small metal..... The wobble is now gone...... Thanks all on the tips.

Playing around on the pinpointing issue, I had my All Metal sensitivity up Pretty High .....so I lowered it to stock levels, and I did not blank out once in the 1 1/2 Hunt


HH Rob