Setting advice and Target VDI #

[rockpup1]

Haven't been out on a good park hunt for some time.Its been so dry and its so hard on the lawns trying to recover targets.It rained today and a good soaking.Time to hunt.

I been using a disc setting of 40 and for the most part 95-100 gain on my gold bug pro with 5" coil.I do ok but dont seem to find any silver only one this year and it was detstoryed/flattened and a hole put in it? weird?

I only dig 40 and higher tragets for it really cuts down on my trash.Allmost every ring I have tested registers higher than this Im comfortable doing this.But this is air testing and in the ground targets may register lower VDI numbers? Maybe I should be digging 33 and up?

I have been trying all metal in cleaner areas and diggin 40 up on the chart.I like the background thershold sound not a fan of silent search mode.This requires me to have alot of patient
and alot of the times i don't.

Just wondering what the sucessfull silver hunters are using for settings adn what kind of depth are others getting with the 5" coil.

 

[ohlode]

Very little experience on my GB Pro (5" coil) but I've been out a couple of times to a local (and very trashy) park. I played around with the Discrimination setting and found setting it at 60 or so eliminated almost everything but numerous clad dimes, several quarters, and two Susan B's. I don't advocate this because you'll miss good finds; just got tired of tabs, caps, and foil. I'm still getting used to the high/low tones and beginning to use lower settings in Discrimination mode. I have to turn down the gain in this park to about half or it chatters too much. I do like an audible threshold and I think it goes back 30 years to my old coinmaster that squealed like a pig over real silver. I like to get a sense of the ground as I pass over it and that takes a bit of threshold.
The clad VDI readings for me are often all over the map unless it's 90% silver and so far those are just in my air and ground testing.