voorhees231
Member
I have been using my V3i for the past 5 years and have filled some cases with worthy targets through those 5 years. I would like to think that I understand the detector quite well but recently I ran into a situation that has me fishing for a new go to detector. Let me start off first by telling you about my ground and setup I use. The ground I'm hunting in West Michigan is not mineralized and ground probe reads in @ -93. I run the Magic program with a modified Coin/Jewelery program. I start off with my Sensitivity @ RX=8, AM=65, DS=80 I run with a wide open discrimination screen except I reject -95, and +95 I set a zero tone for (-) VDI's matching my ground up to the nail range and set a low grunt (15) for nails "I like to know where they are" and various other tones into, and thru the non-ferrous range. I manually ground balance with it locked and an offset of 2 "manually re-balancing every 10min or so." I run 5 band pass filters with my recovery delay @ 50 unless I'm field hunting with minimal targets then I will run as high as 100. I run 3 frequency, best data and only offset if I am having EMI issues. I normally use the stock 10"DD coil but also have a 5.3 concentric on a lower rod I use in target rich environments with lots of EMI. I have been hunting in a iron infested site "large square head nails" and other small bits everywhere and was missing non ferrous targets that other detectors were getting with ease. Wondering how some of you V owners are setting up for the fast recovery and separation in heavy iron sites? I walked over an area that had multiple copper coins and silver less than 4" and all I was seeing was iron. I have done some testing with the nail board test "which I hate" and am getting terrible results. Have I really walked over that many non ferrous targets through the years not realizing it? Should I be using single frequency with higher filters? Any and all thought would be appreciated.